Category: News
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Lawyer warns of systemic racism fuelling the security state
BY JAKE HRIBLJAN While some Canadians may find the niqab an infringement on Canadian culture, legal scholar and activist Azeezah Kanji sees the recent election debate as one of the latest examples of a deeply entrenched system of institutionalized racism. Two weeks ago, University of Toronto’s Hart House hosted its annual Hancock Lecture, given by…
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Neighbourhoods in transition: Pushing the envelope
BY NATALIA CAMARENA On Jan. 26, Linda Morgan returned to another committee of adjustment meeting, along with 10 of her neighbours in an attempt to prevent another variance from being approved. In the last few years many neighbourhoods in the Town of Oakville have been undergoing transition. Older houses have been taken down, and million…
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Young go-getters are growing under the wing of Lab•B
BY MARIELLE MANGANAAN A growing community of creative freelancers and entrepreneurs find their home in a small Brampton space. The “shared workspace for the creative economy” inside The Mill on Queen St. E., Lab•B, is free and open during the week from 9 a.m. to 6 a.m. for people to come and have their artistic…
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YuMi robot working alongside Sheridan engineering students
BY ELISE MORTON YuMi, the first robot at the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies (CAMDT) gives Sheridan’s engineering students the opportunity to safely work up close with a robot. Created by ABB, YuMi, which means You and Me in Japanese, has features that remove the barriers of cages and distance needed to provide…
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Red dresses honour missing and murdered aboriginal women
BY ELISE MORTON You may have noticed red dresses hanging at Sheridan’s campuses this week. This curious display is part of the first event held by a new club, the Sheridan Indigenous Alliance, during their Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Children (MMAW) Awareness Week from Feb. 8 to 12. According to Kayla Parisien, first-year…
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Food4Kids feeds hungry children and hungrier hearts
BY ANDREW GOULART Rated as one of the best places to live in Canada, you probably wouldn’t think there are many hungry kids in Oakville. But you’d be wrong. “It was a bit of a shock to me when I first started that there were so many kids that needed this service,” said Josee Normand,…
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Girl Talk inspires Sheridan women at Marquee
BY JANA GREGORIO When you hit it a wall, it’s to see how far you’ve come, motivational speaker Nova Browning Rutherford told the crowd at the Girl Talk event at Sheridan College on Feb. 2. “I wouldn’t know how resilient I am any other way,” she said after talking about her struggles with depression. “You’ll…
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Black History Month kicks off at Town Hall
BY NICOLE CALHAU Powerful soul music filled the room at Oakville’s Town Hall as the crowd of 100 people came together to celebrate Black History Month on Feb. 3. The performances took the crowd back into the 1800s during slavery and showed everyone how people would use music as a way to escape the pain…
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Conference tackles the spectre of environmental refugees
BY JAKE HRIBLJAN What happens to a nation if it’s submerged under water? What happens if 50 million, or maybe 1 billion, people begin to migrate because of environmental devastation? How would the world respond to a climate crisis that affects the entire planet? These were just a few questions experts and researchers sought to…
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Beer comes to Oakville grocery stores
BY ERIN QUEENAN Good news for college students. Beside the frozen pizza and dinners, a selection of beer is now for sale at three Oakville grocery stores. Longo’s Cornwall and Burloak locations and Freshco on Third line are among 60 in Ontario that are now allowed to sell beer. They are the first of many.…
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eSports set to redefine athletics
BY KAHFEEL BUCHANAN The definition of a modern-day athlete is changing as eSports continue to rise in popularity. Some people think being an athlete is about how high you can jump or how fast you can run but that’s traditional sports. eSports is becoming the new phenomenon because technology is the thing of today,” said…
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Black History kickoff with the Halton Caribbean Association
LIVE BLOG BY NICOLE CALHAU Feb. 3 marks the day the Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton throws its annual Black History Month kickoff event at Oakville Town Hall. The event showcases the cultural heritage of African Canadian people with a exhibit put together by the Oakville Museum, Association of African Canadian Artists and Sheridan College…