Don’t look now, but Kiwis are pivoting. In fact, words like “pivot” are skating on thin ice in Auckland, along with “best-practice benchmarking” and “synergistic growth strategies”. Credit goes to the ...

Are you tired of “the new normal,” “social media” and trying to “monetize” everything? Welcome to the club. The business world is always a bastion of buzzwords. Whenever there's a simple way to ...

With a 7-inch record due out this Fall and its debut full-length slated for release next year, Bafflegab has its creative sights set pretty high. And pretty obscure. "One of my personal goals as a ...

The problem of unspeech in politics seems to be getting worse. Politicians have gone from misrepresenting reality to flatly ignoring it. Start with Justin Trudeau’s response to star Liberal candidate ...

Canada's efforts to respond to large-scale disasters are being hobbled by "bureaucratese" and a lack of communication, according to a new report by the Senate committee on security and national ...

It’s little wonder that some voters have fallen in love with the beauty of the simplistically stupid. The alternatives offered up by politicians – platitudes and obfuscation – also are unattractive.

In Washington, the up-to-date word for gobbledygook is “bafflegab.” Last week a speech by an NPA official on materials allocations furnished a prime example: “We are peaking our program ...