Announcements

When:
November 24, 2017
Contact:
Kara Seguin

Textbooks for Change is back at Humber College! Textbooks for Change is a social enterprise that aims to provide accessible and affordable educational materials to college and university students in our community and around the world. Since 2014, Textbooks for Change has donated over 200,000 textbooks to college campuses, and reused and recycled more than 500,000 books.

If you are interested in donating textbooks that are no older than 15 years, we have donation bins at the Lakeshore and North Campus! The drop boxes are located in the following places:

Lakeshore Campus:

  • A building - 1st floor near Liberal Arts office
  • L building - 3rd floor near elevator
  • H building - 1st floor near main doors
  • H building - 2nd floor near the Business School office
  • Annex building - 1st floor, near vending machines

North Campus:

  • K107 - Media faculty office
  • LRC - 3rd floor in the Math Centre
  • E building - 2nd floor by E205/vending machines
  • KX - In front of the Ignite office/by the copy & print store

Please follow our Facebook page (Textbooks for Change - Humber College Lakeshore) for upcoming events, textbooks drives and other information! If you are a student club who is interested in holding a book drive, please connect with us through Facebook!

To find out more information about Textbooks for Change, please check out our website at textbooksforchange.com or email Kara at kara.seguin@humber.ca.

When:
November 24, 2017
Contact:
Jamie Even, Internship Coordinator
Tel:
x4297

Are you still interested in a Student Personal Trainer this semester? It’s not too late to sign-up, we need participants!

To register online, click here

This program is open to Humber students, faculty and staff, as well as industry partners and takes place in the Humber College Fitness Centre (North Campus).

When:
November 24, 2017
Contact:
Lisa Hewitt
Tel:
x4504

Are you interested in a Student Personal Trainer from November 2017 to April 2018?

Are you still interested in being paired with an Exercise Science and Lifestyle Management (ESLM) Student Personal Trainer, but didn’t have the chance to sign up in September?

You are in luck as we have a few spots available! Register now: conta.cc/2vmFezB

The student personal training takes place in the Fitness Centre here at the North Campus. For Fall 2017/Winter 2018 ONLY, the program is offered FREE OF CHARGE as a goodwill gesture from the School of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism in light of the strike.

What will you get when you sign up for an ESLM Student Personal Trainer?

 ***Must be able to commit from November 2017 - April 2018***

Fall Semester (November 2017 to January 2018):

  • A health screening and goal setting session;
  • Standard initial fitness assessment;
  • Development of a workout program specifically for you;
  • One weekly student personal training session for one hour each (6 total);
  • A customized workout plan for the winter break.

Winter Semester (January 2018 to April 2018):

  • Review health screening and goals;
  • Customized initial and final fitness assessment;
  • Progression of workout program specifically for you;
  • Two weekly student personal training sessions for one hour each (16 total)

For more information or if you have questions, please contact: Lisa Hewitt, Internship Coordinator, lisa.hewitt@humber.ca, x4504.

When:
November 24, 2017

Hello Faculty and Staff, 

Here's a friendly reminder that there are only five more weeks in your calendar year benefits to use towards orthotics and/or compression socks. 

Please call the Humber Athletic Therapy Clinic to book your appointment with your Pedorthist Janice Laberge.

416.675.6622 x4025 or email us at athletictherapist@humber.ca.

When:
November 24, 2017
Contact:
Tanya Andrade
Tel:
x5088
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

Congratulations to all our employees celebrating career milestones in 2017!

The following employees are celebrating their 10, 25, 35 and 40 year anniversary with Humber and will be recognized at our annual Career Milestone Awards reception.

10 YEARS

Amy Azzopardi
Marta Baddour
Marsha Barrett
Steve Bellamy
Oksana Bilous
Richard Bingham
Judy Boston
Nathania Bron
Sharon Broughton
Jabin Carrasco
Tyler Clapperton
Andrew Clark
Shawn Cleary
Savio Colaco
Sandra Cop
Shikta Costa
Marek Czekanski
Simka Delevska
Rani Dhaliwal
Jamie Even
Justin Everets-McCuen
Diane Frizzell
​Andrew Holowko
 
Scott Iles
Jacqueline Johnson
Mike Joyal
Illa Karia
Matthew Keefe
Susan Kelsall
Suhayl Khan
Tara Kuipery
Jessica Laing
Tan Le
Leonhard Lechner
Craig Maccalman
Stephanie Maggs
Patricia Mehlman
Aleksandr Melkumyan
Victor Morgan
Wendy Murphy
Azieb Musa-Habtu
Mary Anne Myers
Paul Neale
Jennifer O’Reilly
Tatiana Paulin
Antonietta Perretta
 
Amrita Persaud
Sofia Petricca
Sylvie Pierobon
Gabriela Pietrzak
Larry Proctor
Shivon Raghunandan
Jey Sadad
Alice Salamon
Ramesh Saxena
Kent Schroeder
Thomas Silcox-Childs
Gameli Soh
Ellen Sparling
Mary Takacs
Bruce Thomson
Ly Tran
Wolfgang Vachon
Andrew VanTwest
Jimmy Vincent
Mary Ward
Brent Welsh
Bradley Witt
Sylvia Wojtalik
Caleb Yong

25 YEARS

Camelia Caceres
Michael Glassbourg
Mary Ann Gregoris
Dawn Lambert
Hopeton Lyle
Amrita Tiwari
Ihor Sokolyk

35 YEARS

Carol Bueglas
Gerard Leung

40 YEARS

Diane Krasuski

 

Please note: Service is counted from an employee’s full-time hire date. The date range of the program is January 1 to December 31, 2017. Please contact Tanya Andrade, x5088 if there are any errors or omissions to this list.

When:
November 24, 2017
Contact:
Karina Butzek-Morris
Tel:
x4858
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

We are pleased to announce the Humber alumni we have nominated for the 2017 Premier’s Awards. The gala will take place on November 27th and we will certainly be cheering on our grads.


Neil Parmenter
Public Relations, 1994
President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Bankers Association

As President and CEO, Canadian Bankers Association, Neil Parmenter is known as the voice of the banking industry and is responsible for communicating the perspectives of the industry to all levels of government, regulators, stakeholders, media and the public. Parmenter plays a leading role in the development of public policy on financial services, helping to contribute to a sound, successful banking system that benefits Canadians and Canada’s economy.


Theresa Fraser
Child Care Worker, 1983
Owner, Lead Therapist, Changing Steps Counselling, Training and Consulting

A Professor and Child and Youth Care (CYC) Curriculum and Faculty Development Consultant in the Ontario college sector, Theresa Fraser has become a national leader and advocate for the CYC practice. She has been honoured with several awards recognizing her lifetime contributions to the field of play therapy and youth mental health, including most recently, the Monica Herbert Award by the Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy to honor her lifetime contributions to the field of play therapy and mental health in Canada. She also received an award in 2017 for Excellence in Treatment Foster Care.


Gord Gillies
Radio Broadcasting, 1983
Morning Show Host, Newstalk 770 AM, Calgary

Over his 35 year career, Gord Gillies has gone from a radio broadcaster in Salmon Arms BC, to Calgary’s 1988 winter Olympic games, to receiving a Prairie Region Lifetime Achievement Award by RTDNA Canada for his contributions to broadcasting and community.

Gord is an award-winning anchor for his coverage of the 2013 floods in southern Alberta and the 2015 Alberta provincial election. Recently, after 25 years as News Anchor with Global Calgary, Gord has made a move back to his radio roots as the morning show host at Newstalk 770 AM in Calgary – the city’s longtime AM news station.


Dr. Jo-Ann Elizabeth Leavey
Nursing, 1983
Principal, Leavey Consulting Incorporated & Leavey Clinic

Dr. Jo-Ann Elizabeth Leavey is a registered psychologist and Nurse Practitioner. A recent recipient of the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award and Sovereign Medal, Dr. Leavey has spoken and volunteered in more than 13 countries, promoting improvements to public and environmental health, access to health care for disadvantaged people, and conditions for youth and others living with mental health problems. Her book entitled, Living Recovery: Youth Speak Out on “Owning” Mental Illness includes her recovery model ELAR (Emergence, Loss, Adaptation and Recovery) a guide through which a person, group, and/or community, can move through a process of healing.


Andrew Bowerbank
Industrial Design, 1989
Global Director, Sustainable Building Services, EllisDon Corporation

Andrew Bowerbank is the Global Director of Sustainable Building Services at EllisDon Corporation, where he has become a well-known figure in the Canadian energy and building infrastructure sectors.

He has established a reputation as a leading authority on emerging clean technologies, high-performance building design, and low-carbon economics.

Bowerbank is the former CEO and Executive Director of the World Green Building Council, where he successfully worked with Council members to grow WorldGBC membership from eight founding nations to more than 60 member countries.


Justine McNeil
Child and Youth Worker, 2014
Motivational Speaker

Justine McNeil is a passionate young motivational speaker, sharing her personal stories of living with depression and anxiety, advocating for mental health and breaking down stigma. With powerful insights gained from her personal journey of mental illness, she provides inspirational messages of strength and resiliency to audiences of all ages. Leveraging the power of her international philanthropic experiences she also works to create awareness of social and global causes, speaking to various interest groups including over 20,000 people at WE Day and raising $10,000 for Free the Children towards a new classroom in Kenya.

When:
November 23, 2017
Contact:
Cheryl Evans
Tel:
x3484
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

R.I.D.E. CHECKS (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) invites you to join police officers from across Ontario for the launch of 2017/2018 R.I.D.E. CHECKS holiday program – a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of not driving impaired.

When:
November 22, 2017

On November 22, retired Humber professor and prolific author John Steckley published his 22nd book: Parrots: The Flock Among Us, Rock's Mills Press. While the book talks about parrots in general (e.g., 10 ways in which a parrot is different from a dog), emphasis is placed on the nine parrots who currently live in the Steckley household. Readers will learn about the amazing intelligence of these parrots, and this shows up in how they interact with each other and with their owners.

The book will be launched on Saturday, December 2nd, at 1 p.m., at Forster's Book Garden in Bolton.

When:
November 22, 2017
Contact:
Roma Malik
Tel:
x4651

E-waste Collection Week is back December 11 - 15! 

Did you know? 

  • The world generates 40 million tons of e-waste annually
  • Old electronics congest homes and landfills
  • Recycling effectively diverts electronics from the landfill
  • E-waste Collection Week removes stress from recycling electronics
  • Participating demonstrates your commitment to a healthier planet

Drop-off Locations

North Campus

  • ITS Support Centre, NX 210
  • Library Circulation Desk, LRC 4th Floor

Lakeshore Campus

  • ITS Support Centre, A 212
  • Library Reference Help Desk, L Building
  • WEL Security Desk

Collection bins available daily, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at both campuses.

Accepted electronics include:

  • Televisions and monitors
  • Telephones, cellular phones, and answering machines
  • Desktop and portable computers
  • Computer keyboards, mice, and trackballs
  • Desktop printers and scanners
  • Portable speakers, portable tape and CD players, and MP3 players
  • Digital and video cameras
  • VCRs and DVD players
  • Video projectors

Remember:

  • Erase personal data from devices before recycling.
  • Remove batteries from electronics and recycle separately, here:
    • North Campus: outside IGNITE office in KX 202
    • Lakeshore Campus: L building, near second-floor elevators

Questions? Email sustainability@humber.ca.

When:
November 21, 2017

Humber's Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence Policy outlines the responsibility of Humber community members to prevent and respond to sexual violence. It is important that all students, staff and faculty familiarize themselves with the Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence Policy and Procedures which can be accessed here: humber.ca/policies/sexual-assault-and-sexual-violence-policy

What is Sexual Harassment?

Sexual harassment: Sexual Harassment is a form of sexual violence prohibited by the Ontario Human Rights Code (Code). Sexual harassment is defined as a course of vexatious comment or conduct based on an individual’s sex and/or gender that is known or ought to be known as unwelcome. Under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), workplace harassment has been expanded to include sexual harassment:

  • Engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (including transgender) or gender expression, where the course of comments or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or
  • Making a sexual solicitation or advance where the person making the solicitation or advance is in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is unwelcome.   

Gender-based harassment is a subset of sexual harassment and prohibited by the Code. It refers to behaviours that regulate and reinforce traditional heterosexual gender norms.

Sexual harassment includes, but is not limited to the following:

  • Any deliberate and unsolicited sexual comment, the use of overt sexual language, suggestion or physical contact that creates an uncomfortable learning/working environment for the recipient and is made by a person who knows or ought reasonably to know that such action is unwelcome;
  • A sexual advance or solicitation made by a person to another, where the person making the advance or solicitation knows or ought reasonably to know that it is unwelcome;
  • A reprisal or threat of reprisal for the rejection of a sexual solicitation or advance where the reprisal or threat is made by a person in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the other person;
  • Unwelcome remarks, jokes, sexual innuendoes or taunting about a person's body, attire, sex, personal or social life;
  • Practical jokes of a sexual nature which cause awkwardness or embarrassment;
  • Display and/or distribution of pornographic pictures or other offensive material of a sexual nature, including audio or visual images of an individual through technological devices, equipment and services provided by Humber or other service providers;
  • Unwanted and unnecessary physical contact such as touching, patting or pinching;
  • Expressions of gender bias which may include remarks that are discriminatory, degrading or derogatory and create a poisoned work environment;
  • Requests for sexual favours; and/or
  • Sexual assault.

Please note that the behaviours and actions described above are not an exhaustive list of examples of sexual harassment.

If you would like to make a formal report of having experienced sexual assault and sexual violence, call:

  • Department of Public Safety at 416.675.6622 x8500
  • Director, Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Diversity at 416.675.6622 x4425

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