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Joni Shawana has spent the last 25 years working in the community and educating people on Indigenous cultures. Shawana is Anishinaabe from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Indian Reserve and she is a graduate of George Brown’s Community Worker program. When Shawana was eight years old, she moved off the reserve...

Himanshu Luthra completed two programs at the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, achieved top grades, and padded his resume with experience working with top-tier organizations in the field. He's about to graduate from a degree program with impressive grades, and he said faculty and...

A successful community needs space guided by the needs of its residents—in other words, programming, places and protocols designed for those who use these spaces most. For youth, in particular, access to safe and reliable public spaces helps to stave off isolation and alienation at a crucial point...

Thanks to a historic $50 million investment by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities to drive growth and advancement in virtual learning across Ontario’s post-secondary institutions, George Brown College has received funding from eCampusOntario’s Virtual Learning Strategy for various...

A longtime George Brown partner generously donated 50,000 face shields to the college, helping to ensure our students and employees are protected from COVID-19 when they are on campus. For the past 20 years, printing and marketing solutions company Allegra Toronto has worked with the college on our...

Toronto-based print company, Allegra Toronto, has donated 50,000 individually wrapped face shields to George Brown College. The gift is valued at $124,500 and is intended to assist the College’s ongoing efforts to ensure that students, faculty and staff remain safe when at College facilities during...

A student’s pursuit of dancing on pointe has helped to spur more gender-fluid practices in ballet training at George Brown Dance. Ballet tends to follow conventional gender roles in performance and in the types of training female and male dancers pursue, with women in pointe class and men in another...

As people across the country mourn the horrifying discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 215 Indigenous children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation territory, we express our condolences and support to our Indigenous students and employees...