Smart Commute, a program of Metrolinx, has recognized Humber College with the 2017 Employer of the Year Award for the city of Toronto and Region wide! It is a huge honor to be recognized once again for our efforts. Visit humber.ca/sustainability to learn more about our transportation initatives and how you can green your commute.
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:
North Campus:
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.
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).
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):
Winter Semester (January 2018 to April 2018):
For more information or if you have questions, please contact: Lisa Hewitt, Internship Coordinator, lisa.hewitt@humber.ca, x4504.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
E-waste Collection Week is back December 11 - 15!
Did you know?
Drop-off Locations
North Campus
Lakeshore Campus
Collection bins available daily, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at both campuses.
Accepted electronics include:
Remember:
Questions? Email sustainability@humber.ca.