Category: News
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Conversations about Faith at Davis
A Christian, a Muslim and a Satanist walked into a bar at Sheridan’s Davis Campus. Steven Martins, an evangelical Christian, Hamid Slimi, a Muslim, and Sheridan student Luciana Belea, a Satanist, comprised a panel of speakers at Davis’ Den as part of a conference held by the college’s Christian Connect club last Wednesday. The Conversations…
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General meeting talks big money
STORY BY CAIT CARTER Sheridan’s Student Union passed five bylaws and it’s $9 million budget at its annual general meeting last week. A total of 40 students showed up to the meeting’s three locations, HMC, Davis and Trafalgar, which was conducted by video conference. The college has approximately 18,000 full-time students. The SSUI distributed several…
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The dark world of human trafficking
BRITTANY PREOCANIN Last year there were about 45 women and girls, on any given day, prostituting between Trafalgar and Guelph Line. “It’s happening here. What you see in Oakville and Burlington, it’s just a drop in the bucket from what you see in Mississauga and Toronto,” said John Cassells, a street youth specialist with SIM…
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Sheridan parking fees to rise again in September
STORY BY COURTNEY BLOK PHOTOS BY COURTNEY BLOK Students returning to Sheridan in September will get a bit of sticker shock. Fees for parking at all campuses will be rising as part of the increase phased in over three years. The current price of $430 for two semesters, or $495 for the entire year, will…
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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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Filmmaker leaving a legacy for students
BRITTANY PREOCANIN In the beginning it smelled like a job, but like documentary filmmaking, teaching became more than just a job— it was a mission. After a life spent looking through a viewfinder, extracting every element and its effects on visual composition, Vladimir Kabelik, 64, feels now is the perfect time to retire. In regards…
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Sheridan Board of Directors Release University Goals
STORY BY ALEXA MENARD The requirements for a school to become a university are high – and Sheridan plans to meet all of them in the next two years. Sheridan’s president, Jeff Zabudsky, armed with a quick smile and a few well placed jokes, brought the town hall meeting to order on Tuesday, March 31…
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Program set to give single moms a boost
BY REBEKAH OLIVEIRA It’s considered the new face of Canadian families – the single mother household. As the number of single mothers increases, Homeward Bound Halton program is helping single moms break the cycle of poverty and bring them out of homelessness by providing them with a post -secondary education. Sheridan launched the program earlier…
