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.
People’s appeal towards conspiracy theories starts with the tin foil hat. No, seriously, it does. Hear me out, the hat goes on your head, and your head encompasses your brain, and the brain is what is responsible for a person’s ability to figure things out. At some point in our life, every one of us… Read more »
Over the past few years, some prominent voices have chosen to take the pop culture route and shame ‘fatness’, but also to speak about people who they know nothing about except for the fact that they may be “fat”. One would expect such comments to come from individuals that are trying to become “influencers” and… Read more »
The Blueprint for Action (Blueprint) model was developed in 2020, after Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tham, sounded the alarm on problematic substance abuse amongst youth in her 2018 State of Public Health in Canada report. In a nutshell, the Blueprint model aims to encourage a different way of thinking about how to… Read more »
Have you ever tried Googling yourself and paying attention to the search engine suggestions that pop up as you type? Well, that process is made possible by something known as algorithms, and it is what the digital world runs on. An algorithm is a procedure used for solving a problem or performing a computation and… Read more »
Life is an accumulation of experiences, and it is up to each one of us to find the takeaways from those experiences and make the most out of them. The circle of life is about the recycling of experience and repurposing it so that others can gain that knowledge and leverage it towards whatever they… Read more »
Has anyone seen Chris Rock’s new Netflix special where he makes fun of Will and Jada Smith? How funny was it? What was the craziest joke? These were some of the questions that flooded Twitter when Rock’s special dropped, before I stopped bothering to read. However, there were a few snippets from Rock’s special that… Read more »
Last time in The Voice Magazine, I wrote about how the Sears’ ladies lingerie department helped transform me into a gentleman, but today’s crazy Sears story revolves around the time I spent enforcing the law and being the store’s sheriff before Sears and I eventually grew apart. Becoming known as the loss prevention king shortly… Read more »
Cheat the taxman and avoid paying the aggravation tax. If I were to provide readers with the blueprint on how to cheat the tax man, something like that could potentially land me in jail, but I am going to do it anyway because nobody deserves to pay the aggravation tax. Fortunately, revenue agencies are not… Read more »
For as long as I have been on the internet, I have never come across any article that focused on the importance of telephone numbers in the digital world or the privacy risks associated with the practice of recycling telephone numbers, and I believe The Voice Magazine is the first publication to bring this issue… Read more »
When I first decided to preach the “Gospels of a Gentleman”, I was not the master orator that I am today, but none of the world’s greatest preachers were great right out of the gate, including the late Reverend Billy Graham. For me, my path to becoming a Gentleman began as a result of applying… Read more »