Description: Teachers often repeat that just as the students learn from them, they often learn things from the students. This is often true, it seems, when it comes to technology, where our students often have the jump on their professors in knowing the latest and greatest of those tools. This week, I experienced this when… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Student life
Lazaridis donates big to WLU
Description: Wilfred Laurier University of Waterloo, Ontario has named its business school after Blackberry co-founder Mike Lazaridis. Mr. Lazaridis has had a long association with the University of Waterloo, but he has made a pledge of $20 million to Laurier for funding an institute offering technology management skills. The government of Ontario has joined in… Read more »
Cage free please!
Description: McDonald’s uses about 120 million eggs each year in Canada and about 2 billion in the United States. The restaurant chain has announced that intends to shift its procurement to cage-free eggs, though it may take as long as ten years for the company to reach the goal. Cage-free eggs command a premium in… Read more »
MBA in decline?
Description: There are over 40 MBA programs in Canada and many, many more in the United States. A funny thing happened after the financial crisis though. Canadians have been enrolling in MBA programs in smaller numbers, causing a number of those concerned to begin rethinking the MBA model. Source: GlobeandMail.com Date: April 3, 2015; updated… Read more »
The bothy
Description: How would you like to live in a bothy for a while during your university term? A bothy is a Scottish word for a small cabin, and the government is funding a series of these bothys in rural Scotland as a form of artist retreat. One designer, Gareth Neal, will soon install a bothy in… Read more »
Taxes and democracy
Description: A new film, The Price We Pay, is bringing to us the European debate about how to handle huge companies that use tax havens to shift billions in profits offshore. Companies like Starbucks and Amazon have already seen pressure on this issue. The film questions whether some of the tax havens may have received… Read more »
How about those fees for flying?
Description: Air Canada recently reported its best quarter in corporate history. No doubt all those extra fees airline customers have to pay fit somewhere into that profitable picture. In the US, this so-called ancillary income – where it is disclosed – is up from $2.5 billion back in 2005 to $31.5 billion for 2013. That’s… Read more »
K-cup versus Club
Description: They’ve transformed the coffee world, these single-serve brewing units like Kuerig and Tassimo. And now a Toronto company, Club Coffee LP, is suing Kuerig Green Mountain Inc for alleged anti-competitive practices. Club Coffee makes its own pods which are compatible with the Kuerig machines. And the patent on the K-Cup technology has expired. But… Read more »
Welcome back to school; and welcome to more debt
Where did the summer go? That might be one of the questions both students and parents are asking themselves as students head off to campus for another year of university. Along with meeting friends – old and new – registering for classes, buying textbooks and engaging in extracurricular activities, students are buzzing around campuses already,… Read more »
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