Uncovering An Immigration Job Scam

Let’s play detec­tive!
I already talked about job scams. Today, I will show you how to not be tricked by scam­mers based on a recent exam­ple.
A lit­tle while ago, I received a com­ment. The author of the com­ment was won­der­ing if the job she had applied for was a scam. She pasted a quote of the email she had received. When it saw it, I knew it was fishy.

Stuffs Canadians Don't Like (Part II)

Over­all, we are in a pretty good mood right now. Canada took gold medal against the U.S.A in men’s hockey at the Van­cou­ver 2010 Olympics, Sid­ney Crosby is now God, the snow is slowly melt­ing and Spring is com­ing soon. In short, the coun­try is doing fine. But eh, we still have our pet peeves, espe­cially with both the tax sea­son and the con­struc­tion sea­son com­ing soon…

I Can Vote!

On March 4^th, I went to accom­plish my duty as a new Cana­dian cit­i­zen: I voted for the first time in Canada at the provin­cial bylec­tion in Ottawa West-Nepean.I drove to the polling sta­tion slightly hon­ored I could now vote. I know, I’m weird.
By com­par­i­son, vot­ing in France is more cer­e­mo­ni­ous. I received my carte d’électeur when I turned 18 and I couldn’t wait to use it.

Stuffs Canadians Don't Like (Part 1)

Every­body knows that Cana­di­ans are peace­ful and polite peo­ple. Yet, I noticed my fel­low cit­i­zens can be quite annoyed by a few things… that are Cana­dian in essence.

Dis­claimer: this post is to be read with your morning/ after­noon cof­fee. It is not meant to be taken lit­er­ally. I know some Cana­di­ans are going to dis­agree (but I’m sure they will apol­o­gize about disagreeing).

On Campus (Part III)

The Win­ter semes­ter started early Jan­u­ary, but I can’t seem to put myself into study mode. First, there is my very full-time job. I work in an envi­ron­ment where futile things such as eat­ing and sleep­ing are almost frowned upon, let alone study­ing. And then, there is the usual win­ter blues. Hard to walk to class after a full day of work when it’s cold, windy and pitch black.

Hockey Day In Canada

Last Sat­ur­day, Hockey Day In Canada took place through­out the coun­try. You basi­cally had two option: 1) the lazy option, which was to watch the triple­header of NHL action fea­tur­ing the six Cana­dian teams on T.V 2) the brave option, which was to take your gear and go play hockey in the street.

No Prorogation Rally In Ottawa

Let me put it this way: Cana­di­ans are usu­ally pretty quiet and it takes a lot to have them go down in the streets. But Stephen Harper made it, he man­aged to anger Cana­di­ans enough and have them demon­strate in the mid­dle of the win­ter. Way to go, Stevie!

A Driver's License Story

I feel super good today. I finally over­came one of my biggest fears: dri­ving. I passed my driver’s license!
I can’t pin­point the exact moment when I became ter­ri­fied of dri­ving. My instruc­tor was a fairly old guy, who loved cars and hated peo­ple who didn’t fall in love with the Freudian stick shift: “can you feel how smooth it is?” No, I couldn’t. I didn’t care either. To me, dri­ving was get­ting from point A to point B safely.