Ka-thunka, ka-thunka, ka-thunka. The train’s steady sound was usually soothing, but today Natalie found it jarring. She wanted the one-hour trip to be over. She also wanted to put off her arrival, put off making a decision. Learning that the cancer was back was a gut-punch blow. Everything had been looking up. Every month since… Read more »
Perhaps there were no greater words spoken at this year’s Collision Conference, Canada’s biggest tech conference, then that of Canada’s Immigration Minister Sean Fraser, who had the following words of support for Canada’s tech sector, “We are in a global race for the same pool of talent with competitors around the entire world. Now in… Read more »
What bad behavior might all students want to change for the better? Time spent studying! That’s unless we’re already maximizing our study time. Either way, here is a model to change our bad behaviors to good. It’s a model that looks at changing behaviors by altering either triggers or consequences. In this example, we’ll look… Read more »
Summer is well and truly here, as evidenced by how few events we have in the AU-thentic Events column. Folks at AU are busy with summer holidays and other activities that mean there’s fewer extra activities in the university community itself. This week, the gestalt seems to be landing upon trains, as the Fly on… Read more »
Lactose intolerance is a common digestive disorder that affects a significant portion of the global population. For myself, I have difficulty digesting lactose as well, which includes milk and dairy products. The sugars found in dairy products cause a significant amount of symptoms including bloating, gas, diarrhea, and gut pain. These symptoms happen about a… Read more »
In last week’s edition of The Voice Magazine, I highlighted the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, their Intelligence and Organized Crime Committee, and the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada, which was comprised of one federal bureau and ten provincial bureaus, one in every province, and which included Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario, as well as covering… Read more »
What if we dreamed of getting a Ph.D. but hit a wall and balked? It’s the same with anything in life: sometimes, we hit a dead end and don’t know how to continue. But one solution is to ask Chat GPT. But first, as a case study, my GPA fell short of the 3.8 required… Read more »
Workplace hazards have historically been viewed as physical harms, inspiring the communication behind Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) labels that show up on potentially dangerous products like chemicals. But a new set of identified hazards is poised to move us away from the traditional thinking that sees hazards as being solely physical and toward… Read more »
