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 ...

Foster Care and Adoption

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...