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Relieving stress and depression through sport P.8

SA pushes for ‘Blackburn Residence’ P.5

Taobao: A treasure hunt for e-books P.11

PDA at school is unfair and inconsiderateP.10

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GBC focuses on strongest programs for future growthPrioritizing five programs will support Ontario’s new differentiation framework

MAVERICK SMITHSTAFF REPORTER

Over the next three years, George Brown College (GBC) will be continuing to focus on five program areas of strength: culinary and hospitality management, arts and de-sign, construction, community health, and business management. “We focused in on the top five that we thought we would see sector growth and therefore enrollment growth over the next three years,” said Laura Jo Gunter, senior vice-president, of academic at GBC. The college is prioritizing these particu-lar programs because they are echoing On-tario’s Differentiation Policy Framework for Post-Secondary Education, which was

released in 2013. This provincial policy framework states that “encouraging institutions to focus on areas of program strength, will help to de-fine their role in the post-secondary educa-tion system and better coordinate program offerings at a system level.” However, the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) for On-tario, believes that this will help promote quality programming that is responsive to student needs and regional demands, and avoid unnecessary duplication. The Ontario Confederation of Uni-versity Faculty Associations (OCUFA) dis-agrees with the ministry. According to OCUFA’s document Fre-quently Asked Questions on Differentia-tion Agenda and Program Prioritization, “program prioritization” is not a neutral term, but “refers to an administrative pro-cess to rank all university programs and services according to a set of criteria, and

then to make resource allocation decisions based on those rankings.” OCUFA sees this agenda as “an attempt to incentivize universities to rationalize and downsize their operations in order to con-strain the need for new public funding.” Despite these concerns, having signed a Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA) with the ministry, George Brown’s administra-tion is adamant that they will not be down-sizing their operations. “Every program is offered based on both student demand and employment de-mand, so no specific program area is going to go away. They will still be strongly sup-ported and we will still be teaching quality programming,” said Gunter. “Were seeing employment demand and student demand in those five areas specifically, and those are the areas we are going to focus on in terms of new programming or degrees.” “We are going to pay attention to reten-tion across the college, and we’ve started

a whole new retention program and it’s going to be the highlight of our next aca-demic plan, both at the divisional level and across the college to improve our reten-tion,” said Gunter. Regardless of the motivations behind the signing of the SMA, current and future college students will see the college focus on forging partnerships with other post-secondary institutions. “We are working with the ONCAT grant (Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer), OCAD University and Car-leton University to do articulation, and cre-ate more joint programming in two areas; fashion and business,” said Gunter. “We have a number of other ONCAT agree-ments as well to offer students wishing to transfer; we have an articulation with our general arts and science program into the University of Toronto.”

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Will West Queen West’s cool factor eventually expire?Shop owners worry that Vogue’s recent praise will increase property taxes

STEPHANIE LALEGGIATHE RYERSONIAN

(CUP)—Locals knew West Queen West was trendy long before Vogue’s “Global Street Style Report” ranked it the second rhood in the world. “We’ve always known this street is cool,” said Anne Hung, a professor at Ryerson’s School of Fashion who is also a designer and the owner of Anne Hung Boutique on Queen Street West. According to Vogue’s September issue, “Toronto is currently enjoying newfound prominence — amongst globe-trotting tastemakers.” The magazine describes Queen Street W. as “a verifiable artery of indie patisseries, home-grown labels, and hidden-from-view galleries.”

With Shimokitazama, Tokyo, in first place, West Queen West outranked 13 other prominent neighbourhoods in cities such as Stockholm, Milan and Los Angeles. “People in the outskirts never knew what to expect, or realized how cool this neighbourhood really is,” Hung said. “It’s been written about in NOW Magazine, but still, people outside of the downtown area don’t really know that this even exists here in Toronto.” Eleven years ago, Hung set up shop a couple of blocks away from Trinity Bell-woods Park. The neighbourhood changed drastically over the years, with a number of independent boutiques and restaurants that have come and gone. Hung said Queen Street W. is worthy of being mentioned in Vogue because of its unique shops and because of how far the neighbourhood stretches — from Bathurst Street to Gladstone Avenue. However, as with anything officially declared cool, fame comes with a price, and business own-

ers wonder how long it will be before people move on to the next hip neighbourhood. Hung worries that increasing rent will drive many of the businesses out. While her own landlord encourages independent boutiques, she worries other renters may not be so lucky. Lawrence Altrows, a Ryerson professor of urban and regional planning, says that with no rent control in Toronto, the cost of running a business in West Queen West will inevitably increase, “not just because the value of the property will go up in general, but simply because the rental situation in Toronto is tight.” Altrows said that Queen Street between Spadina Avenue and Bathurst Street once had many independent stores, but recently has been “chainified.” “That whole area, Queen and Spadina, it’s like an outdoor mall, and I’m scared that’s what will become of Queen West,” Hung said. “I mean, there’s a Virgin Mobile not too far and there’s talk of opening an

Anthropologie near Tecumseth (Street).” Altrows said there are many ways locals can preserve what they love most about West Queen West. The neighbourhood supports Cana-dian designers, art galleries and small cof-fee shops. Altrows said he wants people to think twice before buying a shirt at Gap or drinking Starbucks coffee, and to engage with local independent vendors. Interested in stopping by? Take a peak at what to expect from Anne Hung Boutique!Below: Ryerson professor Anne Hung at work in her boutique on 829 Queen St. W.

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Pilot project seeks to accommodate students needing extended access


Midterms and exams: these two words sum-mon up stressful scenarios for students. Recognizing that the hours of availability for the college’s services can contribute to this concern, this semester George Brown College and the Student Association (SA) have worked out a way to help students. “George Brown is a commuter school,” said Gagan Deep, director of public rela-tions. “So, the idea of travelling back and forth, sometimes as far away as Orangeville, was just not convenient. Our members ex-pressed their concerns that it was often diffi-cult for them to find suitable places and times to study during exams. ” This pilot project involves altering the hours of the Library Learning Commons (LLC) at

the college’s busiest campus. John L. Hardy, Director of Educational Re-sources at the LLC, describes this as the ‘right formula’ for giving students access to a 24 hour study space at the St. James campus during a very stressful time in the semester. Like Deep, Hardy also acknowledges the need for students to study through the night on campus without having to face a long commute, home and back, the night before an exam or when trying to meet a project deadline. Allowing students to study through the night does not mean flinging open the doors of the LLC to all residents, at all hours. Instead, access to this space will be tightly controlled with only a select number of services available at two specific times during the academic year. This 24 hour access policy will be imple-mented at the St. James LLC from Oct. 6 to Oct. 11, but because this is Thanksgiving week-end, the policy will be affected. The LLC will close at 6 p.m. on Oct. 12, and closed all day on Oct. 13 and 14.

However, beginning on Oct. 15, the LLC will once again return to 24 hour access, giving students a window of time for extra studying ending on Oct 17. This 24 hour ac-cess policy will be repeated from Dec. 1 until Dec. 12, 2014. The reason behind the 24 hour computing and studying space reference during these two specific times during the academic year is that students who use the library during these after-access hours will be able to use the Macs and PCs in the two labs in the lower level. It is also referred to as a 24 hour studying space because the group project rooms in this area will be left unlocked for students’ use. Other spaces in the college will be avail-able as a way to allow students to access ser-vices they may need if they remain at the college during this time, such as vending machines and washrooms. Despite the fact that it has taken a lot of hard work to make this project happen, Deep is optimistic that these efforts will pay off, say-ing, “if it goes well, this (24 hour access) will become a part of the library services.”

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New BIM lab launched at GBC

$100,000 in federal funding marks an investment in innovation

COTY ZACHARIAHSPECIAL TO THE DIALOG

This month, George Brown College (GBC) successfully launched the new Building Information Modelling (BIM) Lab and program at Casa Loma campus. With the help of a $100,000 invest-ment from the federal government, the program and facility will be a leader in construction sector innovation. “It brings industry into the college to engage faculty and students around real world problem solving,” said An-drew Fraser, manager of industry liai-son and technology transfer research & innovation for GBC. “Students can hit the ground running with this type of technology and be ready for the jobs available in the workforce.” The college is placing emphasis on preparing and guiding students towards meaningful employment in their field of study. Programs like building information modelling management are an example of where GBC is providing the tools and processes for students to be on the cutting edge of technology and education. “This program is good for GBC be-cause it is the future of construction and we will be prepared and educated,” said Nicolas Kiriakou, the Student Associa-tion’s construction and engineering repre-sentative. “The only other school I know doing this is in North America is Penn State down in the United States. This is a huge initiative for the college, students and teachers are very excited about it.” George Brown students are a big part of a generation that is learning and implementing technological ad-vancement in Canada. Being industry leaders will make students some of the most sought after by construction and engineering companies looking to hire employees that are proficient with the latest tools of the trade.

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SA pushes to name new residence after Blackburns

Escaped American slaves and active abolitionists inspire naming campaign

COTY ZACHARIAHSPECIAL TO THE DIALOG

For the past few weeks students have been going around the campuses with clip-boards, collecting signatures for the nam-ing of George Brown’s first residence. Building completion is scheduled for 2015, and will be available for students to live in after the Pan Am Games Village is finished hosting athletes. The residence will be located at Front Street East and Cherry Street. Students are welcome

to submit a potential name, but there is a push by the Student Association to name the housing facility “Blackburn Residence,” after Lucie and Thornton Blackburn. The Blackburns were escaped slaves from Kentucky who made their way up through the United States to Toronto where they were very active abolitionists, and opened the city’s first taxi business. During the 1830’s to 1850’s, Thorn-ton came into contact with George Brown and together they worked tirelessly to cre-ate employment opportunities for refugee slaves in Toronto. “The Blackburns were very important to Toronto’s community as well as Ontar-io’s past,” said Cynthia Wilkey, chair of the West Don Lands Committee and a leading

advocate for naming a visible monument after the couple. “They are recognized by heritage Can-ada. Fugitive slaves that escaped jail to es-tablish the important principle that slaves could not be extradited. Among the first five to have a law about extradition inter-preted in Canada, setting a legal precedent for the underground railway,” said Wilkey. “They gave back to community through self-help investment and organizations for fugitive slave families. These heroes de-serve to be celebrated.” The freedom-seeking power couple built a small house on the corner of East-ern Avenue and Sackville Street where they lived for almost five decades. The house was secretly used as a stop on the historic

Underground Railroad. There are plaques at Inglenook High School and articles online to commemo-rate the couple, but naming a building after them would be an honour of a higher level. Students can also fil l out a ballot through the Student Association (SA), with their theme idea for the residence, for a chance to win a free iPad. “Where the residence is being built, you can overlook where the Blackburns stayed during the 1800s,” said Geneve Gray, the SA’s director of finance and operations. “It would be one of the few honours in the African-Canadian community if this residence is named the The Blackburn Residence as there are not many buildings named after an African-Canadian.”

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A rendering of the intended appearance of the new residence buildings.


TPE a “tool kit” for students with mental health and addictions challengesRevised program provides the skills to be more active participants in life


“I never thought post-secondary education was an option,” said Leslie Cringan. “With invisible disabilities, there are so many un-seen barriers.” A recent policy paper by the Ontario Human Rights Commission agrees with this assessment, stating that “people with mental health disabilities or addictions, have faced considerable and longstanding discrimination, stigmatization and social exclusion in Canada.” George Brown continues to collabo-rate with the Ministry of Training, Col-leges and Universities and the Ministry of Health to change this situation. The college has created a three semester program that leads to an Ontario college certificate. The program is called “transi-tions to post-secondary education (TPE),” which is a revised certificate program for-merly known as the redirection through education (RTE) program. The program’s curriculum of post-sec-ondary credits are designed to create space for its students within the college system that are not limited or segregated. Cringan calls the program a “tool kit” which helps her to set herself up for success by offering a set of tools and directions which assist her, and other students, in becoming active and productive participants in life. Running for three semesters, it has in-takes in January, May and September and has classes from all three semesters at once. Since the curriculum was revised last year, 19 students have graduated and walked across a convocation stage. According to the TPE information pamphlet, this program provides individ-uals who identify their mental health or addiction challenges, as barriers to further education and/or employment, with the opportunity to access new pathways to academic and employment success. However, the goal of the program is

deeper than that. Alex Irwin, director of the School of Immigrant and Transitional Education ex-plains that, at the heart of this program’s’ philosophy is social inclusion. Its ultimate goal is to allow people like Cringan to re-frame their relationship with the world by helping them to re-engage with society while also helping some students to engage with society for the first time. “Many students in the program have experienced a great deal of hardship,” said Irwin. “The program attempts to provide a space in which people can explore how they can move forward in their lives, both aca-demically and personally.” Although it takes bits and pieces from RTE and Four You, two previous programs for people with mental health and addic-tion challenges, this newly revised program is different. The key difference between the old pro-grams and this revised one is that the TPE program is comprised of courses that can be used towards a transferable credit. It includes art-oriented courses such as writ-ing and creative exploration. “I love the changes to the program,” says Cringan, calling it “holistic.” She adds that TPE “works in a manner so that we learn to recognize what we have been con-ditioned to see as barriers, for example that mental health and addictions are not.” Both Irwin and Jaswant Bajwa-Kaur, the academic co-ordinator of the program, see the recently released Ontario Human Rights Code policy paper on preventing discrimina-tion based on mental health disabilities and addictions as a ground-breaking step in the right direction to reduce stigma. They add that while this document vali-dates the experience of so many people in Ontario, for the people who work on the TPE program, this policy paper supports what they already do. Students who are interested in this program can contact Sabita Trotter, Support services co-ordinator, school of immigrant and transitional education at [email protected] or by phone at 416-415-5000 extension 3218.

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New women’s hockey team needs players

Hopeful women’s hockey team needs 16 players to get the puck moving

BRITTANY BARBERSTAFF REPORTER

This year might finally be the year that George Brown College (GBC) has an extramural wom-en’s hockey team. Ed Marks, GBC’s athletics manager, had stated that there had been a past attempt at creating a women’s hockey team. However, out of the 20 students who were “keen,” only three had shown-up regularly to practices. On the GBC athletic website, it says that extramural teams are for people who want to “focus on getting fit, having fun and social-izing with other students.” While representing George Brown, you can also participate at a competitive level against

colleges and universities within Ontario. This is exactly what first year student Jessica Janicki, a student in the American Sign-Language (ASL)—English interpret-ing program, wants as she is the first stu-dent to advocate for the start of a women’s hockey team at the college. “Hockey is where my heart’s at,” said Janicki. Janicki came to George Brown with the hopes of finding a practice schedule for hock-ey tryouts, but was less than amused when she found out that the college did not offer a women’s team. She has been playing hockey for almost 10 years and is familiar with a school not of-fering a hockey team—a reality she has been living since high school. Because of her drive, she met and spoke with Gerard Hayes, director of student ex-perience, to inquire about the proper steps to take to create a hockey team.

“If I want it, I’ll get it done,” said Janicki, having been taught this lesson after being one of the 30 people accepted into the ASL—English interpreting program. “You have to work hard for what you want and if you want it, you’ve got to go get it.” So far, there are five women in the Facebook group, “GBC women’s hockey” but Janicki says “there’s more people that aren’t in this group that are interested.” In order for this hockey team to succeed, they will need 16 players. “As long as girls show up and are committed, I’m ready to go,” said Janicki, about the upcom-ing meeting for the women’s hockey team. If any students are interested in playing for a new and upcoming women’s hockey team, drop into the athletics centre at St. James cam-pus on Oct. 9 at 5:30 p.m. to get signed up, and to learn more information.

With files from David Grossman

Sept. 29 –Oct. 13, 2014

Wolfpack Ticker Women’s SoccerCambrian College 8 – George Brown 0 George Brown 2 – Fleming College 0 Goal Scorers: Kayla Crnic 2Loyalist 3 – George Brown 3 Goal Scorers: Kayla Crnic, Anastasia Grekos, Julia Tinto› Huskies are 4th in OCAA East Men’s SoccerGeorge Brown 1 – Cambrian College 1 Goal Scorer: Steve EfstathiadisGeorge Brown 1 – Fleming College 1 Goal Scorer: Anthony Lombardi› Huskies are 7th in OCAA East Men’s BaseballSt. Clair College 9 – George Brown 0St. Clair College 10 – George Brown 4Fanshawe College 9 – George Brown 2Fanshawe College 15 – George Brown 3Durham College 12 – George Brown 2Humber College 14 – George Brown 0Humber College 12 – George Brown 2Humber College 11 – George Brown 1 Humber College 8 – George Brown 6 George Brown 5 – Seneca College 1 › Huskies are 5th in OCAA Standings

Women’s BasketballExhibition GamesSheridan College 54 – George Brown 41 Top scorers: Cori Browne 15, Jessica Ramkeesoon 15 Cross CountryFanshawe Invitational Individual Women’s 5 km 4th - Joanita Louw, 20:36 7th - Shannon Dyer, 21:11 27th - Sharlane MacLeod, 24:03 37th - Safia Dhanji, 25:48 38th - Molly Morse, 25:51 45th - Hannah Turnbull, 28:03› George Brown Women’s Team 3rd Overall

Individual Men’s 8km 6th - Eliud Lagat, 27:49 24th - Edgar Malchic, 30:28 55th - Alex Brown, 33:23 58th - Mitch Visser, 33:33 87th - Mateo Haza, 37:45› George Brown Men’s team – 7th Overall

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Jessica Janicki, a student in the ASL–English interpreting program, has been fighting hard to put together a women’s hockey team at GBC.


BRITTANY BARBERSTAFF REPORTER

Sangau Ahmad, a third year student in the school of business, has two years of account-ing completed, and is in his second year in human resources management program. Not only does he run for George Brown’s cross-country team, he spends any extra time he has playing for North America’s semi-pro cricket team out of Brampton. As a Ugandan native, he was exposed to many sports from a young age which in-clude cricket, soccer, tennis and field hockey. “Athletics is in in my blood,” said Ah-mad. “My dad was an athlete as well, he used to swim and run long distances, and my sister is living in the states and received a scholarship for long-distance running.” This varsity athlete came to Canada five years ago because of the great education system. Having moved here in the winter,

he only had a short time to get used to it, as he was raised in a country where there is no such thing as winter. “For my first year in Canada, I was inside because of winter, and for a week I didn’t know anyone, I only knew my classmates and they all lived in a different areas,” said Ahmad. “So for about a week I was really depressed, I stayed at home the whole day and didn’t do anything. It really killed me.” Depression became a common feeling of his that he had felt since he left his family behind to continue his education. “My family isn’t here, and I miss them 100 per cent,” he said. “I needed to do something to keep my mind off the stress.” Because of the amount of running he did in Uganda, when he moved here he wanted to join the cross-country team. Ahmad finds himself lost without athlet-ics, “it helps keep my mind off everything;” when he finds himself getting worked up

about exams, or if he’s feeling homesick, he will run 10 kilometres to clear his mind. “After that I feel refreshed and forget about what was stressing me out,” says Ahmad. According to University of Toronto’s PhD candidate George Mammen, co-author of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, a combination of 25 research articles proves that moderate exercise can prevent episodes of de-pression in the long term for people of all ages. With plans of passing on his life lessons to the younger generation, Ahmad wants to help children channel their inner athlete to help fight depression and ward off stress. “I want to inspire the younger gen-eration, and I want to be that person who participates in all these different sports ac-tivities, so when the kids are growing up I want them know that if Sangau was playing multiple sports, why can’t they?” Athletics doesn’t just help people to fight off depression, and as a firm believer that

athletics is the best way to overcome stress and depression, he says, “sports don’t only help people get better, they help you relieve stress and depression.” He believes that “when you play a sport, during that time you will forget everything that’s bugging you because you’re having fun right then and there; it doesn’t matter how old you are to join any sports activity.” By continuing to play sports, Ahmad says your body will realize and forget about the depression that is making you sink further, and that not only will it help you mentally, it will help you physically. As advice, Ahmad feels that you should “not let anyone tell you that you can’t do anything because you can do anything in the world as long as you put in the effort, be determined and know what you want. When you do that, your goals and your fu-ture opens up. At the end, you’ll be able to achieve what you want.”

Ugandan long-distance runner relieves stress and depression through sport

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THE DIALOG’S EDITORIAL BOARD

The Ministry of Labour’s website lays out the guidelines for what constitutes a legal internship in very clear terms, but how often do students and graduates ac-tually encounter internship options that meet all of these criteria, outside of their school placement programs? Even the most cursory job search will turn up innumerable internships whose descriptions are indistinguishable from unpaid labour. Operating a business is challeng-ing, and it’s not terribly surprising that internships have become a cost-saving measure for workplaces to get free la-bour, but cost-savings are no excuse for disrespecting the work and the financial needs of young workers. Unfortunately, this system has become so entrenched in many industries that it’s difficult to get a paid job at all without an unpaid internship beforehand. Businesses lack incentives to stop the in-ternship structure because they provide them with workers that cost them something, and in practice lack many basic workers’ rights. More importantly, the laws against unpaid internships don’t seem to be en-forced in any meaningful way. It’s repeatedly suggested that instead, students and recent graduates need to refuse to take these positions in protest—that advice being ignorant of the reality of a post-recession job market. Graduates are so desperate for a job

that they’ll jump at any possible opportu-nity to gain employable experience, and lack the privilege to refuse those offers. More importantly, the Employment Standards Act (ESA) actually forbids in-terns to work under illegal conditions, and from waiving those rights themselves. The government also disincentivizes interns from reporting their mistreat-ment. In regards to reporting illegal internship practices, the Ministry of Labour explicitly states on their web-site that, “it is important to note that an individual who provides anonymous information to the ministry may not have anti-reprisal protection.” As osten-sible advocates for workers’ rights, they should be ashamed. The lack of enforcement also serves to widen the gap in career potential be-tween students from wealthy families, and students from lower-income fami-lies that are unable to support an unpaid intern financially. Wealthier parents are far less affected by the additional cost. With businesses that lack incentives to obey the law and students that feel they aren’t able to speak out against the injustice of unpaid internships, it’s up to the government to do its job and actually enforce the laws it has made. While recent high-profile enforce-ments at The Walrus and Toronto Life are signs of progress, the abundance of openly-advertised, unconcealed, illegal internships are a clear sign that there’s still a long way to go.

Enforcement of unpaid internship laws is essential

TINA TODARO

Public display of affection (PDA) at school is unfair and creates discomfort among LGBTQ students. George Brown College (GBC) students need to be more aware and considerate when using PDA at school because of the discomfort felt by other students. “It absolutely is not fair, but to me that is part of what makes it a privilege,” said Teal-Rose Jarid Jacques, GBC alumnus and former Student Association (SA) LG-BTQ representative from 2011-2012. It seems as though certain GBC cam-puses are less tolerant than others, putting emphasis on the Casa Loma campuses where Jacques felt there was far less tolerance. “I think its really hard to be open at GBC in any setting, it’s always seen as taking it too far - when discussing Queer PDA,” said Kyle Rodgers, another former SA LGBTQ rep from 2012-2013. “When it’s a straight couple it gets the same label as is seen in society as a whole, that idea of ‘Aw so cute! They must really love each other.’” For students who identify as straight, we have the privilege of comfort when ex-pressing our affection with our partners, but this PDA is not only distracting, but inappropriate for an academic setting. “Some (opposite sex) couples don’t acknowl-edge the fact that there is a privilege that’s asso-ciated with being able to display affection with your partner in public,” said Colin Druhan, manager of equity and advocacy for the SA. Expressing yourself through affection

is fine, but when it creates discomfort in a place where there are a variety of different students, from a variety of cultures, as well as a variety of sexual and gender preferences, we need to take all these things into consid-eration before we act on our own privileges. Kris, a student in the pre-health program who asked that her last name not be used said, “when I was in the Community Worker Program, teachers were not only monitoring the safe space, but educating us and calling us out on our homophobic, transphobic and sexist language and actions.” She continued by saying that some of the teachers are continuing to use old lan-guage and neglecting to call students out on their homophobic language. While seeming to be completely oblivi-ous of how offensive some of their lan-guage is, Kris says students exhibit anti-queer and through their non-verbal actions such as giggling at LGBTQ terms—which in my opinion is completely immature. “When we look at creating safer spaces to-gether – that includes using a sex-positive lens,” said Michelle Pettis, the SA’s community action centre co-ordinator. “Sex positivity includes un-derstanding sexual health, pleasure, autonomy and well-being as a basic human right. All should have the right to show consensual affec-tion without fear of violence – and dirty glances can also be a form of violence.” College is supposed to be a place where everyone can get a quality education, and where everyone should be treated equally regardless of your culture, sex or gender preference, but school is not place for PDA.

PDA causes discomfort among students at school

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Letter to the editor: Accessibility is everyone’s responsibility

I just read your opinion piece on “Chasm between rhetoric and reality on accessibil-ity” and would like to begin by thanking you for putting the topic of accessibility in The Dialog, albeit not in the best of light. As the AODA co-ordinator for the col-lege, I can assure you that we take acces-sibility very seriously and the reality is that we are not all talk and no action. In fact, while your experience as a person without a disability was on the mark in noting that the sign was incom-plete, you failed to mention that there is a robust feedback loop where such information could have been sent and the issue quickly rectified. Accessibility is everyone’s responsibil-

ity; college employees, students and our community members all have a role in ensuring that we maintain the exemplary level of accessibility we strive towards. The opportunity for anyone to send a quick email, call, or visit in person, either myself or any employee of the college would have had that sign cor-rected before end of day. The college relies on everyone to be proactive and bring these issues forward so that they can be corrected immediately.

Regards,Olga DosisAODA co-ordinator at George Brown College

SAM BULLISART DIRECTOR

It’s okay, I can’t afford one anyway


Websites offering prices for illegal e-book copies that bookstores can’t match

DORA LIUSTAFF REPORTER

While Amazon’s new promotion is offering six months of unlimited free two-day ship-ping for Canadian post-secondary students, its target—university and college students—have found another good deal for their textbooks. These days, students know where they can find free PDF versions of their textbooks on the internet. Some of the upcoming e-book websites like bookboon.com have pledged that they can provide legal free download of e-books and e-textbooks to the public. However, this free e-textbook trend is still not overwhelmingly popular among students in Canada. “It’s just because the sources are very limited and the PDF version is not good for marking,” said Ryan, a student in the culinary management—nutrition program and a seasoned free e-textbook user who prefers not to disclose his last name. Nonetheless, recently a vast source of these books has come from China. The most successful online shopping platform is from China, called taobao.com (meaning treasure hunt in Chinese).

It has been revealed as having numerous online book shops that sell books at an unbelievably good price. For example, the George Brown College (GBC) Chef School bible—the Professional Cooking 7th edition—sells for $145.88 in the GBC bookstore. On taobao.com, the PDF version only costs RMB 5 in Chinese currency which is equal to 89 cents Canada; with no tax and no shipping cost. The bookshop will email the book directly to you once you’ve paid, which is far more efficient than free, two-day shipping time. To understand the incredibly well-priced e-books, I acted as a customer and had a live chat with someone in customer service from one of their bookshops on Sep. 19. I requested to buy the “Understanding Food Science and Technology” book which is not found in its store. The customer service representative said, “if you cannot find it in our bookshop, you just go to amazon.com; if they have the Kindle version, you come tell me and I will find that book for you. If they do not have it, then sorry, we can’t help.” I took Ryan’s last term textbooks list as a target, five books, only one couldn’t be found on Taobao.com. Heather Buffett, the copyright and open access librarian at GBC admitted that she has seen some of the GBC course books or manuals listed in some of the websites for free download, but she has never heard of

Taobao.com. However, Buffett stated clearly, “if I bought a book from the bookstore and I scanned it and then I put it online, I don’t have permission to do that from the pub-lisher or from the author, or anyone that has any sort of controls over it; and then I either sell it or hand it out for free, that is illegal. The person who also purchases that copy or just downloads it, that is also (doing something) illegal.” Buffett said that she had requested the websites to remove the unauthorized e-text-books, but GBC has never sued anyone or any website as far as she knows. “It takes time for lawsuit procedures. We consider the cost. For the students who use photocopies or illegal e-books, all we can do is ask them to not do it. We have no right to arrest anyone, or to seize anyone’s belong-ings,” said Buffett. It’s the same situation for the GBC bookstore. “We cant do anything. It’s the problem of the publishers or authors,” said Che Topsy, supervisor at the St James campus bookstore. I asked Ryan and six of his classmates separately, “will you try Taobao.com?” Each of them firmly said “yes.” “Why not? It just like everyone download-ing music illegally on the internet.,” said Hil-ary Cowdrey. “If I can save a lot of money from my textbook expenses, I will do it.”

BUSINESS & TECHSept. 29 –Oct. 13, 2014

Protect your private dataSAM BULLISART DIRECTOR

The theft of private celebrity photos earlier this month was a crime, and the owners of the im-ages are not to blame—they are victims. However, it’s normal after such a disturbing incident to consider beefing up your own data security, and here are a few simple ways to do it:

1.) Keep your most sensitive photos and information off the cloud and store them on more private devices.Anything stored online is of greater liability than something stored only on your phone or computer. Turning off automatic-upload features for photos is one way to prevent sensitive photos from being spread to many different devices.

2.) Be careful when creating your passwords.Despite being continuously told to use stronger passwords, we generally fail to do so. One of the most common tactics for hack-ers is to guess passwords (as was the case in the recent celebrity photo theft), so it’s crucial to pay appropriate attention to password strength.

3.) Protect physical access to the device your data is stored on.Private photos that exist exclusively on a single device can still be compromised by someone accessing them physically. Making use of the passcode for the lock screen is a good idea. Other third-party utilities for phones exist to provide a secondary layer of protection, with fea-tures such as alternate entry points to social media which require a secondary password to enter. There are also apps that protect selected photo folders with an extra level of security. If you’ve lost your phone and are concerned that some tech-savvy thief might find their way into your files, there are also ways to remotely wipe the phone’s data.

4.) Beware spyware.An iPhone that hasn’t been jailbroken can’t be hacked remotely, and will not support spyware. However, a jailbroken phone is at greater risk. There are also ways to jailbreak a factory-standard phone and install spyware with very little evidence, as well as online tutorials that can help you figure out if your security has been compromised, and how to restore it. Android phones don’t require jailbreak-ing for the installation of spyware, and such software can be a little harder to detect. Sud-den excessive data use, battery use, or sudden strange behaviour of the device can be clues that something is amiss. While it’s never a victim’s fault if their pri-vate photos and videos are stolen, being mind-ful of these potential precautions can help put your mind at ease about the security of your personal content.

$1 textbooks an alluring, illegal option

“We cant do anything,” says Che Topsy, supervisor at the St James campus bookstore about e-textbooks.

PHOTO: DORA LIU/THE DIALOG


Food around St. James is pricey, but there are a few good options under $10


According to a staff from the St. James cam-pus food court, St. James’s food court raises up their food prices every year, happening this year with an increase of 4.3 per cent. For the last two weeks, I spent money on all the lunches at St James trying to figure out what food I could buy for $10 within a five minute walking distance. The results tell us that we still have good food choices, not only in terms of price but in terms of taste and nutritional concerns.

Chef on the RunThe George Brown chef school established the professor and student-run takeaway food booth, with no pre-made foods or even sauces. With professional recipes and fresh, multicultural food made every day; every-thing recommended. Prices are around $5 for entrée, $4 for sandwich or pie, $3 for slice of pizza, $2 for soup, $1 for muffin (with no tips or tax). From Indian curry to hand-made pasta, I have tried over 20 different entrées and side dishes for the past 10 months. Pastas, soups and salads are of high quality, the only draw-back being their location which forces them to serve food in hot trays. This makes the meats and pastas dry and a little bit raw; as chefs don’t want to overcook their food since they are going to have to keep it hot. However, they have good prices for their quality and I will tolerate that two per cent of unstable performance. This food is served from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the St. James CHCA building, in Atrium B at 300 Adelaide Street East.

Patrician Grill Good Food“Serving nothing fancy since 1967,” is its slo-gan but also the truth. The second genera-tion has run this simple, hearty, local, North American style restaurant. The home-made burger and cheese burger are recommended and cost $5.95 before tips. The owner has refused to disclose any in-gredients and recipe related information say-ing, “those are our secrets!” Like blind tasting, the beef patty was juicy, tender, and full of fla-vour. In fact, the patty was the perfect ratio of lean and fat, mixed with lightly stir-fried diced onions and black pepper. It’s simple, but good enough to make you feel happy. Furthermore, they’re never lazy with toasting the bun and serving it hot, giving us no season to go to McDonald’s or food courts for burgers any more.

What can $10 buy for lunch around St. James campus?

The Patrician Grill’s lunch hour runs un-til 4 p.m. at 219 King Street East.

An Nam RestaurantThis Vietnamese-run restaurant serves Viet-namese and Thai fusion dishes. The 17-choice lunch set is recommended for $9.95 before tips. Although the dishes are not completely Vietnamese and Thai, they still taste good. With a large variety from rice and rice vermicelli to different curries to cashew stir-fry, these 17-choice lunch sets won’t let you down in terms of choices. Every set in-cludes fruit salad or fresh vegetables, soup and spring rolls which provide a balance of nutrients and fibre.

In addition to its quiet and casual-chic atmosphere, it does a good job of creating a laid back, sit-down lunch environment. Their lunch hour runs until 3 p.m. at 51 Colborne Street.

Sakura IchibanThis is a Korean-run Japanese restaurant. Recommended is the Bulgogi bento box, which is a stir-fried beef lunch box starting at $7.95 before tips. Similar to An Nam Restaurant, Sakura Ich-iban is not a 100 per cent Japanese restaurant, but it serves a lunch set with multiple nutrients. My recommendation is their multi-dish lunch box with seaweed miso soup, avocado and cucumber rolls, sugar preserved roots

or potato, green salad, stir-fried beef with mixed vegetables and steamed rice, and fi-nally a third of a fresh orange. All these ingredients give you fibre, vitamin A, B and C, protein, fat, iron, calcium and car-bohydrates at one time. The only concern is it’s high in sugar and sodium content, but for a lunch under $10, it is a good deal. Lunch is served between noon and 3 p.m. at 142 Adelaide Street East.

Dora Liu was the senior editor of Food and Wine mag-azine (Beijing Version) and worked as a food and travel journalist for over 10 years in Hong Kong. She is cur-rently a second-year student of the culinary management-nutrition program at George Brown College.

ARTS & LIFESept. 29 –Oct. 13, 2014

PHOTOS: DORA LIU/THE DIALOG

The St. James main cafeteria. Our food court’s food prices are higher than many other food courts downtown.

Left: A Chef Management intern at Chef on the Run.Above: Terry Papas (right) is the second generation to run the Patrician. His in-law Chris Slifkas works as the head chef.


Prof and students pen multicultural diabetes cookbookProfessor and students collaborate on healthier food choices for diabetics


Sobia Khan has been a professor of food and nutrition at George Brown College’s (GBC) centre for hospitality and culinary arts for eight years, and is also a registered dietitian. With her father suffering from type two diabetes, Khan studied diabetes as her major in 2007. She had thought of applying for a fund to help her dig into this topic, which would provide a meaningful learning oppor-tunity for her and her students. “The funding required my research project to involve students and community members. Originating from Indian culture, as I have many students from different cul-tures, I narrowed down my project’s focus

to developing diabetes-friendly recipes from traditional multicultural foods,” said Khan, accompanied by her friend Chef Mali Fernandez as well as her former stu-dent Jiaqi Li. Starting in 2008, Khan established her team of chef friends, hired several of her stu-dents as assistants, set up related assignments for her nutrition culture class, and of course, got the back-up from GBC. She and her team then set out to collect recipes from community centres, friends, and friends of friends. “I needed all the recipes to come from real people, not the internet, and not from restaurants,” said Khan. This helped her to study multicultural cuisine. She and her team kept visiting different communities, doing demos, and testing every single recipe again and again. This helped to adjust their beloved traditional recipes into healthier ones, which was more important than creating a new healthy recipe for them,

Khan explained, on why she insisted to work on their old recipes. Her students were to choose their own culture’s recipes, analyze them, test them, and adjust them into a diabetes-friendly recipe. “I did learn a lot from this project,” said Li who also worked as one of the project as-sistants. “Diabetes is not only about sugar, fat and sodium are crucial.” Li has loved cooking for a long time, and her father is also suffering from diabetes. She took charge of most of the Chinese cuisines for this project. “I wanted to make my father’s favourite dishes healthier,” said Li. Following Khan’s instructions to reduce oil, sugar and salt in the recipes she found, Li said, “the taste didn’t change too much. Actually the traditional home-made recipes are quite healthy, Its just the commercially-used recipes that have problems.” Khan nodded as Li spoke. Chef Fernandez agreed as well. She took

care of the Mexican and Spanish cuisine in the project as she is Spanish, and she owned a Mexican restaurant in Toronto. “I found it quite difficult to follow So-bia’s rule in the beginning. You know, fat is the key ingredient for the taste. But we have to cut fat,” said Fernandez looking at Khan with a smile. “It’s just too much unnecessary oil in one dish. We just took away the unnecessary oil and it didn’t af-fect the good taste,” said Khan. After four years of practice they all got used to the diabetic diet format and the project was complete. Khan then thought, why not put this great work into a record for the public? Khan selected the best 150 recipes, re-tested and re-analyzed them again. The end result was the cookbook, “150 Best Indian, Asian, Caribbean (and More) Diabetes Recipes.” Now, it has become the best gift for those who had worked very hard on this project, and for those who want to eat healthier.


PHOTO: DORA LIU/THE DIALOG

Professor Sobia Khan, Registered Dietitian, spent five years and with many help by her friend chef Mali Fernaindez (left) and her former student Jiaqi Li to finish her diabetes care cookbook.



U2’s big comebackJERRISON ORACIONTHE OTHER PRESS

NEW WESTMINSTER, BC (CUP)—U2 made a big comeback when they performed in the recent Apple announcement and un-expectedly announced their next album, Songs of Innocence. According to Bono, it is the most personal album that U2 has made. The album is produced by Gnarls Bar-kley member, Danger Mouse, with some songs produced by OneRepublic mem-ber, Ryan Tedder. That’s probably why it sounds so much like a Black Keys album and a OneRepublic album but with the signature sounds of U2. On the album, the songs talk about the

early years of the band, like the moment that changed their lives forever when they saw the Ramones perform in Dublin (“The Miracle [of Joey Ramone]”), the band’s first big trip to California (“California [There is No End to Love]”), a bombing that happened in Dublin that Bono almost experienced (“Iris [Hold Me Close]”) and Bono’s neighbour-hood (“Cedarwood Road”). One of my favourite songs in the album is “Sleep Like a Baby Tonight” because it sounds similar to the Beatles song “Good Night.” Bono sounds the same as in the band’s earlier albums. If you are a fan of U2, you will enjoy this album. Songs of Innocence is available on iTunes as a free gift until October 13.

LOVE & SEX

Protecting your safety on a revealing medium using technology

SAM BULLIS

Dating profiles can reveal a huge amount of information about your social, political, and sexual interests. It’s always an interesting process to navigate your own comfort zone between sharing enough information to convey a clear sense of who you are, and withhold-ing enough to maintain control over the security of your identity. Few need to be told that online dating is risky business as most of us already know at least one person who has a cau-tionary tale or two. Perhaps it’s the inability to healthily accept rejection, and the deeply-ingrained sense of entitlement that many seem to have around matters of sexual and roman-tic relationships. Whatever the reason, online dating can give the least savoury characters access to personal information about you. Fortu-nately, it’s possible to drastically reduce their ability to gain access to your other online presences with a few simple data-management measures. The innovations of reverse image search have revolutionized the way that images online can be tracked to their source. While this is has useful applica-tions, it also gives dangerous users an easy method with which to trace a photo on your profile back to other online sources.

Maintaining privacy on your dating profile

A good rule of thumb for users that don’t want their online dating profile linked to other online profiles, is to not to use any photographs that have been used before on another profile or website view-able to the public. This can be particularly important if the other web presence con-tains other contact or location information. Another potentially revealing source of information is metadata. Metadata is information stored within the photo file that can’t be seen by simply view-ing the image. Some applications can decode this information, which can include data on everything from the camera used to take the image to the specific location it was taken. This information can make it fairly easy to learn more than you may want to reveal to strangers on a dating site. While many of the major dating sites appear to wipe metadata from your im-ages, it’s generally a good rule of thumb to do it yourself before you upload as well. There are a number of freeware appli-cations will eliminate this information from your photos. It’s not a bad idea to do the same with privately shared photos should you choose to send them to someone you don’t yet know well. When going on a new date, it’s also wise to ensure that someone else knows where you’re going. This can be as simple as texting a friend where you’re going to be. There are also safety-oriented apps available for situations like this. Kitestring sends a prewritten message from you to a chosen friend if you haven’t “checked in” with the app within a predetermined amount of time.

You know their names. You’ve seen them on the news. Now’s your chance to hear from Toronto’s mayoral candidates in person and get answers to the questions that really matter to you.

On Oct. 8, George Brown College is hosting a Town Hall featuring the candidates for mayor of Toronto and we want YOU to be there!

Hosted in partnership with Dialog, and moderated by Tony Keller, editorial board editor of The Globe and Mail, this 90-minute Town Hall will bring together Olivia Chow, Doug Ford (to be confirmed) and John Tory to discuss the issues that matter most to students in Toronto.

The event is open to all, but seating is limited, so arrive early!

What: Town Hall with Toronto mayoral candidates

When:Wednesday, Oct. 8, from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Where: George Brown College Waterfront Campus, 51 Dockside Dr.

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Meet your candidates for mayor


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