Elizabeth Parenteau and Nathan Lise will go on to Ottawa for the next round of competition Julianna Perkins, RSJ A team of two students from Toronto District Christian High School won the Canadian Improv Games’ Toronto finals Saturday night at the Al Green Theatre. Elizabeth Parenteau, 18, and Nathan Lise, 19, beat four other Greater…
The Toronto Star’s Washington correspondent says readers want to see hard evidence before they believe reporters Julianna Perkins, RSJ The public’s lack of trust for the media means facts are more important than ever, said Daniel Dale, the Toronto Star’s Washington correspondent, in a talk at Ryerson University Wednesday. Dale, who also covered Toronto’s city…
BuzzFeed Canada founding editor says rumours, unverified information, and fake articles are taking over social media Julianna Perkins, RSJ The less true an article is, the more popular it tends to get, said Craig Silverman, founding editor of BuzzFeed Canada in a lecture at Ryerson University Tuesday. Silverman, who now acts as the company’s media…
The Ryerson School of Image Arts building was lit up red this week to bring awareness to the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, transgender and two-spirit people as part of a project headed by eight Ryerson students. The red lights, which reacted to real-time Twitter engagement and reflected in Lake Devo Monday,…
Toronto Harry Potter fans attended a two-day promotional event this week for the new spinoff film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them at Yonge-Dundas Square. The film will be in theatres Nov. 18, 2016. Tuesday night featured a red carpet event for the film in the square. Fantastic Beasts star Eddie Redmayne, who plays…
War journalists around the world are not having their mental health taken seriously by their employers, Dr. Anthony Feinstein, a University of Toronto professor of psychiatry, said at a discussion at Ryerson University Wednesday. Feinstein, also a successful author and documentary filmmaker, has spent over a decade studying and surveying war journalists and has found…
Ryerson Student Affairs has created a new student program aimed at mental health awareness with a focus on prevention rather than intervention. The six-week-old ThriveRU initiative emphasizes “thriving on campus” and “proactive mental health promotion,” said Dr. Diana Brecher, head of the new program and current Scholar-in-Residence for positive psychology, during a press conference at…