Teaching kids to swim also plays a crucial role in drowning prevention, but the pandemic did set lessons back significantly with aquatic centres closed and restrictions on class sizes put in place
In some programs, applications at Vanier and Dawson College are skyrocketing, and the schools have less wiggle room to bring in new students. As a result, high schoolers with grades in the upper 80s and lower 90s are being told they haven't made the cut.