The Pulse: March 10, 2021

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Leduc partnering with TELUS to bring PureFibre to city

Leduc partnering with TELUS to bring PureFibre to city


By Stephen Cook in the Regional Roundup

The City of Leduc is partnering with TELUS to bring PureFibre internet service to the city's downtown core over the next two years.

TELUS will fund and oversee the project, which will include engagement with business properties in the area prior to construction. A construction schedule will be released in the future but will cover the city's downtown, business parks, and Leduc Common.

Work is expected to be completed by the fall of 2022. 

“As a community invested in the social and economic development of our region, the City of Leduc recognizes the importance of upgrading broadband connectivity for businesses and has explored options with private telecommunications companies to enhance connectivity to businesses in our city over the past several years," Mayor Bob Young told Taproot. 

"We are confident that the partnership with TELUS to bring PureFibre internet service to our business community will have a significant positive impact on the success and viability of businesses in our city, and will also enable the broader region to benefit from better connectivity in the long term."

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U of A health research to receive $6.5M in federal funding

U of A health research to receive $6.5M in federal funding


By Hiba Kamal-Choufi in the Health Innovation Roundup

University of Alberta health research is getting a funding boost from the federal government through the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to advance two projects: one that aims to better understand chronic health conditions and develop potential treatments, and another that investigates the impact of toxins on people’s health.

CFI is investing $3.9 million to support the U of A's Protein Misfolding Scientific Exploration (ProMiSE) team, led by David Westaway, who is the director of the university’s Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases.

Westaway said that the new infrastructure funding will help his team advance its understanding of misfolded proteins linked with dementia, and eventually develop potential treatments for diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS.

"Proteins do useful things, they carry out actions, and those actions depend on them being in a specific shape, but if proteins get into the wrong shape, they will start performing malicious actions that damage our cells," explained Westaway.

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Quiz time: Cleantech

Quiz time: Cleantech

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  3. SeeO2 Energy
  4. Winecrush
  5. ZS2 Technologies

See Thursday's issue of The Pulse for the answer.

The answer to the March 9 quiz was b — Common Ground Arts Society is bringing Why Not Theatre's RISER program to Edmonton.

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