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William Bourgault never suspected that cleaning out his closet last summer could help hundreds of kids in Ottawa get free shoes.
The 21-year-old Algonquin College student is the founder and operator of one of the city’s newest charitable groups: Footwear 4 Kids, which provides shoes, boots and everything in between to young people in need.
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He started the group after deciding last summer that he wanted to donate some of the shoes he had outgrown, but realizing there wasn’t really any specific organization set up to accept used footwear.
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Student unions in Ottawa are applauding the new federal budget, saying funding increases for grants, extension of the interest-free period for loans and changes to the repayment assistance program will make post-secondary education more accessible.
The Trudeau Liberals pledged $4.1 billion to help ease the financial burden of post-education in Monday’s sprawling financial blueprint, quickly winning plaudits from student groups who have long argued for more federal funding.
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Tim Gulliver, incoming president of the University of Ottawa’s Student Union, says the plan addresses requests that many student organizations have been making for years, calling it “a pretty historic investment” in education.
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The expansion to those 40-plus comes only days after the Ontario Progressive Conservative government introduced new restrictions to combat spiking COVID-19 cases in the province.
Given the change in eligibility, the professional association for Ontario pharmacists says deliveries of vaccines will need to pick up to meet the increased demand.
“Supply of the vaccine at the provincial level being distributed to the pharmacies, given the large change in cohort, is definitely on our minds,” said Jen Baker, chair of the board of the Ontario Pharmacists Association. She added that she expects the AstraZeneca vaccine to be available for those 18 and older in the near future.