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Michael Houghton, the institute's other director and a Nobel laureate, said the initiative would focus on so-called "small-molecule" drugs — chemically-synthesized drugs that make up the great majority of what's in people's medicine cabinets. Ibuprofen, for example, is a small-molecule drug.

Questions about what to do with the national flag have surfaced in the lead-up to Remembrance Day, an occasion on which it has traditionally been lowered to half-mast as a tribute to soldiers who died while serving Canada.

While Canada has more than 17.5 million shots of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccine in federal and provincial freezers, the doses being donated to COVAX will not come from that supply. Instead, Canada is donating the remainder of doses paid for but not yet received, which means it's up to the suppliers to provide the delivery schedule.

The goal, the report said, would be to allow more money for front-line enforcement and give communities more say in how they are policed.

So far 61 AHS employees have resigned because of the vaccine policy, including 31 in clinical roles. Eleven were registered nurses.

The federal government has said it now aims for a 40- to 45-per-cent reduction in emissions by 2035. To help meet that target, the government has announced five-year emissions-reductions targets for the oil and gas industry as well as regulations around methane.

The legislation is a response to a growing problem of oil and gas companies, both solvent and insolvent, not paying municipal property taxes. After several years of hard times and low prices in the oilpatch, Rural Municipalities Alberta says those unpaid taxes now total $245 million — about half of which is from companies still operating. 

Doug Schweitzer, when asked by reporters why Kimmel would try to resolve the issue by going to others but not him, did not answer directly. “Not one thing was alleged about me, my conduct, my office, the environment of my office," he said.

The silver lining is that crop prices are very high right now, Ward Toma from the Alberta Canola Producers said, so producers can sell half their crop at double the price and salvage their income for the year. 

Among his first priorities will be legislating or regulating an emissions cap on oil and gas, and then setting targets to force them downward over the next 30 years, in five-year increments.