Four years ago, Jaiveer Singh Bawa had a newly minted degree in architecture, his own firm, and was busy designing luxury homes in northern India. “But it wasn’t driving my passion,” he recalls.
Bawa had written his undergrad thesis on sustainable architecture, and couldn’t get the challenges it presented out of his head. Continue reading
When Kane Odjick-Dumont left his community in western Quebec to attend Algonquin College two-and-a-half-hours away, it was so he could help his community when he went back.
But as it turned out, not everything of value learned during his two-year Social Service Worker program was taught in the classroom. Odjick-Dumont’s experience with Algonquin’s Mamidosewin Centre, whose goal is to support and empower Indigenous students, left him with a deeper sense of his culture than he had when he arrived. Continue reading
When Catherine Beddall graduated from Algonquin in 1998, she didn’t know she’d be coming back. And when she came back in 2011, she didn’t know she’d be staying.
The College gave Beddall the means to shape one career — as a graphic designer — and then opportunity to follow two more — as a pastry chef and a teacher. Continue reading