When Ivan Teteria walked across the University of Saskatchewan campus for his first week of classes this fall, it felt like proof that everything he’d worked for was finally paying off.

Three years earlier, as the war in Ukraine escalated, he left home and arrived in Regina as a 15-year-old, unsure of the life ahead of him.

In a new city, he tried to rebuild a sense of normalcy with school, friends and a future he could plan for.

That future proved to be within reach with the help of a Saskatchewan program allowing Ukrainian students who fled the war to pay the same tuition as Canadians.

Now a first-year politcal science student, Teteria worries that door could soon close.

"People who are sincerely concerned about their future don’t need 'could bes' or 'maybes,'" Teteria said. "They n

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