Partners in VIU’s Tuition Waiver Program include (left to right) MLA Parksville-Qualicum Michelle Stilwell; Ralph Nilson, VIU’s President and Vice-Chancellor; Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk; Minister of Children and Family Development Stephanie Cadieux; Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth, and Bill Yoachim, Kw’umut Lelum Child and Family Services, Snuneymuxw Councilor, VIU Alumnus & Governor. (Vancouver Island University)

Nathaniel Christopher / 26 August 2013 / 2 Comments

Vancouver Island University launches first-of-its-kind tuition waiver for former youth in care

Youth who grew up in foster care are welcome and wanted at university. So says Vancouver Island University (VIU) in Nanaimo which recently announced that they would waive tuition fees for former youth...

Nathaniel Christopher / 25 May 2012 / 6 Comments

Celebrating BC Child and Youth in Care Week

Here’s a photo of the Honourable Mary McNeil, British Columbia’s Minister of Children and Family Development sitting on a stage at the Roundhouse Community Centre on Mary 23 holding a framed 14 ...

Nathaniel Christopher / 19 July 2011 / 1 Comment

I got rid of my foster care file!

I guess this counts as a little addendum to my 2008 documentary about my foster care file. I conclude the program by saying “I’m probably just going to put it in one of my closets, I’...

Nathaniel Christopher / 8 December 2008

Former foster kids telling their stories

One of the issues I’m most passionate about is the rights of people in and from government care (foster care). There are countless of books, reports, articles and other literature written about ...

Me and Bob Rae at Sir Sanford Fleming College. 18 Nov 2004.

Nathaniel Christopher / 23 November 2004

Meeting Bob Rae

The Peterborough Examiner – November 23, 2004 (Excerpt) Nathaniel Christopher, a fourth-year Canadian Studies student at Trent, had a unique question for the premier. The 23-year-old grew...