Every Semester, high profile creative personalities speak at the Centre for Creative Communications.

To view or download any of the past speaker series events, click on one of the links below:

Lawrence Hill
March 29th, 2007

Formerly a reporter with The Globe and Mail and parliamentary correspondent for The Winnipeg Free Press, Lawrence Hill is a critically acclaimed author, who's sixth book, "The Book of Negroes", a novel, was published by HarperCollins Canada in January 2007.

Julie Rusciolelli
March 29th, 2007

Julie Rusciolelli is the founding president of MAVERICK Public Relations, and wields more than 18 years experience as a public relations practitioner. She is one of Canada's leading strategists and creative publicists, having advised many Canadian corporations, such as Corel, Coca-Cola and Molson.

Marci Ien
March 14th, 2007

Marci Ien is the News Anchor for Canada AM. She's also the back-up host for the program, occasionally anchors for CTV National News with Lloyd Robertson and formerly anchored CTV Newsnet since its inception in 1997.

Paull Young
January 22nd, 2007

Paull Young is a young PR Professional from Australia. He stopped by the Centre for Creative Communications to talk about his experience with social media in the PR Scene.

Donna Papacosta
December 1st, 2006

Donna Papacosta has been a professional writer and editor with her company, Trafalgar Communications, for the last 20 years. Donna is also the host of the TrafCom podcast, which is featured in iTunes.

Geoff Ellwand
November 17th, 2006

Geoff Ellwand is a veteran CBC Radio reporter who normally covers Toronto. In a varied career he has followed some big stories, most notably the Bernardo-Homolka case.

Cory Lee
November 15th, 2006

Recording artist Cory Lee came to talk to the Broadcasting and Film students about her experiences in the recording industry, from recording her first album to appearing on the TV Show "Instant Star".

David Miller
November 6th, 2006

Mayor David Miller took time out of his campaigning to come and answer questions posed by Centennial College's Journalism Class on issues ranging from the TTC to homelessness.

Steven Lewis
October 27th, 2006

Steven Lewis is VP Senior artist and part owner of SPIN in Toronto, with 20 years of experience in the field of digital post production, motion graphics and animation traditional and CGI.

Jim Junkin
October 25th, 2006

A 2005 recipient of the very prestigious RTDNA lifetime achievement award, Jim Junkin is well known as CTV Toronto's veteran Police Beat reporter.

Hybrid Media Panel
October 25th, 2006

Several Experts from the Broadcast and New Media worlds decended on Centennial College's Centre for Creative Communications to discuss Hybrid Media opportunites between the two industries.

Kirk Makin
October 23rd, 2006

Kirk Makin, Justice Reporter for the Globe and Mail came to the HP Centre for Science and Technology to speak about the "Justice Beat" as well as reporter ethics.

Peter Kent
October 18th, 2006

Peter Kent, Veteran Newscaster and Recent Politician came to the CCC to talk about life as a reporter covering politics and as a politician meeting the media.