The voice acting industry of Canada, the opportunities available, and five very talented people

Ron Rubin has been an award winning actor and voiceover artist for almost 40 years, appearing in hundreds of cartoons for Disney, Marvel Ent. and Warner Bros. as well as multiple Anime series. He has also voiced countless national commercial campaigns. Some of his most notable roles include Artemis in Sailor Moon, Morph in the...

Watch your back in the parking lot at DC and UOIT

Those whose work involves issuing parking tickets have jobs that practically no one appreciates. Some drivers receive tickets after breaking a rule unintentionally. So here’s a reminder to all those parking at Durham College and UOIT - tickets are still a reality and rules remain enforced. At Durham College and UOIT, there are two different sorts...

The Story of Blood Donors

From top left to top right: Travis Bruce, Rampaul Udaipaul, David Hennessey. From bottom left to bottom right: Chin-ting Sherwin, Andrew Davis, Anea Siby Canadian Blood Services visited Oshawa’s DC and UOIT campus for the second time this school year, and are expected to come back in the next year’s two semesters. The Campus Recreation...

Helping immigrants conquer a life in Canada

Shahid Chaudhry is an immigration consultant whose main objective is to help people arrive and live in Canada. Chaudhry lives with his wife and two children in Whitby and is CEO and Original Founder of Canadian Dreams Alliance Inc. (CD Alliance). The company has a corporate office in Toronto and has regional offices in London...

The life of Steve Stavro and his revolutionary grocer

“People were used to shopping at areas where you had three checkout counters and here you’d have 30,” says Jim Olson, a former Oshawa high school principal. The meat counters of the Knob Hill Farms supermarkets were one of the most notable details. “On this counter that was the length of a football field, you’d...

Biggest clinic in Ontario will visit Durham College on Feb. 8 to ask for blood donations

Car crashes, cancer, diseases: They happen every day and those affected need blood. And there’s a way students can help those in need. Canadian Blood Services (CBS), the biggest blood clinic in Canada, with 35 donation institutions across the country in every province and territory (minus Quebec) is holding a blood donor clinic at Durham...

An Inside Look at the Five-Week Strikers

The five-week college strike turned every college in the province upside down, and most reports were of how students would possibly lose their semester. But how about the actual strikers? What was it like for teachers at Durham College to stand either walking in the streets or deliberately holding up traffic for hours a day...

An Album of Adulthood, Brotherhood and Loss

DC students Jaylan Hayles and Geoffrey Olara met in 9th grade and have been best friends, even brothers, ever since. They not only have similar goals in life, but they are the creators of an online community organization called GiG Life, and they have started 2018 on a note different than any other, releasing an...

TV Show lost for a decade found

Monster by Mistake, a Canadian 3D cartoon that has been missing for years and has been labelled “lost media” for the majority of its 52 episodes, has been found by the Durham College Chronicle. Monster by Mistake featured an eight-year-old boy named Warren Patterson. One night he and his older sister Tracy stumble into an...

Oshawa’s AIDS Committee and Early Walk

Canada was the fourth country in the world, and the first country outside Europe to legalize gay marriage back in 2005. However, that does not mean support was not available for homosexuals and those diagnosed with the HIV/AIDS virus before then. The city of Oshawa started the AIDS committee in 1991 which has become successful...