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Students: It’s time for free postsecondary education

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Thousands of students march on Queen’s Park to demand free education Minister Deb Matthews rejects NDP call for tuition freeze, says tuition increases will be predictable and low DIALOG STAFF Around 2,000 students marched in Toronto on Nov. 2, to call for free and accessible education for all students.

A strong contingent of George Brown College (GBC) students took part in the march from Ryerson University to Queen’s Park with students from Brock, Guelph and York universities. Students from the University of Toronto held their own march to the legislature.

Shana Kealey, a GBC community worker student, was marching with her son Kiyan, 4, who would have normally been in his senior kindergarten class.

“I have an RESP but I’m not sure that’s going to be enough for how much the tuition is skyrocketing so we’re really hoping that we can fight the fees and make education free,” said Kealey.

Kealey said she took Kiyan to the protest because it’s an educational experience she feels he should be part of. “I’m really trying to instil in him that he can help shape his future by these kind of actions.”

Rajean Hoilett, chairper-

2,000 students marched to Queen’s Park to demand free education and action on student debt on Nov. 2, 2016. Photo: Shaun Iyer / The Dialog

son of the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario told the assembled crowd that as a racialized student from a low-income community he didn’t see himself going to university. While he’s made it, Hoilett said that there are many people that look like him that are not in universities and colleges.

“That points to a really serious issue, to a public policy that has been coming out of both provincial and federal governments of high tuition fees and then high aid on the side that just isn’t working and isn’t helping people get through the door,” said Hoilett.

Deb Matthews, Ontario’s minister of advanced educa-

tion and skills development, said she heard Hoilett’s argument that tuition should be eliminated.

“I’m so proud of what we’re doing to bring in free tuition for 150,000 students,” said Matthews who added that the new Ontario Student Grant will mean families with less than $50,000 will pay no tuition.

Hoilett also said that he’s excited about the support the campaign for free education has received from members of the Ontario New Democrats (ONDP), and hopes that more politicians join the call for free education. Peggy Sattler, the ONDP’s post-secondary education critic, read the CFS petition in the Ontario legisla-

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ture on the day of the march.

Several Ontario New Democrats also joined the rally at Queen’s Park, including party leader, Andrea Horwath.

“Notwithstanding what the government claims, tuition in Ontario is very expensive and students are carrying huge debt burdens at a time when it’s really hard to find work after graduation,” said Horwath.

Horwath added that she’s worried about what might happen to tuition fees when the current three per cent cap on tuition increases expires in 2017.

“We should start with a freeze on tuition and start going from there to get things under control,” said Horwath.

“Because right now, it’s going

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to get worse and worse and students are going to carry higher and higher debt loads.”

Matthews confirmed that the government is not looking at freezing tuition, but rather at “predictable, low increases in tuition.”

“We really believe that post-secondary education is a shared responsibility,” said Matthews. “Students have an obligation to contribute, as does their family if they’re able, and the government as well.”

Warren (Smokey) Thomas, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union that represents college faculty, said the protest is important because it takes on the challenge of underfunding directly.

“Ontario has the dubious distinction of providing the lowest per-student college funding of any province,” said Thomas. “This has to change.”

Mathews said that the government is reviewing the funding formula but cautions that decreasing enrolment for many colleges and universities may affect funding. “We want to protect the colleges and universities that are seeing a decline but we have to be realistic too about what enrolment will be in the future,” said Matthews.

Tiffany White, the director of education for the Student Association of GBC, said she knows the government’s not going to grant free education to students overnight.

“The fight doesn’t just stop because today finishes and we all go home and put away all our placards. No, we still keep going because if we don’t keep fighting then nothing changes.”

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New Music, New Places: Birds of Chicago

Wednesday, Nov. 16 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.

New Music, New Places returns, bringing you Birds of Chicago, a collective featuring JT Nero and Allison Russell, some of the most compelling new voices in North American roots music today.

Melisse has been inspired and determined to build a culture of rehabilitation, community restoration, and shifting a paradigm of oppression through the arts.

Alternative Careers Workshop “She creates something out of nothing. When someone puts up a barrier, she a finds a way to turn it into an opportunity.” Photo: Albert Truong / The Dialog

Nadia Rajaram overcomes adversity, breaks down barriers

ALBERT TRUONG REPORTER

Nadia Rajaram, a transitions to post secondary education (TPE) student, is no stranger to overcoming adversity.

At the age of four, Rajaram was in a car accident which left her with brain damage and made alternative education accommodations necessary.

The challenges didn’t end there, as her father developed a drinking problem that escalated when she was in her late teenage years.

“His alcohol addiction became so bad I no longer felt safe,” Rajaram explained.

As a result, Rajaram was forced to move out of her house and into a youth homeless shelter. She later moved into a group home until she was able to live on her own.

In spite of her brain trauma and difficult home life, Rajaram always had a strong sense of community and saw the importance of volunteering, even at a young age.

“My mom always wanted me to have a strong sense of community” said Rajaram. To help build this sense of community, Rajaram said her mother Diane would often

take her to meetings at Parkdale Legal Community Services, a clinic which provides support, advice and representation for low-income residents of the Parkdale and Swansea neighbourhoods.

With her mother, Rajaram would also frequently attend meetings of the Worker’s Action Centre, a group which advocates for better wages and conditions for low-wage and precariously employed workers.

“She fights for people,” said Rajaram describing her mother.

the Fight for 15 and Fairness group, a campaign for a $15 minimum wage in Ontario.

Rajaram is also an active volunteer with the New Democratic Party.

For Ambrose Kirby, a faculty-counselor at George Brown College, Rajaram isn’t somebody who needs a lot of pity or help overcoming her barriers.

“For me, Nadia is a real leader, someone that knows she’s implicated in the world,” said Kirby. “She just knows she has a responsibility to do something in the world with her skills and her passion.”

Kirby added, “she creates something out of nothing.

When someone puts up a barrier, she a finds a way to turn it into an opportunity.”

“She just knows she has a responsibility to do something in the world with her skills and her passion” Diane is now separated from Rajaram’s father.

Today, Rajaram continues to be a volunteer at the same two organizations her mother introduced her to. She is also heavily involved with

Now living independently, Rajaram hopes to continue her work in the community by applying to the community worker program at George Brown in the future once she completes the TPE program.

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SA Annual General Meeting Wednesday, Nov. 16 1 p.m to 5 p.m.

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Focus Group: Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence Policy and Protocol Thursday, Nov. 17 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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Modi, Quibrantar and Fashina elected in SA byelections Strong turnout for byelection shows hotly contested races SHAUN IYER REPORTER-EDITOR

As the Student Association’s (SA) byelections came to a close on Oct. 21, 11 nervous faces eagerly awaited the results for the three contested positions. Despite midterms, a total of 1570 votes were cast across all campuses. The unofficial results were declared close to midnight and the results still need to be ratified by the SA board of directors.

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Director of communications and internal Riddhi Modi, a student in the strategic relationship management program, has been elected the new director of communications and internal. With 820 votes, or 57.5 per cent of the vote, she defeated her opponent Conrad Ozemoyah by over 200 votes with Ozemoyah securing

605 votes, or 42.5 per cent.

“I have met most of the board members as I have worked frequently with the SA. I am glad to be a part of the team,” said Modi, adding, “I feel extremely honoured after winning this election.” She said she looked forward to the challenge of implementing her agenda, to provide bursaries to international and domestic students, get paid co-op jobs and improve SA governance and accountability.

Ozemoyah said, “I’m still with the events squad in the SA. I still have the chance to work the changes I had in mind.”

Waterfront campus director Gracel Quibrantar, a student in the practical nursing program, was elected the new Waterfront campus director.

Winning by a significant margin over both her competitors, Quibrantar received a total of 212 votes while Goldie Vipula-

nandan finished with 148 votes.

Former Waterfront campus director Jamie Jamieson came in third with 93 votes.

“I’m super excited! I really campaigned for this. I want to make sure there are more study rooms here,” said Quibrantar.

“Food wise, $12 for a burger! I’m going to petition that with the school and faculty to get healthy living into our community. We’re such an important school but we have nothing happening at Waterfront. I want to make sure we have events in the space around the water,” “She (Quibrantar) campaigned harder,” said Vipulanandan. “She deserves it. Our agendas were similar. Honestly, I feel there wasn’t effort on my part in campaigning harder. She did a great job.”

Construction and engineering representative This six-way race had an anticlimactic ending as Mufasa Fashina, a third-year student in the civil engineering technology program, won with 134 votes while runner-up Maple

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Renewal project sees Casa Loma running leaner, greener Quizon received 77 votes. Marc Grant-Vanasse was next with 74 votes, Audrie Williams had 67, Uzzair Khan got 60 and Vincent Wong finished with 37.

“I wish to get down to making a survey, something like Survey Monkey so that I can hear from every student in the department,” said Fashina. “I’m really excited. I’ve been in contact with many members of the board including Rajat Sood, Naqeeb Omar, Tiffany White and Brittany DaCosta. I didn’t want to underestimate the other candidates, but honestly, I always felt I had a good chance.”

Quizon and Grant-Vanasse were both surprised by Fashina’s win considering he had not put up posters, instead relying on a solid ground-game of getting out the vote.

“Tem (Mufasa) is a friend of mine and I’m happy he’s won,” said Quizon. “Without posters,

he really got out there. He was really good in getting people to vote and that was the big difference.”

Grant-Vanasse had similar views, “I’m glad that he won. I’ve had the chance to work with him a little bit. He’s a great guy and this showed his networking skills.”

Nikki Shumaker was acclaimed as the health sciences representative and Jimbo Cotoner was acclaimed the woman & trans* people representative in uncontested races.

The seat for the satellite campus director and the student representative seat on George Brown College’s board of governors remain vacant as nobody ran for them. The SA board of directors can appoint a student to the satellite campus director position.

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Former GBC student oversees Honeywell green retrofit 37 years after graduating ALEX RESENDES REPORTER-EDITOR

From Monday to Friday, Casa Loma campus halls surge with busy students- but the activity doesn’t stop once night falls or the weekend comes. Construction workers and tradespeople have been labouring after-hours to finish a green renewal project that will modernize one of George Brown’s oldest facilities.

The partnership between George Brown College and Honeywell, which broke ground in March 2015, sees a comprehensive retrofit performed on multiple facility systems in Casa Loma’s buildings to reduce emissions, cut costs and make the campus more comfortable for students and faculty. The retrofits are projected to be completed by the end of 2016.

The project, as outlined by Raymond Khoo, Honeywell’s on-site project manager, has four components. The first is the installation of a smart variable-flow ventilation system, which will come as a relief to students coping with sweltering or frigid classes.

“Let’s say it senses that there’s nobody in a lab, it’ll actually slow the fan down and close off that area and only provide a minimum flow of air,” said Khoo. “Occupants in the building will actually start to notice that there will

Honeywell is helping to modernize the unglamorous underbelly of Casa Loma’s facility infrastructure. Photo: Alex Resendes / The Dialog

be less cold and hot spots because we’re distributing air where it needs to be.”

The second retrofit is a big overhaul of the building’s lighting, with approximately 6,800 upgrades to LED bulbs and associated fixtures across campus. The third is a replacement of plumbing fixtures to upgrade to water-saving models, while the fourth and final improvement is the all-around improvement and upgrading of the building’s environmental sealing, reducing unwanted heat loss across the board.

A report from Canada Colleges on green initiatives at

public post-secondary institutions states that the retrofits will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 700 metric tonnes per year, as well as yield the college at least $420,000 in annual utilities savings.

“The energy savings we get every month and year goes towards paying for all the work Honeywell has put into this project,” explained Eric Schneider, facilities campus manager at George Brown.

Luis Rodrigues, VP general manager of Honeywell’s energy services group, said that the project is a ten-year payback project, which means

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that the project will have effectively paid for itself through savings after ten years.

For Rodrigues, though, as a former George Brown student who studied at Casa Loma, this represents more than just another project. His connection is more personal.

“To have been selected is to have the privilege of working for George Brown College at the very same campus I graduated from almost 37 years ago has been a highlight for us.”

Rodrigues said that Honeywell and George Brown have a “long-standing and mutually-rewarding relationship” that stretches back almost 30 years. George Brown students are regularly sent to Honeywell conferences to stay appraised of current industry developments, and the college administration consults Honeywell to help develop modern and effective curricula. He sees this project as another step in that relationship.

“My stance is the overall team has been very focused on continuous improvement, rising to the challenge of doing more with less and funding challenges, and trying to find innovative ways to improve the space for students.”

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Jennifer Baptiste-Downie

community worker student “Six Nation was part of my home that I didn’t know about.

I’m Algonquin on my dad’s side and Mohawk on my mum’s and going to Six Nation was like going home for the first time.”

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Leslie Van Every

SA First Nations, Métis and Inuit representative

“I wanted people to take away the truth about what happened. We hear a lot about what happened in residential schools and all the tragedies but when you’re actually inside the residential school it becomes so much more real.”

Ron Greenberg

SA business representative

“I feel it’s a duty for everybody to get themselves educated and then pass that information on, because it’s not taught in our schools and there’s so much to know (about) the first peoples of our country.”

Trip to Six Nations Reserve bares some awful truths and promises reconciliation

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STEVE CORNWELL ASSISTANT EDITOR

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before eight in the morning when our group lines up canoes on the banks of the Grand River. The morning sun lends the frost-filled grass surrounding us the look of glass, while steam rising off of the immense 280 kilometre-long river makes the steam from our breath seem minuscule in comparison.

It’s an immediately memorable image on the final day of a Student Association (SA) sponsored trip to Six Nations of the Grand River, a First Nations reserve, around 100 kilometres southwest of Toronto.

“It was a really fun activity and water is so important to First Nations communities,” said Leslie Van Every, who organized the three-day trip. Reflecting on that morning visit, Van Every fondly recalled the connection she felt to the Grand River.

But on a trip focused around truth and reconciliation, even the uncanny power and tranquility of the Grand River can only temporarily distract us as we prepare for a visit later in the day to the Mohawk Institute, a residential school, less than four kilometres southeast of Brantford.

JoJo Kruger’s parents both survived residential schools, and while she said that she knew about what happened in places like the Mohawk Institution, she wanted to see for herself where her mother and father

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1. and 5. Retreat group at the Mohawk Institution. 2. Ron Greenberg making a dream catcher. 3. Retreat group on the bank of the Grand River. 4. Ariauna . 6-8. Canoeing on the Grand River

came from. Not mincing words, Kruger, a student in the academic upgrading program, said she was disgusted by the sights and stories of the Mohawk Institution, particularly locks of hair, marbles and candy wrappers that children in school hid in the walls of the building.

“I wish I never went into the residential school. I was scared and after I left I started crying on the street.” said Kruger.

Calling the Mohawk Institute, and places like it, residential schools is too gentle of a term considering what happened there, according Elizabeth Doxater, an award-winning artist who the group shared tea with.

Doxater doesn’t hold back as she introduced us to a new set of terms on the trip, which, in her view, better reflect the history of how indigenous people were treated in Canada. Instead of residential schools, Doxater prefers the name “Christian Canadian genocidal encampments.”

When I asked Doxater about what she hopes settlers like me might take away from visiting Six Nations, she makes it clear that the term settler, like residential schools, erases the past.

“People didn’t come here and settle,” Doxater said. “People came here and stole land and children and beat children and forced religion and committed genocide against our people. That’s not very set-

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tling for me, so I don’t like that word.”

While “Christian Canadian genocidal encampments” doesn’t easily roll off the tongue, it’s similar to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s description of the churchrun boarding schools that separated more than 150,000 children from their parents, “primarily to break their link to their culture and identity.”

According to the commission’s final report, as late as the 1940s, children in places like the Mohawk Institute were 4.9 times more likely to die than the general population.

The visit to Mohawk Institute, while it cast a shadow over the trip, was only one aspect of the retreat. For Van Every, who is also the SA’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit representative, the retreat was designed to provide both indigenous and non-indigenous students with an opportunity to learn more about the culture, heritage and traditions of Six Nations directly from the community itself.

As stories of Six Nations were offered during the trip, at stops like the Woodland Cultural Centre Museum and the Six Nations Polytechnic post-secondary school, it became clear that the community is determined to survive past traumas and thrive going forward.

For Carolyn Mooney, the SA’s accessibility representative, hearing stories of strength and resilience first hand has added a perspective not always available in George Brown classrooms.

“It’s actually really nice to be here and to hear a few little snippets of the strength of the people and how they’ve carried on,” she said. “I think that speaks volumes to how people can go through some devastating loses and still come through.

That’s not an experience that we hear much of in my program.”

During a visit with Ava Hill, Six Nations’ elected council chief, the group heard about the First Nation’s efforts to restore or resolve the loss of their land. Close to 4,000 kilometres, or six miles on either side of the Grand River, were set out for Six Nations in the 1784 Haldimand Treaty.

While large parts of the lands under the treaty were leased out long-term, 90 per cent of the leased land has never been “paid for or paid to Six Nations” according the council’s report, Land rights: A global solution. At present Six Nations’ lands are approximately five per cent of the area set out in the Haldimand Treaty. The report said that the original treaty land is now worth billions of dollars and runs through 33 separate municipalities.

Six Nations has attempted to settle the matter in courts and at the negotiating table, though the council “can not, and will not negotiate away our constitutionally recognized treaty rights,” according to the 2015 report. Six Nations is seeking a combination of land reclamation and the establishment of a new mechanism to provide more compensation for the use of its treaty lands.

At times, tempers flared during the trip, perhaps fed by some of the emotionally difficult content, or just the normal tensions of bringing people into close quarters for three days.

A nail in one of the van’s tires deflated it twice, and led to a tense argument about whether the vehicle was safe to carry on. Other times, misunderstandings between members of the group affected people’s experiences on the trip.

“I think when you get a group of people together with different personalities and everybody’s individual differences and then you put them together for three days, you’re going to get a little tension here and there; I felt it,” said Jennifer Baptiste-Downie, a community worker student with Mohawk and Algonquin heritage. “But we went through it and a few of us leaned on each other, so it worked out.”

During some emotional moments, Van Every’s daughter

Ariauna provided some comedic relief. One of her favourite activities was to pull her jacket behind her head, run around and exclaim, “I’m a chicken!”

During the canoe session on the Grand River, Arianuna’s chicken run probably helped encourage some in our group to put concerns of tipping over into the frigid water behind them and get paddling.

It’s possible too that some tense moments on the trip were fueled by how deeply connected some participants felt towards indigenous struggles in Canada. For Ron Greenberg, the SA’s business representative, his Jewish heritage has helped create an affinity with Indigenous Peoples.

“First Nations and Jewish people have each been subjugated or discriminated against or had to experience genocide in one form or another, and that creates a real kinship,” said Greenberg.

To say that the harrowing artifacts and stories of the Mohawk Institute were challenging is to say the least. But one can also focus on the humanity demonstrated in such inhumane circumstances.

When the masters of the school forebid boys and girls from communicating, some formed lifelong relationships with just daily eye-contact. As hunger and malnourishment affected

the children at the Mohawk Institute, the boys that were sent into Brantford for supplies would find time to help themselves to the dumpsters of a nearby candy factory.

There were also the times that the Mohawk Institute was destroyed by fire, first in 1854, and then again in 1903. On the tour of the building, our guide suggested that fires were likely started deliberately by the children. Apparently, they had had enough of the “education” the institute provided.

In 2013, when the nearly dilapidated Mohawk Institute was at risk of being lost, members of the Woodland Cultural Centre started the save the evidence campaign. More than $2 million has been raised so far to help make sure that the institute remains, and this dark chapter of Canadian and First Nations history isn’t forgotten. The campaign’s goal is $10.5 million.

Whatever happens to the Mohawk Institute, there’s reason to believe that the terrible past it holds, as well as the promise of a place like Six Nations, has connected the participants of the trip, regardless of where we’ve come from. For Van Every that was one of the points of the trip.

“It’s a setting where we’re learning together, so it’s really bringing us together and making bonds stronger.”

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Redemption at Redeemer: Huskies earn bronze at OCAA Championship 4-3 victory gives George Brown its first medal finish since 2007 PHILIP IVER REPORTER-EDITOR

George Brown men’s soccer ended its season on a high note, with a dramatic 4-3 victory over Niagara College which went all the way to penalties.

Relegated to the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) bronze medal match after a 4-0 loss to Humber, the Huskies still had plenty to play for. The team had the opportunity to medal for the first time since 2007, not to mention a score to settle with the Niagara Knights, having split the season series 1-1.

But after the previous day’s drubbing, the Huskies had something more on the line: pride.

“We were very unfortunate in the semi-finals

against Humber,” said Huskies forward Shaquille Agard.

“For us, this was an important game because we wanted redemption, we wanted to show that we deserved to be in the finals.”

A 2016 OCAA all-star, Agard got the Huskies off to a promising start, opening the scoring just one minute in.

However, George Brown took their foot off the gas pedal, and Knights forward Alex Latham tied the game after 10 minutes of solid pressure by Niagara.

The goal against seemed to wake George Brown up, as several high quality Huskies chances followed. Agard continued to drive the offence, and he knotted things up at two, after a 27th minute scare when Niagara took the 2-1 lead.

While George Brown largely took control in the second half, the teams found themselves even at 3-3 after regulation time. Two 15-minute overtime periods followed, during which the game’s narrative changed dramatically.

Having been carded earlier in the match, Knights forwards Keith Makubuya and Jacob Therrien both received their second yellows early into extra time and were sent off. Down two men, the scene was one Knights head coach Frank De-

Chellis would later describe as “a 22-minute defending drill.”

Despite a shot clock which read 15-5 in their favour, George Brown was unable to break through Niagara’s undermanned defence and the game went to a penalty shootout. There would be no upset however, as Nikolaos Takas and Brandon Medeiros found twine and Huskies keeper Jordan Sodhi provided key stops to give George Brown the victory.

“The team played really well,” said Sodhi. “We had a couple misunderstandings but other than that, we were confident going into penalties so it wasn’t an issue.”

Looking forward, Huskies head coach John Williams noted that most of his young team will be returning in 2017.

Though satisfied with this year’s result, Williams has a clear vision of how to take the next step.

“The good teams really know how to win when they’re behind the eight ball, and we don’t know how to manage a football game,” said Williams.

“We’ll work on managing a football game, add a little discipline to our play, we’ll come out a stronger unit and be ready for next year.”

Men’s Basketball George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Niagara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 86 St. Clair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 77 St. Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Mohawk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . 64 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . 106 Algonquin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 79 La Cite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Women’s Basketball Niagara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 64 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Georgian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Lambton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Algonquin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Men’s Volleyball

Scores from George Brown College athletics Men’s Baseball St. Clair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 St. Clair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Fanshawe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fanshawe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 Men’s Soccer Seneca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Fleming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Seneca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 (25-19, 25-22, 13-25, 25-20)

George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Redeemer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Conestoga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 (26-24, 25-22, 25-18)

Humber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Seneca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 (25-15, 20-25, 25-20, 19-25, 22-20) Georgian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 (17-25, 25-17, 25-23, 25-16) George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Loyalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 (25-22, 25-19, 25-20) George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Centennial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 (25-10, 25-22, 25-16) Women’s Volleyball Mohawk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 Canadore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 (25-21, 25-20, 18-25, 25-21) Niagara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 (25-27, 25-14, 25-10, 25-23) Mohawk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 (25-19, 25-22, 13-25, 25-20) George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Conestoga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 (26-24, 25-13, 25-21) Seneca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 (27-25, 25-13, 25-20) Georgian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 (27-25, 25-17, 25-17) Loyalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 (25-23, 25-15, 19-25, 25-13)

Huskies goalkeeper Jordan Sodhi (0) is swarmed by his teammates after stopping Niagara’s fifth and final penalty kicker. Photo: Philip Iver / The Dialog

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Centennial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 (25-20, 25-27, 25-21,25-21)

George Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Niagara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Women’s Soccer Seneca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Cross Country Seneca Invitational Women’s Team:5th overall Leanne Sanders 22:35, 6th Angelee Weather 24:53, 30th Lena Mukhtar 25:44, 43rd Amanda Hewitt 26:20, 49th Men’s Team 15th overall Casey Roblin 32:11, 52nd Trevor Garfinkle 33:46, 77th JunHui Huang 35:21, 96th Jeffrey Snow 36:13, 106th Brock Invitational Angelee Weathers 34th Lena Mukhtar 43rd Amanda Hewitt 45th OCAA championship

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Birds of Chicago to perform free concert at George Brown College Student Association’s New Music, New Places series brings live music to George Brown MALCOLM DERIKX REPORTER-EDITOR

Two of the hottest voices in the North American folk music scene, are coming to George Brown College for a free concert on Nov. 8, courtesy of the Student Association’s (SA) New Music, New Places series.

Birds of Chicago is comprised of members from JT Nero and Allison Russell’s respective bands, Vancouver’s Po’ Girl and Chicago’s JT and the Clouds. Their combination of classic soul, folk-rock and doo-wop, accompanied by Russell’s haunting voice, is reminiscent of something from a gospel choir, and has won them fans across the country.

The band is notorious in the folk music scene for the frequency of their shows, claiming to perform over 200 nights a year since their formation in 2012.

Celebrating the release of their most recent album, Real Midnight the band kicked off

their Canadian tour in September. Starting with a soldout show on British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island for PitchFork Social’s concert series, the band has stayed in motion ever since, touring across Canada towards Ontario.

Neil Cumberbatch, senior co-ordinator of events and marketing for the SA, said the band plans to bring their trademark energy to St. James campus on Tuesday.

The New Music, New Places series is a new initiative by the SA, which funds The Dialog, to provide live music to students. The first event, a concert at George Brown’s new student residence, The George, featured former Canadian Idol contestant and country singer Jessica Mitchell and singer-songwriter Lucas Dipasquale.

Birds of Chicago is the second of four planned events for the series this year.

Cumberbatch said the focus of the series is to bring in recognizable acts with an

Birds of Chicago are coming to George Brown as part of the New Music, New Place series.

Photo: Natalie Ginele Miller / ngmpix.com

established name, or up-andcoming artists, within their respective genre.

While each concert will feature a different genre of music, Cumberbatch said the

SA will aim to provide something unique at each event.

The plan is to feature an EDM (electronic dance music) group in January.

Birds of Chicago is playing

Tuesday, Nov. 8, at 1 p.m. in the Kings Lounge at St. James campus. Entry is free for all George Brown students.

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No two workdays are ever quite the same for Siraj Shukri, seen here in ReDeTec’s machine shop. Photo: Alex Resendes / The Dialog

here,” he said. “I learned way more than I expected to learn, and that was also because I would hang out in the shops between classes.”

Even on Saturdays, Shukri said he was always in the shop.

Shukri’s passion for creating things doesn’t end when he punches the clock, either.

Right now he’s working on

challenge coins, special medallions given out to mark membership or an accomplishment. He has plans to give one of the medallions to a machine tester at ReDeTec. “She’s extruding filament all day, every day, and when she gets to 23 miles, I want to give her a coin with a little marathon runner on the back.”

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Between programming and operating three computer numerical control (CNC) mills, and helping to design key machinery components, Siraj Shukri pretty much does it all at work. But when you’re working for an upand-coming startup launching their flagship product, sometimes you have to wear a couple of different hats.

Shukri, a former mechanical technician-CNC and precision machining student at George Brown College who

graduated in April, has always had an interest in machinery.

“I just like mechanical stuff, always have, always will,” he said. Shukri became interested in the program because a lot of mechanical equipment he liked was related to CNC machines.

Shukri currently works at ReDeTec, a startup company developing a desktop plastic recycling system to accompany 3D printers. The device, which the company calls the Protocycler, features a grinder for chopping up 3D-printed waste, as well as a heated extruder that takes either pellets or recycled plastics and produces new plastic filament—the stuff 3D printers use to print with— in any size the user needs.

As Shukri explains it, schools and institutions are interested in the Protocycler because it lets them do more with less. Buying pellets and making your own filament can cost a fraction of what new filament costs, and recycling saves even more money.

After successfully crowd-funding the Protocycler, ReDeTec is working overtime to get their first batch of pre-orders out to customers by the end of November. According to Shukri, interest is still growing.

“New orders keep coming every day,” Shukri said. “Yesterday we got four orders, and for a product of this calibre that’s quite a bit.”

Working in such a demanding environment hasn’t dimmed Shukri’s enthusiasm for George Brown’s CNC and precision machining program.

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1- Higher; 6 - Parody; 11 - Neighbor of Braz.; 14 - Not tied down; 15 - Footoperated lever; 16 - Sign of summer; 17 - Best of the best; 18 - Efface; 19 - Ike’s WWII command; 20 - Fortunate; 22 - Kett and James; 24 - Lacking oxygen; 28 - Glacial period; 29 - Spirited horses; 30 - Broadcaster; 32 - Mountain lake; 33 - Freshen, as a stamp pad; 35- 27th president of the U.S; 39 - Jai ___; 40 - Apt. divisions; 41 - Are you ___ out?; 42 - Osteoporosis victim; 43 - Volkswagen model; 45 - West Wing worker; 46 - Marsh of mystery; 48 - Lecture; 50 - Capital of Russia; 53 - Line for hoisting a sail; 54 - Greenlights; 55 - Actress Massey; 57 - Leftover;

58 - Morning; 60 - Henry VIII’s house; 65 - China’s Chou En___; 66 - Fireplace; 67 - Chopin composition; 68 - Peer Gynt’s mother; 69 - Prefix meaning “false”; 70 - Father;

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ANNUAL

GENERAL MEETING

The Student Association of George Brown College (SA) invites all full-time students—SA members—to participate in our Annual General Meeting.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16, 2016 1 P.M. – 5 P.M.

George Brown College St. James campus (Kings Lounge, room 150, SJA Building) 200 King Street, Toronto, ON M5A 3W8 AGM packages with motions, proxies, and proposed changes to the bylaws are available for pickup at all Student Association front offices during regular office hours.

Please join us, and learn more about your Student Association.

LUNCH PROVIDED AT 1 P.M.

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