Centennial College’s Corporate Communications and Public Relations (CCPR) program was created at the now-demolished Warden Woods campus, and is now housed at Centennial’s school of communications on Carlaw Avenue. A group of students was assigned organizing and hosting the Nov. 24 celebration as a practical exercise for their events management coursework.
According to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, more than 500,000 Canadians live with some form of dementia today. More than 60 per cent of them have Alzheimer’s disease. So when Community Care East York held its Healthy Brains clinic at the S. Walter Stewart library branch, the focus was on prevention.
TTC employee Chris Nottbeck spent much of a blustery Dec. 7 driving. Road conditions were terrible and the commute was slow as drivers braced themselves for an overnight blizzard. Nottbeck, however, couldn’t have been happier to be out on the road.
Work to clean an oil spill at Little Rouge Creek continues despite Monday’s heavy snowfall, Ontario’s Environment Ministry says. About six centimetres of snow fell on northeast Scarborough Dec. 6, but it was not enough to impede ongoing efforts to vacuum oil from the creek, said ministry spokesperson Lindsay Davidson.
Simply remembering the 14 women killed and 14 others that were injured by Marc Lepine in the Montreal Massacre more than two decades ago just isn’t good enough anymore. That’s the message students at Rex’s Den at University of Toronto Scarborough Campus (UTSC) heard Dec. 6 during a noon hour ceremony marking the 1989 tragedy at École Polytechnique.
When Rob Ford walked into the council chambers at Toronto City Hall, Antionette Wassilyn fluttered her arms around her heart; she seemed star struck by the new mayor. “Oh my gosh. He’s the best Christmas…
The Blessed Mother Teresa Titans are about to be known for more than their skills on the basketball court. Recently, their all female, Robotics team won first place at this year’s National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Engineering Design Competition during its conference in Rochester, NY.
This marks the first year a Canadian chapter of the organization has won first place at the competition, which included 10 other teams from the New York State.
A 28-year-old man is dead after crashing his car into a tree on Brimorton Drive near Markham Road, Toronto police said Monday.
Flemingdon Park Community Health Centre has now made living with diabetes simpler with a handy kit available to those most troubled come January, including those suffering in Scarborough.
The prototype kit, that comes with a booklet, DVD, measuring spoons, pedometer, measuring tape and stress ball, was displayed on Tuesday morning as part of the South Asian Diabetes Prevention Program (SADPP) to prevent or protect South Asians in the community from diabetes.
Scarborough councillors have opposing views when it comes to Rob Ford’s promise to cancel Transit City and turn the gravy train into a subway.