U.S. - CANADA TARIFFS
How tariffs impact Canada's supply chain
City News Toronto
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Date: January 22, 2025
Experts are warning that a trade war between Canada and the U.S. could drive up costs for consumers, but how will our supply chain be impacted? Melanie Ng discusses with Sam Lampropoulos, a supply chain and logistics teacher at George Brown college.
U.S. - CANADA TARIFFS
U.S. tariff impact on Canada's manufacturing and transport
BNN Bloomberg
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Date: January 22, 2025
Robert Ruggieri, professor and business admin at George Brown College, talks about the effect of U.S. tariffs on Canada's manufacturing and transportation sectors.
INCLUSION AND ADAPTABILITY
Inclusion and Adaptability in Times of Change
The Walrus
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Date: January 17, 2025
The newest addition to the George Brown College (GBC) waterfront campus is Limberlost Place, a stunning ten-storey, mass-timber building. The honey-toned interior was designed to maximize fresh air and natural light, while the structure itself was built for environmental resilience, with net-zero emissions, passive ventilation, and rooftop solar panels. Well before its 2025 completion date, Limberlost had already won twenty prestigious design awards and driven changes to Ontario’s building codes (previously, tall wood structures were limited to six levels).
MILTON SWEETS
New Milton bakery a sweet sanctuary for those with nut allergies
Milton Today
Photo: Steve LeBlanc/MiltonToday
Date: January 1, 2025
Michelle Brnjac surveyed the storefront with growing optimism, recognizing the potential with each passing glance. Then came the closer. “Out back you can still see the outline of the old sign ‘Welcome to Quality’,” said the newly-arriving baker, referring to 238 Main Street’s historic Quality Greens. “As soon as I saw quality I knew this was it. That’s our slogan, where flavour meets quality.” With that final bit of assurance, Brnjac sealed the deal on relocating her family-run Eat My Sweets! from a tucked away corner in Streetsville to its high visibility new digs in downtown Milton. “It’s a blessing, and quite the learning curve if I’m being honest. Where we were before there wasn’t a lot of traffic,” said the George Brown College baking and pastry arts management graduate.
CITRONINO
Toronto students and faculty turn food waste into award-winning vodka
BlogTO
Photo: GBC
Date: December 15, 2024
A group of students and faculty from George Brown in Toronto are working together to solve the issue of food waste on campus, and the solution will cause quite the buzz. Turning old cocktail garnishes into more cocktails? It may seem like a notion from some old mythological text — a cup that never runs dry — but it's also a real thing that's happening at George Brown's School of Hospitality and Culinary Arts. Over the past 18 months, a team of over 250 students and faculty, alongside help from Reid's Distillery, have created a solution that allows wasted food scraps to be turned into a small-batch vodka that they've called Citronino.
WIND TURBINES
Must love heights and live wires: How Canada is building a workforce for the energy transition
National Observer
Photo: GBC
Date: December 12, 2024
There are plenty of programs in Canadian colleges and Universities working to train the future workforce in these sectors. Examples include Lethbridge College in Alberta, which offers a one-year program for wind technicians; Ace Community College in British Columbia, which has a five-week program for solar; and more general certifications such as Fanshawe College’s two-year renewable energies technician program in Ontario. This year, Toronto's George Brown College launched a program with a 3D wind training turbine. However, unlike the career path of an electrician, there is no red seal or industry-wide certification that a worker needs to enter the wind or solar industry. Often, electricians can get jobs at solar companies that provide training.
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