Source: Bianca Bujan, BurnabyNow.com, November 6, 2018 Too often the focus is on the impact to people who are doing the adopting November is National Adoption Awareness Month (Nov. 9 marks World Adoption Day), with a month-long observance focused on celebrating adoptive families and creating awareness around adoption in Canada. With so many children in care, adoption… Continue reading Time to stop ignoring what adoptees have to say
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5 B.C. families stranded in Japan get Canadian visas for adopted babies
Source: CTV News, June 24, 2018 After months stuck in legal limbo in Japan, five British Columbia families will be able to bring the Japan-born children they adopted back to Canada. The families found themselves ensnared in an immigration nightmare after the Canadian government refused to issue visas to their newly adopted children, amid confusion… Continue reading 5 B.C. families stranded in Japan get Canadian visas for adopted babies
B.C. cat cafe temporarily closes after running out of cats
It seems as though a unique Vancouver café is a victim of its own success. Catfé, and establishment that’s part café, part foster home for adoptable rescue cats, has temporarily shut down after running out of cats. “Due to the overwhelming success of adoptions in our first few weeks, we have run out of cats!,”… Continue reading B.C. cat cafe temporarily closes after running out of cats
Romanian adoptee stays close with birth mother year after meeting
‘You look so hard, forever, and then it’s there,’ adoptee says A year after a Calgary woman flew to Romania to meet her birth mother and family, she’s still keeping in touch. “You look so hard, forever, and then it’s there,” said Juliana Tollifson. Tollifson was one of the 10,000 Romanian babies adopted by international… Continue reading Romanian adoptee stays close with birth mother year after meeting
Adopted grandson and new grandfather bond over missing right hands
Paradise, N.L., couple says young boy’s disability didn’t sway them from adopting A couple in Paradise, N.L., weren’t deterred when they learned the boy they wanted to adopt from an orphanage in Kazakhstan was born without his right hand. Lesley and Doug Facey said it actually made them want to adopt the boy, named Kirill,… Continue reading Adopted grandson and new grandfather bond over missing right hands