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MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2021 Fighting COVID-19 at Canada’s Synchrotron Performance Cycling Program for Youth Arrowhead Helicopter Steel-Craft Door Charter Services MADE IN CANADA Ducks Unlimited Rockglen’s Unique PRESErvING Paleontology SASKAtchEWAN HERITAGE Visit Abode Furniture’s NEW Showroom Royal Saskatchewan Museum & T.REX Discovery Centre SUMMER TOURS WELCOME TO MULBERRy’s! MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2021 Mulberry’s Restaurant & Catering is a Fighting COVID-19 The Canadian Light Source local family owned & operated business at Canada’s Synchrotron that has been serving Saskatoon for over 40 years .We are excited about our Performance Cycling Program for Youth Arrowhead move to our new location at 2326 B Millar Helicopter Steel-Craft Door Charter Services MADE IN CANADA Ave in January 2020, and look forward to Ducks Unlimited Rockglenn’s Unique PRESERVING Paleontology SASKATCHEWAN HERITAGE Visit Abode Furniture’s maintaining our quality dining for you in NEW Showroom our bright and cheery environment. Royal Saskatchewan Museum & T.REX Discovery Centre SUMMER TOURS Whatever your taste, Mulberry’s is sure to Cover photo courtesy: have something for you; whether it is early Canadian Light Source morning breakfast, fresh baked bread, Exciting Things are Happening late night parties and catering for your Copyright & Disclaimer: gatherings. The material distributed in at Mulberry’s on Millar Avenue! the Suddenly Saskatchewan Magazine is for information purposes only. Suddenly he Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan is Saskatchewan Magazine a national research facility, producing the brightest light in Canada— The popular restaurant is becoming “The Fully licensed North assumes no liability or End EVENT Centre.” Mulberry’s broadened facilities and expertise responsibility for any millions of times brighter than even the sun. One of the largest science inaccurate, delayed or enable the restaurant to take care of your private gatherings, incomplete information, projects in our country’s history, the CLS hosts annually more than 1,000 whether corporate meetings or group gatherings, fundraising nor for any actions taken scientists from around the world who use our light to conduct ground-breaking in reliance thereon. The T dinners or reunions, whatever the occasion. information contained health, agricultural, environmental and advanced materials research. about each individual, Mulberry’s efficiency can cater “out of house” up to 5oo people, event or organization has servicing corporate events, all family functions, including weddings, been provided by such CLS, Canada’s only synchrotron, produces light by using radio frequency waves and reunions and more. Mulberry’s experience of over 4o years has individual, event organizers or organization without powerful electro-magnets to accelerate and bend beams of electrons to nearly the options available for every need. verification by us. speed of light, which creates a light so bright that it can reveal details not otherwise Stop in on your way to work for the tasty Visit our website www.mulberrys.ca to help plan your next The opinion expressed in able to be seen. daily breakfast special and excellent gathering. You can also check us out on facebook. Watch soon for a each article is the opinion of its author and does not coffee, served ‘til 11 a.m. A treat awaits you Farmer’s Market on Wednesdays starting June 23. necessarily reflect the opinion with 3 different kinds of uncomparable of the Suddenly Saskatchewan home-made cinnamon buns, fresh Magazine. Therefore, Suddenly Saskatchewan Magazine homemade pies and other baked goods carries no responsibility for made available daily. Fresh from the the opinion expressed thereon. Please direct any questions or oven are 10 varieties of bread made in comments by email to: Mulberry’s to choose from. It is baked [email protected] daily and freshness is guaranteed! Any form of reproduction of any content in this publication Mulberry’s is also known for their without the written permission daily lunch specials, with a choice of the publisher is strictly of two delicious home made prohibited. soups served daily, available © 2017 Suddenly through dine-in or take out. 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Closed Sundays and Holidays www.mulberrys.ca Tel. 306-230-1621 – Dine in or Take Out – [email protected] www.suddenlysask.com Our website is hosted 2 SUDDENLY SASKATCHEWAN MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2021 courtesy of WebDexter.ca SUMMER 2021 | SUDDENLY SASKATCHEWAN MAGAZINE 3 The Canadian Light Source invites you to take a Virtual TOUR of Canada’s only Synchrotron ake a virtual tour of Canada’s only synchrotron! Take a self-guided tour Tthrough the machinery that creates Canada’s brightest light and the beamline laboratories used to study questions in health, agriculture, the environment and advanced materials. While enjoying behind- the-scenes views (the tour explores areas even our staff rarely get to see!) you’ll learn fun facts about our facility and the wide variety of research it enables. The tour is free of charge and available 24/7 online. www.lightsource.ca/tours Be Reconnected. From North Dakota to our Canadian friends, we miss you. When it is safe to travel again, we look forward to reconnecting with our neighbours. We can’t wait to welcome you back to our wide-open spaces and to serve you with our cities’ warm hospitality. Visit us online to plan your future holiday. LegendaryND.com 4 SUDDENLY SASKATCHEWAN MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2021 COVID testing goes tiny Imagine a COVID-19 testing site so small that it could fit on a postage stamp. Researchers from the CLS and Université Laval are trying to create a device with multiple miniscule channels through which a small fluid sample from a patient could flow FIGHTING COVID-19 along with an accessory that could systematically run various tests through the channels to determine at Canada’s Synchrotron if the patient has coronavirus. A prototype of the device has been produced that will be refined and replicated. If successful, this project could improve sterilization, key to being able to turn N95s from With unique world-class facilities and research tools, groundbreaking research has been taking Canada’s testing and contact tracing performance. place in Saskatchewan in the fight against COVID-19. At the Canadian Light Source, scientists have single-use to reusable and secure the supply of been conducting specialized research and using the synchrotron to study the novel coronavirus. these important personal protective devices. Antiviral development A University of Alberta researcher is using data by University of Toronto scientists has developed collected at the CLS to develop treatments for synthetic antibodies that could be used to protect COVID-19. CLS technology allows scientists to people, or as therapeutics for patients struggling to look at the 3D shape of proteins to see how drugs fight the virus. They will use the CLS to see in detail bond. The scientist is working on a drug validated how the antibodies work against the coronavirus, for use in cats that has proven to be effective foundational information that could lead to improved against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The goal of the study antibody therapeutics and guide vaccine design. is to advance the development of more effective inhibitors and possibly more effective antivirals. Studying key COVID-19 virus enzyme Researchers from the University of Calgary are working to develop therapeutics for COVID-19 by studying the polymerase of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. This enzyme copies the genetic material of the virus and is crucial to the creation of new viruses. The goal is to use the enzyme data to design new drugs that will inhibit the polymerase, which will prevent the virus from Securing the supply of N95s making new viruses and stop the infection in its A collaboration between the CLS and the Vaccine tracks. and Infectious Disease Organization—both national research facilities at University of Saskatchewan— Antibodies made in a lab has scientists trying to understand the structural Researchers have developed antibodies that can changes happening inside N95 respirator masks neutralize COVID-19. Once exposed, humans after being sterilized for reuse. Unique synchrotron create antibodies to fight viruses but the same tools allow them to study the tightly woven, antibodies can also be created in the lab. A team led microscopic fibres for changes or degradation after 6 SUDDENLY SASKATCHEWAN MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2021 7 Living Alchemy rests on 3 principles: POWER OF FERMENTATION We are experts in a traditional living culture fermentation combined with ancient holistic medicine, such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. 100% NATURAL Inhibiting protein key to new therapies the papain-like protease, a protein the SARS-CoV-2 We always use certified From their lab at the University of Alberta, scientists virus needs to establish a COVID-19 infection. This organic, non-GMO verified are using the CLS to find new therapies to treat important protein cuts a long chain of viral proteins whole foods, herbs and mushrooms. Nothing is fake COVID-19. With the help of the CLS, they will analyze into smaller functional parts and is the first protein created in a lab.