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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: Exploration or Exploitation?

mai 15, 2018 by Wilf Popoff | 9 commentaires sur Wasted Words: Exploration or Exploitation?

At times this blog can set off a chain reaction. When Anna Williams wrote about childhood reading, I began exploring my fading cranial archive. Anita Jenkins focused my search with her comments on Grey Owl’s cultural appropriation. I must confess that a lot of the books of my youth would be, in today’s climate, politically […]

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Wasted Words: On the PC Front

Décembre 5, 2017 by Wilf Popoff | 38 commentaires sur Wasted Words: On the PC Front

The Grey Cup eluded the Edmonton Eskimos again this year, but that’s not the worst of the team’s troubles: the political correctness refs want it to lose its name as well. The club chose its regrettable label in 1949, but it had been widely used by other Edmonton football squads for more than 50 years. […]

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James Harbeck

Calling Them What They Want

Décembre 13, 2016 by James Harbeck | 8 commentaires sur Calling Them What They Want

We’re all professionally attentive to detail, so I’m sure we all appreciate that, having earned a PhD, I am technically Dr. Harbeck, and it could be rude to call me Mr. Harbeck. My wife, having a master’s, is Ms. Arro — not Miss Arro, because she’s married, and not Mrs. Arro, let alone Mrs. Harbeck. […]

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