Teen girl stabbed at Ajax Ontario high school “over a boy”, witness says.

By Courtney Roberts
High school violence continues in the region of Durham, after a 16 year old girl was stabbed in the chest and torso during an altercation with another female outside an Ajax high school.
            On Friday October 24th around 9:30 a.m. Durham Regional Police from 19 Division were summoned to Archbishop Dennis O’Connor [...]

Class visit to Canadian Press headquarters, Toronto.

On October 30 2008, journalism student Tevy Pilc and his classmates got to tour the headquarters of Canadian Press, on King Street in Toronto. They heard from Tamsyn Burgmann, the reporter who interviewed Abby Cadabby of Sesame Street, Wendy McCann, Ontario bureau chief, the photo editor, and got a tour of the facilities. Here is [...]

Careless smoking causes fire at 650 Parliament Street, Toronto

By Amanda Ly.
 
A two alarm fire broke out in an apartment building at 650 Parliament St. at Wellesley, on Sunday November 9.  According to residents and Doug Setall, the property manager, the fire started at about 12 p.m. Firefighters at the scene told Setall that someone from the 15th floor or onwards discarded their cigarette [...]

University of Toronto Scarborough gets Phished

On November 7th a phishing email message with the subject line “ACE organic online homework” was sent to over 12,000 students at University of Toronto at Scarborough mailing list.
From the title of the message it is clear that the email specifically targeted students and was sent with the intent to illegally obtain sensitive financial [...]

Brandon Crisp Vigil

By Kareen Awadalla 
A fall from a tree, concluded coroner Dr. Dirk Huyer, is what likely killed Brandon Crisp.  The hopeful search for the fifteen year old ended on November 5,2008  when hunters came across a young lifeless body matching Crisp’s description in a wooded area in Oro-Medonte Township, just north of his Barrie home. The [...]

Canadian Federal Election October 2008 Campaign Pix

Katrina Rozal, a Centennial College journalist, snapped this portrait at the campaign party for Derek Lee, MP for Scarorough Rouge River, and chair of the GTA Liberal Caucus, Oct. 14th 2008.

Digital Camera Woes for Consumers

 By Matthew Alleyne
Although we live in an age where we do not have to wait for our film to be developed before we find out whether or not our photos turned out the way we wanted, many consumers are still finding that even with a digital camera they still can’t capture that moment in time [...]

Cleaning up Canadian Blood Services

By Lauren Hummel
 
Toronto - Canadian Blood Services celebrated its 10th anniversary September 26, 2008. After the tainted blood scandal that occurred in the 1970s to the 1980s, it has modernized the blood system with sophisticated tests to analyze every unit of donated blood.
 According to Canadian Blood Services’ Annual Report released in 2008, more than eight in [...]

Covering crime and the Toronto Police

CBC Radio’s host of The World This Weekend and investigative reporter Dave Seglins chatted with the journalism students at the joint UTSC/Centennial College Intro to News Reporting class today about how “a tap on the shoulder” from a colleague led him from covering the crime beat to  becoming one of the country’s most successful reporters [...]