About ten years ago, former US President Barack Obama claimed that women in the US were paid 77 cents on the dollar when compared to men. Soon after, further dissemination of the studies showed that the actual pay gap between the two genders are actually much lower (93 cents on Read more…
If you want to fall in love, the 36 questions that lead to love are terrible at doing that. I suspect that the online videos showing people falling in love after answering the questions are only doing it for show. But the questions are a great way to get to Read more…
Most of what I express here will be directed towards North America’s path dependency on the private vehicle although some of it will also be relevant to policy incentives in East Asia. As my father always used to tell me: “You have to think in systems, you can’t expect everything Read more…
After discussing the media’s coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent German reunification, I thought it’d be interesting to explore my own perspective on the current state of Berlin after 20 years of reunification. “Asking if the unification of Germany was ‘complete’ is the Read more…
I’ve told this story to my friends in Vancouver and Toronto time and time again…until I stopped telling it last month because I no longer needed to. The year I turned 18 was the year Stephen Harper’s (Canada’s former prime minister) government barred Canadians that have been overseas for more Read more…
The Right Honorable Justin Trudeau P.C., M.P., Prime Minister of Canada Office of the Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 1.5 million disenfranchised Canadians Dear Prime Minister, I write to you today not to advocate for a controversial issue or to bring an ethically questionable Read more…
Now that the tide of incessant and meaningless social media posts on things that people want to do in the new year has died down, it’s worth reflecting on how you can achieve your goals. Too often, I see goals like “I want to lose weight” or “I want to Read more…
When I applied for the Dean’s Service Award back in February of 2018 a member of the interview panel asked me how universities should implement ethical education. Naturally, I asked that professor to define “ethical education” for me. We came up with a list of items that included CSR, rights Read more…
There are some people out there who believe there is a sunk cost of education, not so much economic cost, time cost. Over the past several years I’ve had several friends who encountered situations where they’ve already spent a significant amount of time studying one subject but chooses to switch Read more…
Although the words “information wants to be free” has been repeated as one of the internet community’s favorite slogans, I haven’t really meditated on its meaning or impact to the dissemination of information. Recent interactions with speakers and delegates at HPAIR have directed discussions to several informational and educational initiatives. Read more…