This is SLC: Our College News

I hope the long weekend presented an opportunity to connect with family and friends, and perhaps to recharge. I know as many gave thanks, many of us were also horrified to learn of the violence, lives lost, and many feared missing in Israel. 

World Mental Health Day is observed on October 10th each year. It serves as a crucial reminder of the importance of mental well-being in our lives. In a world where the pace of life can be relentless and the pressures we face can be overwhelming, this day calls us to pause, reflect, and prioritize our mental health, and to encourage others to do the same. As staff and faculty, we are in a unique position to do that with the students we serve.  

Chanie Wenjack was born on January 19, 1954, in Ogoki Post, a remote Anishinaabe reserve in northwestern Ontario. In 1963, he and his sisters were sent to the Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School in Kenora, ON. Three years later, at the age of twelve, Chanie ran away from the school, attempting to go home to his family 600 km away. He died of hunger and exposure on Oct. 22, 1966, a week after he escaped. His body was found by a railway worker 60 km from the school. His tragic story is like so many stories of Indigenous children who never returned home from residential schools. 

On Thursday, October 5, students of the Business Human Resources program met at St. Larry’s Pub on the Kingston Campus to paint Kindness Rocks in celebration of National Do Something Nice Day. The colourfully painted rocks are meant to spread joy and kindness throughout the community while representing the HR program at SLC.  

A cultural collaboration, “Taste of Cultures,” led by the Global Learning Centre, with the help of Event and Banquet Services, St. Larry’s Pub, and Brown's, will run through October and November on all three campuses. Each week, SLC students will share traditional foods from different parts of the world at the Global Learning Centre.