By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter The Women’s Executive Network (WXN) awarded Anne Sado, president of George Brown College, with its, “Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award” in the ‘Public Sector Leader’, category. This is the second time in three years in which she has been named, for her strong leadership skills and vision, by…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter Laurel Broten, the minister responsible for women’s issues, was too busy to meet with anti-poverty and anti-violence advocates who arrived at her office demanding she intervene and stop the provincial government’s plan to cut the Community Start-Up Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB). The CSUMB is a fund for those on Ontario Works…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter On Aug. 16, in Sault St. Marie, Ontario, nine women were arrested and charged with crimes related to prostitution. These women were targets of a police sweep in response to ‘community concerns’. This is not news, police engage in ‘sweeps’ a couple of times a year. The troubling aspect was…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter The Student Association ’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) happened Wednesday, Nov. 21 at Casa Loma. The AGM is when student members vote on bylaws affecting Student Association operations. Members of the executive committee, board, constituency representatives, students and the guy who came for free pizza attended. There was little student…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter Amanda Hiscocks, jailed G20 activist, is taking the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS) and Vanier Centre for Women before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. According to the claim filed on Nov. 22, MCSCS and Vanier place prisoners into arbitrary security classifications based on discriminatory beliefs around gender,…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter I don’t know if you think about food security, I do. I think about how people eat when they have no money or resources to draw on. I wonder how the $25 student levy and the TTC fare increase will affect those who rely on GBC’s food banks. I think…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter I felt nervous and very uncertain going into the ASL constituency group’s, “Deaf World” event, but soon realized that was the point of the exercise. Presented by Deaf and hard of hearing students to reflect their experiences when trying to communicate with the hearing world this event put me into…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter Fashion Techniques and Design program first year students, Irina Shilyaeva and Ji Young Kim have made it into the top three for Sporting Life’s, ’Design Your Goose’, contest in partnership with Canada Goose. The students submitted sketches for a ‘Canada Goose’ jacket in the first phase of the contest. The…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter The ‘Well Communities Bursary’ from the LifeWorks program acknowledges the difficulty in achieving academic success and being ‘well ‘when facing social barriers and financial stress. You can apply for a $500 bursary if you are a full-time student who identifies as a member of one or more of the following…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter The opening of George Brown College’s Waterfront Campus was commented on in a Nov. 8 PRNewswire story. Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, one half of the designing team of the Health Science Facility, wrote about how they, along with co-designers Stantec Architecture, designed a GBC’s new Waterfront campus which combines the…
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…
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…
