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A potential COVID-19 vaccine has achieved a "major milestone" in moving toward human clinical trials, according to researchers in Saskatchewan. The University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) said Monday that a vaccine candidate it has developed has proven to be "highly effective" in pre-clinical…

A Saskatoon mother is concerned the Saskatchewan Health Authority is using a hand sanitizing gel that may be harmful to individuals who are nursing or breastfeeding.  A May 21 memo obtained by CBC sent to staff across the authority indicated a type of Health Care Plus Sanitizing Hand Gel "is unsafe for pregnant and nursing women" as it uses "technical grade ethanol…

Dr. Fergall Magee and his team waited for another shipment that never came. The provincial and clinical lead for integrated lab services with the Saskatchewan Health Authority and his colleagues were doing everything they could to get enough swabs, chemicals and equipment to test the people of Saskatchewan for the novel coronavirus. The problem was that nearly every other jurisdiction in the…

TORONTO -- A little over two months ago, there was a titanic shift in Canada's attitude toward COVID-19. Almost overnight, what had been thought of as primarily a problem for other parts of the world was suddenly understood to be the greatest public health threat the country had seen in generations. Many Canadians found themselves caught off-guard, surprised to find out that schools and…

The Saskatchewan Teachers Federation has ratified a collective bargaining agreement with the provincial government, the STF announced Thursday evening. The deal includes nothing about class composition and complexity, the biggest priority for the teachers, who had been in bargaining since August. "The Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee was unwilling to include any provisions about…