CULINARY EXCELLENCE
GBC earns Fair Trade Campus designation thanks to efforts of Dr. Lori Stahlbrand and her students
Education News Canada
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Date: April 23, 2025
The Honours Bachelor of Food Studies program continues to make a big impact on the entire George Brown community, this time helping the college earn a Fair Trade Campus designation (bronze). The degree program's Food Movements course is a hub of important ideas that spur change when it comes to how George Brown orders, packages and purchases food products across the college. Professor Dr. Lori Stahlbrand, who developed the course and co-developed the Food Studies degree program, now in its third year, said her students want to empower everyone at George Brown to become conscious consumers who drive change and understand the power of their purchasing choices.
ROSS MAYER
Fashion legend pledges loyalty to Toronto by opening a flagship store in Yorkville
Streets of Toronto
April 13, 2025
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After 35 years of shaping the Canadian fashion landscape, longtime veteran and designer Ross Mayer is bringing his vision to Yorkville. Driven by his personal frustrations with the mundanity of men’s fashion — Mayer actually made a name for himself first in the women’s world — he introduced a fresh, creative approach to menswear with his playful, boundary-pushing designs. The new Yorkville location marks a milestone in his career, offering Toronto shoppers a chance to experience his designs first-hand.
LIMBERLOST PLACE
Building Polytechnics and the Careers of Tomorrow
PCL
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Date: March 29, 2025
Limberlost Place is Ontario’s first mass-timber, net-zero-carbon-emissions institutional building. It will be home to George Brown College’s schools of architectural studies and computer technology, and the Brookfield Sustainability Institute. Students will learn in and from this innovative facility. Its internationally award-winning design and construction surpasses the Toronto Green Standard for reduced carbon emissions and is changing national and provincial building codes for mass-timber buildings over six stories.
MUNISHA BASIRAM
Education News Canada
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Date: March 12, 2025
When Munisha Basiram, Project Director of Congress 2025, talks about her mother, she could very well be describing herself: "She's warm but strategic," says Basiram. "She's a hustler and knows how to get things done." Basiram, who will soon be celebrating her two-year work anniversary at GBC in June, originally signed on as the college's manager of government relations. When the former director of Congress departed to pursue an external opportunity, Basiram was a natural match for the job. "My background is in public policy and administration," she says.
BLACK FUTURES
George Brown is breaking down barriers with its Black Futures Initiative
Education News Canada
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Date: March 5, 2025
It's Black History Month, and Toronto's George Brown College has created a revolutionary campus initiative called Black Futures Initiative dedicated to challenging the status-quo by addressing anti-Black racism and promoting Black Inclusion by building a safe campus environment for Black students, employees and their allies. It also seeks to dismantle barriers that have historically harmed racialized students on college campuses, and this February it's hosting a broad selection of exciting and inclusive events designed to do just that.
NONFICTION
Books by past CBC Nonfiction Prize finalists being published in 2025
CBC
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Date: Feb 25, 2025
Being a finalist for the CBC Nonfiction Prize can jump-start your literary career. Need proof? Here are books that were written by former CBC Nonfiction Prize finalists that are coming out this spring. The 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize is open for submissions until March 1, 2025 at 4:59 p.m. ET. You can submit original, unpublished nonfiction that is up to 2,000 words in length. Nonfiction includes memoir, biography, humour writing, essay (including personal essay), travel writing and feature articles.
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