The Dialog - Issue 10 by The Dialog

Huskies lose to Durham in controversial volleyball game

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Jan. 25–Feb. 8, 2016

Presto could cost students more

What’s tasty at St. Lawrence Market?

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Presto cards to replace Metropasses in 2017 Post-secondary students could see increased fares RENUKA MALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER

By the end of 2016, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) plans to replace the Metropass with the Presto card system. For students, the transition to Presto could mean more higher costs and less convenience than the postsecondary student Metropass. TTC spokesperson, Danny Nicolson confirmed that by the end of 2016 the entire system will be replaced by Presto and they will stop accepting tickets and tokens within months of that milestone. This rollout in Toronto comes after the Presto card became widely used on the GO Transit regional network including Mississauga and Brampton. Nicolson said the new system to be more convenient for the public as it will help eliminate long line ups at collector booths to buy a monthly Metropass. “Presto is expensive in terms of students and the current TTC Metropasses and tokens give stability to all the students because they have a chance to just buy it once for a month,” said Gagan Deep, the director of communications and internal at the Student Association of George Brown College, which runs a discounted TTC Metropass program and also funds The Dialog. Deep added that

students must not pay more for transportation because they are students who are coming from different parts of Toronto for education. When asked what will be replacing the current postsecondary Metropass, Nicolson was short on details, “it won’t be a Metropass, but it will be on the Presto card but will still be at a discounted rate that the students are currently paying.” He said that postsecondary students will still have to purchase a Presto card and then register for it as a post-secondary student. "At the very least if there

are going to be changes, it must not affect people who are there in the suburbs, people who are lower income, people who are students, people who depend on the TTC," said TTC Riders media chair Milan Gokhale. "Anyone who basically depends on the TTC and has no other choice, those people should not be affected by any change in how Presto happens.” Currently, a post-secondary Metropass costs $112 which works out to around $2.80 per ride for a student, assuming they use the pass twice a day, five days a week. On the other hand, the current Presto fares costs $2.90 per ride which would increase the fare by approximately $14 per month for post-secondary students.

Photo: Renuka Malhotra / The Dialo

CORRECTIONS from last issue

Riders can now pay with Presto on streetcars Photo: Renuka Malhotra / The Dialog

The cover photo of the Jan. 4 to Jan. 17 edition of the Dialog was not credited. It was taken by Aliona Kuts of GBC students at Queens Park at an event decorating gingerbread cookies with children from a daycare centre and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. On page eight of the Jan. 4 to Jan. 17 print edition The New Trend was mistakenly called ‘The New Tread.’ On the same page, the name of the fashion contest, The North York General Hospital Fabricland Scrubs Design Challenge, was mistakenly called ‘The Heart of Fashion Scrubs Challenge.’

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// STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Carlos Carli is the captain of his own boat Moving from Venezuela to Canada an international student says his success is due to working hard and never giving up RENUKA MALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER

Carlos Carli came from Venezuela to complete a postgraduate certificate in international business management at George Brown College. He loves snowboarding, adventure sports, traveling, kite surfing, watching movies and cooking. Carli said that he left Venezuela because of the political situation there that recently saw the socialist government defeated in parliamentary elections by the opposition. “My country has been going through a 17-year dictatorship. So many Venezuelans had to leave there for a better future because our country doesn’t offer it,” said Carli. While coming to Canada for a more opportunities, Carli acknowledged that his first

“The key to success is that I never gave up, whatever came my way,“ Photo: Renuka Malhotra

months here were challenging. Carli has had nine jobs in Canada during the past 16 months. From dishwashing, hotel cleaning, working in a supermarket, construction and retail, he took everything that came in his way. He says coming to George Brown College has been the turning point of his life. “George Brown gave me the possibility to know people in the same circle, so all students, and that’s pretty cool.” he said. He then got a position as a peer coach at Peerconnect

helping other students at the college. “Things got better when I started at Peerconnect,” he said. “It kind of gave purpose to what I have known, what I have done back home in Venezuela.” At his school in Venezuela, Carli was the student representative for 26,000 students. As a peer coach at George Brown he got a similar opportunity to work to help students. “It has been an incredible experience because one get to meet Canadians and

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meet new people from other places,” he said. “Then you can help students who are in need like I was when I got here.” While Peerconnect is a good fit for Carli, he noted how difficult it is to find a meaningful job, particularly if you’re adjusting your skills to a new place. “Many of us come with degrees back home, what we did back home is probably not what we are going to do here,” he said. “So that process of adaptation is kind of rough.”

Surviving rougher times, Carli thinks that the main ingredient to his success has been his persistence. “The key to success is that I never gave up, whatever came my way, no matter what the job was, what the opportunity was, you never know what that means. I never stopped.” Carli faced a number of challenges at immigration as an international student, including the pressure of paying tuition and an inability to get better jobs because of visa issues. Along with this, another challenge was coming to an entirely new country, learning a new language, and managing expenses in a city like Toronto. Living each day as if it’s your last, taking all opportunities, working as hard as you can, as much as you can. Carli’s philosophy is that no matter whether you sleep four hours a day or five hours you have to make it. “You are the captain of your own boat,” said Carli recalling a saying that his father taught him. “You are the only one who can determine your future and it might sound weird but my inspiration has always been how I see myself in future, and what I want to become in the future.”

Institute Without Boundaries students and alumni win awards Students from Institute Without Boundaries (IWB), a program and studio based out of George Brown’s school of design, won an award for their development of a regional atlas. Former students of the program also took home

Events Ballet Jorgen does Sleeping Beauty Tues, Jan. 26 at 6:30 p.m. Wed, Jan. 27 at noon

Casa Loma campus, Building C, Rm. 126

Check out acclaimed dance group Ballet Jorgen perform the classic Sleeping Beauty in their Casa Loma studios. This is excellent ballet in an intimate setting, and free for George Brown students and staff.

one for their Ravineline Toronto project. IWB students designed an atlas that documents stakeholders, resources, artwork, and connections in Toronto, New York and Chicago, for the Gateway Cities project, and won the Registered

Volleyball double header Wed, Jan. 27 at 6 p.m.

Alex Barbier Gym, St. James campus

Check out the women’s and men’s Huskies volleyball teams as they take on the villainous Fleming College Knights at the St. James campus .

Basketball double header

Fri, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m. Casa Loma Gym

Check out the women’s and men’s

Graphic Designers So(cial) Good award in the professional designer and designer driven categories. The Ravineline project, who’s team included IWB alumni, Luiza Albertini, Michael Esteras, Marta Piedras, and

Huskies basketball teams as they take on those mean old Algonquin College Thunder at the Casa Loma campus.

NOW Magazine presents: Silence of the Lambs Mon, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

The Royal Cinema, 608 College St.

Want to watch a classic and creepy film about a brilliant and surprisingly charming serial killer for free? Of course you do. The first 100 people through the door get free popcorn!

Hitomi Yokota, featured a proposal for new infrastructure that would organize Toronto’s network ravines transformed into one integrated path. The proposal won an NXT City Prize worth $1000. -Tina Todaro

Taste of the Caribbean Wed, Feb. 4, 11 a.m. to noon

Student Centre, Casa Loma campus

Thurs, Feb. 5, 11 a.m. to noon Main Lobby, Waterfront campus

Fri, Feb. 6, 11 a.m. to noon Main Lobby, St. James campus

As part of Black History Month, visit the Taste of the Caribbean events at each campus for music and food from Jamaica, Trinidad and Eastern Caribbean Islands.

NEWS

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Jewel Kats, beloved author and George Brown alum passes away Kats was an advocate for children with disabilities STEVE CORNWELL ASSISTANT EDITOR

Acting ombudsman Barbara Finlay speaks to student journalists at the Canadian University Press’ national conference in Toronto about the ombudsman’s new oversight of universities. Photo courtesy Ontario Ombudsman

Ontario ombudsman can now investigate universities New law extends oversight of universities, municipalities and school boards to provincial watchdog MICK SWEETMAN MANAGING EDITOR

The office of the Ontario ombudsman received new powers on Jan. 1 allowing it to launch investigations into complaints about universities and municipalities in Ontario. “Very much we’ve seen that colleges, and I expect universities as well, can sometimes be very bureaucratic and you need to really be sensitive to the human impact of complaints and problems,” said acting Ontario ombudsman Barbara Finlay. The ombudsman’s office is known as an “office of last resort” where people can take complaints that have not been resolved through other channels. They started overseeing school boards on Sept. 1, 2015. In the Ontario ombudsman’s 2014-15 annual report, there were a total of 72 complaints and inquires about universities, even though they didn’t yet have a mandate for the sector. That was up 76 per cent from the previous year when there was 41. In the first week of 2016 Finlay said her office received 18 complaints about universities and while it’s still early

they are seeing trends in areas such as student services and accommodation for students with special needs. “The complaints really run the gamut from things that we can deal with very quickly such as OSAP payments, complaints about parking infractions and student housing to more complex things like academic appeals, staff or faculty, student programs, fees and tuition,” said Finlay. The ombudsman’s office has had the mandate to take complaints about Ontario’s colleges of applied arts and technology since the office was founded in 1975. In 201415 there were 110 complaints about the college system to the ombudsman’s office, with another 274 complaints about the Ontario Student Assistance Program. “Some of the complaints that we’ve dealt with at the community colleges are students who have been lost in the system when they’re trying to access grants or financial aid, they’ve got a problem with course credits or instructors,” said Finlay. “We’re really able to sensitise the college or the university to the impact of the problem and try to work constructively to find a solution to it.” In addition to individual

complaints the Ontario ombudsman can launch special investigations into broader systemic problems. In 2009, the Ontario ombudsman’s office released a blistering report on Cambrian College’s health information management program that was being run without certification from the Canadian Health Information Management Association. The report led to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities issuing a binding policy directive that banned colleges from advertising accreditations from external bodies that have not yet been granted. There are currently eight colleges and 25 universities in Canada that have an ombudsperson and are members of the Association of Canadian Colleges and University Ombudspersons, but George Brown College (GBC) is not one of them. A report by the Student Association of GBC’s academic advocacy program in 2014 the argument for an ombudsperson’s office at the college was made stating, “an ombuds office at George Brown would be an addition that would carry many benefits and positive outcomes for not just students but the George Brown College community as a whole.” Dale Hall, the manager of student concerns at GBC, is currently reviewing the student code of conduct and that could lead to a change in the way that the college handles complaints.

Jewel Kats, an award-winning author of eleven books, and a graduate of George Brown College’s continuing education program passed away on Jan. 7. Kats was 37. In 2014, Kats was featured in George Brown’s continuing education calendar. In the article, Kats said that her writing, which features children with various disabilities, speaks to kids who are often not represented in books.

“What my books teach is that you can be a princess with a disability, you can be anybody you want to be and my characters reflect this,” she said. Besides being well-known for her disability-positive books, Kats garnered attention for inspiring the first Archie comics character with a disability—Harper Lodge. Tributes for Kats have been rolling in on Twitter from several prominent Canadians, including actor and director Vinay Virmani as well as CBC reporters Charlsie Agro and Deana Sumanac. In a tweet commemorating Kats, Archie comics writer Dan Parent said, “RIP Jewel Kats. You’ve inspired so many! You won’t be forgotten!” Kats is survived by her husband, mother and sisters.

Acclaimed author Jewel Kats was a GBC graduate who died on Jan. 7 Photo courtesy of George Brown College

OPINION

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Trigger warnings should be given by professors

Student journalism is more relevant than ever

Study shows most students want to be warned before triggering content is discussed in class At college and university there are courses that cover sensitive subjects that could trigger students with experiences of past trauma and it is important that teachers give warnings about it. A trigger warning, as defined by the Academia Group, is a discussion or statement alerting the audience of possibly distressing material, and students have a right to know. Often misunderstood, being triggered is not the same as being uncomfortable, it can cause severe psychological symptoms and can be related to posttraumatic stress disorder. Triggering material can be anything from a statement in a piece of writing, a video or class discussions. Though it is impossible to know what may trigger a student, classroom discussions about the subject can help teachers ensure the safety and security of their students, while creating comfort within the classroom. As an inclusive school where all students have the right to feel comfortable, students should be given trigger warnings prior to starting the course. These warnings are sometimes dismissed, and students who become triggered are often called too sensitive or emotional. This suggestion, that students need to toughen up, is not helping build an inclusive environment. If you are frustrated by teachers outlining emotionally challenging course material, consider the difficulties faced by someone having a severe reaction without warning in front of their classmates. Trigger warnings need to be recognized by faculty as

a crucial part of their students’ well-being. Yet, as with most important changes, there are critics. The Canadian Association of University Teachers is pushing back against the implementation of trigger warnings in the classroom, suggesting that the warnings obstruct the academic process and promote censorship and surveillance. While some teachers oppose trigger warnings, students seem to be on board. In a recent study by StudentVu of 1,500 Canadian students, over two-thirds of the students agreed that trigger warning should be discussed in the classroom, provided that the warnings were limited to material that is disturbing or could be related to traumatic events. At George Brown, there is no policy around trigger warnings and the impact that discussing sensitive material can have on students. But the college’s faculty code of conduct states that all professors should be familiar with the information they will be teaching. Though not all programs need trigger warnings it is currently at the discretion of the professors if they will be given. This should change and the college should look at developing policy and training for faculty on how and when to give trigger warnings. For students who become triggered by course content, the college does have safe spaces for students like the counselling office but it would be better to give students the heads-up so they have the choice to leave class or address how the content is discussed before they are triggered.

ANTHONY BURTON THE STRAND

In January, student journalists from across the country came together in Toronto for the Canadian University Press’s annual NASH conference. Four “legacy media” figures comprised a keynote panel on Wednesday evening, followed by Saturday’s keynote featuring Jesse Brown, publisher of the Canadaland podcast. The optimism of Brown’s new-media success story was in stark contrast to the subdued mood of Wednesday’s panel, where Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank, Toronto Sun Editor-in-Chief Adrienne Batra, and former Globe & Mail Editor-in-Chief John Stackhouse spent much of their time insisting to the room full of prospective journalists that things really aren’t all that bad for Canada’s major newspapers. The numbers tell a different story. Postmedia, the national media chain that owns the National Post, Toronto Sun, Ottawa Citizen, and over 50 local newspapers across the country, posted a $4.2 million loss for the last quarter of 2015. Last week, they consolidated newsrooms in four capital cities, cutting 90 jobs. The Toronto Star just announced the closing of its proprietary printing plant, resulting in over 250 job losses on January 15, followed by the layoffs of 13 digital editorial staff. Ten of these layoffs were from the

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70 recent hires assigned to the paper’s four-month-old tablet initiative, Startouch. It bleakly contradicts Cruickshank’s insistence during the keynote panel, where he insisted that Startouch was the future of Canadian news media. The major news outlets in Canada are quickly beginning to look archaic compared to newer media companies. There are a couple of reasons for this. National newspapers are, by virtue of their medium, a oneway discourse. The printed paper demarcates the discussion: the only potential discursive space is in its pages, and you

News outlets in Canada are quickly beginning to look archaic compared to newer media companies. need to have some sort of journalistic credentials or overall prestige to participate. It’s not a diverse discourse, either: in 2000, a Laval University study stated that 97% of Canadian journalists were white, and in 2010 the CBC’s workforce found that minority groups only made up 8% of their reporting staff. This

isn’t to say that poor minority representation is always deliberately discriminatory, but rather that the nature of any large institution makes any change slow and gradual, even in a largely socially aware field like journalism. The conversation, and the conditions surrounding it, are moving faster than old-hat media can adapt. As polarizing a figure as he is, Jesse Brown’s success in turning his podcast, Canadaland, into a news website with a full staff and national attention speaks to a shift in how we’re consuming news. The fact that Canadaland relies directly on donor contributions to keep running means Brown is accountable to his own listeners or readers, rather than to investors or the ruling elite of old media, kingpins like Philip Crawley or Paul Godfrey. There’s a great episode of “Short Cuts,” a sister podcast to Canadaland, where Buzzfeed senior writer Scaachi Koul holds Brown to account for shoddy reporting on a supposed mass exodus of women from the Globe and Mail. Brown doesn’t really contest the accusations; you get the idea that he knows he messed up and relishes the opportunity to show the world he knows it. This type of direct accountability contrasts sharply to moves like the Toronto Star recently closing the comment sections on its own articles. It’s not the print medium that is hurting the viability of major news companies, but the exclusive discourse. When your consumers aren’t able to participate in the conversation, they’re not going to feel as if it’s a conversation about their own communities.

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SPORTS

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Hitting the books, not just the weights Wolfpack Ticker Scores from George Brown College athletics Men's basketball

East vs. West Tournament Humber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Sheridan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 70 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Fanshawe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Huskies Holiday Invitational Tournament George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Sault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 La Cite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 91 OT

This fall trouble with his grades kept Huskies guard Kevon Mascoe sidelined.

George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Georgian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Photos: Emeka Ibeh / The Dialog

Student athletes have to keep their grades up or they can’t play

George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Canadore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Women's basketball

George Brown Tournament

EMEKA IBEH STAFF REPORTER

Kevon Mascoe first started playing basketball in the third grade. He was not very good, but eventually started taking more time out of his day to play and began to really love the game. In high school, basketball became the only sport he wanted to be a part of. When he graduated from high school, he received an offer from Club Nacional de Football, a pro-team in Uruguay, for three months of training; with all living expenses paid for. Due to circumstances outside of his control he was forced to decline that chance and enrolled in George Brown College to play with the Huskies. This fall, trouble with his grades kept him sidelined. Mascoe, a first-year business student and an athletic shooter, was forced to sit out the entire fall semester due to academic ineligibility. Given that college athletics are such an important element during the school year, student-athletes must be dedicated to academic success and the pursuit of a

degree or diploma just as diligently as athletics. Melanie Gerin-Lajoie, the athletic manager of the Huskies, said that the school is still responsible helping students academically, due to the fact that they are considered student-athletes. That is, students first and athletes second. “We want to make sure that they are still successful in their grades and active in their programs so that when they leave the college, they are actually in a position to be able to pursue a career,” said Lajoie. Gerin-Lajoie explained that the school also assists athletes by providing academic advisers. Diana McIntyre, who is a counselor for the college and works specifically with the athletics department to provide support to the athletes who have been identified as needing assistance. “All of our first-year athletes are required to set up an appointment with Diana at the beginning of their first semester just to make sure that they are aware of all of the support that is in place, so that they don’t fall be-

Algoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 61 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Georgian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Men's volleyball

Niagara Tournament Niagara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 Sheridan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

hind too quickly,” said Lajoie. “We’re trying to get ahead of the game by initiating those meetings, and having an ongoing dialogue with our athletes, especially the ones we have identified early based on their marks.” Mascoe agrees with Gerin-Lajoie that the support is valuable, but he said it would have been more helpful to get the assistance sooner. Masco said he did all of the work on his own without any support from the school during the fall semester. Mascoe is now academically eligible to play

for the men’s basketball team and ready to provide instant offence off of the bench. “The school always has tutors and athletes to help us out, and right now, Melanie, the athletic director, got me in touch with a lady named Diana who is going to continue helping me to stay organized and prepare for tests,” said Mascoe. “My main problem last semester was my tests results, and getting prepared, and that’s where Diana will continue help me now that I am going to be meeting with her.”

George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Algonquin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Trent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Loyalist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Women's volleyball Trent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 Loyalist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

SPORTS

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Huskies volleyball teams defeated by Durham Lords Women’s game marred by ‘very questionable’ calls STEVE CORNWELL ASSISTANT EDITOR

George Brown’s men’s and women’s volleyball teams were defeated by the visiting Durham Lords in a doubleheader in the Alex Barbier gym on Saturday. The women’s team lost 3-0, and the men’s team was defeated 3-1. The women’s team started the double-header with strong play in the first set, jumping to an early lead. The Lords got the edge after that, with the Huskies keeping it close with fiercely competitive rallies. With the Huskies trailing 23-21, first referee Cecil Clarke awarded a controversial point to the Lords after what looked like George Brown had scored an important kill late in the game. The Huskies maintained their composure to score another point making it 24-22, but the Lords went on to win the first set, 25-22. In the second set, the Huskies jumped out to a 4-0 lead with some strong serves by Andrea Huckins, who finished the game with a teamhigh 18 assists. The Huskies had the lead 15-10, at one point in the set but lost 26-24. In the third and final set, the Huskies once again held the early lead, but couldn’t hold off the surging Lords.

Late in the set, referee Clarke was once again a thorn in the side of the Huskies, giving coach Dana Cooke a red card for inappropriately returning a dead ball to second referee, Ali Sharifalam. “If I’m going to get a red card, I want to throw a chair or something, I want it to be exciting,” said Cooke after the game. Worse yet was the timing of the call and its effect on the game. “When the officials start influencing the flow of the game based on the timing of a very questionable call, that’s usually when I get upset,” said Cooke. The men’s team took the first set from the Lords, 26-24, with a strong performance by Pradeep Bhogal, who lead both teams with 28 assists during the match. In the remaining sets, the Huskies ran into a Lords team with growing confidence and a strong presence at the net. By the end of the match, the Lords had outblocked the Huskies 11-3, taking three sets in row, 2520, 25-14, and 25-20. Men’s coach Josh Nichol said that his team prepared well for Durham, but when the Lords changed their strategy, the Huskies were too late in responding. “We didn’t adjust to them until the forth set,” coach Nichol said. “Against a strong team like that we can’t take two sets to adjust and have a strong chance of winning.” The outcome remained much the same for both Huskies teams in their next game against Loyalist College, with the men’s team losing 3-1, and the women’s 3-1.

“If I’m going to get a red card, I want to throw a chair or something, I want it to be exciting”

Photos: Steve Cornwell / The Dialog

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ARTS & LIFE

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Check out Toronto’s First Post Office

Toronto’s First Post Office is still in operation today. Photo: Clement Goh / The Dialog

Steps from St. James, historic spot is chill and likely haunted CLEMENT GOH SPECIAL TO THE DIALOG

Toronto is full of unique and historic places that define the city’s history from the ground-up. One such place can be found just steps away from the Centre of Hospitality and Culinary Arts. The name speaks for itself, but Toronto’s First Post Office isn’t simply another old looking place. As one of Toronto’s oldest buildings,

the public location is beautiful in a vintage fashion, and the decor remains unchanged since its establishment almost 200 years ago. First built in 1833 by postmaster James Scott Howard, it was situated near the Bank of Upper Canada, which increased its importance of creating a financial district for the small city. Eventually, the post office was used as a records and recruitment office for the Royal Air Force before it was sold to the Christie Brown and Company Ltd. which is more widely known now as Mr. Christie’s, the cookie company. The Town of York Historical Society preserved this site with protection to continue as a fullyoperational place of business endorsed by Canada Post. Janet Baptista, a postal employee who has served in the building for 15 years says that people are always delighted to have a mailbox at this branch. At a budgetfriendly price of roughly $170 a year, it must feel cool to tell your friends where you’re go-

ing to get your mail. She added that students are also able to have their student loans done here, as many people travel to less convenient locations to have them processed. The establishment is also rumoured to be haunted by the ghost of James Scott Howard himself. As the protector of the post-office, Baptista claims to have heard footsteps in the wooden halls when she’s the only person in the building. Baptista said she has also heard loud crashing noises and that objects have been falling off the shelves of the office when nobody else was around. If you have free time around St. James, there are lots to explore at Toronto’s First Post Office. Spending some study time at the public place is comforting, and being surrounded by almost 200 years of history makes this location a perfect place to go if every table in the school’s buildings are filled up. Just try to avoid James Scott Howard if you see him.

Going deep into ramen culture Chef Hogan to share insights from training overseas CLEMENT GOH SPECIAL TO THE DIALOG

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Mark your calendars, gather your chopsticks, reschedule your pho plans and keep your taste buds from getting burnt. Chef Nathan Hogan is kicking of this year’s Tastes of Tomorrow series with a ramen demonstration on Feb. 1. The event was originally scheduled for Jan. 18. Starting at 6 p.m. at the Centre of Hospitality and Culinary Arts, this umamifilled experience will celebrate the Japanese ramen culture which has become one of Toronto’s hottest restaurant trends. Chef Hogan will offer event guests tasty treats featuring his own renditions of ramen picked up from his rigorous training in restaurants and culinary adventures in Japan and Central Asia.

Hogan’s ramen combines the ancient food of wheat noodles with a savoury broth and rich garnishes to create contemporary cuisine with a traditional Asian flare. According to Hogan, the event will also teach students the significance of Japanese cuisine, and how it impacted the perception of the growing ramen culture as a whole.

“Everybody loves ramen, but they don’t really know what it’s about.”

He explained that “everybody loves ramen, but they don’t really know what it’s about in terms of the different styles, the cooking of the noodles, the cutting of the egg and the broth.” He added, “the culture, history and complexity of all of it is something I want to touch on, and I’ll be showing you my go-to ramens.” The event won’t just have lessons on ramen though, as samples will also be provided. “Guests can of course look forward to all the tastes of ramen. It stays true to the cuisine,” said Hogan. Passes are $5 for anyone (free for ToT members) interested to discover that there are no limits on creativity, and be inspired to find your own style. In the meantime, be sure to keep your appetite satiated with Chef Hogan’s ramen blog, Cooking With Soul, which details his chronicles of exploring the ramen underworld across Asia. Check out the blog, Cooking With Soul at: http://chefhogan42.weebly.com/

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Exploring the fare of St. Lawrence Market BY RENUKA MALHOTRA

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St. Urbain Bagel Price: $ A bagel shop located on the ground floor of St. Lawrence Market is the most pocket-friendly place for students to go for a quick and healthy snack. St. Urbain offers a variety of eleven bagels to choose from. One has the option of getting a pack of six bagels which costs $4.50 or one bagel of just 90 cents before taxes. The bagel shop also offers bagel bar sandwiches, flat bread bagels and cheese bagels all within the price of $4.50 plus taxes.

Cruda Café Price: $$ Cruda Café offers gourmet cuisine which focuses on 100 per cent raw, vegan, gluten free and healthy food. Located in the basement of St. Lawrence Market (92-95 Front St. E.), the café is an ideal spot for those looking for something delicious and healthy. According to their website, Cruda Café’s focus on raw and vegan food is not just for vegan foodies. Cruda Café is welcomes meat and dairy eaters explore their vegan and raw menu. The café operates a juice and smoothie bar to provide their customers with the freshest squeezes. For breakfast, the café offers pancakes and sprouted granola, each made raw. Other major offerings at the café includes raw wraps, salads, tacos, and entrees. The café’s location, just a few blocks away from St. James campus, makes it ideal for an early morning breakfast, lunch or an evening snack

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for George Brown students and staff. The wraps are the major highlight of this café. The enchilada wrap is stuffed with avocado, vegan chili and seasonal veggies at $9.50 plus taxes. Another popular menu item is the quesadilla which is topped with onion tortillas, salsa, and avocado and paired with a small salad for $8.50 plus taxes. Bring your student ID along and Cruda Café will drop the taxes on all the food items. Desert menu items change on a daily basis, so there are always some surprises to look forward to. Cruda Café also does catering and delivery services thus standing proudly by their tagline ‘living foods on the go’. The café is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Tuesday to Thursday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. The café stays closed on Sunday and Monday during the week.

Everyday Gourmet Price: $ Everyday Gourmet is a café and coffee bean shop located in the basement of St. Lawrence Market. The café offers different varieties of coffee beans from Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica and more. The café serves up brewed coffee, hot chocolate and chai latte. Bagged teas, Americanos, and expresso are also available. One of the best beverages available is the London Fog which is perfect blend of aged earl grey tea with milk for $4.50 with taxes. The compactness of the café is ideal and you can enjoy sipping your tea and coffee while shopping for a great coffee bean.

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A lost robot in an unknown world – Planet of the Eyes game spotlight GABRIELA AVEIRO-OJEDA VIDEO-GAME COLUMNIST

Opening Planet of the Eyes for the first time, the player is greeted by the game’s menu screen, with the game title printed overhead. Upon pressing “New Game”, the screen turns black before showing a short cut scene of a ship crash-landing among burning wreckage. Not long after, a robot climbs out and the game gives control to the player. Going left proves pointless, as the wreckage blocks the way. When going right, however, the player stumbles on a cassette, which plays an audiolog. The recording is the voice of an older man, giving mysterious instructions before the audio ends. The player presses on. This is the opening sequence to Cococucumber’s adventure platformer Planet of the Eyes, a game shroud-

ed in mystery and set on a strange planet with various alien threats the player must avoid in order to survive and discover the reason behind their arrival to this unknown world. One of the game’s most compelling attributes lies in how it withholds narrative details from the player. The player must head forward and interact with audiologs in order to find out more about the planet, as well as the robot they are playing as within the game. To add to this aura of intrigue, the audiologs themselves come in the form of voice-overs by a man who is speaking directly to this robot character with an air of familiarity. Who is he? Why is he giving out instructions? The answers lie ahead, in the treacherous depths of the alien planet. Cococucumber is a local indie studio owned by Martin Gavreau and Vanessa

Chia, with Planet of the Eyes being their second release (the first being an iOS game Bunny Bonker). Planet of the Eyes was also a collaboration with writer Will O’Neill (Actual Sunlight, Sometimes Always Monsters) and sound designer John Black of Cypher Audio, responsible for the game’s haunting score. Since its release, Planet of the Eyes has met with very positive reviews from both players and critics as well as being in the official selection of several game conferences including PAX East, EGX London, Game Developers Conference 30. Planet of the Eyes makes for a wonderful game experience as it provides the player with engaging play in the form of puzzles and provides immersion in its voice-overs and sound. The alien planet is hostile yet the player is encouraged to proceed, a product of curiosity and exploration, as well as a well-written narrative. The visuals help the planet feel alien and strange, as well as dangerous and scary. From giant beetle-like creatures to rolling boulders, there is danger at every turn. The game itself is fairly short and can be completed within two hours time, which is something that gives a nice pace to the narrative reveals within the story. Planet of the Eyes is available on Steam for the price of $9.99.

Apply for school from your mobile device Ontariocolleges. ca aims to make applying for school easier RENUKA MALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER

The weather isn’t the only difficult thing that students deal with in the winter. As students complete applications for school programs this winter, Ontariocolleges.ca has launched a new mobile application to make it easier to apply to colleges in Ontario. According to the Ontario Colleges website, the mobile app will allow users to apply to various colleges anywhere and anytime. Students will be able to select the programs they are interested in, the colleges they want to apply for and keep a close check on the status of their application. “We were getting a lot of

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feedback directly from our applicants that a mobile experience, beyond just bearing the website on the phone is what they were looking for,” said Alissa Robson, manager of marketing and communications for Ontariocolleges.ca. “Within the app, (applicants) are able to search programs from all Ontario colleges just like they can on our website and they can create an application, request their transcripts from Ontario secondary and post-secondary schools, and accept offers easily from within it.” According to Robson, Ontariocolleges.ca receives around 200,000 applications every year through their website. More than 5000 applicants have used the new application since its launch in December. “The new application has a dashboard that makes it easier for students to view the status of their applications,” Robson said. For applicants that use different devices, Robson notes that users can go back and forth between mobile and desktop computers. “It is just about customizing the experience that you want,” she said. Applicants that would prefer to apply in a more traditional way can still use the Ontariocolleges.ca website. The newly launched application is compatible with both apple and android devices and can be downloaded from their respective app stores. For any further details or queries students can speak with an agents through the live chat option on Ontariocollege.ca or contact by email at: ask-us@ontariocolleges.ca.

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