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
Whatever the future brings in their musical careers, Jamie Fine and Elijah Woods will always remember Algonquin College.
Since graduating nearly four years ago, the two alumni, both in their early 20s, have acquired a growing reputation for their music-making talents. In January, after winning an episode of CTV’s The Launch, their musical careers leaped to another level.
It all goes back to a fateful day in 2014, when Woods – then a student in the College’s music industry arts program – heard a classmate’s smartphone recording of Fine’s voice. Her singing so impressed him that he immediately tracked her down. “I was just blown away. I was like, ‘Why don’t I know her?’”