News Release

Released: 01/30/01 Contact: Dean Pelkey
NR 01-01 (604) 899-6880 or
(BC only) 1-800-373-6393


Vancouver -- Grade 8 students at Vancouver's Sir Charles Tupper Secondary school will be getting a lesson in budgeting and personal finance from Steve Wilson, the British Columbia Securities Commission executive director.

Wilson and other BCSC employees will be presenting a one-day program in money management and budgeting to students in partnership with Junior Achievement, Thursday, February 1 at Sir Charles Tupper Secondary.

Media are invited to sit in on Wilson's class between 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

Last year the BCSC provided Junior Achievement with a $50,000 grant to develop and present the Dollars and Sense program, a one-day course focused on investing and personal economics for Grade 8 students. The partnership has expanded this year with BCSC employees joining Junior Achievement in presenting the program in the classroom.

"By helping Junior Achievement provide financial education at the high school level, we are stimulating investment confidence and an entrepreneurial spirit in young people that will ultimately contribute to a growing and healthy capital market in B.C.," Wilson said.

"Staff at the commission strongly supports this effort to help teens gain more knowledge about finances and investing in order to plan for their financial future."

What: BCSC's Steve Wilson teaching money management to Grade 8 students
When: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, February 1
Where: Charles Tupper Secondary
419 E 24th Ave. Vancouver

The B.C. Securities Commission is the independent provincial government agency responsible for regulating trading in securities and exchange contracts within the B.C. For more information, contact Dean Pelkey, media relations officer, at 899-6880.