Finance Minister Donna Harpauer. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
In a change from previous years, Premier Scott Moe and Saskatchewan Finance Minister Donna Harpauer learned the details of the federal budget at the same time as the rest of the country.
Normally, there would have been a meeting to explain the details prior to budget day, but that didn’t happen this year.
“We hope that the federal government (will) and I’m sure they will engage over the course of this week into next week with the provinces on what are some of the details of the programs that were announced today and how we can apply them to best suit folks in communities right across Saskatchewan,” Moe said after the budget was released Monday.
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Research team at the University of Saskatchewan s VIDO-InterVac. Photo Courtesy: University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) wants Saskatchewan to become the home of Canada’s future pandemic response and it’s asking residents to help make that a reality.
A fundraising effort has been launched in order to raise $5 million of the $66-million price tag to upgrade existing facilities of VIDO-InterVac.
It would then be known as Canada’s Centre for Pandemic Research. People can donate through the organization’s website.
“We don’t have a true centre for pandemic research, but VIDO is well positioned to be this,” Ryan Thompson, chair of VIDO’s board, said on Gormley on Tuesday.
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