By Preeteesh Peetabh Singh Dialog Reporter The Student Association’s (SA) board of directors took 17 minutes to discuss if their office walls should have group photographs or individual shots, but approved a potential $5.98 million student levy in far less time at the Oct. 15 board meeting. Natraj Ramachandran from the GBC foundation was at…
By Karen Nickel Special to the Dialog George Brown College’s Disability & Deaf Services office is located on the fifth floor of St. James campus in room 582C; a fact I thought was peculiar given accessibility, but I after I went there I realized it was a matter of space. It could be my perception…
Christopher Daniels knows about internships. Daniels, 41, is a Red Seal certified chef, who worked as an intern in Toronto’s food industry and is still unsettled in terms of his career. Sometimes interns are paid. More often they work for free, hoping the internship will turn into a “real” job or at least give them…
By Karen Nickel Special to The Dialog In 2011 the Disability Pride movement sprang out of the momentum of the Occupy movement, focused on how austerity, cuts and the lack of police training protocols adversely affecting their community. A main point was that persons with disabilities were the “lowest 1% of the 99%” and persons…
By Dani Feraday Dialog Reporter The Regent Park area in Toronto, located at the corner of Parliament and Gerrard, is known as Canada’s oldest and largest social housing project. With people from all different walks of life, the community is as diverse as the city itself. When the new renovations started by Toronto Community Housing…
By Dani Feraday Dialog reporter It started off as a conversation between friends in a bar. Randy Orienstien, Michael Todd and Fernando Restituto had a conversation about how there should be a place for people in the game design field to come together and help each other out, skill wise. In an industry where…
