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.
Who could have thought that writing an article in The Voice Magazine could result in improvements being made to public policies and procedures? Somehow that is what seems to have happened after connecting with policing stakeholders regarding the extortion letters in B.C. that were being sent to South Asian business owners. As the extortion letter… Read more »
Most people are likely to have heard the story of Peter Pan, a boy that never grows up, and maybe they have even seen the Disney 1953 movie of the same name. In the video cassette commercial trailer for the movie, Disney described Peter Pan as an all-time hero, and how it was the wonderful… Read more »
Are there any examples of two countries that share a border and that have so much in common and yet are so different, than the relationship between Canada and the U.S.? Given the disagreements between different provinces or between provinces and the federal government, and with emerging talks of provinces breaking away and doing their… Read more »
What if the reputation that Canada has received for being soft on money laundering, organized crime, and transnational crime could have been avoided decades ago? Well, it could very well have happened because almost 50 years before B.C. created the Cullen Commission and changed Canada’s trajectory for how we dealt with serious crime, B.C.’s Criminal… 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 »
Policing is far too important and far too complicated to give credence to any idea that suggests that we get rid of the police or make it harder for the police to do their job. Law and order are the two things that allow for Canada to be Canada: the Canada that the world knows… Read more »
Imagine a former high-ranking RCMP officer who made his career working drug trafficking cases, money laundering cases, organized crime cases, now viewed as an expert on trans-national crime, proclaim that Canada was the staging ground for trans-national organized crime. Then imagine that same expert saying what was uncovered in B.C. with organized crime and money… Read more »
Hard-working immigrants have been championed for helping Canada become what it is today. Whether it was the Chinese immigrants who came to work on the railroads in the 1880s or whether it was the waves of immigrants that followed every decade after World War 2, fleeing dictatorships, communism, and other hardships, the common thread that… Read more »
When it comes to understanding the innerworkings of government and getting a high level breakdown related to public policy, there may be no better opportunity than when a respected former lawmaker pursues a Masters of Laws and their thesis ends up focusing on the public policy approach to legislation, or when a recent law graduate,… Read more »
Recent news out of British Columbia (B.C.) reported how, in cities like Surrey and Abbottsford, business owners from the South Asian community were having to deal with extortion attempts, with some payment demands being as high as two million dollars. They were backed with threats of gun violence if these business owners refused to pay… Read more »