Author: Mehreen Shahid
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Alumni return to mentor Finance students
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY MEHREEN SHAHID Take up an opportunity as soon as it comes knocking, try to be different and never judge or stereotype those you meet. This was just some of the advice given to 16 Accounting and Finance students during a mentoring event organized by Sheridan’s Career Centre and Alumni Office at…
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Sheridan students help build school for aboriginal community
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID Planks, straw bales, boards, insulation material, windows and doors stuffed in a truck and being hauled more than 2,000 kilometres across Canada sounds like a scene right out of a reality TV show. But it’s more reality than show. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug is a First Nations community near Big Trout Lake in…
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Mississauga Arts
MEDIA BY MEHREEN SHAHID As a writer, I have always been fascinated by various media used to convey a message. Illustrations and drawings have been the oldest way of communicating ideas and sharing knowledge and information. Somewhere along the line, art became more than just a tool for communication, instead, it became a personal expression…
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Coaching program helps turn breakups into breakthroughs
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID A serendipitous run-in on the subway became crucial to one heartsick woman’s journey of getting over her breakup. “It had been a couple of months,” says Jennifer, who didn’t want her real name used. “But I was still not ‘over it.’ I was struggling with wanting to still be with that…
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Broadcast student gets $10k award
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID When he walked in at 7 a.m. with coffee and bagels for his teammates on his third day back at school, Nick Kattis had no idea what was coming his way three hours later. At 10:15 a.m., taking a break from their news show production schedule, all broadcast students gathered round,…
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Into the storm
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID Even though work emails had been pouring in, nothing could have painted a picture of what awaited her back in Brampton. Kathryn Trojan Stelmaszynski’s red-eye flight from Vancouver landed early Monday morning in Toronto. And she went straight to work, stopping only to pick up her car, which was parked on…
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Co-op students help nurture college’s green efforts
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID The repair café, the sorting bins, the green printers and reducing paper cup waste are just some of the projects taken by Sheridan’s office of sustainability. Aware of being characterized as preachy and overbearing by students, the office has hired two co-op students to be its representatives. Michael McMillan learned about…
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Pan Am Games, a once-in-a-lifetime chance for students
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID Sheridan students are pitching in to contribute their services to Toronto’s biggest sporting event, the 2015 Pan Am Games. What makes it important for Michael Near, a second-year Investigations student, is “the fact that you get to work at an international event but also locally. It’s a really fascinating opportunity that…
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The wide wage gap between men and women
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