A family from northern Quebec says gaps in service and support at the Cree School Board had serious consequences for a young student with lots of potential and dreams of being a doctor.
Khayden Carter Dick is from Whapmagoostui, a fly-in community and the most northern of the Cree towns in Quebec. Two years in a row, he was awarded a Governor General’s Academic Medal, which recognizes students who achieve high levels of academic success in high school, college or university.
He is currently in a one-year, pre-health sciences program at Algonquin College in Ottawa and wants to become a pediatric or heart doctor, skills