Today is Jim Wong-Chu’s birthday and he would’ve been 74 years old. It’s been five years since the passing of my friend and I dearly miss h...

There once existed a dizzying array of special identity documents – called C.I. certificates – that were issued by the Canadian Government ...

From the mid-to-late nineteenth century, more than 15,000 labourers from China arrived in Canada to conduct construction work on the Canadia...

I was pleased to present to the School of Information's graduate studies course LIBR 508 -Information Practices in Contemporary Society ...

As a community engagement expert, having organized events over the past twenty years, it’s not difficult for me to put together a public pro...

Power is a part of a social contract and as Stanford Graduate School of Business professor and psychologist Deborah Gruenfeld suggests, “Peo...

“The Racial Pay Gap” indicates that there’s still much inequity in Canada’s academic libraries. While Canadian academic libraries have made...

A diversity assessment can measure an organization’s progress in increasing diversity not only within its human resources functions but also...

I recently wrapped up an arts mentorship program at Centre A and worked with a diverse group of writers, and as a group, we explored the cr...

Thank you to the NFB, for sharing this film with us.  I recall during my early days of community engagement and outreach work that the goal ...

Much of what’s been popularly written is that influencers are the linchpins who spread ideas and spark revolutions. They are paid the big b...

Upstreaming is efforts intended to prevent problems before they happen or reduce the harm caused by those problems. Upstream is like teachi...

  At an event that promoted intercultural dialogue and celebrated fusion culture, I remember one out-of-town visitor asked what is the point...

I’ve been taking the Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE) , a flexible and blended MOOC created at UBC. One of the modules co...

I recall that during my early days I couldn’t make it to a Christmas social event at a senior manager’s invitation. Later it was circulated...