George Brown College seeks increase for enhanced technology fee
George Brown College (GBC) students may be seeing an increase in the enhanced technology fee come September 2014.
Month: January 2014
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Mental Beats: Detained by police because of mental illness?
Mental health issues are everywhere, especially on campus, but an incident involving children reported in the Yorkshire post has me irritated. 300 children with suspected mental illness being placed in police cells due to lack of accommodation according to Radio 4’s Your World This Weekend, who obtained the information. This incident, especially because it involved…
McMaster student group suspended due to violent, sexist songbook
Jemma Wolfe The Silhouette TRIGGER WARNING: the following article contains references to extreme violence, rape, sexual assault and child mutilation all in graphic detail and may be triggering to some people.
Album Review: Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
Mike Specht The Lance WINDSOR, Ont. (CUP) — After announcing in 2011 that singer Laura Jane Grace (born Tom Gabel) was a transsexual, Against Me! began work on what would be their first studio album with Grace as front woman. The transition comes to the forefront of the group’s work as Transgender Dypshoria Blues is a ten-song concept…
Great apps for students
We’ve assembled this list to help you load up your mobile device with apps designed to help support your learning, whether it be for your specific program or for keeping all of your work together and on-track.
Mental Beats: Monitoring the pulse of students at George Brown College
My name is Tina Todaro and I am a staff reporter with The Dialog newspaper at George Brown College. For my first blog post, I’d just like to say that when I first started at The Dialog I had no experience except for being able to put words together and formulate a proper sentence –…
Community Dialog: Brad Duguid holds a scrum with the campus press
For reporters it seems that getting media access to senior government officials is becoming more difficult with an increased emphasis on controlling the messaging. Stephen Harper’s cold war with the Parliamentary Press Gallery is legendary complete with limiting questions, requiring reporters to sign into press conferences, trying to remove a cameraman from a flight after…
Ontario tuition grant extended to private colleges
Anqi Shen Canadian University Press HAMILTON (CUP) — The Ontario Liberals announced on Jan. 20 that they are extending the ‘30 per cent off’ tuition grant eligibility to cover about 5,000 more students. Co-op students in their final year of a five-year program and students in private post-secondary institutions who qualify for the Ontario Student…
Federal government aims to double number of international students
Jane Lytvynenko Canadian University Press OTTAWA (CUP) — Canadian university classrooms could have twice the number of international students in the next eight years. On Jan. 15, the Conservatives announced a strategy to double the amount of researchers and students coming from abroad. The program centers around $5 million per year in funding primarily going…
GBC iPad loans put high-tech learning at your fingertips
How many of you know that you can borrow an iPad from the college library?
Next Stage 2013 introduces the next generation of performers
A team of George Brown College (GBC) choreographers, directors, instructors, working artists, production and wardrobe interns showcased their talent in the annual event, Next Stage 2013 in December.