George Brown College’s (GBC) School of Hospitality and Tourism Management offers a special event planning (SEP) program, a two year diploma, where students are introduced to the world of social and corporate events. Students are educated on how to organize events ranging from birthdays and bar mitzvahs to corporate events and golf tournaments. Students are taught…
The “Taking It Back” campaign launched in Allan Gardens on Sunday, Sept. 22 by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). The campaign demands the city expropriate buildings left empty by landlords, make the necessary repairs and turn it into viable social housing for the neighbourhood. They point to the past to show its been done before. OCAP’s Gaetan…
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Karen Nickel Staff Reporter George Brown College’s (GBC) Public Safety and Security office is running their ‘Bike Safety Campaign‘.This campaign assists students by providing them with preventive information on how to keep bikes out of the hands of potential bike thieves. Most of the GBC campuses have bike racks that students can use to secure…
Karen Nickel Staff Reporter Private Manning has gone through a great deal since joining the U.S. Army in 2007. As an intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq in 2009, Pvt. Manning witnessed things so disturbing that sharing this information with the world became more important than their freedom. Now Manning has embarked on a new goal, to petition…
Karen Nickel Staff Reporter Syria dominates the news lately. The nation waits to find out if it will be the target of limited military strikes from the United States, backed up (in words) by Stephen Harper. The use of chemical weapons on Aug. 21 in Damascus pushed Obama across his ‘red line’ into considering military…
Video report of George Brown College’s orientation for new students in late August 2013 Danilo Barba Mulitmedia Reporter Are you New to George Brown College (GBC)? Did you miss orientation? Catch up now and find out what students had to say during GBC’s Orientation Week 2013. See anyone you know?
The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities is set to implement big changes to Ontario’s post-secondary education sector over the next six months Angi Shen CUP Ontario Bureau Chief HAMILTON (CUP) — The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MCTU) is set to implement big changes to Ontario’s post-secondary education sector over the next six months….
Cydney Proctor The Journal HALIFAX (CUP) — Just over a week after a chant at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax about non-consensual sex exploded into the national news, SMU administration has announced today that that will be taking disciplinary action against another student – this time one who pled guilty to the sexual assault of…
Students at more than a dozen post-secondary institutions across Canada have begun a move to leave the Canadian Federation of Students Jane Lytvynenko Canadian University Press OTTAWA (CUP) – Students at more than a dozen post-secondary institutions across Canada have begun a move to leave the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) according to a…
Cydney Proctor The SMU Journal HALIFAX (CUP) – An offensive chant taught to freshmen during Saint Mary’s University Orientation Week in Halifax is causing a stir both on and off campus. An Instagram video was captured during the school’s annual TURFBURN event Monday, Sept. 2, wherein 80 frosh leaders led new students in a chant singing “Y…
Technology and agriculture give farmers new opportunities in changing market Anna-Lilja Dawson CUP Praries & Northern Bureau Chief SASKATOON (CUP) — University graduates are entering the farming industry with more ease and a heightened interest because of the high usage of modern-day technologies. For years now young adults have been becoming more and more…
