Here's some research I have started piecing together surrounding this Confucius institute direct at the University of Saskatchewan as well as VIDO intervac and Global Water Futures.
Karen Chad
Karen Chad Confucius Institute Director https://archive.is/ITEum
CCP harassing Chinese people in Canada - students involved https://archive.is/Uu3RL
GWF - Global Water Futures
Karen Chad board of GWF https://archive.is/2TxlE
https://archive.is/2LKDJ Top Canadian and Chinese water research programs sign MOU - (GWF)
https://archive.vn/Lz46B U of S awarded $77.8M to lead Global Water Futures research program (Ralph Goodale/Karen Chad)
https://archive.is/uDXfu Federal Canada Water Agency forms - GWF pushes for national policies to protect fresh water in light of climate change
Phare believes the Canada Water Agency, if co-designed and developed with Indigenous governments, could be transformational “not only in water governance, but in truth and reconciliation.”
https://archive.is/V8Ptj GWF testing sewer water for covid - CCP researcher involved
https://gwf.usask.ca/articles/2020/usask-led-global-water-futures-announces-12-new-projects-to-advance-water-security-across-canada.php
VIDO
Karen Chad Board of Directors https://archive.is/OzVSU
https://archive.is/SX0AK Sylvia van Drunen Littel-van den Hurk VIDO profile
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Research:
Ministry of Science and Technology People's Republic of China (MSTPRC)
Research:
https://archive.is/Mv1ML
Wan, Wan-Kei
Western University
Gerdts, Volker
University of Saskatchewan
Hodgson, Paul
Unspecified
Potter, Andrew
University of Saskatchewan
Van Drunen Littel-van den Hurk, Sylvia
University of Saskatchewan
https://cognit.ca/en/research/project/154186 https://archive.is/xMhPq
Developing novel vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus and parainfluenza virus type 3
Principle: Andrew Potter
Collaborators
Volker Gerdts
Paul Hodgson
Sylvia Van Drunen Littel-van den Hurk
MSTPRC Investigating Carbon Capture in Saskatchewan https://archive.is/dzG8B
VIDO developing ASF (African Swine Fever) Vaccine https://archive.is/kplSn
China 1000 talents program https://archive.vn/xp1K3
In 2019, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology absorbed and reorganized the Thousand Talents Plan and its administering agency.3
Global Food Security (GFS) at UofS
https://archive.is/Q1vUQ Dr. Donald Baxter Scholarships in Global Food Security (Scholarships in Food and Nutrition Research) - only available to PRC students at UofS