Manitoba is now one of the first provinces to allow its young people between the ages of 12-17 all 111,00 of them to get the shot. Pfizer-BioNTech is the only COVID-19 vaccine approved for this age group in Canada so far.
Vaccine raises hope of achieving hoop dreams
Samuel Sola 16, plays basketball at Sturgeon Heights Collegiate, and dreams of playing for the Toronto Raptors one day.(Gary Solilak/CBC)
Ahmed is not alone. Later on the same neighbourhood court, two brothers are playing a rare one-on-one game. Samuel Sola, 16, goes in for the dunk shot and scores another two points on his older brother, Joshua Sola, 18.