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A St. Lawrence Secondary School student who loves math has earned what’s considered to be the most-coveted science and engineering scholarship in the country.
Affaan Ali, in Grade 12 at the Cornwall school, recently learned he was selected from thousands from across Canada to be one of 100 recipients of the Schulich Leader Scholarship, valued at $80,000, but likely priceless in that it could help open a lot of doors in his future.
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“The experience has been amazing,” said Ali, who’s just 17 and not certain of what career path he’ll eventually follow – but he acknowledges “(the scholarship) does change a lot of things.”
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Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Monday, March 15, 2021:
There have been 318,106 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 1,747 (or 0.6 per cent) from the previous day. Public Health Ontario says Sunday’s count was higher due to data catch-up. There are 298,570 people recovered from the virus while 7,153 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 11,755,109 of which 18,494 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 909,157. The country has 22,463 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, one in Nunavut, 1,397 in British Columbia, 1,946 in Alberta, 407 in Saskatchewan, 917 in Manitoba, 7,153 in Ontario, 10,540 in Quebec, 30 in New Brunswick, six in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.