Month: April 2014

  • Video Class 2014

    Video Class 2014

    Students in the Graduate Program of Journalism in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western produce stories in all media – video, audio, print and online. Here are a couple of examples of the visual story telling they did this past year.   A Veteran’s Ongoing Battle by Asymina Kantorowicz Nine veterans affairs offices…

  • Young entrepreneur to do his own Google search

    Young entrepreneur to do his own Google search

    A few weeks ago, as Chintan Mistry sifted through the paperwork he needed to move into a new apartment, the reality of his situation hit him.  He wasn’t just going to be moving to a new country in a couple of months. He was going to work within the bowels of one of the largest…

  • Video stores alive and well…for now

    Video stores alive and well…for now

    Remember Blockbuster? The once-ubiquitous video rental franchise has only really been gone for a year or so, a victim of the new entertainment guard like Netflix. With the advent of online streaming and quasi-legal torrenting, one would assume that video rentals in general are a thing of the past. But one rental store owner –…

  • London country musician sings farewell to Western

    London country musician sings farewell to Western

    School can be hectic, but imagine trying to become a household name in the Canadian country music scene at the same time. So it’s understandable if country singer Genevieve Fisher, 21, has been a little stressed out lately as her last term at Western University comes to a close. “It’s been crazy. I actually overloaded…