Kenney to give update on Alberta's goals to make its own vaccine

Alberta is set to give an update on its ambitions to make vaccine in the province.

Watch the news conference live at 11 a.m. at CTVNewsEdmonton.ca. 

, whose director was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2020 for his part in the discovery of the hepatitis C virus in 1989, for which the researchers have since moved on to making a vaccine. At the time, the Alberta government said the dollars were "more important than ever in the COVID pandemic context" because in future health emergencies, Canada doesn't want to be "at the whim" of other countries.