Humber College in the News
January to December 2018
Selected Highlights by Month
January 2018
CTV Late News
Humber’s 50th Anniversary
January 18, 2018
The city is alive no matter what season we're in, and also lighting up the sky is the CN tower and the Toronto sign over at Nathan Philips Square. Tonight, it's lit up to celebrate Humber College celebrating 50 years.
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Breakfast Television
Humber’s 50th Anniversary
January 18, 2018
“We want to say congratulations to Humber grads. They are celebrating their 50th anniversary. They lit up the CN tower. Check it out until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. Happy anniversary, Humber.”
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CP24 News
Humber’s 50th Anniversary
January 18, 2018
Humber College celebrating 50 years of learning and tonight they marked the occasion with music.
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CBC News
Humber’s 50th anniversary
January 18, 2018
CBC congratulates Humber on celebrating 50 years.
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The Cable Public Affairs Channel
James Maloney Congratulates Humber College at the House of Commons
January 30, 2018
“James Maloney 2017 was a Steller year of celebration for our country, the anniversary of Humber College located in my riding. For over 50 years now it has been building minds and expanding the horizons of students. 215,000 Humber alumni are changing their communities in Canada and around the world. With courses in media studies, information technology, creative and performing arts, liberal arts and sciences, athletics, social and community services to hospitality and tourism, Humber is propelling students forward into successful careers.”
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February 2018
The Globe and Mail
Marijuana legalization will make illegal dispensaries easier to close, expert says
February 6, 2018
Daniel Bear, an expert in drug policy who teaches criminal justice at Toronto's Humber College, said B.C.'s measured approach of public and private retailers ensures enough government oversight while providing opportunity in a province that has long been home to Canada's largest black market for cannabis production.
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CTV News
Comedians seek safe spaces to joke, not offend
February 9, 2018
While most professional clubs are "self-policing," an attempt to ban certain language or subject matter in comedy is nothing new, says Andrew Clark, director of the Humber College comedy writing and performance program in Toronto.
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The Globe and Mail
Female funeral directors changing the face of the industry
February 15, 2018
Funeral service is in the midst of a gender reckoning as young women enter the work force and tear down the stereotypes of a traditionally male-dominated profession.
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The Globe and Mail
Toronto’s LGBT comedians of colour carve out space with The Ethnic Rainbow
February 20, 2018
Toronto's comedy scene is beginning to better reflect the wide range of comedy in the city thanks to shows such as Shade, Crimson Wave and now Ethnic Rainbow, says Andrew Clark, director of the comedy program at Humber College, in Toronto.
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Machinery and Equipment (MRO) Magazine
Festo is founding technology partner in Next Generation Manufacturing Canada
February 23, 2018
Humber College and Festo Didactic, Inc. are entering into a five-year partnership agreement designed to address the skills gap between industry needs and educational programming.
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March 2018
Now Toronto
Humber students win Lit Jam 2018
March 2, 2018
Three Humber students won the International Festival of Authors’ 2018 Lit Jam. This annual competition brings writing students together to compete through interactive storytelling.
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iPolitics
Team Trudeau to mark International Women’s Day by boosting pro-woman budget initiatives
March 8, 2018
Science Minister Kirsty Duncan drops by Humber College to chat with students and speak at a lunch to “recognize the important contributions” that women have made to the institution.
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Toronto Star
Nofuente, unbeaten Hawks soar into nationals
March 14, 2018
Humber’s women, looking to win their second title in three years, have not lost a regular-season game the last three seasons.
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Toronto Star
Sustainable beekeeping programs are creating a buzz
March 15, 2018
Decline in honeybee population sparks what have become popular studies.
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The National Post
Canadian Comics buoyed by Mandel’s involvement in Just for Laughs
March 21, 2018
As the program director of comedy writing and performance at Toronto’s Humber College, Andrew Clark is attuned to a shifting industry in which global markets are drawing increasing interest from Hollywood.
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Niagara This Week
Deck the Falls awarded best new event
March 23, 2018
Humber College student designers, mentored by an industry professional, created this display at the Four Points by Sheraton for the inaugural Deck the Falls holiday walking tour in 2016. The event was recently awarded Best New Festival or Event by Festival and Events Ontario.
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Vancouver Courier
So, you want a career in music. Here’s some Juno-worthy advice
March 26, 2018
Humber music professor Mike Downes wins solo jazz artist of the year.
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April 2018
CBC News
$1.1M luxury car designed by Dartmouth man makes debut
April 3, 2018
Matthew Finbow designed Speedback Silverstone Edition for David Brown Automotive in England, he took a foundation arts course at NSCAD University, then moved on to Humber College, where he took an automotive design course.
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Durham Region
Ajax resident is a finalist in the World Sneaker Competition
April 20, 2018
Humber College student Evan Stichhaller is a top-32 finalist in Pensole’s World Sneaker Championship (WSC), a competition where anyone can submit their shoe design for a chance to win $2,018 and their shoe being sold in select Footlocker stores.
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Toronto Sun
At Toronto College, you can be a student of chocolate
April 24, 2018
Humber College is launching a new advanced chocolate and confectionery artistry program, which starts this September.
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Toronto Sun
April 24, 2018
Wagashi master visits Toronto's Humber College
Japan’s Junichi Mitsubori, famous third-generation wagashi master, recently visited Humber College to offer a rare glimpse into the creation of these traditional confectionery works of art.
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CTV News
'Free the Tampon': Ontario College offers free menstrual products in the name of equity
April 30, 2018
Menstrual product kits are available in several public spaces across Humber's campuses. The kits are packaged externally with gender-neutral branding in an effort to recognize that not only women menstruate, but trans and non-binary students as well.
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Toronto.com
Master Junichi Mitsubori shares sweet art of wagashi at Humber College
April 30, 2018
Budding pastry chefs at Humber College were recently treated to a special visit from Junichi Mitsubori — a world-renowned Japanese sweets master.
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May 2018
Discover Humboldt
Designer Honours Broncos with Goalie Mask Design
May 8, 2018
Lukan studies industrial design at Humber College in Toronto, and was asked by a member of the Lumsden Monarchs senior men's hockey team to contribute something to a memorial fundraiser for Broncos assistant coach Mark Cross.
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Toronto.com
What’s going on here? Humber College parking structure
May 13, 2018
The new, multi-deck, 1,000-car parking structure at Humber’s North Campus, which is scheduled to be completed in summer 2018, is believed to house the largest solar panel installation of any building at an Ontario college.
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Ottawa Citizen
Spotlight: Local Author Reimagines Life of J.R. Booth
May 18, 2018
Bruce Deachman talks with author Jean Van Loon, a Humber Colllege graduate who’s recently released first book of poetry, Building on River, is based on the life of lumber baron J.R. Booth. Visit cormorantbooks.com for more information.
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The Hamilton Spectator
Kresge’s: A hole in the ground....filled with memories
May 22, 2018
James taught photography at Humber College, has lavished a good part of his art on chronicling and archiving the tableau vivant (sometimes tableau not so vivant) of city street life as it's changed over decades.
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City TV - Breakfast Television
Frank Live at Humber College
Frank is LIVE at Humber College North Campus spending the day with culinary students cooking up some delicious food and learning about stem root cooking for Sustainable Cooking Day.
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June 2018
Toronto.com
Young chefs compete at Humber College North Campus cook off
June 7, 2018
Humber College Rexdale campus hosts cook off. The Stone Soup Cook Off grew out of a need to educate youth about nutrition and health. The competition began in 2006 thanks to the cooperative effort of Toronto police, Toronto Public Health and the city’s school boards in starting the Stone Soup Cooking Club (SSCC).
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Toronto.com
Send your dad back to school for Father's Day
June 11, 2018
Humber College offers a Brewing Small Batch Beers course. Brewing Small Batch Beers is a two-session course currently accepting registrations that will allow participants to brew their own beer — from raw ingredients all the way to packaged beer.
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Toronto.com
10,000 Humber students slated to graduate this week
June 12, 2018
The CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault is one of seven “outstanding professionals” to be recognized with honourary degrees from Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning this week.
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Barrie Advance
Barrie resident wins gold at Skills Canada baking competition
June 17, 2018
Humber College student qualifies for 45th Worldskills Competition in Russia in August 2019. Barrie's Stefanie Francavilla, a baking and pastry arts management student at Humber College, placed first at a Skills Canada event June 5.
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City News
Humber engineering student ‘stole the show’ with dance moves at convocation ceremony
June 19, 2018
Tuan Kiet Ngo, a mechanical engineering graduate from Humber College became the epitome of all feelings about finishing long years of painstaking study.
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July 2018
Canadian Immigrant
Higher Education Forum Focuses on Indian International Students
July 8, 2018
Krutarth Shah, a student at Humber College, already got his bachelor of commerce in India and then worked two years so as to save enough money to continue his studies in Canada. He came to Canada in December 2017, studying the global business management postgraduate program at Humber College, a fast-track program that he’s expected to graduate by August 2019.
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Orangeville Citizen
Humber College, Town officially announce new multi-year lease at Alder Recreation Centre
July 13, 2018
Several dignitaries were on hand June 22 as Humber College and the Town of Orangeville officially announced a six-year extension of their partnership at the Alder Recreation Centre.
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570 News
Former Toronto radio star Dean Blundell says he regrets shock-jock antics
July 19, 2018
Neil Mathur, a radio broadcasting professor at Humber College, says morning hosts in particular face intense pressure to draw listeners. That can sometimes appear to clash with the economic pressures of the radio business that must reflect community standards.
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Toronto Sun
Report tries to explain why youth pick up guns
July 20, 2018
Researcher and co-author Tina-Nadia Gopal Chambers, a faculty member with Humber College, said the report examined the risks and protective factors for becoming involved in crime and firearm possession.
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The National Post
How playful design is transforming university education
July 27, 2018
A team of game programmers are hard at work at Humber College, building a virtual reality experience of a subway car after a bomb incident. Players wear goggles, moving from person to person, saving some and tagging others for care later on.
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August 2018
Urban Toronto
2018 Toronto Heritage Award Nominees Announced
August 2, 2018
Five nominees have been selected as candidates for the William Greer Architectural Conservation and Craftsmanship category. These include the adaptive reuse of Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital's administrative building into Humber College's new Centre for Entrepreneurship.
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Brampton Guardian
'Life is more than just being resentful': Brampton-native Jamil Jivani from violent youth to community organizer leading social change
August 5, 2018
It was with the help of the right mentorship, teachers and role-models from books he read that showed him how to deal with adversity in “better ways” that motivated him to pursue a path to help others. After high school, he attended Humber College, York University and finally Yale for law school.
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Daily Commercial News by Construct Connect
Nominees named for 44th annual Heritage Toronto Awards
August 23, 2018
Highlighted among the five projects in the William Greer Architectural Conservation and Craftsmanship category are the adaptive reuse of Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital’s administrative building into Humber College’s new Centre for Entrepreneurship.
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MacLean’s Magazine
Polytechnics shouldn’t be an afterthought for students
August 31, 2018
Vanessa Bennett was at odds with her parents about life after high school. They pushed university. She wanted real-world, hands-on training for a career in advertising. Bennett completed one year of media studies in a university program, but it was more focused on theory and journalism. It still wasn’t what she wanted, so she transferred to the bachelor of creative advertising program at Humber College.
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City TV – Breakfast Television
Stella is Live at Humber College Move-In Day
Stella is LIVE at Humber College Move-In Day. She joins students as they move in for their first year of College!
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September 2018
Toronto Star
Rexdale resident wins scholarship to study social justice in India
September 7, 2018
Andre Hanna is preparing to embark on the trip of a lifetime, courtesy of Pathways to Education and Operation Groundswell (OG). Hanna, a Pathways grad who was once recognized in the House of Commons for his volunteer hours at Elmbank Community Centre and who recently graduated from Humber College’s architectural technology program.
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Toronto.com
Toronto's Humber College to host FIRST Robotics competition in 2019
September 10, 2018
Humber College has been chosen to host a 2019 FIRST Robotics Competition., the March event will feature high school students from across Ontario.
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Toronto.com
Humber College and WWF-Canada take students back to nature
September 18, 2018
Humber College is participating in Living Planet @ Campus — a new national program from World Wildlife Fund Canada for college and university students across the country.
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Toronto Star
Humber College’s new pay-what-you-can soup bar to feed students while diverting food waste
September 19, 2018
Humber College is getting a new pay-what-you-can soup bar meant to feed hungry students while helping eliminate food waste in the city.
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City News
Humber offers first ‘pay what you can’ college eatery
September 20, 2018
Humber College is set to open the first college dining option where students can “pay what they can.” Audra Brown gets a peek inside the soupbar before doors open next week.
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CBC News
Immigration is the 'elephant in the room' this provincial election campaign
September 20, 2018
One success story for Moncton is Cláudio do Nascimento, who moved to the city in April by way of Toronto. The Brazilian immigrant hoped to make his new life in Canada's biggest city. After graduating from Humber College in Toronto with an honours Bachelor of Commerce in international business, Do Nascimento tried for years to land a job in his field.
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October 2018
Robotics & Automation
Kuka to partner with Canadian university to ‘advance robotics knowledge’
October 3, 2018
Humber College and Kuka Canada are entering into a five-year partnership agreement focused on bringing the latest robotics technology to Humber and working together on robotics systems integration applications.
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Now Magazine
The Legalization Issue: Canada's cannabis shame
October 3, 2018
“There are a lot of people who want legalization to mean atonement for the long time it took to move away from the failed policy of prohibition,” says Daniel Bear, criminal justice professor at Humber College.
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Toronto.com
Humber College in Etobicoke opens Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic
October 15, 2018
Humber College is now home to a first-of-its-kind new Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic. The Tzu Chi Foundation officially opened the clinic at Humber’s North Campus.
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Toronto.com
Justin Trudeau talks climate change with Humber College students
October 24, 2018
Trudeau was presented with a gift bag containing honey produced in Humber’s on-campus beehives; maple syrup prepared by Culinary Management students and sustainably sourced from the trees in the Humber Arboretum; and chocolates made from scratch by Stefanie Francavilla, winner of the Skills Canada National Competition gold medal in baking.
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Toronto Star
Help save a life with these courses
October 25, 2018
This two-day interactive workshop equips participants with the knowledge and best practices needed to be able to recognize when someone is at risk of suicide and work with that person to support their safety. The ASIST model has been taught and used widely since its development in the 1980s. Participants require no previous training.
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Toronto Star
5 College Courses to get you ahead in a Mobile World
October 25, 2018
Offered at Humber College at elsewhere in the province, students can learn the process of creating websites, optimizing sites for mobile platforms, and developing web apps.
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November 2018
Canadian Architect
Humber Unveils Indigenous Cultural Markers
November 1, 2018
Humber College is honouring Indigenous voices and experiences with the installation of Indigenous Cultural Markers (ICMs) on the college’s campuses. The ICMs are designed to place the college in the context of the long history of Indigenous peoples in what is now called the Greater Toronto Area.
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Toronto.com
Etobicoke's Humber College receives $10M, largest ever private donation
November 9, 2018
Humber College has received the largest private donation in its history. The Barrett Family Foundation recently committed an additional $5 million to the Etobicoke-based College, after donating $5 million to Humber in 2016. Funds will develop the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation.
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CBC News
Accessibility advocates want the Ontario government to put them to work
November 13, 2018
Kathleen Lynch, a journalism student at Humber College, is one of some 74,000 post-secondary students with disabilities in Ontario.
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Turtle Island News
Cultural Markers Begin to Mark Toronto’s Indigenous Roots
November 14, 2019
Cultural markers commemorating historic Indigenous places in the Great Toronto Area were officially unveiled November 9th at Humber college.
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Now Magazine
The best places to learn how to code in Toronto
November 19, 2019
Humber’s two-year computer programmer diploma will familiarize you with operating systems, framework programming, as well as coding languages like Java and ASP.net.
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Toronto.com
Local news needs trained journalists who have knowledge of communities
November 22, 2018
Veteran journalist Hedy Korbee, a journalism professor and journalism program co-ordinator at Humber College, said the state of Canadian journalism is affecting her students.
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December 2018
The Intelligencer
Army stages mock relief mission
December 3, 2018
Soldiers of the army’s 4th Canadian Division trained across much of Prince Edward County. Their mock humanitarian-aid mission also involved students of Humber College’s international development post-graduate certificate program.
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Food Service and Hospitality
Humber College culinary students face off in Nestle cook-off
December 6, 2018
Students from Humber College’s culinary, baking and nutrition program recently competed in a cooking challenge that saw three of its own test their cooking chops.
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NAIJ.com
Humber College Graduate Programs
December 6, 2018
The number and types of the Humber College graduate programs is a vital question for many students who want to go into further education in Canada. This college provides education of the highest class and is ready to welcome international students from all over the world.
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Now Magazine
In an evolving job market, schools emphasize lifelong learning
December 7, 2018
Farzad Rayegani, dean of Humber College’s school of applied technology comments that post-secondary education should be based on three domains in the WEF’s Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) framework: technological, personal and organizational.
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Canadian Cycling
Three books about cycling for your holiday reading list
December 9, 2018
Review of Humber College professor Ted Glenn’s book about two-wheeling Canadian war heroes.
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Now Magazine
Here’s how study spaces at eight Toronto colleges and universities stack up
December 10, 2018
In 2015, the Humber College North campus finished building the new Learning Resource Commons Project. At 260,000 square feet, it has space for more than 22,000 students and includes a new library with group and independent study spaces as well as an atrium where students can hang out.
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Globe and Mail
Wonder and Wisdom in a Children's Forest Nature Program
I teach in Humber’s Early Childhood Education program and co-piloted the Willows program in June 2016 after completing a forest nature school practitioner’s course with Kaitlin Beard, a registered early childhood educator at the Humber Child Development Centre.
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