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By Philippa Croome, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - "...The report -- a research collaboration between George Brown College, Statistics Canada and the Toronto Public Library, among others -- found that 25% of elementary students never have the opportunity to participate in sports and recreation activities outside of school, and that only 5% of kids aged 6 to 12 in the city's neighbourhoods that house the largest numbers in this age group have after-school programs. The report also found that 18.6% of those 15 years old and over had not completed secondary education in 2008..."

By JORDAN NUNZIATO, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - "...Charles Domenic is an actor. From the earliest age, this Toronto-born 27-year-old has been a performer.. After doing much theatre in high school, Domenic naturally followed up with it by enrolling in George Brown College's theatre program. After that, he went to Humber Theatre School for three years and then transferred to Griffith University in Australia."

By Jacquie McNish, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - "...Wham! Off go the creature's ugly feet. As if in approval, the ghost offers a throaty chuckle. "You MUST go wham," Julia Child says. Though she died in 2004, North America's most famous food enthusiast is speaking to me from a screen hanging below the ceiling of a teaching kitchen at George Brown College's culinary campus in downtown Toronto. On TV, Julia is surrounded by plucked poultry. "The chicken sisters," she calls them."

By LINDA WHITE, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - "...Preparing for the golden years is the focus of Retirement and Estate Planning, a course offered through George Brown College's school of continuing education. Participants study pensions, annuities, Registered Retirement Savings Plans and Registered Retirement Income Funds. Most students are in the financial planning program at George Brown. The course is a prerequisite to writing the Chartered Financial Planner accreditation exam, reports instructor Noel Fernandes."

Toronto, October 2009 - A partnership between Ryerson University, George Brown College and St Michael's Hospital may change how we think of a visit to the family doctor. With funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, researchers and students from these three Toronto intuitions are looking at improving the quality of urban healthcare delivery and research.

November 17, 2009 - George Brown College's Centre for Business opened its doors today to the new Institute of Entrepreneurship and Community Innovation, a living lab where George Brown students, with help from their professors, will provide business consulting services to local social enterprises, not-for-profit organizations and for-profit businesses. For clients of The Institute, this means low-cost access to physical and intellectual resources and facilitation of local and international strategic alliances. For George Brown College Centre students, The Institute provides the ideal environment to apply entrepreneurial skills with real clients while developing a network of peers, mentors and future funders. Find more at http://www.georgebrown.ca/releases/institute-entrepreneurship-community-innovation.aspx.

By Terrence Belford, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - "...When Miranda Fong finished her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Waterloo, she looked around to see how best she could apply her education to finding a job. The prospects were not dazzling, she says. But after graduating from George Brown College's two-year food and beverage management course last May, Ms. Fong, 24, stepped right into what she thinks is a dream job as a sales and marketing associate at Stratus winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. She was not alone. Kevin Lin, acting manager of career services at George Brown says 90.8 per cent of graduates from that course found jobs in their field within six months of graduation..."

By RHEAL SEGUIN, Monday, November 16, 2009 - "...Quebec's investment in early childhood development is equivalent to about 0.75 per cent of its gross domestic product. The rest of Canada spends approximately 0.15 per cent of GDP. In total, Canada spends about 0.25 per cent of GDP for early childhood development, less than any other advanced country in the world, far behind the leading country, Denmark, which spends 2 per cent of GDP. "We are at the bottom of OECD countries," said Jane Bertrand, an early childhood education expert at Ontario's George Brown College. "There is an emerging consensus that we need a universal childhood family system that provides a range of functions including preschool programs for young kids and parenting support that is flexible. It starts at the prenatal stage to serve families and then transitions into the school system..."

by Bonnie Stern, Saturday, November 14, 2009 - "...Meanwhile, in Canada, people's interest in tea has increased to the point that George Brown College, in conjunction with the Tea Association of Canada, has started the country's first professional tea sommelier certification program, taught by culinary instructor Bill Kamula. The college is also offering courses that would interest nonprofessionals, such as the history of tea, food pairing, sensory evaluation and blending of teas. The Tea Association has plans to start a program in Vancouver, as well..."

Influenced by the writings of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen's play Brand is a harsh parable of obsession and ultimate sacrifice.

For its 23rd year producing holiday-season children's productions, George Brown College Theatre School will stage Munsch Crunch, an exciting one-hour, family-friendly show based on five stories by bestselling children's author Robert Munsch.

By WTN Staff, November 10, 2009 - "...The first class of certified tea sommeliers has graduated from a new program offered in the Centre for Hospitality and Culinary Arts at George Brown College in Toronto. Although hundreds of students attended seminars offered as part of the program over the last three years, only 12 emerged with certificates in hand (or soon to be, anyway - following a ceremony scheduled Dec. 1)."

By Rafael Brusilow, November 9, 2009 - "...Most students would be content with wearing couture fashion, yet George Brown College student Alexis Northwood actually got to research the sacred archives of one of the world's top fashion houses. Northwood, 25, got the opportunity of a lifetime when she flew to Paris to work as a researcher on a new book about Christian Dior written by Royal Ontario Musuem senior curator Alexandra Palmer. The book, titled simply Dior, examines the seminal years of Dior's rise as a creative force in the fashion industry and required extensive research to find archival photographs and documents that showcased Dior's skill and style through his clothing."

by Kristen Calis, November 6, 2009 - "...Dunbarton High School has been running a weekly farmers' market on Mondays to promote local food and agriculture. And on Wednesday, Nov. 25, it'll turn up the heat with the Dunbarton Culinary Challenge. Fifteen local chefs will face off to showcase their talents, and will be judged by three guest judges with international culinary experience. For example, Terry Allen of George Brown College, has cooked for Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family..."

by Arlene Kroeker, November 5, 2009 - "...Born in Chile, Sebastian [Cortez] , 34, had always been involved in meats and the popular Chilean barbecues. When he arrived in Toronto in 1999 with limited English, he worked in a kitchen doing minor duties until a chef told him, "Go to college." After graduating from George Brown College, he worked at Jamie Kennedy's in Toronto but realized he didn't want the lifestyle of a chef: he'd have to love the career more than life. What to do? When his best friend invited him to their farm, Sebastian went, and that's where everything came together..."