By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter Mental illness is caused by a personal weakness. False. Negative stereotypes, such as this, or the more violent media representations of the dangerous mentally ill patient, can lead people to believe that this is what mental illness looks like. These beliefs contribute to the stigma experienced by persons living with…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter The name, Idle No More, unfortunately suggests that people have been idle until now; this is far from the truth. There has been continuous pressure by First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities insisting on exercising their rights to use their land, fish and hunt, but Canada has been negligently slow…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter It was sometime on Nov. 5 in Gatineau, Quebec, that a USB stick was lost. It wasn’t until the next day that the information on it, including the personal information of 583,000 students who took out loans, was noticed to be missing. It was a further eight days until it was…
By Preeteesh Peetabh Singh Dialog Reporter Dwight Orchard, 23, a plumbing student at George Brown College (GBC) is in the spotlight these days. His heroic act at the St. Clair West subway station earlier this month grabbed a lot of praise and media attention. It was around noon on Jan. 8 when an unidentified man…
Letter to the editor Re:The greatest swindle in Toronto’s history (Jan. 11) If the colonial British had did in 1713 what you advocate in your opinion piece “The Toronto Purchase” and opted for mutual respect, and set aside their foremost God Greed, this country would not be having the racist rooted problems it is having…
By Preeteesh Peetabh Singh Dialog Reporter Thousands of students from all over the world come to Canada every year for higher education or to learn English or French. According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), this number is close to 100,000 students per year. It might not be the case anymore. CIC has proposed regulatory changes…
By Ken Corbiere Special to The Dialog Stephen Harper is not being a leader. Harper is not listening to Canadians. Harper is not leading this country in the direction most Canadians wish to be led. Big business has his ear and he will listen to nothing else. It has been well documented that through the…
By Preeteesh Peetabh Singh Dialog Reporter “You are hired!” Congratulations, you are new on the job and looking to make an impression. That is a great attitude to have but it isn’t enough. If you want to keep that job, keep a few things in mind next time you enter the office. Conducting yourself in…
By Preeteesh Peetabh Singh Dialog Reporter “Come on man, I don’t want you to put that in, people will start calling me names! Ah well, ok, I’ll tell you one of my secret locker room names; Salamander.” said Salissou Abdoulkader with his sly and mischievous smile. Star basketball player of the George Brown College (GBC)…
By Jason Miller GBC Athletics Men’s Basketball Standings – East Wins Losses Points Seneca 12 1 24 Centennial 11 2 22 George Brown 10 2 20 Algonquin 10 3 20 Loyalist 8 5 16 St. Lawrence 7 6 14 La Cite 6 7 12 Durham 3 9 6 Fleming 2 9 4 Georgian 1 12…
When you went to bed on Dec. 5, 2012 you probably never dreamed that when you woke up on Dec. 6 over 30,000 lakes and over 2 million rivers in Canada would no longer be protected. You were probably distracted, stressing about exams and looking forward to the holiday break. I wonder if the timing…
Toronto exists because of one of the biggest swindles you can think of. In 1787, the British Crown first made what was known as the Toronto Purchase from the Mississaugas who were the Indigenous Peoples in the region. However, this was no tidy real estate transaction, the deed for the original purchase was left blank,…
