News and Announcements from George Brown College

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George Brown College welcomed Ontario Minister of Long-Term Care Rod Phillips to our Waterfront Campus, where he announced new funding to increase staffing levels at long-term care homes across the province. Phillips made the announcement on October 6 at the Daphne Cockwell Centre for Health...

George Brown College teamed up with Canadian fashion industry leader Robin Kay to launch a student competition to create wearables that serve a meaningful purpose in a pandemic and post-pandemic world. The MAKECanada Challenge launched in the fall of 2020. It called on students at the Centre for...

The Indigenous Education and Services team has unveiled a new medallion, featuring a star blanket design created by artist Joseph Sagaj. In Ojibwe teachings, the star blanket is seven pointed and carries the seven original clans and the seven grandmother/grandfather teachings. It can represent...

A video statement from Senator Murray Sinclair, former Chair of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada, where he speaks about the discovery of bodies at the residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. WARNING: These videos contains details about abuse and the residential...

We’re proud to announce that Dario Guescini, George Brown College’s Director of Work-Integrated Learning, Experiential Education and Global Mobility has been appointed President-Elect of Experiential and Work-Integrated Learning Ontario (EWO). Guescini will serve a four-year appointment — two years...

George Brown College President Dr. Gervan Fearon has been honoured by the Celebration of Nations, a Niagara-region festival that celebrates Indigenous arts, culture, and tradition. Celebration of Nations describes itself as a “long-term vision of the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre...

Jill Dunlop, Ontario’s Minister of Colleges and Universities, met with students and toured the Daphne Cockwell Centre for Health Sciences at Waterfront Campus on a busy first day of the fall semester. The minister attended a roundtable session with three George Brown students representing different...

I am excited and proud to be celebrating the beginning of the academic year with each of you as the new President of George Brown College. Although I started just one month ago, the students and employees that I have met have all made me feel incredibly welcomed and, already, I am developing a...