Alek Golijanin is an Athabasca University alum. He has represented Athabasca University at a number of competitions both at the Provincial and International level. Alek’s articles revolve around his passion for learning and innovation, as he summarizes research and presents it in ways that compels readers and continues the tradition of life-long learning, and some of the articles are even inspired by investigative journalism shows like CTV’s W5, CBC’s The Fifth Estate and Marketplace, and CBS’ 60 Minutes.
“Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 1858.
The interconnectedness of our world today all but guarantees that if one country is dealing with a crime epidemic, those problems are bound to cross international borders and seep into other countries, thus turning it into somewhat of a pandemic. And that seems to be the problem that troubles Canada: South America’s cocaine manufacturing problem… Read more »
There might not be another person that is as identifiable by a single word repeated four times over like the late Leonard Cohen with “Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah”, but there is so much more to his life than his most recognizable song, Hallelujah, which he first recorded in 1984 and which peoples still listened to… Read more »
The recent four-part series on organized crime and national security series in The Voice Magazine profiled the various policing stakeholders including police agencies as well as police leadership associations, and how they functioned in the grand scheme of things. However, how things function in theory might not always be how they function in practice, so… Read more »
Society’s seemingly singular understanding of how one can damage their liver and get diagnosed with fatty liver disease might be attributed to the popular belief that if a person does not indulge in the dangers of drugs and alcohol, then indulging in life’s simple pleasures courtesy of sweets and pastries should be okay. The reality… Read more »
A person’s “identity” can be one of the most complicated aspects of a person and even more so in pluralistic societies that are a melting pot of identities. Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home is a book that explores the idea of identity in a globalized world, focusing on exploring early Ukrainian Canadians and their connection… Read more »
Words Like Loaded Pistols, Rhetoric From Aristotle to Obama, by Sam Leith, might be one of the best books at highlighting the power of being able to communicate thoughts and feelings, experiences and ideas, and whatever else might cross one’s mind. And if there was one sentence that championed Leith’s thesis, it was, “Most great… Read more »
Imagine having a migraine that was so bad that it suddenly began to resemble the signs and symptoms of a stroke and you began to experience limited paralysis on one side of the body. It is a scary thought, but it is reality for some people who struggle with really bad migraines. This condition is… Read more »
Is India’s Human Trafficking Problem Becoming Canada’s Problem? Remember when Canada’s Immigration Minister Sean Fraser held an emergency press conference and stated how some of the individuals caught up in the “bogus admissions scandal” had secured admission into Canada through our student visa program, but had no intention of studying and were actually involved in… Read more »
Surrounded by Idiots is a book written by Thomas Erikson, originally published in Sweden and titled, “Surrounded by Idiots: How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood.” It is unlikely to be everyone’s cup of tea, but it should lead everyone to ask themselves some fundamental questions around the thought of being surrounded by idiots,… Read more »
Human trafficking is considered to be the third most profitable crime, after drug trafficking and weapons trafficking. While human trafficking is a global problem, its worst form might be witnessed in India. It is estimated up to 18 million people in India are living in slavery. This is over a third of the total global… Read more »