The Dialog Vol 37. Issue 12. March 4 to 17

VOL. 37 ISSUE 12 / MARCH 4 TO 17, 2019 GBC Student Newspaper • Founded 1982

NEWS/ P. 2

OPINION/ P. 4

SPORTS/ P. 10

Students trade insults with Premier

Captain Marvel shines with female lead

Mike Ra's journey to nationals

ALEPPO KABOB ALMOST TASTES LIKE HOME. P.6

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NEWS

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Students trade insults with Premier

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Hundreds marched to Queen's Park, chanting for education cuts to be reversed

Protesters holding hand-made signs denouncing cuts to education at Queen's Park on Feb. 19.

KEVIN GOODGER REPORTER-EDITOR

Unruly student protesters welcomed Premier Doug Ford back to the Ontario Legislature on Feb. 19, shouting "no cuts, no fees, tuition should be free!"

One student shouted "you're a f***ing cracker" from the public gallery before being removed by security.

"Here’s an example of indoctrination, what we just saw up there,” Ford said about the protesters, and added "They're going to be good socialists," reported CBC news.

Adrian Chao was one of the protestors ejected from the legislature and is the organizer of the Independent Student Solidarity Collective at George Brown College.

"I don't care. You can call me whatever you want," he said regarding the Premier's comments. "It scares people

like him, who are used to accruing a lot of wealth, calling the big shots at his own personal business and having nobody speak up against him.

That concerns him."

Outside of the legislature, hundreds of students and faculty braved the cold to rally at Yonge and Dundas Square before marching to Queen's Park.

"Education is a right, we will not give up the fight!" chanted students as the march made its way to Queen's Park along with, "I don't know but I've been told, Doug Ford's cuts are getting old!"

This was the fourth protest in Toronto surrounding the various cuts to OSAP funding, and the Student Choice Initiative. It was the first event in a "Week of Action", organized by the Canadian Federation of Students.

"I believe the cuts to education are essentially limiting what is a fundamental right

for students across Ontario," said Sebastian Leland, a political science student at York University. "The government should making strides, making education more accessible and not cutting funding for education."

The changes to OSAP remove the six-month interest-free grace period, in addition to shifting from a grant-based system to a loanbased system.

Leland said that he's going to be receiving more loans than grants now, which will make it harder to pay off his debt.

The government's decision doesn't only affect students, but faculty as well.

"The cuts are very concerning for me and for my colleagues, and also for my students," said Amanda Paxton, who works as a limited-term contract English teacher at Trent University. "I have a lot of students who don't know if they're going to be able to

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continue their education because of the cuts to OSAP." Paxton said she hopes that the cuts are scaled back, and that OSAP funding will be fully restored.

"This is about us all, and Ontario will fight back," she said. "These cuts are not sustainable."

"I wanted to talk about a few things that are relevant to campus media in particular. One of them was freedom of expression, particularly for broadcast media in Canada," said Jacky Tuinstra Harrison, National Campus and Community Radio Association.

"So that's why it's really important that we have campus radio stations, for example. They're non-profit corporations and they are mandated to put student voices on air and also allow access for members of the community to participate in our broadcast system."

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Harrison, student radio stations and newspapers are at risk of underfunding with the enactment of the Student Choice Initiative, as they have fixed costs ranging from transmitters to electricity and leases.

Merilee Fullerton, the minister of training, college, and universities, defended the Student Choice Initiative, however, stating, "The issues around ancillary fees came from the need to make post-secondary education more affordable and to give students the freedom of choice in terms of the costs that they incur during their education."

When asked what she would say to student newspapers who could potentially lose funding, she repeated , "I have great faith in our young people. We will find ways to innovate and change and evolve as newspapers switched over to digital media."

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NEWS

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Colleges ask for more funding Government asked to increase per diem by $10 over four years for apprenticeship students

EVENTS LISTING MONDAY, MARCH 4

THURSDAY, MARCH 14

Celebration of women in film

Games Night

10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Waterfront campus, Lower Level.

5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Join us as we screen some amazing films celebrating women. Free popcorn & chances to win cool prizes.

TUESDAY. MARCH 5 Celebration of women in film

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(Video game tournament sign up will start at 6 p.m.)

Kings Lounge St James A Building, room 150 Join us inside the Kings Lounge for a fun night.

Los Angeles Lakers vs. Toronto Raptors will be on some screens NBA 2K19 video game tournament.

Classic board games.

10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Casa Loma Student Centre

FRIDAY, MARCH 15 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 Celebration of women in film 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Kings Lounge St James A Building, room 150

Andrew Profiti, a plumbing aprenticeship student, says more finacial support would reduce his stress.

KEVIN GOODGER REPORTER-EDITOR

Colleges and student groups are calling for more funding for practical work experience in post-secondary programs.

The College Student Alliance proposed "simplifying and streamlining the application process" for work integrated learning (WIL), and also requested for "expanding and promoting wage subsidy programs for and small and medium-sized enterprises" in their submission for the 2019 Ontario budget.

WIL includes apprenticeships, co-ops, and internships.

Colleges Ontario's proposal went into more detail, recommending a $40 million increase in the apprenticeship enhancement fund over the next four years.

This would "allow colleges to train the next generation of skilled trades-persons on state-of-the-art equipment that businesses need to build their competitive advantages."

They also called for the government-paid apprentice per diem to increase by $2.50 a day, starting in 201920, and additional increases

of $2.50 a day each year for three more years, until it reaches $73.09.

According to Merrilee Fullerton, minister of training, college, and universities, the government is looking into ways to modernize the apprenticeship system, making it more accessible for students.

Andrew Profiti, a student in his third level of the plumbing apprenticeship, said that this increase would "take a lot of stress out of just quite simply being able to pay rent and car insurance."

George Brown College (GBC) currently offers 13 different apprenticeship training programs, ranging from child development practitioner to a sheet metal worker apprenticeship.

"We're funded in a very different way than a post-secondary student is," said Denise Devlin-Li, chair of the school of apprenticeship and skilled trades at GBC. "It doesn't reflect, really, the cost of delivering a really high-quality program which the colleges do for the apprentices."

Devlin-Li described construction trades as GBC's

"niche", but said that there is "always the opportunity to increase apprenticeship programs here."

According to Delvin-Li, there are two ways to begin an apprenticeship.

The first is to co-ordinate with an employer who offers apprenticeship programs, and then register a contract of apprenticeship through the ministry.

The other way is to enroll in an Accelerated Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program, offered to high school students who can begin their training while they're completing their high school diploma.

The Colleges Ontario submission called for the Ontario College Application Service (OCAS) to have an apprenticeship resource hub readily available online, in addition to a personalized digital registration system, a logbook and job-matching service.

These changes would simplify the application process for apprenticeship programs to be more like typical college programs.

Profiti took the T126 construction trade techniques program and then found a job

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through the plumbers union and began his apprenticeship.

Minister Fullerton also noted that employers reported a skills gap in the trades that they are looking to close.

Chris Glover, the Ontario NDP's colleges and university critic, said part of the reason for this skills gap could stem from middle and high schools closing their shop classes.

Glover described these

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Trip includes: Round trip motor coach, monument tour, arena tour, hockey game.

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programs closing as "one of the most frustrating things I've witnessed."

Glover said almost everyone in his family has worked in the skilled trades, including himself.

"There's nothing more satisfying than, at the end of the day being, able to see what you built," he said.

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OPINION

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Marvel Studios to feature first female lead in movie-verse TIMO CHEAH OPINION

Captain Marvel is set to be released in theatres and showcases steps towards equal gender representation in the film industry.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe cast Brie Larson as Carol Danvers (alias Captain Marvel) for the film.

This is the first time Marvel has done a female lead film, with exceptions in the television series: Jessica Jones, featuring Krysten Ritter.

From Danvers’ comic debut in 1968 to the film in

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Marvel shines with first female lead

Brie Larson on the set of Captain Marvel.

2019, fans have waited long enough.

This is thanks to all the efforts of feminist activists including Kelly Sue DeConnick, who helped reshape Danvers from the usual overly sexualized female character many male comic book readers cling to, into the strong protagonist she is today.

These lead roles have

faced backlash from nostalgic fans who can’t take the hint that our society is changing.

Even though this is a great step for Hollywood, this character was already a female to begin with.

The comic book world has continuously focused on strong male characters.

Rewriting comic books' history has not been limited to a change in gender.

Both Marvel and DC have scrapped entire storylines to simplify its new ones to avoid continuity errors.

So why should it be a big deal if Iron Man was rebooted as Iron Woman, or Iron Human?

Controversial? Yes. Less catchy? Debatable.

But these kinds of actions should be considered if gender equality is to be taken seriously.

"People have to take into

account when these characters were made. It was made in the 50s and 60s where it was a male-dominated industry and that industry isn't the same now," said Daniel Loria, architecture technology student. “They're addressing modern standards.”

Anna Boden, the director, is also waiting for the day when a female director doesn’t make headlines solely on the premise of their gender.

There are other notable, strong supporting actresses such as Letitia Wright in Black Panther, Scarlett Johansson from The Avengers, and Zoe Saldana in Guardians of the Galaxy.

DC Films beat Marvel Studios to the punch with Gal Gadot starring as Wonder Woman in 2018, however, this is not the point. Another female lead role means another

step towards equality.

The circumstances are quite convenient considering Danvers’ backstory.

The character started out as Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel’s love interest and colleague.

However, after gaining the same powers as him, Danvers became more or less on par in terms of strength, official statistics aside.

The character continued to go through a whirlwind of aliases until superceding Captain Marvel and eventually taking his alias while the original became Captain Mar-vell.

I know. I am as confused as you are. If you are a Marvel fact-checker, please send us a letter.

What matters is that with films like Captain Marvel, less stereotypical gender roles are taking the screen.

Opinion

How does gender impact our lives?

GBC students chime in on the role gender plays in their everyday lives NICO DEVEBER REPORTER-EDITOR

Kelsey Wenn

Asad Matcheswalla

Ryan Gonzales

Anthony Paggiossi

Stephanie Leach

Interior design and technology "I'm coming from an appointment where they told me because I am a woman, it's very unlikely that I could get a tubal ligation, because 'I'm young, and I should totally have babies.' Things like that are pretty much the only thing that affects me."

Gemmology

Civil engineering

Construction management

"I'm not sure, I haven't really thought about it. I do see there is a gender disparity, but nothing that I would say affects me directly."

"The landscape is changing now. So (gender) does not necessarily (affect me) in 2019. A lot of the times I felt that way, but not so much now."

"More males will probably have opportunities where females won't, which is kind of messed up because we're in 2019 now, so we should all work together as a team."

Interior design and technology "It affects my travelling.

Getting home, I'm always worried about walking in the dark. It's not something I can freely do because I'm a female."

ARTS & LIFE

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Cole Forrest is working hard to express Indigenous culture in music and film NICO DEVEBER REPORTER-EDITOR

Cole Forrest is a media production and design student at George Brown College (GBC), but has been working to give a platform to indigenous voices in his community since high school.

His documentary, My Grandfather Was a Big Drum, highlights the perspectives, history, and future of Nipissing First Nation, where Forrest is from.

It is also about their perspectives on music, and how music affects them.

Forrest also spearheaded an Indigenous initiative called Ngamwag Shkinweg through Youth4Music, a part of the Canadian Coalition for Music Education. The name means “the youth are singing” in Ojibwe.

Forrest’s dedication to his community and art is clear, but he also notes that a film does not need to have Indigenous actors or themes to be an Indigenous film.

“Just because the actors in my film aren't Indigenous, or the idea isn't specifically Indigenous, that doesn't mean that it's not an Indigenous film,” he said.

That philosophy in particular helped him with his latest film, and his final project at GBC. The story is semi-autobiographical, about two high-school students whose friendship is going in different directions.

Attending GBC was the smartest solution, according to Forrest, with it being in the downtown core of Toronto.

He came to the city with his partner, also from Nipissing First Nation, who is in the dance program at GBC. As an Indigenous artist, Forrest has confronted many stereotypes.

As an Indigenous artist, Forrest has confronted many stereotypes.

"Even in my own program I have experienced racism, said Cole. "Someone pitches an idea with an indian shooting an arrow in a film in front of the class and nobody says anything."

Cole said it upset him, but he didn't know about how to deal with it in the moment so he internalized it and pretended it was okay.

Although Forrest experienced many challenges as an Indigenous artist in Ontario, he noted that it is not to the same extent as what other Indigenous people from other reserves face.

Forrest said he is fortunate to be from Nipissing First Nation, mentioning that although their drinking water is murky, he is privileged that it is drinkable.

“It's historic and systemic, the trickle down effects of colonialism that affect my family, which has affected me," he said.

Forrest also mentions that artists like himself are not being paid to educate people on his culture, yet seem to be often forced into the role of a historian or teacher.

“Use Google," he says. "Because there's a lot of trauma that comes with being an Indigenous artist, and these aren't really easy topics to talk about within our art."

Despite the challenges he has faced, Forrest is undeniably a multifaceted artist.

He sings, plays hand drums, guitar, and piano, all on top of his film making skills.

He holds Ngamwag Shkinweg to bring indigenous youth together to learn, connect, and lead one another through the power of music.

A large issue, however, is that programs like Ngamwag Shkinweg are not permanent.

Forrest’s program is funded through a bursary that is coming to a close. Although Forrest is making great strides in his work, more programs and funding is essential.

“If anything, that's what Indigenous kids need, a platform to express themselves, even if it's just a guitar,” he said.

PHOTO: NICO DEVEBER/ THE DIALOG

Indigenous artist elevates community

Cole Forrest is using film and music to bring out the voices of his community.

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FEATURE

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Aleppo Kebab almos

LADSHIA JEYAKANTHAN REPORTER-EDITOR

"My dream was to open a restaurant to relive my experience here because I had my own restaurant back home," said Zakaria Mokdad, a Syrian refugee, who opened Aleppo Kebab in Scarborough a month ago.

Mokdad's desire began as soon as he set foot in Canada with his family in August 2016 when they left Jordan, where they had originally fled to escape Syria's civil war.

The Syrian civil war began in 2011, and Mokdad was worried for the safety of his family.

In 2012, they left Syria under the cover of midnight, walking for three hours to the Jordanian border.

T h e Jo r d a n i a n a r m y brought them to a refugee camp, but Mokdad decided to leave after three days. It was not where he wanted his children to be.

They moved to Jordan’s capital and stayed there for another three years when they were selected by a group of Canadians who were looking to sponsor 100 families.

Project Toronto Welcome, Mokdad's sponsor, thoughtfully provided his family with Syrian food.

Mokdad's fear of never eating Middle-Eastern food again was gone the moment they ate the Manakish, a type of flatbread, that was served upon arrival.

"The bread they gave us was the best," said Mokdad but was quick to add "nothing will taste like home."

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Syrian refugee and restauranteur Zakaria Mokdad settled in Canada with help from George Brown College staff member

Zakaria Mokdad, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Canada in 2016, opened Aleppo Keba

Mokdad said his customers often tell him “you remind us of home. You remind us of Aleppo. You remind us of Syria.”

Many Syrian refugees settled in the Scarborough neighbourhood of Wexford, where Aleppo Kebab is located.

Throughout their first year in Canada, Mokdad's family received generous support from people in the sponsorship group who still visit from time to time.

One of those people was Daphne Bonar, a manager in the academic excellence division at George Brown College.

Mokdad's first message to Bonar was, "I can't wait for us to get settled in Canada so we can help people the way you are helping people.”

She is still touched by these words.

Bonar initially had trouble connecting with people to get involved with sponsoring a Syrian family.

Through a friend’s con-

nections, she joined Debbie Ricks, who organized a sponsorship group.

“I just got connected to this group and it was full of a lot of really committed, hands-on people who brought a whole variety of expertise,” said Bonar.

The sponsorship group was asked to go to Ryerson University in partnership with their Lifeline Syria program to select a family.

After looking through a series of folders, Mokdad’s family was chosen.

A few people in the group had prior restaurant and hospitality experience, and seeing that Mokdad had a restaurant back in Syria, it made sense to choose his family.

At the time, however, they were unaware his family consisted of eight people.

The success rate of sponsorship for larger families is low, so while in Jordan, Mokdad sent out two applications for his extended family, which was an additional four people

he could not leave.

Through a Skype meeting, Mokdad revealed, “I’m not leaving Jordan without them.”

The sponsorship group understood his reasoning and tried their best to do what they could to help by combining both applications into one, with legal support lengthening the process.

“Zakaria is really quite an entrepreneur," said Bonar.

"He's incredibly social and he makes connections and has a giant network of people that he knows and I just think all of those kinds of characteristics about him are going to help him succeed.”

Before Mokdad got into the restaurant business in Syria, he would talk to tourists and guide them through the ancient city of Bosra, where travellers often stopped by.

"I picked up the language (English) from the tourists," said Mokdad, who can also speak French.

He later realized the tour-

ists were often hungry after their long day, and begun cooking for them from the comfort of his home.

Mokdad was a young man in his twenties, and after two years, he started his own restaurant because of the need for more restaurants for the tourists that visited.

At the start, he fed 20 people. That number later rose to 300.

Once arriving in Canada, Mokdad studied to improve his English and worked at Paramount Fine Foods for a year to get Canadian experience.

"I know in Canada it's not easy to open a restaurant by myself," Mokdad said, aware of the difficulties in this business.

Antranig Kanajyan was another Syrian refugee working at Paramount Fine Foods at the same time as Mokdad.

Kanajyan had a deep history of cooking with his family restaurant, going back generations in the mountainous tourist area of Jabal Al-Ar-

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st tastes like home

ab with his business partner Antranig Kanajyan to serve traditional Syrian food.

ba’in.

A mutual friend of Kanajyan and Mokdad connected the two because of their shared interest in restaurants.

It just took Kanajyan one conversation with Mokdad to find that he was a suitable partner for opening a restaurant.

"I called Zakaria, (and said) 'you want to work with me'," recalled Kanajyan.

Choosing the right spot proved to be their biggest challenge.

The partners spent one year planning where Aleppo Kebab should be and chose an area in Scarborough to cater to the Syrian community.

"I know when we choose this place, we have a big competition here, but I feel confident because we are doing authentic Syrian foods," Mokdad said.

The kitchens are also smaller than they are used to but Mokdad says it is manageable.

Aleppo, a city known in

Syria widely for their kebabs, was the inspiration behind the restaurant's name.

Kebabs are "traditional, authentic Syrian foods," said Mokdad.

"People, they love our kebab and we can see a lot of repeat customers," said Mokdad who will see customers at lunch who later return for dinner.

The meat and vegetables are bought early in the morning to be prepped, and cooked for three to four hours before putting everything together.

Mokdad believes it’s their quality that sets them apart from other restaurants but got nostalgic while he said, “it’s never going to be like back home, but we do our best.”

For those trying Syrian food for the first time, he recommended the Aleppo kebab and the Adona kebab.

"Our goal right now is that we need people just to come and try our food,” said Mokdad.

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SCIENCE & TECH

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Clothing that can heal you GBC students win prize for exploring infrared technology as wearable medical treatment REPORTER-EDITOR

Nine students from George Brown College (GBC) won the top prize in the Kent State University Fashion/ Tech Hackathon, which took place from Jan. 25 to 27.

GBC's Team Delirium, won the Most Market/Venture Potential mentorship award for their therapeutic garment prototype.

The team consisted of Dana Newman who was responsible for design and manufacturing, Riley Ford who did marketing, Luis Matute who worked on the idea, concept, design, manufacture, and research, and Christopher Benton and Revathi Varatharajan, both of whom took on coding, manufacturing, and IT concept.

Together, they were able to have an interdisciplinary approach to making a functional prototype.

that infrared light can heal those who suffer from muscle pain.

Infrared light is known for its therapeutic advantages, with one being, it is non-invasive, according to Matute.

“It can help you improve your bone healing process much faster, and it can help your muscles relax better," Matute explained, adding that "it also can actually increase the producTeam Delirium's therapeutic garment prototype wins award at hackathon competition. tion of melanin that is crucial for you to Being from various proagement student, previoushave a good sleep.” grams offered at the college, ly studied medicine and felt “There's no gender restricthe team's diverse expertise it was natural to apply this tion for using this garment," proved advantageous accordknowledge to the prototype she added, "There's no age ing to Milan Shahani, a prohe had in mind. restriction. There's no place fessor at GBC's school of fashThe goal was to build in(restriction) because you can ion who mentored the team. frared technology into the probably use it while you are Matute, a fashion man3D fabric, with the insight working.”

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LADSHIA JEYAKANTHAN

Electroluminescent (EL) wire was used in the prototype, which had to be both appealing and functional.

"They had to interweave the wires inside so the wire goes through the fabric, so there were three layers. The top layer, bottom layer, and in between, there was the wire that created the infrared light," said Steffek.

They also engineered the prototype to be used wirelessly, so that you could access therapy simply through the use of a phone.

While infrared therapy does exist, it has not been incorporated into clothing, with the exception being for animals.

"Whether you win the prize or not, if that concept actually finds a niche in the market, that would be enough for me,” said Matute.

SPORTS

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Huskies lose basketball crossover games

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Men's and women's basketball teams fail to make OCAA championships

Despite dominating all season, the Huskies failed to secure their spot in the OCAA basketball championships.

ALLISON PRESTON REPORTER-EDITOR

The Huskies basketball teams saw disappointing defeats after do-or-die games on Saturday, Feb. 23.

Both the men's and women's teams ranked second place in the east division and played against lower-seeded teams from the west division.

After winning the majority of the games all season, both George Brown College (GBC) teams were optimistic going into the day and had hoped to make the OCAA championships.

Both teams qualified last year.

The women started off the day playing against Niagara College.

From the start, things were looking rocky for GBC. They finished the first quarter behind Niagara College 18 -13. The Huskies fell further behind in the following two quarters, with 23-18 and 17-12.

Going into the final quarter with 58-43, GBC’s chances of coming back were slim.

A 16-16 tie in the first quarter was not enough to help the Huskies out and they ended their season with a loss of 74-59.

“They played with more

urgency than us, it was really reflected on in their effort on the offensive glass. They just hammered us to every loose ball,” said head coach Warren Williams. “We just could not beat them to loose balls and as it turns out that really was the difference of the game.”

The men’s game began more favourably, but halfway through the first quarter, Lambton College edged ahead, 24-19.

GBC fell behind a little bit more in the next two quarters (18-15, 20-19).

In the final quarter, the Huskies narrowed the score gap between the teams, (1618) but it wasn’t enough to win the game.

GBC finished their final game of the season with a 78-71 loss.

After dominating all season and second place in the standings going into this game, this was a surprising loss.

“To be honest, we’ve been our own let down all season,” said Huskies’ assistant coach Dalmar Ali. “You expect that from a team that has new faces and new coaching staff and things usually don't go the way you need them to go, but to be honest, I'm proud of the guys.”

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Mike Ra's journey to nationals After only 5 years of playing badminton, this is Ra's second trip to the national championships

HUSKIES SCORES MEN'S BASKETBALL Feb. 16 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . 82 Seneca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Feb. 23 Lambton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . 71 Record: 17 - 4 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Feb. 16 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . 71 Seneca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Feb. 23 Niagara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . 59 Record: 14 - 4 WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL Feb. 16 Humber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Record: 8 - 11 MEN'S VOLLEYBALL Feb. 16 Redeemer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George Brown . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Record: 10 - 10 BADMINTON OCAA championships Feb. 15 to 16

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Men's Singles Gold: Ramnish Kumar (Humber) Silver: Ace Zeng (GBC) Bronze: John Lee (GBC) Men's Doubles Gold: Arpit Taneja & Ayubu Touray (Humber) Silver: Alex Chao & Eric Kern (GBC) Bronze: Gary Tin & Nicholas Hon (UTM) Women's Singles Gold: Ann Hoang (GBC) Silver: Rachel Wong (UTM) Bronze: Melanie Wade (Fanshawe)

A high school interest in badminton has led Mike Ra to winning several titles by just playing the game he loves.

ALLISON PRESTON REPORTER-EDITOR

It's hard to believe when you look at Mike Ra's accomplishments, that he's only been playing badminton for five years.

Ra won a gold medal in mixed doubles at the OCAA Championships on Saturday, Feb. 16 with his badminton partner Angeline Alviar.

They won 10-1 in the round robin and moved on to defeat both St. Lawrence and Centennial.

From there, the two will head off to Dalhousie University in Halifax for the National Championship in early March.

"I think it's the same goal for everyone, trying to win a gold medal," said Ra. Ra has shown how fast one can develop skills when you love something.

Ra began playing badminton when a friend introduced him to their high school’s badminton club.

“I went there and started playing and it was really dif-

ferent," said Ra. "It was a lot of dynamic movement, something you're not expecting, and I just wanted to try out and it was pretty fun.”

Since then, Ra has not only kept on playing the sport, but has seriously upped his game.

"The first year I saw him play, I saw someone who was just an incredible athlete," said Huskies badminton coach Will Schram who has known Ra for the three years that he's been playing for GBC. "He just didn't have a lot of control and wasn't a

very seasoned player."

After his first year at the college, Ra spent some extra time in the summer playing outside of GBC. With that extra time, he came back the following year to win the bronze at nationals in the mixed doubles with his badminton partner Amy Ding.

For him though, playing the game is more than just about winning.

"When I play, I forget about everything and I just focus on badminton. I think that's what I really like."

Women's Doubles Gold: Chloe Rowe& Victoria Duong (Humber) Silver: Helen Ngu & Han Pham (Fanshawe) Bronze: Michelle Kozlowskyj & Courtney Brewe (Georgian) Mixed Doubles Gold: Angeline Alviar& Mike Ra (GBC) Silver: Jia Yi Feng & Chirag Dave (Centennial) Bronze: Elizabeth Duong & Harry Cotaras (Humber)

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