B.C. children’s minister orders urgent review to see if other kids in care are stuck in hotels

B.C.’s children’s minister has ordered an immediate review to determine whether there are more foster kids in hotels that senior officials don’t know about, one day after The Vancouver Sun reported a youth in foster care was living in a hotel and died when he fell out a window. Stephanie Cadieux said she’s upset to learn about the case of Alex Gervais, the teenager who fell to his death last week from a fourth-floor window at an Abbotsford hotel while under the care of B.C.’s child welfare system, because his care plan did not include staying at a hotel.