Truth and reconciliation have served as a way for Canada and the US to account for the historical wrongs of past generations, an approach that promises future generations will get an unfiltered understanding of the persecution and the marginalization of different peoples on the North American continent. Those stories detail the challenge and struggle to… Read more »
Athabasca University has recently released is 2024-2029 Strategic Plan, titled “Like No Other”. Like many strategic plans, this one is filled with a lot of aspirational words, lofty ideals, and precious few hard metrics. Sometimes, this is okay. After all, as has been said, the moment you define something as a numerical metric to reach… Read more »
Relocating to the west from Nigeria exposed me to working on several projects in my position as a Human Resource Professional, including some about anti-racism, diversity, and inclusion. In the process of managing them, I had to ask myself if I considered myself anti-racist, knowing fully well that I have my own biases too. However,… Read more »
This week, our featured article, is, to my great surprise, a poem. Since I included some poetry recently, it was no surprise that this week there was another poem in my in-box. That’s a bit of what I was afraid of happening, that including any poetry would open the floodgates, and before I knew it,… Read more »
Clam harvesting is such a unique experience. This Fall, I had a chance to visit Nanaimo to do some clam digging. Located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Nanaimo is well known for its beautiful coastal scenery. Last week I had the chance to indulge in some outdoor activities including clam digging. It’s considered a… Read more »
Picking up a language is often made to seem a lot harder than it is, but with a little bit of structure anyone at any age can do it. For a language like French, a person can achieve a level of fluency where they can function independently in under a year, and it becomes even… Read more »
Recently, I stalled writing down my big dreams and goals every morning. However, a whole psychology happens when we write down our big dreams and then do at least five things daily to work toward each goal. When we check off our wins, it’s a motivating mini-high and fuel for our dreams. So, I just… Read more »
We must keep upping the ante. Why can’t we become IBM’s Chief Marketing Officer, President, or Chief Technology Officer? We can! Circumstances can’t stop us if we are in a wheelchair—I’ve met a transgender woman in a wheelchair in an executive role, making big coin—and it can’t stop us if we have Down syndrome—I’ve heard… Read more »
Once every year, Toronto and Montreal hold a four-day card and memorabilia expo that sees tens of thousands of people come out, everyone from observers interested in taking a trip down memory lane to the most fanatic of collectors. It is also one of the few times that the world’s most popular grading services fly-in… Read more »
“Ghetto” is a word that carries a different meaning today than from when it was first used back in the 1500s. When used today, it generally references low-income communities, segregated from social and economic opportunities. Whereas it was originally used to specifically describe an area where Jews were restricted to living in and segregated from… Read more »