Upon graduating from Concordia University in Montreal, I had big dreams about how I would put my honours degree in Creative Writing and English Literature to work. I had started my own smut zine as a student, and wanted to write a more interesting version of the sex column for one of the local papers. While I had experience writing about sex, as well as writing under a deadline for the student newspaper, it seemed like I could never get a response from any of my queries.
Worse than a simple rejection, I was getting total silence, which made me wonder ...
My heart was racing, my palms sweating and I was fumbling with the pages in my lap. I was about to get up on the stage of Salle Wilfrid-Pelltier and deliver the first ever Valedictorian address at the Concordia Fine Arts Convocation. It was June 1997 and I was finally finished my BFA. On one hand, I felt satisfied and relieved; and on the other, apprehensive. I was $30,000 in debt and had no immediate career prospects. As I sat there in the new suit my parents had bought for me at Eatons, I wondered whether ...
Jane Tomlinson, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, she was told it was in its’ terminal stage and she had 12 months at most.
Jane Emily Goward was born in Yorkshire, England 1964, the sixth of 10 children. Jane was a good student and in 1990 applied to study mathematics at the University of Leeds, in the Northern England. It was this year that she found a lump in her breast and had to have a lumpectomy. This marked a turning point for Jane who abandoned her plan to study mathematics and instead enrolled into radiography ...
At 39, Hirsh golden oldie on Mohawk cross-country team
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
Take David Hirsh, for example. He turns 40 this month but has taken steps as a first-year student at Mohawk College to make a career change. At the Fennell campus, he's prepping for acceptance into a four-year diagnostic imaging program.
Along with his studies, the Hamilton resident also runs for the college cross-country team. That makes him the oldest runner -- and one of the most talented -- coach Wayne Collins has ever worked with.
Running, however, was not always such a big part of ...
Brad Edelson is a great example of taking risks to pursue an opportunity in the unknown. Brad is a well traveled American who moved up to Toronto to become partners with the founder, Jonathan Nyquest, of an organization titled NYQUEST Training Placement. It is an organization that recruits young adults from around the world who are interested in working as outdoor educators, camp counselors and experimental facilitators throughout Canada. Together the two entrepreneurs won the 2006 Toronto Entrepreneur Award. He was asked by Jonathan to drop everything and move up to Toronto with him and be ...
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