I hope it works out for you.

If you want to teach go to grad school

work permits for foreign graduate students in Canada.  
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/work-...ad-who.asp

I got accepted to my current school's graduate program, University of Toronto, University of PA, Harvard University and McGill University,

Toronto is expensive to live in.  Harvard has an excellent rep.  McGill is known for its medical programmes.  I don't know anything about U of PA.

Maybe you can volunteer in the meantime? That way you are being productive as well as adding to your CV. Adding to your CV will help with grad school applications as well as boost your credentials for when you job search. It'll also look much better to show that you've been volunteering to do work in your field of interest, rather than the modeling stuff, even if you're not making any money. Plus if you plan to go to grad school, I would hold off on the money making & feeling independent ambition--save it for when you get a higher degree.

And to note, many people enter grad school at varying ages, ranging from 21 to 40-sumthins, so don't feel you have to be obsessed with your age...Actually, I did not get into the grad school I wanted to because I was TOO young and not graduated for a year. I was pissed that they didn't have a better reason, but thats what they look for---how you kept yourself busy once you weren't in school anymore tell them a lot apparently.

My brother, going on 25, is doing a lot of volunteering, and now he's going to join the peace corps. He lives at home, like me, and neither of us knows how to drive, so you could say we are less independent than most--but its actually the reverse. We find opportunities that we like, and take them up. We don't settle just to make money, or just to prove we can be independent and all that. We do what we like to do and forget the (mostly televised) "status quo" (which isn't even the same thing in real life).

Do not mean to derail your sociology dreams but remember the field is saturated with graduates.

I know I meed to rhink abot whats best for me.

im less cynical. Personally i would rather the government used the money to hire immigration officers to instead invest in the job creating infrastructure but then the United States and frankly even here we have a 'lets sell the cow to buy the milk sort of society'. Like you said its not a politics thread but hey, just my 2 cents...

The Canadian job market from a British perspective