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Also Thursday, the Calgary Flames announced its American Hockey League affiliate team, the Stockton Heat, will play the season from the Scotiabank Saddledome as part of the AHL’s Canadian division.
Corbella: COVID vaccine solution was here in Calgary while Trudeau looked to China
Columnist Licia Corbella writes:
The CEO of a Calgary-based biotechnology firm says if he had been able to procure $35 million from the federal government instead of just $4.7 million, it would be in Stage 3 clinical trials right now with a Canadian vaccine similar to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
Brad Sorenson, the founder and CEO of Providence Therapeutics — which has offices in Calgary and Toronto — announced on Tuesday that Providence had begun Phase 1 trials of its mRNA vaccine that it plans to produce in Calgary with Calgary company Northern RNA.
After reaching out to the federal government in early March, Sorenson says he and his senior staff first met with Health Canada’s Biologic and Radiopharmaceutical Drugs Directorate on March 24.
They were told that they would get a response in a couple of weeks.
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Varcoe: Pressure mounting for province to step up with additional help for closed eateries
Columnist Chris Varcoe writes:
A handful of restaurants across the province opened their doors this week, disregarding public health restrictions.
It was entirely predictable.
After a few hair salons and personal service businesses ignored provincial health rules and opened earlier this month, miraculously, restrictions tied to the pandemic were lifted on those sectors.
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