McGill University students Amanda Garbutt and April Engelberg, both 21, started their own cooking show, The Hot Plate, which aired regularly on TVMcGill and online.

Engelberg, a fourth-year English major, credits good friend Garbutt with getting her interested in cooking. She said she wanted to start a cooking show and she wanted the fourth-year sociology major to be the “star.” 

The show is designed to be accessible to busy students. Cooking equipment is limited to the basics: cutting boards, knives, pots, bowls and pans.  Each episode is also kept at five minutes.

McGill University took a green step forward this year with the creation of the first university-led Greenpeace chapter in Canada, a stepping stone for the environmental organization that could lead to other Canadian universities following suit.
 
Beth Hunter, a co-ordinator for Greenpeace Montreal, calls the recent creation of the university club “a nice symbiosis.”