Dose reporter Jennifer Selk confirmed today that Dose’s physical presence in Vancouver won’t include office space. According to Selk, she and fellow Vancouver reporter Chantal Eustace will “telecommute” to the head office in Toronto. This means they will work from home when CanWest’s free daily “Dose magazine” launches next Monday. Selk said, however, that Dose [...]

Sigh… A prison is not the same as a jail. This morning, CBC News and Rogers’ News 1130 (among other stations) kept reporting that the former president of Eron Mortgage Corporation, Brian Slobogian, had been sentenced to six years in “jail.” Wrong. CBC has since fixed the error; News 1130 hasn’t. Jails are for temporary [...]

Caveat: The reports noted are Ontario based, but the concepts apply to B.C.’s big three universities: Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia. Saturday’s Globe and Mail published a great story about the nature of our universities (it’s buried on page 9 of the Focus section). Starting from fromer [...]

The lady pulling the strings at the University of British Columbia since 1997 is leaving… finally. UBC has announced that president Dr. Martha Piper is leaving next June. This is the lady who seems to think only big universities can provide quality education. This is the lady who doesn’t seem to believe in incubated research [...]