Future Ready Blog

Many people who have never grown vegetables before are eager to try out gardening this year. While the campus and Mohawk’s community garden are closed, the Sustainability Office is providing tips and tricks for your home garden. While it’s too early to start most crops outdoors, you can get a head...

By Jenna Yeomans | Third-year Business Administration - Marketing student In just a few short months, I’ll be graduating from the Business Administration - Marketing Diploma program. As expected, friends and family have lately been asking “what’s next?” and my typical response has been, “I’m not...

When I was in elementary school, I read many story books. I liked the books with the coloured pictures, especially the ones about schools, streets and gardens. The first time I saw a school crossing guard was in a story book. Since I came to Canada, I have been extremely curious to know more about...

Canada, like many countries, has a taxation system which exists to collect money from individuals and institutions. The money gained will be transferred to services and I can say that this process is the main difference between Canada many of the countries newcomers come from. Since we were paying...

Canadian people and the Government of Canada opened their doors for newcomers and refugees a few decades ago to help them. This country has many organizations and centres to help people, especially newcomers, to start a new life. In this country you have a lot of great opportunities to achieve your...

When you say Canada, the first idea that comes to your mind is the snow. You think that you will live in the ice age, miss the sun for the rest of your life and the warmth is a feeling you won’t feel again. That's also what I thought, but now after one year of living in Canada I can tell this common...

Celebrating International Women's Day in the Middle East is not too common. Anything that is done for International Women's Day is by individuals, not governments or institutions. For me, the first and only International Women’s Day event was two years ago, when I was in the second year of...

A travel document is an important document for refugees or newcomers to Canada because everyone wants or needs to travel. Some newcomers like to travel to their home countries to see their families and friends. In addition, newcomers might need to travel to different countries in emergency...