Life often takes many unexpected turns. Dakota Brown had graduated from the Pearson School of Culinary Arts and was working at a renowned Montreal restaurant. This was his dream. Life was good! Then, the pandemic hit and his job disappeared. He knew that he needed to find something new to do. He did just that when he enrolled in the General Building Maintenance program at the Verdun Adult & Career Centre.

How often do we call someone a warrior? Norma Condo is just that: a warrior. In spite of unexpectedly becoming a single mother of five a month before starting her Professional Cooking program at PSCA, Norma found the strength within her to follow her dream of becoming an Indigenous chef.

 Having taken the Food and Beverage and Professional Cooking programs, I learned a lot about the basics of cooking. We were taught all aspects of cooking such as hygiene and sanitation, history and culture of food, from meat to fish to vegetables and anything imaginable that had the slightest relation to our course.  Though I had never cooked prior to culinary school, I worked in the front of house for my father’s bakery as well as in a high end restaurant that hired me right ...

PEARSON ADULT AND CAREER CENTRE – 2016 HEALTH JOB FAIR The 12th Annual Health Job Fair was held on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at PACC Career Centre in LaSalle, Québec. Human Resource representatives from the major health establishments in Montreal and the Montérégie region were in attendance along with representatives from several private organizations to recruit graduates from  Health Care programs. Displayed kiosks lavished...