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The Honourable Geoff Regan is Speaker of the House of Commons
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA recent article that I’ve written for the Canadian Stuttering Association website is entitled: Speaker of the House of Commons, Geoff Regan A longer version of the article, which will appear at the Preserved Stories website, will be entitled: “Now Speaker of the House of Commons, in the summer of 1982, Geoff Regan dropped into […]
I was impressed with first episode of CBC TV’s This Is High School
/9 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdate Click here to watch the First Episode: Grade Nine is the Worst Year > [end of update] I was impressed with the first episode of This Is High School, a TV series that the CBC Media Centre (see link in the sentence you are now reading) describes as follows. The episode, which I learned of […]
Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word – Oct. 26, 2015 Salon article
/2 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillAn Oct. 26, 2015 Salon article is entitled: “Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word: ‘Diversity’ sounds polite and hopeful. It’s how we talk when we can’t talk about race, or when whites get nervous.” The opening paragraphs read: Our country is convulsing over the issues of diversity and race. Police […]
Graeme Decarie served as historical advisor and commentator for a 1993 NFB film about the Quiet Revolution in Quebec
/7 Comments/in Autobiography Stories - G. Decarie, MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA companion piece to the post you are now reading is entitled: Many changes have occurred in Cartierville where Malcolm Campbell High School was located from 1960s to late 1980s. * This post concerns an early 1990s documentary about the history of Montreal. A leader in the English rights movement in those years, Graeme Decarie served as […]
Empirical research and anecdotal experience appear to support power posing: Dec. 28, 2015 New York Times book review
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdates Click here for posts about Amy Cuddy’s research > A Nov. 3, 2016 Language and Cognition article is entitled: “Power in time: The influence of power posing on metaphoric perspectives on time.” [End] In 1959, Erving Goffman introduced his theory of impression management. The concept of impression management in turn brings to mind discussions […]
When immersed in a story we may tend to let down our guard
/0 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Newsletter/by Jaan PillA Dec. 29, 2015 New Yorker article is entitled: “How Stories Deceive.” The book refers to a book by Jerome Bruner: Actual minds, possible worlds (1986). The wider topic concerns scams and scamming. One of the protections against scamming is evidence-based practice by which I refer to an orientation that focuses on the quality (e.g., […]