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Welcome to Class Notes!

Share news about your growing family, new job or travel adventures and see updates from your old classmates and friends.

Posted Jul 8, 2026

Andrea Gabourie

RTA,
Career and professional The Creative School (formerly the Faculty of Communication and Design)

Andrea is president and executive producer at FORTE Entertainment, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. FORTE has become one of the leading unscripted production companies in Canada. Broadcasters include global partners such as Netflix, Paramount+, Disney+, CBC, Bell Media, History and Discovery. In July 2025, FORTE received two Daytime Emmy nominations for the second season of their documentary series, How I Got Here.

Posted Jul 8, 2026

Daniel Bosy

Administration and Information Management, 1993
1993 Career and professional Ted Rogers School of Management

My spouse Claudia and I have two daughters and the eldest, Melisa, is a recent graduate of the TMU occupational health and safety program. I began a new job last year at MDA Space as a senior cyber security engineer working on the Canadarm3 project for the Artemis Lunar Gateway space station program.

Posted Jul 8, 2026

Peter Stevens

Landscape Architectural Technology, 1982
1982 Career and professional Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

In my retirement years, I created Peter Stevens Landscape Designer as a continuation of my relationship with Humber Nurseries (in Caledon, Ont.) as a freelance landscape designer, to keep my mind and body active. My classmates, whom I would like to hear from, will remember back in the ’80s, I would pick up my son from the daycare centre and bring him in his carrier to the after-class workspace. Now 44, he is an elementary school teacher with a six-year-old son.

Posted Jul 7, 2026

Margaret Leslie Guyatt

Electrical Technology, 1980
1980 Career and professional Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

Margaret served the Government of Canada for more than 50 years as a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and as a federal public servant. She retired from the military in 2007 at the rank of colonel, then joined the Department of National Defence to work as a project manager on classified projects including defence cryptographic modernization. She retired in 2025 and is currently self-employed as the CEO of Lofty Aspirations, an art and sewing business.

Posted Jul 7, 2026

Michel Gagnon

Journalism, 1989
1989 Career and professional The Creative School (formerly the Faculty of Communication and Design)

Retirement has finally rung. I spent 35 years in journalism, including Radio-Canada, CBC, CFCF CTV News, TQS, TVA Montreal, TVA Sherbrooke, CPAC and two and a half years at Canada Post before retirement. I moved recently from the Quebec Townships to Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, to look at the ocean from the living room window while sipping a great glass of wine from my cellar. Enjoying the daily presence of my dear wife of 42 years.

Posted Jul 7, 2026

Richard Does

Architectural Science, 1988
1988 Career and professional Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

Richard retired in December 2025 after nearly 30 years with Design Inc. in Sydney, Australia. He produced award-winning projects during his time there, including the Chatswood Transport Interchange, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Shellharbour Library and PHIVE Parramatta Square, a dynamic cultural and civic hub that won an International Architecture Award and was highly commended for the prestigious World Green Building Council’s Asia Pacific Leadership Awards.

Posted Jul 7, 2026

Jose Luis Ulloa Allones

Chemical Technology, 1975
1975 Family and personal Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

I would like to contact other TMU graduates living in Madrid.

Posted Jul 7, 2026

Rick Boulton

Journalism, 1970
1970 Career and professional The Creative School (formerly the Faculty of Communication and Design)

Rick shared photos taken at an all-day TMU reunion in September 2025. He said it was “jolly good fun.”

Posted Jun 11, 2026

Eemaan Qadri

Media Production, 2023
2023 Career and professional Faculty of Arts

Eemaan Qadri (Media Production ’24) recently graduated from the University of Southern California’s prestigious Master’s Program in Film & Television Production. Following the completion of her graduate studies, the Toronto-based filmmaker will present a special triple-feature screening of her short films Marwa and the Moon, If You Can Catch Me, and Hania’s Home.

The three films explore themes of identity, family, grief, immigration, and belonging through the lens of South Asian women and families. The screening marks the debut of Qadri’s newest films, If You Can Catch Me and Hania’s Home, and showcases her continued commitment to telling culturally specific stories with universal emotional resonance.

In addition to her recent short film work, Qadri is currently developing her first feature-length screenplay as she continues to build her career as a writer and director.

Qadri earned her Bachelor’s degree in Media Production from Toronto Metropolitan University before pursuing her Master’s degree at the University of Southern California, one of the world’s leading film schools.

Posted May 11, 2026

Marnie Salsky

(Formerly Salsky)

Documentary Media (MA), ’21
’21 Career and professional Faculty of Arts

To mark Jewish Heritage Month in May, author and photographer Marnie Salsky is releasing her book A PEOPLEHOOD | AMIUT YEHUDIT.

The book offers a thoughtful and nuanced exploration of Jewish identity in Toronto, examining how culture, history, faith and personal experience intersect in one of the world’s most diverse cities. Having received her MFA in Documentary Media Studies from TMU with a thesis focus on Jewish identity, Marnie is an expert in this field.

Through photographs, archival imagery, interview excerpts, and fragments from social media and print news, Marnie captures the complexity of Jewish life and how identity is carried, remembered, and lived, while engaging with questions of belonging and the realities of antisemitism. Rather than focusing on policy or ideology, the book offers a visual meditation on the everyday realities of Jewish life, identity and resilience. While rooted in Toronto, its themes extend beyond geography, resonating with Jewish communities globally.

Posted Apr 14, 2026

Tamsin McMahon

Journalism, 2000
2000 In memoriam The Creative School (formerly the Faculty of Communication and Design)

Tamsin McMahon, Journalism ’00, built an award-winning career defined by rigorous reporting and editorial leadership, culminating in a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News in 2024 for her work with Lookout Santa Cruz. A respected journalist and editor, she passed away in March 2026 at the age of 48, leaving a lasting legacy in newsrooms across Canada and the United States.

Posted Mar 27, 2026

Aloysius Wong

Master of Journalism, 2023
2023 Career and professional The Creative School (formerly the Faculty of Communication and Design)

Aloysius and his colleagues Valérie Ouellet (a TMU journalism instructor), Mike Crawley, Andreas Wesley and Catherine Cullen won Gold in the Data Journalism category at the 2025 Canadian Association of Journalism Awards. They received the honour for their CBC News: Investigative Unit piece, “Canada’s international student spike was blamed on private colleges. Here’s what really happened,” which analyzed data obtained through access to information requests.

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