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A smile can change your life.That’s what Robert Walsh,

service officer for Branch 15 of the Royal Canadian Le-gion in Brampton, learned when he was working with a veteran who lost all of his front teeth while on duty.

“He was in the turret of an armored vehicle, the driver was young and inex-perienced and lurched the vehicle forward and my vet-eran colleague smashed his face forward and broke all his front teeth,” said Walsh.

“He could never smile be-cause he was ashamed of his smile, because he had noth-ing but gums.” said Walsh. “Prior to getting his dentures all he could eat was baby-food, like mushed sweet po-tatoes, he couldn’t eat meat. So dentures changed his life, changed his diet, changed his smile, then it changed his outlook.”

Once the veteran was able to smile and eat what he wanted to it made him feel better and helped him transition into civilian life.

“It helped him in apply-ing for jobs,” said Walsh. “If you look like a guy who won’t smile then your likelihood of getting hired is less than someone who gives you a big smile.”

On Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, a team of highly-trained denturism students at George Brown College (GBC) will help put more smiles on veterans faces as they hold free dental-screen-ing clinics for full or partial dentures or repairs to exist-ing dentures.

The initiative was the brainchi ld of professor Deepak Naik, the program

co-ordinator for denturism at GBC, who said veterans will be given dentures at a subsi-dized cost as low as $200 for full dentures and $350 for a partial denture at the WAVE Clinic at George Brown’s Wa-terfront campus.

According to George Brown’s website, industry partners Dentsply Canada and LHM Dental Studios are helping offset the materials costs.

Michael Fijolek, a third-year denturism student helping Naik said, “dental treatment for anybody is ex-pensive and it is hard to get. Veterans really have trouble getting dental work done.”

For Fijolek it’s important it is to give veterans a place like the school where they will feel more comfortable instead of going to a dentist.

“I am happy to be a part of anything I can do to help the veterans, as they have done so much for us being in the military.” he said. “We all know that a smile is a big part of life and I don’t think we understand how big a smile is until we lose it.”

The denturism team is striving for better participa-tion from veterans and spon-sors this year.

“Last year we had four veterans, we are expecting more this time,” said Nair whose goal is that 11 vet-erans will receive new den-tures thanks to the program this year.

“It is excellent,” said Da-vid Bawtinheimer, the vice-president of Branch 15, who appreciated the initiative given the limited coverage provided to them by Veter-ans Affairs Canada.

Walsh also told The Dia-log that the Royal Canadian Legion offers bursaries and scholarship program for stu-

dents who are descendants to any Commonwealth na-tion veteran. This initiative provides $500 in financial assistance to students be-longing to a veteran’s family.

To reserve a space at the dental screening clinic, vet-erans can call the college’s registration line at (416) 415-5000 ext. 5028 by Nov. 9.

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(Left to right) Michael Fijolek, Deepak Naik, Veterans David

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3NEWSThe Dialog • dialog.studentassociation.ca // Nov. 9–Nov. 22

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Jerry Gou, a recent busi-ness graduate of George Brown College (GBC), has won the International Stu-dent Excellence Award for entrepreneurship by the City of Toronto on Oct. 17.

Gou has been an active participant at the college. He is the international student representative at the Stu-dent Association, which funds The Dialog, marketing lead at Peerconnect and the co-founder of the GBevent app. He is also the vice president of marketing for Reach Mo-bile Technologies, the Toronto company he worked for while studying at George Brown.

When asked about what keeps him going, Gou said, “you cannot stop.” Talking about his experience as an in-ternational student, Gou said you have to strive harder, fight harder and work harder than others, “and I work very hard.”

He said the college sup-ported him in every hour of need. “Peerconnect is re-ally close to my heart, this place has really helped me to groom my skills. Some days even when I was down or depressed, the Peerconnect team help me cheer up.”

“Jerry was one of the first student entrepreneurs to approach startGBC, your gateway to entrepreneurship at GBC.” said Amy Machen, Gou’s business mentor and

startGBC manager. “He is remarkable for his market-ing ability and his drive and capacity for hard work. But his most noticeable feature is his natural way of connecting with others.”

Gou’s most recent venture was an application for track-ing events at GBC. Gou is working to make this app rec-ognized as the official event application for the college.

“It is more important for me than the award.” said Gou. “The award is really fabulous but to be able to do something, create something worth, that feeling is better.”

Gou’s efforts in developing a mobile job search applica-tion also earned him GBC’s Outstanding Student Entre-preneur Award in 2015.

Jerry Gou wins prestigious entrepreneurship award

George Brown student elected to Pride Toronto board

Biko Beauttah, George Brown College (GBC) stu-dent and transgender activ-ist, was elected to Pride To-ronto’s board of directors on Oct. 22.

“The LGBT community is near and dear to my heart,” said Beauttah in an email to The Dialog. “As someone who through life’s journey, has found myself at one point or another identifying in both those communities through lived experience, I am driv-en by a sense of purpose and duty to be an indomitable force for the benefit of my community.”

Beauttah is currently the women and trans represen-

tative at the Student Asso-ciation of GBC (SA), which funds The Dialog.

Coming from Kenya, where self-identifying in public is considered a crimi-nal offence, Beauttah re-members her first Toronto Pride in 2006 and the over-whelming feelings of awe and wonder she felt “from seeing such a large metropo-lis coming together to cele-brate diversity and equality a rainbow of love.”

Having elected three new trans members, Pride To-ronto said it has the largest representation of trans peo-ple on its board of directors in the organization’s 35-year history.

“I am not going to lie, this is a fantastic opportunity that I have been entrusted

with,” said Beauttah.As an African, Beauttah

said she always wanted to “show Toronto how we do it,” encompassing “percus-sion, tambourines, rhythm, pelvic thrusts, ululations, conspicuous adornments on all shades of melanin-rich complexions.” she hopes to organize a float that will en-compass African culture but notes that decision won’t be up to her.

According to Mathieu Chantelois, executive direc-tor for Pride Toronto, June 2016 will be dubbed as Pride Month featuring extended programming at various lo-cations in the city during the four weeks. They will also be partnering with cultural or-ganizations to offer meaning-ful conversations and events.

Biko Beauttah will sit on Pride’s board of directors as one of three new trans directors


TINA TODAROSTAFF REPORTER

George Brown business graduate is the only college student to receive a 2015 International Student Excellence Award by the City of Toronto

Trans Workforce job fair to be held at Casa Loma campus

Biko Beauttah, woman and trans* people repre-sentative for the Student Association (SA), which funds The Dialog, will be hosting a community action project and initiative called Trans Workforce—a job fair specifically geared towards trans people.

Her motivation for the Trans Workforce initiative came from frustrations in her lived experiences as a trans woman.

“It’s a classic tale of ‘if you can’t beat the system,’ ” said Beauttah. “Devasta-tion is knowing that I have the skills and abilities and capabilities, and not be-ing able to find a job since I transitioned from male to female.”

Funded by the SA, the job

fair will take place on Nov. 20, Trans Remembrance Day, in George Brown Col-lege’s Casa Loma Student Centre at 142 Kendal Ave from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m..

“Our journey through life as human beings is to find ourselves, and the key to happiness,” says Beauttah in an email. “For some of us, we do find the key to happi-ness only to be punished for it by a society who robs us of our dignity in many ways such as denying us the op-portunity to education, and obstructing us from earn-ing.”

Currently TD, Indigo, Manulife, and the Toronto Police have signed up as employers for the event, along with Facebook and Instagram that have offered free advertising and the re-sources of their ad depart-ments to help market the event.


GBC graduate Jerry Gou won 2015 International Student Excellence Award from the city of Toronto Photo: Renuka Malhotra/The Dialog

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New web portal for online courses in Ontario


Launched by the Ontario government on Oct. 8, a new online educational portal will provide post-secondary stu-dents with higher quality and more flexible online learning experiences according to a press release.

“Students should be excit-ed about the eCampus online portal, which gives them the flexibility to access high qual-ity online courses wherever

and whenever works best for them,” said Reza Moridi, Minister of Training, Col-leges and Universities. “The web portal builds on the prov-ince’s strong foundation in e-learning and distance educa-tion and allows institutions to collaborate, share best practices and online resourc-es, and offer state-of-the-art courses that are recognized for credit across multiple in-stitutions.”

Having invested $72 mil-lion over five years to support the development and opera-tion of the portal, the prov-ince’s 45 publicly-assisted colleges and universities are now offering online courses through the website.

Students can search through more than 13,000 college and university cours-es including 277 new and redesigned courses with transferable credits between participating institutions.

“The new portal strength-ens higher education in On-tario,” said Bill Summers vice-president of research and policy at Colleges On-tario. “It provides access to a broader range of information about online courses for stu-dents throughout the prov-ince.”

This website will let stu-dents easily and immediately identify their credit transfer information. It can also pro-vide support and resources for faculty on how to design and deliver the online cours-es.

According to the website ecampusontario.ca the portal is intended “to foster innova-tion and excellence on behalf of Ontario students,” while also allowing the exploration of new technologies, seeking value for learning, and le-veraging existing strengths within the institutions in-volved in the collaboration.

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A unique free program has been created through a part-nership between the George Brown College (GBC) and the Ministry of Economic Devel-opment and Innovation to train people for the fashion industry in Canada according to Helen Tewolde, manager at GBC’s community partner-ships office.

“There are two compo-nents to the program—power sewing and fashion fit.” said Tewolde, “So, it basically le-verages people with skills with manual dexterity and an eye for detail. Those who are interested in the retail sec-tor learn about garment con-struction and development of different items for retail.”

According to Tewolde the power sewing component teaches you how to construct

a garment and fashion fit helps you to learn how to fit apparel on people. The pro-gram includes 11 weeks of in-class instruction and 100 hours of placement with em-ployers in the fashion indus-try.

“This is a really unique endeavour,” said Fiya Khan, a young fashion entrepreneur. “I haven’t heard of it before. It is great to have some expe-rience in this industry domi-nant field and more impor-tantly—it’s free.”

To enroll in the program, you can not be enrolled in any program at any college. “This is a program for individuals who are out-of-school or out-of-work,” said Tewolde.

For the January intake, the registrations are open and admissions are on a first-come first-served basis. In order to qualify for the train-ing program, students need

to attend a mandatory infor-mation session after which they will be contacted for an interview.

This is the third cohort since the program started in June and there are 40 spots for January 2016. The in-

structors for the program are from the school of fashion at George Brown.

“The industry response has been fantastic. In the last cohort we had Canada Goose and Stitch It take all of our students,” said Tewolde.

GBC to run free fashion training program in January 2016


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According to rankings generated by Research In-fosource, George Brown College (GBC) was the top research college in Canada in 2014. Canada’s Top 50 Research Colleges factors in the amount of income each college brings in for research projects.

Dawn Davidson, the direc-tor of research and innova-tion for George Brown, said the rating is, “a fabulous way of bolstering the reputation of the college.”

GBC landed the top spot this year by bringing in $14.2 million in research revenue in 2014. For Davidson, se-

curing this kind of funding for research projects means considerable benefits for stu-dents.

“The funding goes directly to support the projects that we’re doing with our indus-try and community partners and every single one of those projects involves students,” said Davidson.

Working with industry partners on project teams is where students gain valu-able experience and build re-lationships towards securing jobs after graduation accord-ing to Davidson.

Acknowledgement like Re-search Infosource’s rankings are well received, but GBC is really interested in research in order to develop its stu-

dents. “We’re in the business of doing research so that our students get benefits,” said Davidson

Aside from bringing in the most research money, Re-search Infosource found that George Brown ranked first in active research partnerships with 159, ahead of Cegep de Trois-Rivieres (137), and Al-gonquin College (135).

In a press release, Re-search Infosource noted a sig-nificant decline in the growth of research income for Cana-dian colleges. Ron Freedman, CEO of the group, said that 2014’s research revenue in-crease of 4.7 percent would be considerable if it didn’t pale in comparison to consecutive years of more than 30 per cent growth.

“Regardless,” said Freed-man, “the overall trend is positive, as evidenced by the fact that we saw income growing at 31 of the top 50 colleges.”

George Brown rated top research college in CanadaGeorge Brown College’s office of research and innovation brings in $14.2 million in 2014

STEVE CORNWELLASSISTANT EDITOR

Students in South Africa have successfully stopped a planned tuition hike of 11.5 per cent. Weeks of nationwide protest culminated in 10,000 person march on the Union Buildings, the seat of govern-ment, in Pretoria on Oct. 23.

With the protest heating up outside, President Jacob Zuma announced that fees would not go up in 2016.

In a statement, Shaerra Kalla, deputy president of Wits University’s Student Representative Council, said

that students were “not satis-fied” with the outcome.

Kalla said that students are still waiting to hear from President Zuma about de-mands to end outsourcing of teaching staff, and a pledge for free education going forward.

Jatinder Maan, director of education for the Student As-sociation of George Brown Col-lege, which funds The Dialog, called the series of protests, “a clear example of what stu-dents can do or achieve col-lectively.” Maan added, “I think the students in South Africa have given students all around the world a light of hope.”

South African students stop tuition hikeStudent activists call on South African government to provide free education


OPINION 7The Dialog • dialog.studentassociation.ca // Nov. 9–Nov. 22

Canada’s current system of controlling cannabis use is failing and costing bil-lions of dollars yearly to enforce. In 2014, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), released its Cannabis Policy Framework recommending that Canada legalize cannabis.

The CAMH report states, “removing criminal and civil penalties for possession of cannabis would eliminate the more than $1 billion Canada spends annually to enforce cannabis possession laws.”

$1 billion is a lot of mon-ey for marijuana.

Pr ime Minister-e lect Justin Trudeau sees the po-tential for profit, and cam-paigned on legalizing, regu-lating and taxing pot. (He has also admitted to having smoked it in the past).

Trudeau’s Liberals did not provide estimates for tax revenue related to can-nabis during the election campaign. But the pressure to legalize recreational pot is slowly catching on. As leader of a major political party, (and a past user), Trudeau needs to follow through with his campaign promise.

The Green Party of Can-ada estimated that legaliz-ing pot would create an an-nual federal tax revenue of $5.4 billion by 2020. These astounding figures show that legalization and taxa-tion of cannabis will allow the billions spent on the war on drugs each year to be turned into profit.

Colorado is one of four states in the U.S. to fully legalize recreational bud. The state is now buzzing from the economic benefits. According to the Colorado Department of Revenue, the state has received nearly $70 million in tax revenue from cannabis from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015, trouncing the almost $42 million in taxes on alcohol. Canada could see the same economic spike if they le-galized recreational pot use and controlled it.

A recent poll on The Dia-log’s website showed that over 80 per cent of people who took the poll favored the legalization and regu-lation of cannabis. Even though the Canadian public is becoming open to legaliz-ing cannabis, politicians will have to effectively commu-nicate how they would man-age the supply and demand of recreational cannabis.

Our government wil l have to respond to any health effects resulting from the legalization of recre-ational pot. Education pro-grams are needed similar to the health campaigns used to mitigate the unfavorable effects of tobacco and alco-hol use.

The only country to fully legalize marijuana in the Americas is Uruguay. If Canada chose to also legal-ize this drug for recreation-al use, it would be a great milestone and influence drug-policy globally. Canada should lead the way on this issue internationally.

Marijuana should be legal for recreational use in Canada.

We’d had a great night. He picked me up at my

dorm and we went out for a late dinner—Mexican, be-cause we both cited our favor-ite foods as burritos on our online dating profiles. After-wards, we went for a walk in the cool July air, flirting with holding hands; we’d bump into each other, grinning those shy and awkward smiles of first-dates, our fingers grazing but not quite latching. We walked for over an hour, getting to know one another. When we reached his car again, he looked at me sideways.

“Want to come over?” he asked and happily, I said sure.

If you’ve ever been a sin-gle woman out on a date, you might know the next part of the story. He opened some Quail’s Gate. We made out on his couch to the tunes of Angus & Julia Stone and The Wonder Years and some old Blink 182. It was fun and exciting and sexy. Then he pulled out a condom.

I held my hand up. “No, thanks,” I said, and did some-thing I don’t normally do. I offered a, true, justification: “I’m on my period.”

He let out an audible groan. I was a little tipsy at this point—I thought maybe he was joking. Or maybe I just wanted him to be joking. I mean, he was really cute up until that point, and the dark button-down he was wearing brought out the olive in his eyes.

“I don’t care,” he insisted. “Let’s just do it.”

At that point, I was a lit-tle offended. I’d just told him no—and politely too! I told him again that I wasn’t in-terested in that, at least not tonight. He asked me at least twice more before I sat up straight, re-adjusted my bra, and coolly asked him to pass me my purse.

He looked at me grumpily, threw me my purse, and said “bitch.”

No, I didn’t key his car. I didn’t even send him an angry text afterwards. What I did do was take a cab back home and lay in bed, slightly intoxicat-ed, feeling guilty. It makes me cringe to think this now, but I thought maybe he was right. Was I a bitch? Did I lead him on? Was it wrong to kiss him and take off my top and then deny him sex?

Of course not. When I woke up the next morning, my mind clear and stomach a little queasy from that overstuffed burrito and too much wine, I felt electrically alive with an-ger. Who was he not to accept my “no”?

Now, if this had been a one-time thing, I would have been able to shake it off easier. But as I went about my day, sloppily cleaning my room and procrastinating essays, I realized how often I had been chastised for speaking my opinion—even when it was about my own body.

As the mental list grew longer, I became more hor-rified. What is it about our culture that teaches men not to accept women’s answers,

and simultaneously instructs women to be shy about their convictions?

If you haven’t already seen it, Jennifer Lawrence released a poignant letter on LennyLet-ter.com, Lena Dunham’s won-derful new brain child, about being paid less than her male co-stars. In her letter, she says the following: “I’m over trying to find the ‘adorable’ way to state my opinion.”

This doesn’t just go for wages. This goes for bodily au-tonomy, for classroom-related disputes, for domestic deci-sions. It goes for everything. As women, we need to stop inter-nalizing this idea that we need to frame our no’s with smiles and blushes. We can just say “no”—and guess what?

That doesn’t make you a bitch.

This article was originally published in The Phoenix News (UBC Okanagan)

I’m not a “bitch” because I said no

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BRIE CAMPBELL

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FEATURE8 The Dialog • dialog.studentassociation.ca // Nov. 9–Nov. 22

The spectre of school shootings is some-thing that concerns all schools due to

the amount of brutal shoot-ings that take place south of the border every year. The random nature of these highly-publicized shootings has stoked public fear.

On Oct. 1, a gunman shot and killed nine people, injur-ing seven others, at Umpqua Community College in rural Oregon before engaging po-lice in a shootout and com-mitting suicide.

Such shootings have al-most become commonplace in the United States for de-cades. As students in the Ca-nadian post-secondary educa-tion system, we are no safer than the unsuspecting vic-tims at Umpqua Community College with a clear increase in Toronto’s gun violence this year.

Based on numbers from the Toronto Police Service’s crime statistics, 2015 has

been a violent year with 200 shootings in the city, a 25 per cent increase from last year. The number of victims has also increased, up 53 per cent.

A shooting at Dawson Col-lege in Montreal in 2006 left one woman dead, and anoth-er 19 people were injured in the chilling event. After being shot in the arm by a police officer, the shooter later com-mitted suicide.

Recent examples of cam-pus lockdowns in Canadian post-secondary institutions happened when Wilfrid Lau-rier University in Waterloo on Oct. 16. and at Cape Breton University (CBU) on Oct. 29, received online threats simi-lar to those that had been posted prior to the Umpqua Community College shooting.

“Communication was very poor. I feel that the actual lockdown procedure itself was not handled properly,” said Brandon Ellis, CBU Student Union president, in an interview with the Caper

Times. “We saw students and staff and faculty coming and going as they pleased during a potentially dangerous situ-ation and I feel that we are not doing enough to improve on the mistakes we’ve made.”

Criticized on their re-sponse to the lockdown, it’s worth noting that while Cape Breton University—like George Brown—does have an emergency protocol in place, even the university’s vice president of finance and operations Gordon MacInnis says there’s more to be done.

“There has been some communication, but obvi-ously not to the point where there was general knowledge throughout the institution, so that is one of the takeaways for us” said MacInnis in an interview with the Caper Times.

Chris Frazer, a second-year student in the finan-cial accounting program at George Brown College (GBC) believes every student in col-

lege should have a basic un-derstanding of what to do in any emergency. If not, secu-rity needs to make the school and students aware by send-ing an email or speaking with each class to give them a brief understanding of what to do if the situation arises.

So what is George Brown College doing to keep us safe?

Stacey Andrews, manager of public safety and security at GBC, explains that the school has various tools in order to help mitigate situ-ations. One of these tools is a violence threat risk assess-ment tool that she and her staff are very well trained in.

“This tool helps us cover any threats that need to be looked at,” said Andrews. “There are certain indicators that we do look at, and there is a large training component to this that shows where a situation may have to go or if one of our staff members would have to intervene or what type of interventions may need to take place in the event of a lock-down or emer-gency.”

The school also has an Emergency Evacuation Plan-ning and Procedures docu-ment that outlines emergency tactics for staff and students in the event of an active threat on campus. This plan

SCHOOL SHOOTINGS AND LOCKDOWNS:

What if it happened here?Written by Emeka Ibeh

Staff reporter

SCHOOL SHOOTINGS AND LOCKDOWNS:

200 shootings

320 victims

20 deaths

108 injuries

in Toronto alone

George Brown College has a detailed emergency management plan and evacuation procedures, but students say they have never heard of it

* 2015 Toronto Police Service

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is part of a well thought-out emergency response struc-ture for students and staff; here are a few of their pro-cedures during a declared emergency:

With these guidelines, Andrews said that it is the chief responsibility of the Emergency Response Team to keep the college at a consis-tent awareness level in order to deal with any emergencies that may arise.

“The emergency response team are the ones who re-spond to the emergencies,” said Andrews. “Their train-ing is on a continuous basis and for the most part you are looking at George Brown se-curity doing that. So, if some-thing is happening or you feel threatened about something that may happen, you con-tact security immediately. The phones that are on the walls in the classrooms are programmed so that when you press “0” it goes directly to security dispatch.”

Even though the college has pamphlets about what to do in a lockdown available in print at campus security desks and information on the GBC website, students at the college say they would like to be better informed and prac-tice what to do in a lockdown drill.

Melissa Lima, a second-year student in the human resources program, believes that while the procedures in place are sufficient to protect students and staff, she would feel safer if the plans were implemented in an actual practice run.

“In the last two years that I have been at George Brown I was not aware that there was an emergency protocol in place,” said Lima. “There has never been any conver-sation from professors or

e-mails from the college to make us aware that there is an emergency plan in place. I think professors should tell us the basic steps we should take if an incident should happen within the first week of classes. With these extra procedures, I would feel a lot

more secure in the school.”Gagan Deep, director of

communications and inter-nal at the Student Associa-tion (SA), which funds The Dialog, agrees with the no-tion that the best way to approach students about an emergency plan is through the classroom.

“That would be a really good, and possibly the best option to reach every student, because they all come here to attend class,” said Deep. “If teachers can take five to ten

minutes, even a maximum of 15 minutes before their class-es to go over the emergency plan it will be a really good way to make students aware of the procedures.”

Oleksandra Stamenova, a first-year human resources student also feels a simula-

tion of the emergency plan during the school year would help students know what to do when a crisis happens. She does not believe every stu-dent knows what to do during an emergency.

“The plan does not tell us what to do if you are not in the classroom when an emer-gency occurs, and it does not tell us what students are sup-posed to do if we do not have access to the phone on the wall as they are only in the classrooms,” said Stamenova.

I think professors should tell us the basic steps we should take if an incident should happen within the first week of classes.

In the event that you wit-ness a criminal act, you are to call security immediately and not become involved. If

weapons are suspected, move to a safe location and report

your location and any pertinent information relating to the

criminal act to security.

Put your devices on silent or vibrate, a ringing phone may direct the threat to your loca-

tion.

All classroom doors should be closed and if possible locked immediately and all students

should find shelter and remain quiet until further notified by the appropriate college staff.

All students and staff should remain in the rooms and

stay clear of all windows and doors covering them if possible. The lights in the room should

be turned off and you should lie flat on the floor.

Do not tie up the phones in the classroom or use your cell phone which could overwhelm cellular systems and disrupt communications with emer-gency responders. It is of the

utmost importance that all staff and students remain quiet in order to hear further instruc-

tions through the phones which double as a PA system.

A member of the Emergency Response Team will contact the

police immediately and stay on the line in order to supply the following information: A

brief description of the incident, the college location and the

entrance to be used.

This open line will allow continuous communication with the police and ensure the most up-to-date information is being

relayed.

The police are in charge of

the incident and a member of the Emergency Response Team will liaise with the police and

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SPORTS10 The Dialog • dialog.studentassociation.ca // Nov. 9–Nov. 22

Team captain Dart Jack-man, a highly competitive outside hitter for the George Brown College men’s volley-ball team, is ready to make an impact this season. Jack-man first started playing volleyball in his last year of high school and for about seven years this sport has been his fatal attraction.

To Jackman, volleyball is his identity, it defines him as a person, and he plays because he loves the compe-tition and hard work. How-ever, Jackman’s education is always his first priority.

Currently in his second year of business marketing at St. James campus, Jack-man would like to pursue post-graduate studies for event planning or brand management.

Jackman played soccer and basketball growing up and throughout high school. As he aged, he saw his peers developing their skills much more quickly than he was. Unable to keep up with his peers, he took a break from athletics in grade 11, but when he reached his senior year, he was offered a spot on the volleyball team be-cause of his height, stand-ing 6’2.

After the first practice, Jackman had a burning ambition to learn and be the best at the sport, and play-ing became an obsession af-ter that.

“I would love to share my knowledge with younger athletes once I graduate. I

feel I have an understand-ing of the game and that will definitely help them,” said Jackman. Noting that volleyball players have to make hundreds of jumps each game, Jackman said the sport is as, if not more, strenuous than basketball.

“Make a basketball play-er try to dunk a ball in the span of an hour at least 150-200 times, just keep dunk-ing,” said Jackman. “It’s not easy and that’s what we do every game.”

His coach, Josh Nichol, said Jackman is a great am-bassador for the team and the college as well. “He has a great work ethic that ap-plies to all areas of his life. He is a good student, varsi-ty athlete, works part-time, and is a great person to be around.”

Since the volleyball team has a lot of rookies and only a few returning players, they are still in the process of getting a feel for one an-other. Since the beginning of the season, they have posted a 2-2 record. As they contin-ue working on their speed and chemistry, Jackman confidently sees the team finishing near the top of the Eastern Conference.

“Honestly, the group of guys we have this year is pretty awesome,” said Jack-man. “As a captain of the team, my responsibilities aren’t too demanding with respect to making sure a healthy relationship is fos-tered among the team. The most I have done is set an example for everyone else, and in turn they guide me just the same.”

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SPORTS 11The Dialog • dialog.studentassociation.ca // Nov. 9–Nov. 22

George Brown’s extra-mural men’s hockey teams played well but came up short in their first tournament of the year. The George Brown Extramural Hockey Tourna-ment, which took place on Oct. 30 at York University’s Icesports Arena, had eight teams, including two from George Brown College, the Huskies and a team from the Waterfront campus.

In the preliminary round, the Huskies outscored their opponents 14-4, winning twice and advancing to the semi-finals. In their two wins, the Huskies beat Humber Lakeshore 3-1, and crushed the Canadore College Pan-thers, 11-1. In the semi-finals the Huskies ran into a strong St. Lawrence College Schoo-ners team, and were shutout 1-0.

The Schooners ended up losing 2-1 to another St. Lawrence College team, the Sharks, in the finals.

After the Huskies were eliminated, Chris Pires, an electrical engineering stu-

dent playing his first game for George Brown, said he was eager to play in another tournament. “We want to take every tournament title,” he said.

While the results were somewhat disappointing, highlights for Pires included playing in his first college hockey tournament, and a high quality one at that.

George Brown’s Water-front campus team played hard, but had a short bench and was unable to get a win at the tournament. They were out-scored 6-16, suf-fering loses to University of Toronto Scarborough, Trent, and tournament finalists, the St. Lawrence Schooners.

Geoff Gordon, who coached both teams, said he, “was proud of the way both GBC teams played.” Gordon noted that he was impressed that the Waterfront team never gave up, despite being under-manned at the tournament.

Assessing the Huskies performance, Gordon said that if the team can gel and play a stronger system game, he feels that “the team will be competing for the Challenger Cup come March.”

St. Lawrence College wins hockey tournament George Brown men’s hockey team makes it to semi-finals


It was Jordan Marlowe’s showcase.

The George Brown Huskies basketball guard tied with fel-low guard Dejazmatch James to score a team high of 16 points, leading the Huskies to a solid 77-69 win over Durham College.

This now gives them their second consecutive win. Dur-ham hit some tough shots to pull the game as close as they could, but lacked communica-tion and made costly mistakes in the fourth quarter ultimate-ly costing them the game.

The Huskies started off strong by going on a 15-2 run in the first quarter, not allow-ing a bucket up until the five-minute mark. Followed by a great fluid offence and consis-tent fast-break decisions that saw the Huskies lead grow to 25-8 at the end of the first quarter.

A slow start in the second quarter allowed Durham to go on a run, with George Brown barely leading 33-32 at half-time.

“It was a good game we got off to a really strong start,” said Marlowe. “There were mental lapses in the second quarter and that’s why it was near tied at halftime, but over-all we stayed level headed and kept it cool under pressure. We believed in ourselves and the coach’s system. That’s why we were able to win,”

Jonathan Smith, head coach of the men’s basketball team, emphasized making good decisions in their time-outs, but this young team still has a lot to learn from their ex-perienced coach as the season develops.

“It’s been two games in a row that we’ve been up early, and in this game we let them come back. We have a lot of rookies, six or seven, so we’re still learning as we’re going along,” said Smith.

Marlowe spoke of getting more comfortable with his team as the season progressed, and that comfort was on full display as he scored 16 points, was 7 for 13 in shooting, had five assists and three steals turning a close fourth quarter into an eight-point win. Six of his 16 points came within clos-ing minutes with the score 61-54 stretching the lead to 67-54.

“Jordan is a great kid. He is a fourth-year (student), he understands the game, his biggest thing is now learning about his teammates, where they like having the ball and where their sweet spots are,” said Smith. “I thought today in the third quarter and the be-ginning of the fourth he played phenomenally. He got to the rim easily quite a few times.”

A road trip to Ottawa for games against Algonquin College and La Cite ended in Huskies losses. Algonquin won 67-56, while the score with La Cite was 80-65, leaving Hus-kies with a 2-2 record as of press time.

Coach Smith strongly feels that the Huskies transition offense is potent and tough to beat as long as the players re-member to utilize it more con-sistently.

Men’s basketball team wins home openerHuskies open the season with a 2-2 record including a victorious return to the Casa Loma gym

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George Brown Huskies defeated the Durham Lords 77-69 at the home opener Photo: Thomas Chung/George Brown College

The St. Lawerence Sharks celebrate their win in the George Brown extramural tournament on Oct. 30 Photo: Steve Cornwell/The Dialog

ARTS & LIFE12 The Dialog • dialog.studentassociation.ca // Nov. 9–Nov. 22

George Brown College’s the-atre students are at it again with the production of Lady Windermere’s Fan beginning on Nov. 11.

Written by Oscar Wilde, the second most produced playwright in British drama, this production “offers a sharp critique of moralizing, of break-ing people down into categories of good or bad, of communally judging those who have not met one’s moral standards,” according to Michael Ruder-man, who is cast as Lord Win-dermere.

Revealing that the play “is such a great mix of comedy and tragedy with moments of hilarity and moments of heartbreak,” Julia Vescio, cast as Lady Windermere, adds that the production will also encom-pass hilarity and moments of heartbreak, which Wilde weaves together beautifully.

Students can also expect passionate, detailed and won-derfully embodied characters, according to Ruderman, who said that the cast and director “went to great lengths to cre-ate a fully detailed, living and breathing Wilde-world, all of which is available to the audi-ence if they wish to look just

below the Victorian veneer.” With the help of director

James Simon, Ruderman says Lady Windermere’s Fan will also showcase “beautiful, ac-curate costumes and sets that cast members hope will suck the audience right into the world of the play.”

Describing her role as Lady Windermere, who takes a journey from girlhood into womanhood throughout the play, Vescio says that though it was like a marathon it was fun and she is incredibly grateful for the opportunity.

“She is forever changed by the news she receives at the top of the play and the events that ensue throughout the rest of the play,” says Vescio. “She is put into situations that she has never been in before and she doesn’t quite know how to cope. She is just a girl. She is vulner-able, she is unsure of herself, but she is trying desperately hard to do the right thing.”

Lady Windermere’s Fan is playing until Nov. 21 at the Young Centre for the Perform-ing Arts in the distillery dis-trict. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $8 for stu-dents.

For more information, stu-dents can call the box office at 416-866-8666 or visit young-centre.ca.

George Brown theatre students create a “Wilde-world” Lady’s Windermere’s Fan opens the year for GBC


Five George Brown students recognized at the CHF Gala

Recognizing guests at the annual Canadian Hospitality Foundation (CHF) gala might have been challenging this year, given wearing a mask was a requirement.

The Gotham City themed masquerade saw a lot of guests opt for a classic black mask, but there were a few plague doctors and Batmans walking around and even one Hannibal Lectеr.

As part of the event, CHF’s annual scholarship awards ceremony took place. Five George Brown students were among the winners.

“I didn’t actually think I would win, because there were so many applicants,” said

Santasha McNabb-Moore, a second-year culinary manage-ment student, after receiving a Garland Canada-Manitowoc Foodservice Culinary two-

year scholarship. McNabb-Moore, who fin-

ished her externship at Biff ’s Bistro the day before the event, said her ultimate goal is to create a program for chil-dren and teach them about healthy eating. “Being able to help others is very important for me.”

Joseph Douglas, a fresh-man of a two-year hotel man-agement program, won a CHF John E. Coles Hospitality Management Scholarship.

Douglas, who has worked in the hospitality industry for a long time, could not even imagine going back to school. “I didn’t think it was possible,

but I feel wonderful at least starting it off successfully,” said Douglas.

He chose George Brown College (GBC) for its great reputation in the hospitality industry: “I grew up in the in-dustry knowing George Brown is the place to go.” He said professors in the academic upgrading program boosted his confidence a lot. “The only way you can lose is by not try-ing,” said Douglas.

“It’s good to know that I have support paying for my tuition,” said Jozelle Thomas-Nakacisa, a winner of Metro Toronto Convention Centre Event Management Scholar-ship. A special events planning student, Thomas-Nakacisa plans to find a job in a non-profit organization or a corpo-rate company doing events.

ALIONA KUTS STAFF REPORTER

Hospitality students won scholarships from Canada-wide organization

Joseph Douglas won a CHF scholarship Photo: Aliona Kuts/The Dialog

ARTS & LIFE 13The Dialog • dialog.studentassociation.ca // Nov. 9–Nov. 22

Graham Elliot has travelled the world and tasted some most unusual things. “To me the weirder the better. A dog? A monkey? An octopus? Sounds great, let’s cook it!”

George Brown’s Tastes of Tomorrow club hosted Elliot on Nov. 3. Amal Rana, a culinary management student, said she tries to attend as many Tastes of Tomorrow talks as possible: “If my timetable allows me, I will try to make it to the event.”

Elliot’s recently published first cookbook Cooking Like a Master Chef is, according to El-

liot, a little mix of everything. In the era of social media shar-ing it’s hard to keep anything secret, “but when you write a book, it’s an opportunity to tell about yourself, about who you really are.”

And who is he, really? A Chicago-based restaurateur with two Michelin stars; Food & Wine Magazine’s 2004 Best New Chef; Former participant on Iron Chef and Top Chef Masters; co-host and judge of MasterChef and MasterChef Jr., the list goes on. Elliot also used to play in a rock-n-roll band and ran in the Chicago Marathon in 2014.

At 27 he wrote his own “culinary manifesto” which in-cluded the rule “respect every little thing you come across in the kitchen.” Ten years later he still believes it is true. “Being a chef is not what you do, it’s who you are,” he added.

“For me being a profes-

sional means inspiring people and getting the best out of them,” said Elliot after years of culinary experience. He be-lieves cooking is super-simple and shouldn’t be intimidating at any level. “Let it taste like itself—that’s the secret to cook-

ing great food.” Elliot doesn’t keep note-

books anymore, simply scratch-ing things off his menu and re-placing them with new ideas. He uses music as his main source of inspiration and says there are a lot of similarities between it and cooking.

“A menu is very much like a CD. There are three hits, two awful chef favourites and a bunch of regular things that no one ever remembers.”

His worst nightmare is be-

ing stuck at a predictable job. Leaving behind the rigid rules often found in fine-dining res-taurants, Elliot is a fan of con-stant changes in his kitchen and expects his cooks to ques-tion him.

“There is no right or wrong when it comes to creativity in the kitchen. It’s all a grey area open to interpretation,” he said. “And if someone doesn’t want to do something, the door is al-ways there. That’s what I find amazing about life.”

Chef Graham Elliot brings his first cookbook to George Brown

Try this recipe for roasted root vegetables with balsamic vinegar

Ingredients

n 6 cups day-old white bread, preferably focaccian 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halvedn 1/2 cup olive oiln 1/4 cup red wine vinegarn Salt and pepper to tasten 1/2 medium cucumber, cut in half lengthwise, slicedn 1/2 red onion, thinly slicedn 6 to 10 basil leaves, tornn 1 clove garlic, minced

Method

1. Tear the bread into bite-size pieces.2. Lightly salt the cherry tomatoes, place in bowl and set aside for 15 to 30 min-utes.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, on-ion, basil, and garlic. Toss to mix and then add the dress-ing and toss to combine. Let the salad soak for at least 30 minutes before serving.

Root vegetables are a won-derful addition to an au-tumn table and this month we’re bringing you a simple and delicious recipe featur-ing beets, celeriac, carrots, parsnips and others. This recipe comes courtesy of Chef Frank Toneguzzo who teaches George Brown Col-lege’s continuing education culinary arts I course.

George Brown students at Casa Loma ampus can now buy affordable fruits and vegetables right on campus.

Every Friday the Student Association, which funds The Dialog, brings cheap, fresh and nutritious produce

from FoodShare, a non-profit agency, to help students eat healthier and spend less.

“It is really expensive to be a student in Toronto, so we want to make the health-iest options available to our students right on campus for the cheapest price possi-ble,” said Claire Whitehead, a food bank lead. “I hope students see us and under-stand that this is for them,

that we are not trying to raise money for something outside school.”

The Good Food Market at Casa Loma campus is open on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the food court of the Student Centre on the first floor of the E building. It is also open at Waterfront campus on Wednesdays and at St. James campus on Thursdays starting at 10 a.m.

Good Food Market opens at Casa Loma

Being a professional means inspiring people and getting the best out of them

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Chef Graham Elliot visits George Brown College on Nov. 3 Photo: Aliona Kuts/The Dialog

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SCIENCE & TECH14 The Dialog • dialog.studentassociation.ca // Nov. 9–Nov. 22

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PSYCHOLOGY AT YORK

On Oct. 22, George Brown College’s (GBC) research partner Clear Blue Technolo-gies, was given the Mind-to-Market award by the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE).

According to OCE, the award “celebrates the best OCE-supported research col-laboration between the busi-ness and research commu-nities resulting in effective commercialization of leading edge ideas and solutions.”

In addition to the hon-our, Clear Blue also received $25,000 from OCE to help grow their company.

Dawn Davidson, director of research and innovation at GBC, said the department

has been partnered with Clear Blue Technologies since 2010, which has been an ef-fort to develop, manufacture, and test prototypes as well as a manufacturing processes for future product releases. The partnership has also helped in redefining innova-tion.

“We are very pleased to congratulate Clear Blue Technologies, a truly inno-vative Canadian company, on this award,” said Robert Luke, vice-president of re-search and innovation at GBC, in a press release.

According to Miriam Tuerk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Clear Blue Technologies, said, “we would not exist as a company with-out having done what we did with George Brown.”

Explaining how the com-pany’s relationship with the college has grown over years, Tuerk added that, “our first employee that we ever hired was a George Brown gradu-ate, Noe Galeana Galeana of the Masters in Research Project that we were doing with George Brown College. Galeana still works for us today, four years later, and is one of the top employees in the company.”

The relationship between George Brown and Clear Blue started off with vari-ous research projects being undertaken and then trying them out. Clear Blue also had their office at the Casa Loma campus for about eight months.

A portion of the compa-ny’s research and develop-ment budget is spent on the joint projects with colleges and that they are planning to start a new project with George Brown in 2016, ac-cording to Tuerk.

Highlighting several rea-

sons why working with a college is important for a start-up, including access to a larger variety of expertise and resources, Tuerk says that “it takes a community to build a company, and when you are small start-up you cannot tap every expert in the company so you get ac-cess to a wider range of ex-pertise (with a college).”

Working with a college like George Brown, according to Tuerk, also has to do with

finding good people. “Most people are good people,” she continued. “It’s the question of finding the people who are good in your environment.”

Davidson says that George Brown currently has 38 partners who are engaged in research and innovation projects, and four are public sector or not-for-profits.

She also highlighted the research office’s extensive ef-forts to advance green tech-nology applied research.

Clear Blue Technologies wins Ontario Centres of Excellence Award

George Brown partners with Clear Blue on various research and development projects related to the company’s Smart Off-Grid technology.


FUN 15 The Dialog • dialog.studentassociation.ca // Nov. 9–Nov. 22

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indicator;56- Chow down;57- Repulsive;62- Must’ve been some-thing ___;66- Of high grade;67- Bristles;68- Oil of ___;69- Appraise, charge perunit;70- TV studio sign;71- Tart;72- Org.;73- Nabisco’s ___ Wafers;74- Novel ending;

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MEETINGThe Student Association of George Brown College (SA)

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THURSDAY, DEC. 311 A.M. – 2 P.M.

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200 King Street EastToronto, ON M5A 3W8

AGM packages with motions, proxies, and proposed changes to the bylaws are availablefor pickup at all Student Association front offices during regular office hours.

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