Adults ducked and dodged each other across the arts studio floor. Some were assassins. Others were bodyguards. It was all make-believe and, according to innovation consultant Colleen Reitzel, designed to stimulate creativity. “It was really just fun to let loose and be a participant,” she said. “It was really a great time. The improv was phenomenal.” The [...] Continue Reading

A teenage girl is pinned to the ground at a park near her house. Curious teenage boys take turns groping her. They laugh as she tries to get free. Eventually they stop before it goes too far. The girl never tells anyone what happened that day because at the time she doesn’t think it was [...] Continue Reading

Wayne Clarkson’s perceptions of the landscape of filmmaking changed the day he and the Canadian Film Centre were approached about a film involving three teenagers, a road trip and Kurt Cobain. “We turned it down because we couldn’t deal with the idea,” he said. As Director of Telefilm Canada and the Canadian Film Centre, Clarkson’s resume also [...] Continue Reading

A student forced back tears as she read a poem about Haiti. Her classmate did her best to help her through it. Linda Etienne and Micheline Beauvais,  both originally from Haiti, feared for the fate of their relatives living there. “Just imagine,” Beauvais said, “you’re watching TV just to see if you see your family. You see [...] Continue Reading

“There is a guy in Ecuador who charges $10 per hour for the same work," Phil Knight said. "You have to learn how to compete with him.” Continue Reading

“I won a thing called the York Trillium Award for the most promising writer in television and I didn’t work for 11 months after that,” Sugith Varughese said. “I get nervous when I get nominated now.” Continue Reading

Calling all girls! Friday Oct. 30 marks a monumental night for Centennial Sports TV. Hosts Laura Barney and Angela Willatt are on desk for CSTV’s first-ever all-female sportscast. That’s right, anything boys can do, girls can do better. And there’s more. For the sixth edition of the show, they’ll take a deeper look at women in sports and [...] Continue Reading

Tune in to this week’s edition of Centennial Sports TV for updates on scores and stories in the East York area. Join Matt Levicki and Jordan Reginato Friday, Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. for all your community sports action. In this week’s episode, Stephen Colomvakos hits the court with the East York Goliaths to see if the [...] Continue Reading

Tony Duran scored 31 points to spoil coach Jim Barclay’s Centennial College debut as the Fleming College Knights downed the Colts 89-68 at Bill Crothers High School in Unionville on Wednesday. Last year’s first-team all-star connected on eight three-pointers as Duran dictated play for most of the night. It was his play and fellow 2009 all-star Jermaine Duke that [...] Continue Reading

Centennial College’s midtown campus was evacuated by Toronto police on Tuesday morning after they received an apparent bomb threat. Students and faculty at the Centre for Creative Communications, at Mortimer and Carlaw avenues, were asked to leave the building at 11:20 a.m. Police arrived on the scene at 10 a.m. and shortly thereafter faculty were called to an [...] Continue Reading