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It will be only the second time he’s ever been on a plane — he flew to Toronto for the first time a few weeks ago — and his first time in the North.

“That’s just amazing,” he said of the prospect.

Jonathan has received many other kindnesses in the wake of Saturday’s story.

That story — it includes a series of moving and graphic pictures taken from moments in Jonathan’s day — has been viewed more than 270,000 times on the Citizen website.

Two airlines, Air North and First Air, have offered to fly him to Yellowknife or Whitehorse to see the Northern Lights; officials from the Ottawa Senators, TSN and Sportsnet have reached out to him given his interest in hockey and sportscasting. Readers in Canada’s North have offered him accommodation in their homes. Students from his Embrun Catholic high school have added him as a friend on Facebook. Others have offered him yoga lessons, naturopathy and friendship.

Meanwhile, Michael Hyatt, co-founder of the high-tech firm Bluecat Networks, announced that the Hyatt Family Foundation will match up to $16,000 in new donations to DEBRA Canada.

Many readers said they found in Jonathan an inspiration. “I am humbled and so deeply, deeply moved by Jonathan’s courage and determination under circumstances that no child should ever have to endure,” said reader John Newman in one such post.

Jonathan, a strong student who was at the top of his class in Grade 8, didn’t have time to study on the weekend and needed Monday to rest.