Four Developmental Services Workers (DSW) and Algonquin College graduates have won a major Colleges Ontario prize.
Their health initiative took first place in the William G. Davis Innovation Fund contest. The Algonquin College group topped nine other finalists in public voting that ended on Nov. 5. Their $15,000 victory was announced Sunday by Colleges Ontario. Read more >
Angie Poirier’s mom has probably forgiven her daughter for murdering all her houseplants when she attended Algonquin College’s Broadcasting program a few years back. Heck, if the plants hadn’t died, maybe Poirier wouldn’t be the well-known radio and TV personality she is today. Read more >
Not so long ago — the blink of an eye in the lifetime of a slab of limestone — John-Philippe Smith was languishing miserably in a Toronto office. Not so long after, he was applying his chisel to 400-year-old stone sculptures in the shadow of the Louvre. The path between these contrasting careers cuts directly through Algonquin College’s Perth Campus. Read more >
