Spooky spots to sight in Oakville this Halloween
INFOGRAPHIC BY TAYLOR SHAPPERT FEATURED IMAGE COURTESY OF GETTY IMAGES Have you outgrown trick-or-treating but are looking for something to do this Halloween? Here is a map of Oakville with some ideas for your Halloween evening. You can check out the Solingate Manor haunted house, take a ghost walk starting at King Street or hang […]
POSSE Project takes to the street for Trick or Eat
STORY BY MOLLY MUSSELWHITE Halton’s POSSE Project is taking part in Trick or Eat this evening. The nationwide campaign raises money and collects food items for local food banks across North America. The program is usually done through universities, but the POSSE (Peer Outreach Support Services and Education) Project has organized a collection this year. […]
Sheridan students ‘go purple’ to help children
STORY AND PHOTOS BY STEF CASERTA The Child and Youth Work (CYW) program at Sheridan College is promoting October as Child Abuse Prevention Month by wearing purple and raising money for the community’s Children Aid Society (CAS). CAS donated ribbons and pins, which were on sale for $1 and bracelets, which sold for $2. Students […]
Victim’s screams scared away masked attacker during weekend sexual assault
STORY BY GRAEME FRISQUE Published on October 7th, 2013 Updated on October 9th, 2013 @ 5:35pm One of the victims in last weekend’s pair of sexual assaults that occurred near the wooded trails at Trafalgar Campus is calling for more emergency boxes to be installed. The young woman, whose anonymity has been guaranteed, contacted The […]
Cram-a-Cruiser food drive a success in Mississauga
VIDEO BY MELISSA GERVAIS PHOTOS BY MELISSA GERVAIS The Thanksgiving Cram-a-Cruiser Food Drive is an annual event hosted by the Peel Regional Police, 11 Division, with volunteers from the Eden Community Food Bank. The event ran on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and took place outside the Real Canadian Superstore on Argentia Road […]
New Oakville Hospital set to impress community and surrounding areas
INFOGRAPHIC BY JESSICA BEAULIEU In September 2005, Halton Healthcare Services and the Hospital Infrastructure Partners reached an agreement and signed a $2 billion contract to build a new hospital in Oakville. The new building will replace the existing Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, which opened in 1950 and only holds 50 patient beds. The joint construction […]
A phone worth keeping
STORY BY MICHELLE WHITTEMORE Phonebloks plans to Thunderclap social media on Oct. 29. The new phone design, created by Dave Hakkens of the Netherlands, is designed to last forever. The idea is to reduce global electronic waste. Hakkens proposes a phone that allows users to swap components rather than replacing the whole unit when […]
Heedless Ambition: The life of a Pixar animator
JON D. CLARKE He started young. Evan Bonifacio’s earliest memories of drawing were of Kid Pix on a Macintosh computer and of using archaic digital brush tools to paint a picture of his old man. Dad was in the business, too, as an animator on Disney’s Mulan and Don Bluth Productions films like All Dogs […]
Annual HMC events give students a fresh start
STORY AND PHOTOS BY ANTHONY MUCCILLI Last Saturday, Hazel McCallion campus held an event called Sheridan FreshFest. The event was a way for students at HMC to network and make new connections with students they had not met before. It was planned by both students and alumni and will be held annually. “The main thing […]
Workshop aims to help students feel comfortable in their own skins
STORY BY STEF CASERTA Sheridan College’s Counselling Services office at Trafalgar Campus is changing the way students think about themselves so they can lead a happier life. Being Comfortable In Your Own Skin is a workshop divided into four closed group sessions that educate students on how thoughts can impact their lives. During the sessions […]
Accessible Learning office works to shed stigma
STORY AND PHOTO BY TAYLOR SHAPPERT The Accessible Learning office at Sheridan helps about one in 10 students, yet many students with special needs don’t come forward for help. Mansoor Naderi is a third-year Visual and Creative Arts student with retinopathy of prematurity, a condition that means “I have no light perception out of my […]
Everything you need to know about SafeWalk
INFOGRAPHIC BY JON D. CLARKE The infographic below offers information on SafeWalk, how to use the service and where it will take you.
