HALIFAX For every 1,000 youths in Canadian foster care, only eight go on to graduate with a post-secondary education. But a new program aims to dramatically change those results. New Brunswick Community College is the latest post-secondary institution to join a growing list of schools participating in a bursary program to ease the financial burden of youth leaving the foster care system. Research shows young people leaving the foster care system struggle to achieve positive life outcomes compared to their peers. NBCC will offer 10 students free tuition, as part of a nation wide initiative by the Child Welfare Political Action Committee.
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It has been a year of upheaval for the Laurentian University community. A time where we survived and thrived, struggled and overcame, where we stood shoulder to shoulder, through the challenges of this truly unique period.
We supported each other through our shared grief with university communities across Canada when Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was shot down over the skies of Tehran in Iran.
We came together in inspired gratitude for our health care workers during the darkest hours of the initial COVID-19 lock-down.
We banded in solidarity during the violent unrest which rocked cities like Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria.