This is education as sponsored by corporations:
Link: http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-cannon-case-at-u-of-c-may-prompt-ethics-rules
Now there's a whole hell of a lot wrong going on here, yet they're apparently "saved" by the lack of clear rules. Everyone wants to make up their own rules as they go along, and be accountable to no one, but clearly as dean she's made herself accountable to Enbridge, and not the University. And while they are a major sponsor, when Academia is accountable to corporate interests and donations rest assured that education will be directed along the comfortable paths dictated by it's sponsorship. Note that a faculty member with concerns about the new facility was not in a position to voice them (again, the University absolves her for scolding him, but this is clearly not the free environment of ideas and questioning thought that an institution supposedly dedicated to higher learning should be). And I have, frankly, little sympathy for someone who needs to top up their base salary of $480, 000 per year with sitting on corporate boards. This is clear and transparent conflict of interest, which is why there are no explicit rules about it.
Solution? Well, the Dean has a job on the board of Enbridge. Clearly that's where her loyalties lie, and while we can appreciate she's a hell of a fundraiser, her approach to transparently obvious ethical considerations should see her out of a job at the U of C.
Related: http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/enbridge-university-of-calgary && http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/faculty-associations-slam-university-calgary-enbridge-1.3300340
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The last 2 parcels arrived today. October 7th. As an FYI, these were ordered on July 17th. This is a total of 82 days. Almost 3 months. Overall, 1 parcel out of 7 arrived on time, 1 2 weeks late, the rest in the order of months late. Seriously people, Given that it came from China, approximately 4,000 miles from here, you could have walked it quicker (50 miles a day and it woulda been here Monday). And there's been no response on my ticket...
Evaluate your own performance. If I sign a lease I'll consider ordering more stuff online...
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I mailed him a parcel last Sunday. Speaking to him last night "Don't worry Pa, I haven't received any of the parcels people sent me yet...".
Canada Post. Your new slogan: "Some of the Mail, Some of the Time". "Maybe". "All of the flyers, All of the Time:".
Still no response to my query, via your webform, sent last Sunday or thereabouts. Not by email or mail (you know better, I know) or phone or at all.
You know, there should be a fee to use the word Canada or Canadian, a Tax, it used to be a mark of distinguishment, now when people hear it they imagine a bunch of clowns running into one another with their dicks out in a circus ring. Think of Canadian Tire, and their upside-down triangle shaped tire. That isn't a logo, that's what they think a tire looks like. OR the Canadian Government, with Stephen Harper screaming:
"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff."
Yep. Human rights are scary Mein Fuhrer. Lets not call this "The Canadian Government", call it instead an experiment in right wing futility and dictatorship. So I would suggest re-branding your mail "delivery/loss/parcel-appropriation program" "Maybe?". People will say: "How you gonna ship that" and we'll say "Maybe". Which means, really, find another fucking delivery service, but it doesn't embarrass us, the nation, any further. We've got the government and Canadian Tire working on that, thank you very much.
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Parcel #5 Arrived, daughter not here to appreciate. Thanks. Still waiting on 6 & 7, & no reply to the ticket I opened on Sunday...
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