Category: News
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Operation Peace Blitz
INFOGRAPHIC BY JOEL P. JACOBSON “Operation Peace Blitz” is a week long project promoting peace and raising anti-violence awareness at Sheridan College. The Social Justice Club of Sheridan College are the masterminds behind the project. The week’s activities will include a bake sale, social networking fun as well as donations being made to the Halton…
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Lighthouse for grieving children is looking for volunteers
STORY BY ANTONIA SALAPIC The Lighthouse for Grieving Children is looking for volunteers to bring emotional support to children who have lost a loved one. The Oakville organization was co-founded by Jo Fallon in 1999, inspired by the Seasons Centre for Children’s Grief in Barrie. At the age of six Fallon found her mother dead…
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Early Childhood Education and Leadership in Hong Kong
STORY BY JON D. CLARKE It was rain like they’d never witnessed before. A violent torrent slapped down on the streets of Hong Kong soon after their 15-hour flight from Toronto. School was cancelled that day and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange took an unexpected vacation. This is where eight Early Childhood Education (ECE) and…
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Sheridan Rough Cuts off to a smooth start
STORY AND PHOTOS BY JESSICA BEAULIEU Those who know Destinee Browning have referred to her as fearless, because the second year broadcast journalism student will try anything once. Perhaps it was this courageous attitude that set her apart in the auditions to be this year’s face of Sheridan’s Rough Cuts. Rough Cuts is an online…
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Oakville men walk to end domestic violence
PHOTOS AND STORY BY RENÉE LALONDE Oakville’s Centennial Square was alive with positive vibes on Sunday while men of all ages donned feather boas and pink pumps in support of ending domestic violence. Hope in High Heels, run by Halton Women’s Place encouraged men to walk a mile in a woman’s shoes – literally. Men…
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Professor’s novel has roots in Victorian England
STORY BY MELISSA GERVAIS It was during her stay at one of the oldest inns in England that Sheridan College professor Joyce Wayne found the inspiration for her first novel. During the fall of 2010, she checked into a local bed and breakfast in the small village of Shebbear in Devon County called The Devil’s…
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Port Credit protesters urge Prince of Pot’s return to Canada
STORY AND PHOTOS BY GRAEME FRISQUE Marc Emery supporters and marijuana legalization advocates marched in Port Credit on Sunday to protest the convicted man’s term in a U.S. prison. The NDP-sponsored group, made up of about a dozen Emery supporters and members of the Mississauga South NDP riding association, marched from Port Credit Memorial Park…
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Law & Order: SSU
STORY BY ADAM BUCK Sheridan College’s legal resource centre provides students with information and tactics to deal with a wide variety of challenges. Any student paying Sheridan Student Union (SSU) fees can book an appointment with a lawyer to get free advice on tenant/landlord disputes, contract reviews and other personal legal issues. “Students just come…
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Students can earn a degree in half the time at Griffith University
STORY BY GREG LONGLEY Studying in Australia has never been more attainable. Griffith University in Queensland, Australia is reaching out to college students across Canada to promote their international articulation agreement, which allows college students in any field to turn their diploma into a degree in as little as a year. The articulation agreement is…
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SpinPunch founder explains Sheridan’s role in gaming company
STORY BY DONTEI WYNTER From a dorm room to the internet, Sheridan students helped create remarkable games for thousands, the owner of a web-based gaming company owner told an audience last Wednesday. Ian Tien, co-founder of SpinPunch, spoke in MacDonald-Heaslip Hall to a crowd of Illustration, Animation and Game Design students about how Sheridan College…
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HalTech series kicks off with session on selling yourself
STORY AND PHOTO BY LAUREN O’BRIEN It may have looked like fun and games in the library atrium last week, but students were gathered during lunch hour to hear a speaker tell them about the need to sell themselves. Marguerite Zimmerman of E=mz2 presented “Sell Yourself: The Secrets to Your Successful Future” as the launch of…
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Festival celebrates international students
STORY AND PHOTOS BY ANTHONY MUCCILLI Last Saturday, the second Toronto International Students Festival was held at David Pecaut Square. The event, sponsored by CIBC, Rogers Communications and the Province of Ontario, featured live cultural performances, such as Ojibwe pow-wows, Scottish highland dancing and a Bollywood dance. Representatives from colleges and universities, including Sheridan College,…