In the last three decades, Hubert and Monica have lived with dozens of international students and immigrants. "I became concerned, particularly about minorities," he said. He says those years left a deep impact on him that continued to shape his experiences even after moving to Canada in 1953. He says his family took in two Jewish people and lied to their neighbours to protect them.
Hubert was a young teenager in Holland during the Second World War. They say they like to share the whole house with tenants, and don't want them to be confined to their rooms.
The couple has been renting out two rooms and a basement to international students for the past 33 years. Humber College is running a program to team people like Henry and Awofadeju up international students and seniors. Metro Morning 7:41 Meet this 90-year-old and his international student housemate, trying to tackle the GTA's housing crunch - and breakfast Hubert Campfens and Awofadeju Olajide Simon are roommates. LISTEN | How a 90-year-old and his international student housemate are doing their part to tackle the GTA's housing crunch: I was stressing out for days," he said.įortunately, one of his professors linked him up with an elderly couple, Hubert and Monica Campfens, in Toronto's east end. He was told by friends in Canada it would easier to find housing from within the country than writing to landlords in Toronto from Nigeria. When Awofadeju Olajide Simon, a Centennial College student from Nigeria, decided to move to Canada, all of the options he could find were way out of his budget. Even at colleges without formal programs, some students have been making their own arrangements to stay with seniors. They say there couldn't be a better living arrangement. In April, Georgian College signed up for a similar program with Spaces Shared and another similar online platform, Homestay, to pair domestic and international students with local residents in Barrie. Humber College isn't the only school trying to ease housing pressures through pairings with seniors. Homeowners with vacancies can sign up online, post an ad and connect with students to find a suitable tenant. Students who sign up for the program can live with hosts and pay through an online platform. "Students could receive a discount if they agree to do certain tasks around the home that might help around the house, like mowing the lawn, doing the dishes, or even just spending time and providing companionship," he said. Ian Crookshank, dean of students at Humber College, says students can save money through the pairings, easing the financial pressures they face. And according to the college, more than 500 students have already signed up.
Humber College has announced a partnership with online home share technology platform, Spaces Shared, to pair students looking for accommodation with seniors who have extra space as an affordable housing option. General release dates for In Restless Dreams have yet to be announced, but it will be shown at London film festival in October.As Canada faces a growing affordable housing shortage, one Toronto-area college is pairing students with seniors in an effort to help find them accommodations as the school year begins. The three-and-a-half-hour film covers the musician’s time in Simon and Garfunkel with his childhood friend Art Garfunkel, the recording of his hit 1986 solo album Graceland, and his later years recording in his home studio in Texas. You should get off the road, go home.’”įamed director Gibney, who also directed Scientology documentary Going Clear, Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room and Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, has turned his eye to Simon’s six-decade career in his latest documentary, In Restless Dreams. I’d think, ‘What are you doing? You’re like a Paul Simon cover band. “Quite often that would come during You Can Call Me Al. “Sometimes there are songs that I like and then at a certain point in a tour, I’ll say, ‘What the fuck are you doing, Paul?’” he said. He also said it had changed his thinking about performing certain songs “that I don’t want to sing live” any more. He said he was most feeling “frustration and annoyance” but not anger “because I thought it would pass, it would repair itself”. “Quite suddenly, I lost most of the hearing in my left ear, and nobody has an explanation for it,” he said.
In May, Simon revealed the hearing loss occurred while writing music for his most recent album, Seven Psalms. I’m not sure how I can integrate my voice with the guitars,” he added. “Although a week from now I’m going to try and work with two guitarists who will play the parts that I played on the record, and see if I can sing the piece. And then it evolves to another standard, and goes further,” Simon said. “Usually, when I finished an album I went out and toured with it, and then I have the opportunity to really investigate the piece.
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