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George Brown College’s second annual haunted house, part of an October fundraising campaign for the United Way charity. Photo: Aliona Kuts/The Dialog

George Brown helps Torontonians move from poverty to possibility Every year George Brown staff and students fundraise for the United Way ALIONA KUTS STAFF REPORTER

George Brown College (GBC) runs an annual fundraising campaign to support the United Way. This charity provides people in Toronto with an opportunity to achieve the best they can in life. In 2015, the college’s goal is to raise $160,000.

A pancake breakfast took place on Oct. 15 at all three campuses, giving students a chance to enjoy a delicious meal and donate $2 towards a good cause.

The haunted house, com-

ing back for the second year, occupied the student life office on Oct. 21 and 22. Student life staff, along with ESL and international student volunteers, put the house together in about eight hours and challenged their ability to scare students.

This year the fundraising element was added to the event. With a minimum donation of $1, a total of $400 was raised.

“A big part of it wasn’t so much about how much we raise, it was more about student awareness,” said Joseph Stapleton, the manager

of student Life. “We let them know that as a college we are raising money for the United Way to get them thinking about donating as well.”

He added he was more concerned and excited about student’s participation, not the total amount and that no one was turned away if they didn’t have money.

The CN Tower, the seventh tallest building in the world, will open its 1,776 step stairwell for the annual United Way fundraising climb on Nov. 7.

Norman Javier, a student life specialist and a member of the United Way committee at GBC, created his own team for college back in 2011. He said the goal for 2015 is to have a team of 50-70 people from the college and the Stu-

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dent Association (SA) to raise at least $2,000.

Javier has been doing the climb for eight years now: “It’s my way of supporting the United Way and the students who are a part of the team.”

Rachel Grace, the SA’s director of campus life, is one

“A big part of it wasn’t so much about how much we raise, it was more about student awareness.” @dialoggbc

of the SA’s team of eight staff and board members who have already signed up to participate in the climb.

“As an organization that strives to support students and our community the United Way is a great charity that we’re proud to be supporting,” said Grace.

The SA held a “Traffic Light Party” on Oct. 23 with all proceeds from the door going to the United Way. Grace said SA’s goal this year is to surpass the $500 that they raised last year.

“The traffic light party was one of our most popular events last year and we wanted to leverage that for the United Way this year,” said Neil Cumberbatch, the SA’s senior co-ordinator of events and marketing.

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George Brown College Students tour important LGBTQ receives historic donation sites in the village TINA TODARO STAFF REPORTER

Stepping back into ‘Queeronto’ highlights the history of Toronto’s queer community Steve Cornwell STAFF REPORTER

Community Action Centre (CAC) staff took George Brown students on a walking tour of sites related to the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) community in Toronto. The tour, which CAC called “Stepping Back Into Queeronto,” explored sites around the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood which have historical significance or present day importance to Toronto’s queer community.

Stops on the tour included the former location of the Pussy Palace raids, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the Glad Day Bookshop, the 519 Church Street Community Centre, and several others. Through videos and guest speakers, participants learned about historic happenings at each site, as well as resources presently available to Toronto’s queer community.

“Our goals for the tour were to talk about the history of each site, and how the LGBTQ movement got us to the place we are now” said tour co-organizer and LGBTQ support staff, Veronica

Hall. “We also wanted to lay out resources in the city that students might not know of to access.”

The combination of historic and practical information was not lost on tour participant, Alice Hietala, a student in the social service work program.

“It was good for me, because I haven’t lived here for 10 years and I left before I came out,” Hietala said.

For Hietala, the walking tour was as opportunity “to come back and see a side of my city I hadn’t had the chance to see yet.”

The Church and Wellesley neighbourhood is often regarded as a centre of queer culture in Toronto. Yet, according to Sarah Rayner, another co-organizer of the tour and LGBTQ support staff at the CAC, the queer history of the neighbourhood and Toronto more generally, is often overshadowed by LGBTQ communities in the United States.

“I feel like a lot of people know about LGBTQ history in the US, but a lot of people don’t know about Canadian queer history,” said Rayner.

“A lot has happened for LGBTQ communities in Canada, especially in Toronto.”

George Brown College (GBC) has received its largest onetime donation from philanthropist and group chairman of Brookfield Jack Cockwell and the Brookfield Partners Foundation. The $8-million donation will see the Waterfront campus renamed to the Daphne Cockwell Centre for Health Sciences, in honour of Cockwell’s late mother. The contribution also represents the heftiest donation in the history of the Ontario college system, according to the college.

“This generous donation is a vote of confidence in George Brown’s contribution to Toronto’s economic development

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The contribution also represents the heftiest donation in the history of the Ontario college system

The funding will go towards the college’s redevelopment and expansion plans, ensuring that all students receive proper training in state-of-theart facilities and acquire the necessary skills required by employers, said the statement.

The Brookfield donation will contribute to GBC’s Success at Work campaign, which aims to put $250-million towards increasing scholarships and bursaries, as well as capital growth.

“It is fulfilling to see my mother’s legacy carried forward in the name of a building dedicated to creating the next generation of nurses, dental health professionals, health and wellness workers and others who make invaluable contributions to the population’s well-being,” said Cockwell.

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George Brown students on the LGBTQ walking tour

and its role in meeting employers’ needs,” said Anne Sado, president of GBC, in a written statement on Oct. 13. “Thank you to Jack Cockwell and the Brookfield Partners Foundation for investing in George Brown students for the benefit of our city’s future.”

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From author to Nintendo game designer Dave Proctor will share his story at Global Entrepreneurship Day on Nov. 19 ALIONA KUTS STAFF REPORTER

Dave Proctor is a guy a lot of people might envy.

He started Wooden Rocket Press, an independent publishing company, in 2009, a year after graduating from University of Toronto with a degree in English literature and cinema studies. While self-publishing two novellas and running the company, he realized it was still largely a hobby.

“I wasn’t able to kick it up a notch to the next step,” Proctor said.

Proctor’s creative and writ-

ing skills, along with the enjoyment of occasionally programming a website, gave him to the idea to pursue a career in game design.

In search of a small postgraduate environment, he set his eyes on George Brown’s video game design advanced diploma.

“There was no similar program anywhere else,” he explains. Besides, they did not require a portfolio of his game development skills. “I was not an artist, or modeller, or programmer. I brought samples of my writing and they accepted it.”

Going back to school after a

Dave Proctor will speak at the Global Entrepreneurship Day on Nov 19 Photo: Alex Rushdy

seven-year break was not challenging for Proctor.

“I was nervous and had doubts for about a day and then I got over it” he said adding that his wife told him it was never a bad idea to learn something new. “I just keep remembering that because it actually never was.”

The people he met at the program still affect him, he sees them every day. For the 2014 Toronto Global Game Jam Proctor partnered with eight classmates to create the game Runbow and found 13AM Games.

“It proved to be really fun, something we wanted

to explore. When Nintendo expressed its interest, we thought we should legitimize ourselves – and now we have an office,” said Proctor.

Proctor said working with former classmates is both easy and hard.

“It is easy because we share a vision and know each other’s story. We are all in this together,” he explains. “The difficult part is that you have a company with nine people,” he says laughing. Although he is the managing director, Proctor emphasizes they are “a company owned by employees.”

“I started my own company that is my sole source of income and released a game on the Nintendo platform! I still haven’t processed how incredible that is,” said Proctor.

Students can hear Proctor speak as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Day at George Brown College on Nov. 19, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 290 Adelaide St. E. (St. James campus, building C), room 406.

Social Innovation Hub offers PeerConnect now at Ryerson University restorative justice training Professor Rick Kelly brings 14 years of experience in restorative justice to students at George Brown College TINA TODARO STAFF REPORTER

The George Brown College (GBC) social innovation hub, will be offering students the opportunity to participate in projects with a restorative justice focus, receiving a student certificate of participation.

Acting as a hub within a hub, the restorative hub “takes 14 years of experience and creates an organizational model around it,” said Rick Kelly, a professor in the child and youth worker program.

According to Kelly, “with that (restorative justice practices) as an anchor it has evolved its presence in a number of different ways, which flow through the core curriculum adding a restorative element to all the core courses that are taught in the program.

“If we’re teaching something on adolescent development or family or community or trauma, then there’s a restorative element there,” said Kelly.

Three students from the

hub, or “hubsters” as they’re known in the program, have had the opportunity to develop templates for workshops for peacemakers at the grade six level, according to Kelly.

One model used is the “peacemaking circle,” which provides students with the principles and tools for running hub-management meetings to make them both effective and humane.

Another model is the “trauma informed circle,” which encompasses a student-led support group—the model that has been used in a variety of different settings such as the Aboriginal Education Centre that uses “body mapping” as a tool to identify trauma.

According to Kelly, three students in the program have used what they learned in their placement inside Jamaican men’s and women’s prisons and alternative youth education settings.

“The training has been a very good way to reach out into the community because those are typically places where are students are in placement,” said Kelly.

Having been a certified trainer for the International Institute for Restorative Practices, Kelly has been facilitating two-day training for all levels of students in the child and youth worker program as well as agency partners since 2005.

The training was initially geared towards graduating students as a certification for their portfolios, since then the program has grown and Kelly has been able to do 25 training sessions with a total of 500-700 people.

The training gives a student a certificate of participation for completing the “Facilitating Restorative Conferencing” module which can also be used as a partial credit towards for either a degree or a full certificate.

School boards are incorporating restorative options as part of progressive discipline policies, and it’s also an increasing part of youth justice legislation in Canada.

For more information on upcoming training sessions students can contact Kelly at rkelly@georgebrown.ca

Former PAL centre reorganized to better assist students ALIONA KUTS STAFF REPORTER

PeerConnect centres are now united and share the same mission of providing services at all campuses including Ryerson, where they opened a new office in September.

Paige Dalson, a fourthyear student in the early childhood leadership program, has been working there since the start of the year providing weekly tutoring for students.

“It’s usually something quick because people here are always on the go,” Dalson said adding that 383 students have engaged with PeerConnect since September.

PeerConnect, formerly known as the PAL centre, offers workshops on personal wellness, study strategies and employability skills.

There also are game days on Wednesdays and Chinese relaxation movements work-

shops open to every student.

Kitu Sharma, a peer coach since 2014, works at St. James doing workshops on presentations, mindful meditation and nutrition.

“Our main goal is to create a culture of care,” said Sharma. “The unique thing about our service is that it is provided by students for students,” she added, saying the peer coach’s own student experience comes in handy too.

Carlos Carli, a relative newbie at St. James PeerConnect, has been doing marketing and workshops for international students since September. He said that he sees more students coming to the centre after the rebranding.

“The more time we spend, the more things we do,” he said referring to new initiatives such as Winter 101 workshop or Halloween pumpkin carving contest.

Carli mentioned a student who literally cried on his shoulder once. That student saw Carli as someone he could trust and let it out.

“It caught me off-base, but it was great to see how much people trust us,” said Carli.

“It’s amazing that we are giving the platform to make that connection. I see that a lot,” added Sharma.

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Wen-Do training a ‘chance to come together’ Winter program to start at George Brown College in Janurary RENUKA MALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER

Wen-Do comprises of an English word ‘Women’ with few letters omitted and ‘Do’ is a Japanese word which means path or way. So, WenDo means the women’s path or women’s way of defending herself.

“Wen-Do is very adaptable to who is in the room and how women can use their bodies,” said Wen-Do instructor Deb Parent.

The five-week basic selfdefense course for women runs at least once a year at the St. James campus of George Brown College (GBC).

The program aims to give women knowledge of strikes that can be used in emergency situations. Both physical and mental techniques are designed to help women with different abilities, sizes, and ages.

Wen-Do began in Toronto about 42 years ago and since

Wen Do Instructor Deb Parent (left) and participant & Human Rights Advisor Jennet Cox (right) in action Photo coutesy of Jennet Cox

then has widened its reach in Europe and introduced some programs in Japan as well. “Our goal basically is to empower women, to challenge the notion, the stereotype that women aren’t able to defend themselves,” said Parent.

“It has made me a lot

more aware. Aware of my surroundings, aware of things that I am doing because now I walk from this campus back to Waterfront and I am aware,” said Jennet Cox, a Wen-Do participant and human rights adviser at GBC. The program started at George Brown in 2004 and

participation of women has been constant. The maximum occupancy is 20 women. Cox said, “this fall we had a good response but a lot of people once they found out the next one was running choose to wait for the winter one, which will start on Jan. 26.”

Parent appreciated both

George Brown introduces two new degrees Students will be able to enroll in bachelor degree programs in behaviour analysis and American Sign Language RENUKA MALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER

In order to meet industry needs and rising competition, George Brown College (GBC) has made several developments in its academic degree programs. The college has recently received approval from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities for two new degrees in behaviour analysis and American Sign Language.

The bachelors of in terpretation program in American Sign Language (English) will become the first degree in Canada, according to GBC senior vice president of academic Lau-

ra Jo Gunter, who made the announcement at a College Council meeting on Sept. 17.

“That’s a very unique degree at least in Canada. So we’re very, very happy about that,” she said.

The bachelors of behaviour analysis is an fouryear undergraduate degree program that focuses on the science of human behaviour.

This program has a diverse curriculum that will prepare students to work with various areas including: autism, developmental disabilities, mental health, public policy, management, education and research.

“This program is unique in the GTA. There are currently no other approved

bachelor’s degrees in behaviour analysis in Ontario. The focus of our curriculum, field experience component and the number and scope of our community partners sets us apart from other general psychology degrees,” said Jennifer Porter, coordinator for the behavioural science technology program at George Brown.

The degree also has an entry pathway for students in the second year of the diploma and also a bridging pathway for graduates of the GBC behavioural science technology advanced diploma. This will allow students to upgrade to the degree credential, which is becoming a more impor-

tant credential in the field of behaviour analysis. This will also elevate the practicing capabilities of graduates and the discipline as a whole, said Porter.

“The bachelor’s level credential in behaviour analysis is designed to satisfy the academic requirements for certification at the assistant level through the Behavior Analyst Certification Board,” said Porter. “This is an American certification body that is gaining acceptance in Ontario as representing the minimum standards of practice. We should emphasize that our program is not an approved sequence yet, but we will be seeking approval.”

George Brown and University of Toronto’s efforts for adding Wen-Do as a free training program for female students within the institutions.

“Every woman in the class has some experience on campus, on the TTC, or in her own relationships,” said Parent. She added, “it gives us a chance to come together and understand that we are not responsible for these assaults, and here are some things that we can do verbally or physically in the future knowing that there is a good chance it is going to happen again.”

The focus of the Wen-Do training program is to help women gain confidence with the realization that they are strong enough to defend and protect themselves everywhere.

“I think what brings women largely to a Wen-Do class is the fear of stranger danger and certainly we know that’s very real,” said Parent. “And we also know that women are 60-70 per cent more likely to be assaulted by somebody they know.”

For Parent, participating in a Wen-Do class gives women the opportunity to do several things, including sharing information that uproots myths and preconceptions they had about themselves.

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Pumpkin Spice Lattes and broken promise Can a latte really deliver a season’s worth of meaning and feeling?

MATTHEW CIVICO THE CONCORDIAN

Lattes are liars, and Pumpkin Spiced ones are the worst.

Knowledge of their duplicity doesn’t scare me off though. Every year it’s the same: I want them in a bad way. I’m pretty embarrassed about it but I think I’ve learned a few things about gourds and frothed milk and, somewhere along the way, about myself.

I’m just a man. Weak, frail, and in need of comfort— warmly spiced comfort— when temperatures begin to dip below 10 degrees Celsius.

Naturally, I put on a sweater and some wool socks.

I also swear off ice cream and start eating more soups and stews. You see, I take my autumns very seriously.

Now about that frothy fraud.

Pumpkin Spice Lattes are dangerous. They’re like politicians really, and we swallow them down every year, reelecting them as ambassadors of autumn while oblivious of our collective amnesia.

The PSL makes a lot of promises, but I’m on to it. It’s a seasonal drink though, and has Starbucks’ (and others) marketing muscle behind it, so it threw me for a loop this year—it added real pumpkin.

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pandered to.

It’s still a disappointment.

Still too sweet and too mainstream. No one loves a PSL the way I could love a PSL, if I didn’t already hate them.

I hate calling them PSLs. I want to love Pumpkin Spice Lattes. I want to find comfort and fulfilment in their warmth, the same way I want to find identity and fulfilment in early morning writing and afternoon walks amid bright, swirling leaves.

Packaged, frothed, and consumable—that’s how I want my autumns, and I’m ashamed. Maybe that’s why I can’t decide whether I love or hate Pumpkin Spice Lattes.

They offer me exactly what I want in the way I think I want it, but I come away unsatisfied every time.

Sure, I could scour the internet for a gluten-free fairtrade non-GMO paleo alternative that would be better than the sugary gourd-slop Starbucks is peddling, but it wouldn’t matter.

Pumpkin Spice Latte Photo: Silva-Elisa

The pure, distilled spirit of autumn I want can’t actually be distilled, let alone into a cheap syrup.

Maybe I’m an idealist, or maybe I just can’t get past how much more interesting metaphysics are than physics. One thing I know is that my perfect conception of autumn—and what PSLs should be—exists, it just doesn’t exist here.

But that’s what ideals are for. It’s why we idolize heroes and worship ephemeral experiences; we do this because it gives us something to reach for.

I’m deeply disappointed with the broken promises of Pumpkin Spice Lattes but I’m not cynical about what they offer. An unflagging idealism, or at least a willingness to dream beyond reality, is the only effective antidote against cynicism that I know.

So go enjoy a warm gourd beverage, but don’t believe the hype.

Keep Toronto’s shelter beds Winter is coming and Toronto City Council seems to have no adequate plan to stop homeless shelters from disappearing.

The Salvation Army’s 124-bed men’s Hope Shelter at the corner of College and McCaul closed in April and the 70-bed YWCA’s Beatrice House at 177 Caledonia Road for women and their children experiencing homelessness shut their doors in June.

The City has also approved plans in principle to tear down Seaton House, a 543-bed shelter on George Street near Dundas Street.

Many agree that something needs to happen with Seaton House, but demolition without decent shelter in the interim is a recipe for disaster.

As part of its George Street Revitalization project, city council approved plans to replace Seaton House with a combination of emergency shelter and long-term care beds as well as well affordable and market price housing. But according to city reports on the revitalization, tearing down Seaton House and building the new complex in its place would reduce Toronto’s emergency shelter capacity by another 140 beds.

While investing in new and affordable housing is essential, losing emergency shelter beds in the interim is a callous trade off. In 2013, City Council set a target to keep the occupancy of Toronto shelters at or below the 90 percent mark. This month, Toronto shelters are operating at close to 100 per cent of their capacity.

Unfortunately, Toronto’s shelter system is already overburdened. As the colder weather comes, people experiencing homelessness will face a tougher time coming in from the cold.

Homeless Hub, a research centre based out of York University, noted that Toronto’s homelessness population has been increasing the last four years. While the effort to build more affordable housing is important, Homeless Hub Research co-ordinator, Tanya Gulliver-Garcia is right when she said, “so is making sure the needs of people who are currently homeless get met.”

The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) suspects that plans to demolish Seaton House are part of a drive to move Toronto’s poor away from the downtown core, where vital services are. In an open letter, OCAP argued that there is “no meaningful plan to replace the emergency shelter beds that will be lost at Seaton House.” The group is calling for an end to closing shelters, “unless and until alternative spaces in the same area of the city have been secured” and will be taking their demands to city council on Nov. 3.

Toronto must do more to ensure adequate space for our most vulnerable people. Four men experiencing homelessness died in the cold of January 2015, compelling the City of Toronto to open up more temporary shelters.

These kinds of tragedies are avoidable, let’s not wait until they happen again.

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It’s time to stamp out bullying Spirit Day is just one day out of 365 to fight homophobia MURRAY S. ROWE Bullying can mean so many things to so many people.

However, there is consensus that bullying has significant, negative impacts on the health (mental and physical), and the overall well-being of a person. The impact of bullying is not limited by one’s age or gender. When a person diminishes your sense of self-worth or instills fear — whether one is 16 or 60, male or female — those feelings and thoughts are forever embedded into the person being bullied.

Speaking from my own experience as a gay, white, male (who recognizes the privileges that come with these attributes), trying to navigate the world as a teen was complicated. I was always in fear of being exposed, and living in a rural Ontario definitely compounded that fear. Added to

this was that gut-wrenching feeling that I was so different than the general population, and if someone found out, then life would forever be hell.

It eventually happened.

I was called faggot, sissy, fruit, and the list goes on. I still remember the first time I wasn’t picked to play on a gym team because my classmates didn’t want to pick the “homo” in fear they’d be perceived as gay too; or the one time at 13 years old, I was thrown to the ground, punched and kicked repeatedly by my older brother because he thought he could “beat the gay out of me.” Reflecting back on that experience now, I often wonder if my challenges are even comparable to those of today’s youth.

The fears that LGBTQ+ youth face today are real.

Despite the milestones the queer community has achieved in recent years —

George Brown students participate in Spirit Day at St. James campus on Oct. 15 Photo: Mohammad Ali Aumeer / Community Action Centre

and the gradual changes in society’s attitude toward the LGBTQ+ community — our youth continue to be bullied.

It’s not just in the schoolyards or playgrounds. It has emerged on various social media outlets. It has gone beyond typical adolescent behaviour and become absolutely unacceptable. Beautiful lives are being lost.

Movements like Spirit

Day, which happened on Oct. 15, are intended to educate and raise awareness of bullying so that people understand what bullying is and the impact it has on its victims. Spirit Day also aims to show LGBTQ+ youth that there is support. I made the choice many years ago to be vocal against bullying. Being vocal allows me to do what I can to ensure no kid has

to endure the same constant fear I experienced.

Spirit Day is one day.

However, I challenge each of you to make the same commitment to stop bullying against LGBTQ+ youth or others not just this one day but every day.

Murray Rowe is the Student Association LGBTQ Representative

Letters and comments: Students debate technology fee increase Why should students pay?

Are any students opposing this? This is effectively a tuition fee increase. Why should students pay for this increase? I would like to point out that $31 is the equivalent to the average monthly amount of food given out in food bank hampers at GBC. I guess students starving one extra month is an acceptable sacrifice for some student leaders at the SA! - Michael Waglay on Facebook

I could buy my own iPad if fees didn’t keep going up The college has money to

keep acquiring new buildings but they can’t invest in better services at current buildings?

Those improvements should be paid for by students? I dont think so. Which is why I voted against it. The current SA board members voted in favour of this on a package they received from GBC staff.

I agree with the improvements, but not out of students’ pockets. There’s no reason the fee should keep increasing every year in my personal opinion as a current board member of the SA and a student that has paid these fee increases over

the years.

More iPads are great, but I could probably buy my own if fees didn’t keep going up.

- Coty Zachariah, SA First Nations, Inuit and Métis Representative on Facebook

Fee increases accessibility of technology

I’m sure it’s frustrating when fees are increased. I’ve been there. I am there. What needs to be acknowledged is the province’s allocated funding for technology enhancements. The funding formula as is currently stands does not provide adequate funding to maintain or upgrade what currently exists. This technology fee

allows the college to provide additional technology to students who may not otherwise have access. It provides more access to the network across campuses and provides more openaccess capability.

I spent a great deal of time reviewing the material provided on funding and proposed improvements. In the end there were two possible outcomes: 1) To not increase the fee nominally and have no improvements and less than adequate access as no increase was coming from the province.

2) To vote in favour of the increase to ensure

George Brown College has the capacity to meet the needs of current and new students—be that in network capacity or accessibility to technology and hardware for a larger number of students.

I might suggest you consider the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) and whether or not it’s effective in its mandate advocating for lower tuition fees. Perhaps we should be asking the CFS why colleges and universities are not receiving the required technology funding from the province?

There lies the real issue.

- Murray Rowe, SA LGBTQ Representative on Facebook.

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SA celebrates new Casa Loma student centre

SA student center gaming lounge Photo: Aloke Anand/The Dialog

Food and cake being served to students at the lounge

Huge IT upgrades with TV screens installed

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Grand opening for Casa Loma gym Huskies legacy passed to the next generation of athletes at the renovated gym ALOKE ANAND ONLINE EDITOR

Staff and students at Casa Loma campus celebrated the grand opening of their newly -renovated gym on Oct. 15.

“The gym got its first renovation since 1972 and after another 40 years people will remember what we did,” said Gerard Hayes, director of student experience at George Brown College (GBC) Located in the C Building at Casa Loma the new gym has been in works for two years and has had a cost over $2 million for its construction, design and facilities.

GBC president Anne Sado said, “The Husky teams of the men’s basketball in 1974-75 won gold at nationals and after 40 years of use it was time for an upgrade.”

Sado said the renovation was funded by student fees collected over eight years and has been designed to meet the needs of college community as a brighter, more spacious gym with better equipment “I remember when I was a kid 25 years ago and playing in this gym with Albert Da Silva,” said Jonathan Smith, the coach of the men’s basketball team. “It gives me great pleasure to come back to George Brown where I started to continue to value traditions and set forth for to create new fantastic athletes.”

Instead of the standard ribbon-cutting Sado opened

Grand opening of new gym at Casa Loma by GBC president Anne Sado, Melaine Gerin-Lajoie and Albert DaSilva Photo: Aloke Anand/The Dialog

the gym by passing a basketball to Melaine Gerin-Lajoie, the new manager of athletics at the college.

Gerin-Lajoie passed the ball quickly to Albert DaSilva the men’s basketball and intramural co-ordinator at Casa Loma. Da Silva started his association with GBC as a student athlete in 1973 and after 42 years of service was recognised as the “Amigo” of Casa Loma.

Da Silva handed the ball

to Val Pozzan, who was the co-ordinator for athletics and recreation from 1976 to 2010. Pozzan played basketball for GBC in 1973-75 and was a member of the 1975 national championship team.

A member of the Ontario Colleges Athletics Association (OCAA) hall of fame Pozzan was named to the OCAA allmillennium basketball team in 2000.

Pozzan flipped a no-look pass to long-time GBC staff

member Deanna Oliver, who was part of George Brown’s Ontario championship teams in 1977-78 and 79-80 for women’s basketball and was named athlete of the year in 1980. Today Oliver serves as the co-ordinator of women’s sports and fitness department.

Oliver passed to Akai Nettey who played for five years as the co-captain, MVP, provincial athlete of the week and east-region all-star with

the Huskies and is now the men’s basketball team’s assistant coach.

Nettey tossed the ball to Melissa Vilar, a Huskies women’s basketball player for five years, and women’s college athlete of the year in 2012—the same year the Huskies won bronze in the OCAA. Smiling, the two-time provincial all-star, dribbled the ball towards the net making the lay-up and officially opening the gym.

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Exhibition Games Mohawk 107 - George Brown 87 Durham Tournament St. Clair 90 - George Brown 56 Durham 77 - George Brown 75 George Brown 72 - Loyalist 59

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George Brown finishes 5th in the Central division with a 2-5-3 record.

Sheridan 2 - George Brown 1 George Brown 0 - Niagara 0 Humber 4 - George Brown 0 George Brown finishes 5th in the Central division with a 1-7-2 record.

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Playoffs: George Brown 2 - Algonquin 0 (2510, 25-18) Canadore 2 - George Brown 1 (2518, 23-25, 12-15)

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A Peoples’ Senate for Canada: Not a Pipe Dream!

Helen Forsey on the inner workings of our Upper House MAVERICK SMITH SPECIAL TO THE DIALOG

A Senate made up of the people. In this relevant read on Canadian politics, author Helen Forsey seeks to persuade her audience that having a better version of the upper house is not just a pipe dream.

For those, like me, who are unfamiliar with the structure of Canadian politics at the federal level, there are two houses of parliament, the House of Commons and the Senate, which is also called the red chamber. The Senate is made up of appointed senators who are typically affiliated with a political party, although there are a few independent

A People’s Senate For Canada, a new book by Helen Forsey Photo courtesy: Fernwood Publishing

senators who do not belong to any political party.

These senators serve from the time they are appointed to the time they

turn 75 years-old. As Forsey describes in her book, technically, these senators are appointed by the Governor General of Canada. Howev-

er, since the Governor General must, except in rare circumstances, listen to the prime minister, it is really the prime minister who ap-

points senators to the upper house.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made what Forsey calls a mockery of the workings of the Senate.

Delving back into Canadian history, Forsey uses anecdotes from past senators, analysis from academia and clippings from countless newspapers to vividly depict what Canada’s Senate has been and could be again.

Forsey makes no apologies for the Fathers of Confederation. She acknowledges that they were men of their time with all of the biases that that implies.

However, she maintains the founding fathers had a vision for the Senate that was much different than what is today.

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The Horror: What to do this Halloween weekend Here is a quick listing of Halloween events for George Brown students STEVE CORNWELL STAFF REPORTER

Thursday, Oct. 29 Halloween Carnival at La Vie Night Club Be who you want to be and join your fellow George Brown students at La Vie Night Club (224 Richmond St W.)

10 p.m.-3 a.m. $10 advance tickets at Student Association offices.

Dreadcade Halloween Party and Arcade Dames Making Games is putting on its second annual Halloween arcade where you can put on your costume and play locally made horror-themed video games. Contests and snacks galore!

Halloween Haunt at Canada’s Wonderland Brave your way through 10 horrifying mazes, two scare zones, four live shows and over 700 monsters prowling throughout Canada’s Wonderland.

Canada’s Wonderland (9580 Jane St.).

Free shuttle buses leaving from the corner of George St. and Adelaide St. E at 6:15 p.m. $20 for GBC students.

Saturday, Oct. 31

7:30 to 11:30 p.m.

Ghost Hole 7 A haunted art house, curated by artist Vanessa Rieger and loosely themed around the number seven. Taking place in a 100 year-old (probably haunted) venue, with rituals and artist creations.

Free with donations accepted.

8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Bento Miso Collaborative Workspace (862 Richmond St W.).

Friday, Oct. 30 Rot N’ Rumble presents Zombie Wrestling Mayhem ensues as zombies, humans, and Luchadore wrestlers grapple for Halloween supremacy. Also featuring special effects, food, and cheap booze.

Lithuanian House (1573 Bloor St W.).

7 p.m. $20.

Jam Factory Co. (20 Matilda St.).

Pay what you can.

Halloween Street Party in the Village Wild costumes abound in Church and Wellesley Village, as thousands converge to party on Church St. Big parts of Church will be closed off, and bars in the area will be open late to encourage the ghoulish fun.

Church St., between Alexander and Gloucester.

6:30 p.m.

Free.

Heart of GBC fosters community on campus Photo display aims to ‘connect to the heart’ of George Brown students EDEN MARTIN STAFF REPORTER

“Research shows that when students feel well connected they’re more likely to thrive at college,” says Alison Burns, research and development associate in academic and student affairs at George Brown College (GBC).

For this reason, the Connect to the Heart of GBC initiative, which launched in September, aims to build community and encourage student connection. “The goal is to encourage the development of meaningful human connection on campus by making visible some of the individuals who are already actively engaged in connection and community-building,” said Burns.

Profiles pairing a photo with a statement drawn from the person’s insights and experiences are currently being displayed on screens on all

three GBC campuses. New profiles will rotate monthly.

“The first phase of this initiative takes its inspiration loosely from the Humans of New York concept,” said Burns.

The initiative was developed by the First Year Experience Committee as part of the Student Persistence and Retention Strategy, created in 2013.

Burns believes that a culture of support for students already exists at GBC, but that it’s not always immediately visible to incoming students. This project attempts to enhance students’ experiences, including during their transitions into college and throughout the first year of study. It does this by creating more welcoming spaces, promoting community building, and showing by example individuals who “really go the extra mile for students,” said Burns.

The profiles include a mix

Initiative takes its inspiration loosely from the Humans of New York of students, staff, faculty and administrators. “The idea is that this be representative of the dynamism of our community. Hopefully people will see themselves in some way reflected in the diversity of the images, statements and eexperiences,” said Burns.

In future phases of the initiative, the College hopes to “provide more of the context around people’s experiences.”

The Connect to the Heart of GBC initiative will also be rolled out on social media channels, Burns said.

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A quick recipe for insalata panzanella We’re bringing you a delicious and relatively simple recipe that incorporates fresh, seasonable vegetables.

This recipe for insalata panzanella comes from Chef Beverley Rothlisberger of George Brown College’s continuing education Mediterranean cooking program.

Ingredients

Method

6 cups day-old white bread, preferably focaccia n 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved n 1/2 cup olive oil n 1/4 cup red wine vinegar n Salt and pepper to taste n 1/2 medium cucumber, cut in half lengthwise, sliced n 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced n 6 to 10 basil leaves, torn n 1 clove garlic, minced

1. Tear the bread into bitesize pieces.

2. Lightly salt the cherry tomatoes, place in bowl and set aside for 15 to 30 minutes.

3. Whisk together the olive oil and red wine vinegar.

Season to taste with salt and pepper.

4. Combine the bread with the tomatoes, cucumber, onion, basil, and garlic. Toss to mix and then add the dressing and toss to combine. Let the salad soak for at least 30 minutes before serving.

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Ruth Reichl’s new book, My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life Photo courtesy: Random House

Ruth Reichl visits George Brown to promote new cookbook Renowned chef and writer says she wants people to stop being afraid of cooking CLEMENT GOH SPECIAL TO THE DIALOG

Renowned food writer and chef Ruth Reichl made her second visit to George Brown’s St. James campus to promote her latest recipe book, My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life.

Reichl’s talk was part of the Up Close & Personal series of events organized by The Chef ’s House. Guests greeted Reichl with loud applause as she took the stage and Chef John Higgins got the conversation underway.

“It’s not just a George Brown event,” said Higgins.

“It brings everybody from the community together and you can see a variety of young, old, middle-aged people here and it’s good that she comes back to Toronto to interact with the students.”

Having embraced social media to connect with fellow food enthusiasts, Reichl was passionate in endorsing Twitter as a means of “marking moments in life.”

She also expressed envy at the younger generation of people who can avoid isolation in the kitchen through the ability to “tweet right into a conversation.”

After the interactive talk, guests enjoyed tastings of Samuel Adams Beer and wine courtesy of Stratus Vineyards, with Hors d’oeuvres made by the students of the culinary management program, as Reichl

signed books and posed for pictures with fans.

“Reichl is a very important figure in the culinary world,” said Alma Garcia, a first-year culinary management student volunteering at the event. “We’re representing the college, and it’s important to show that we’re interested in everything that’s going on about food.”

“I really wanted people to stop being afraid of cooking,” said Reichl when asked what the inspiration was in the use of the recipes in My Kitchen Year. “My basic goal in life is to get people back in the kitchen, and I feel like we’ve terrified people into thinking that if they can’t cook at a chef ’s level, they shouldn’t cook at all.”

My Kitchen Year was published on Sept. 29. and is available online and in-store at a book retailers.

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Kyle Mac (left), Laura Condlln (right) in An Enemy of the People Photo: Cylla von Tiedrmann

Laura Condlln, Rick Roberts in An Enemy of the People Photo: Cylla von Tiedrmann

An Enemy of the People lets audience decide who is right Ibsen’s social critiques still relevant to Canadian politics today ALIONA KUTS STAFF REPORTER

On the eve of federal elections Tarragon Theatre brought back last year’s noted play An Enemy of the People.

Written by a Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1882, the play tells a story

of Dr. Thomas Stockman who discovers water at his town’s baths has been contaminated. However, going public turns out to be more complex than he expected.

Political and interpersonal twists intensify when Dr. Thomas Stockman is turned into Dr. Thomasina Stockman, played by the brilliant Laura Condlln.

This change reveals how

differently the story is interpreted if the main character is a woman. Thomasina’s older brother, a local politician personally interested in keeping her discovery secret, yells that she is a reckless troublemaker who denies authority.

“You are not entitled to any opinion as an employee,” he shouts. “I give you orders and you obey!” A woman’s attempt to speak up faces a man’s power and physical strength.

“Who cares if he is powerful? I am right,” Thomasina says to her sister. “Who cares you are right, if he is powerful?” she replies.

Thomasina’s passionate speech on financial crisis, the economy and society, consciously or unconsciously, uncovers the typical social norms: men are emotionally cool and clear-headed as op-

posed to hysterical and emotional women.

“You shouldn’t have got involved in this,” says one of the characters, summarising the overall attitudes towards courageous women in society.

The debates at the town hall got the audience involved in the play. The “town citizens” were asked to discuss who is right: Dr. Stockman or “the democratic majority.”

With federal elections looming, certain jokes were inevitable. “Do you want to lose the economy?”asks Stockman’s politician brother Peter.

“Let’s wait until Monday!” was one reply from the audience.

“You can’t help to play it differently,” said Tom Barnett, who plays the town’s newspaper’s publisher, on

Thomas becoming Thomasina. “You know it’s going to change the equation, but you don’t know how.”

Condlln said that from her perspective Dr. Stockman “goes off on a very big picture that the only thing worth doing is getting rid of civilisation because it’s dying anyway.”

Rick Roberts, who plays Peter Stockman, said the play is genderless and agreed with the criticism of society in it. “There are problems with democracy, economy and family, but there are no solutions. It really is a conversation. And the problem with Stephen Harper is saying ‘No conversation.’ ” Summarising the play Podemski said, “as much as you want to stand on your principles, we all still have to live, we have families.”

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A Trip to the Island: a trip to every man’s past ‘A genuinely Canadian film in the best sense of the word’ ALIONA KUTS STAFF REPORTER

Nick Mancuso stars in A Trip to the Island. Photo: Collette Stevenson

Hrant Alianak, a renowned playwright and theatre director, presented his first feature film A Trip to the Island on Oct. 16 at Kingsway Theatre.

The film, which was shot in 10 days tells a story of a writer living on an island, working on a new script, projecting his life on every man’s past. This past is filled with regrets and illusions.

At the same time, he is trying look at his complicated

relations with his wife to understand what he could have done differently. Eventually he realises: “I am here. Because I want to be.”

Nick Mancuso who plays the writer in the film said, “It is a genuinely Canadian film in the best sense of the word.”

A Trip to the Island also features George Brown alumna Valerie Buhagiar as Victoria, the writer’s wife. Buhagiar, an award-winning Malteseborn Canadian actress and film director, graduated from George Brown’s Acting Program in 1986.

The film’s script might seem confusing to some, she said. “I understood it, and

Hrant said it’s because I make weird films.”

The film was shot in the house that Buhagiar was living in during filming three years ago. “Hrant actually came to the [Toronto] Island, which is funny because he hates nature. He won’t even sit in somebody’s backyard.”

Describing her work with Alianak, she said he has a very precise vision, whereas many directors don’t.

Buhagiar, who left high school a semester early, took a job as a puppeteer and went to China at the age of 18, but always wanted to do theatre. “I took a bunch of acting classes and never found a community.

That’s when I got into George Brown and it was better for me than I thought.”

“The beauty with George Brown back then was they accepted who you were and nourished that, whereas other theatre schools wanted to mould you,” asserted Buhagiar.

The only difficult aspect, she added, was the college’s lack of reputation. “It was just harder to get through auditions.”

These days, Buhagiar acts in plays, TV shows, films and she has just finished shooting her second feature film It’s Hard to Be Human. “I like it all. I think they all feed each other.”

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Using technology to help dementia patients Tech producers will compete for cash and prizes at DementiaHack event STEVE CORNWELL STAFF REPORTER

“In 15 odd years the number of people with dementia will double,” says Shaharris Beh, founder and CEO of international tech-based nonprofit, Hackernest's. With estimates as high as 1.4 million Canadians having dementia by 2031, Beh says, “this will mess up economies and entire families, and there needs to be a lot more aware-

ness, and more than that, action taken.”

It is this sense of urgency that is spurring HackerNest in partnership with Facebook to organize a marathon technology development contest at George Brown College, aimed at creating technology for people suffering from dementia and their caregivers.

The event, DementiaHack, is taking place at the Waterfront campus on Nov.

7 at 8 a.m. with organizers expecting approximately 300 participants. Participating teams will be collaborating with health professionals and entrepreneurs to develop and present dementiarelated products until 8 p.m. the following day. Cash and prizes will be awarded for the winning products, which will be judged on Nov. 9.

D e m e n t i a H a ck i s d e signed to create “products to help people with dementia, and their caregivers, to make their lives better, easier, and more tolerable,” Beh explained.

The development phase of DementiaHack, lasting

“It’s really intense, but at a hackathon, you get to do something that you don’t get to do in real life.”

36 hours, might strike some as a grueling event. But for Beh, the long hours are

Leveling up diversity in game design

Pytyvõ Gaming club founder Gabriela Aveiro aims to make video games more diverse. Photo: Aliona Kuts/The Dialog

New club at George Brown works on improving diversity in gaming to make inclusive and interesting games ALIONA KUTS STAFF REPORTER

Gabriela Aveiro, a third-year game development student, is running Pytyvõ (puh-teevoh) Gaming. The group has recently been approved by the Student Association (SA) as an official club.

The name originated from Aveiro’s mother tongue, which is spoken by Paraguay's indigenous people.

Pytyvõ means “community” or “helping out communities” in the Guaraní language.

The aim of the club is to put

more attention on games featuring diverse characters, especially marginalised ones who belong to ethnic minorities such as black, Latino, indigenous and Asian.

Although the club is about video game characters, it is also highly focused on game developers themselves. “We want to create a sense of community between these marginalised creators whose work doesn’t get noticed much and empower

them,” said Aveiro.

She came up with the idea in November 2014, launched a Facebook group the following March and held the first event, featuring diverse games and discussions on the subject in June.

Even though Aveiro is connected with similar clubs in the U.S. and Canada, there were people who helped her throughout the process.

worth it. “It's really intense, but at a hackathon, you get to do something that you don't get to do in real life,” he said.

According to Beh, that something is working together with others who have the same goals in mind and taking a product idea from start to finish in one session.

Health Canada characterizes dementia as a disease caused by a deterioration of the nerve connections and cells in the brain. Symptoms of dementia can include memory, judgement and reasoning problems, as well as changes in behaviour, mood, and communication abilities.

Jean-Paul Amore, coordinator of game development, game design and advanced digital design at George Brown helped her allocate space for the club.

Dany Ko a computer science and equity studies student at University of Toronto helped spread news about Pytyvõ Gaming events.

Finally, Seneca communications student Zarish Asif gave her a hand writing the group's mission statement.

As an executive of the International Game Developers Association at GBC, Aveiro has been promoting her group throughout the college. Now in her last year of the animation program at George Brown College, Aveiro has created a Twine game, based on some of her culture’s stories as part of a Game Jam, which took place from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

Twine is a free game-making program that is mainly used to make text-based games, which rely on storytelling.

Pytyvõ Gaming will be starting a social media campaign on Twitter using the hashtag #LevelUpDiversity that will run from Oct. 22 to 28 to encourage people to share art on diverse characters. The campaign will lead to an event screening series talks about gaming diversity, mentioned Aveiro. All the club's events have been open to the public and free and Aveiro said she hopes to keep them this way with the help of the club funding from the SA. Upon graduation Aveiro’s ultimate goal is to register her group as a non-profit organization.

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