Saskatoon news

• Mastiff named Martha wins World's Ugliest Dog Contest

  24-06-2017 22:38
  
  A three-year-old, 125-pound Neapolitan Mastiff has won the 29th annual World’s Ugliest Dog Contest.
  
  Read more

• Arrests made after RCMP standoff in North Battleford following firearm complaint

  24-06-2017 21:47 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Two men were taken into police custody after a standoff with RCMP at a North Battleford home following a firearm complaint.
  “Multiple RCMP members” were on the scene Saturday morning in the 2000 block of 101st Street in north-central North Battleford, according to police in a news release.
  Following the conclusion of the incident shortly after noon, a police presence was expected in the area in the immediate aftermath.
  The investigation into the incident is continuing.
  
  Read more

• Rowing Rally to Grace the River Sunday dlvr.it/PPppB9 https://t.co/8ZeZkUcIis

  24-06-2017 21:30
  
  Rowing Rally to Grace the River Sunday dlvr.it/PPppB9 https://t.co/8ZeZkUcIis
  
  Read more

• Several WHLers Selected in NHL Draft, No Saskatoon Blades dlvr.it/PPpn7d https://t.co/rJtDCusz0y

  24-06-2017 21:27
  
  Several WHLers Selected in NHL Draft, No Saskatoon Blades dlvr.it/PPpn7d https://t.co/rJtDCusz0y
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• PREVIEW: Julian Taylor wants a bigger bite of the big time

  24-06-2017 20:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Julian Taylor’s first sample of show business tasted like grapes.
  At summer camp, he entertained fellow campers on skit night by putting as many grapes into his mouth as he could.
  “The audience loved it. They roared. It was really my first time on stage and I loved it, too.”
  Taylor revisited that moment in the video for the song Coke Bottle Candy from the band’s new album Desert Star. Responding to his drummer’s dare, he put as many Coke candies into his mouth as hu
  
  Read more

• Police looking for suspect after vehicle stolen

  24-06-2017 19:02
  
  Saskatoon police are looking for one suspect after a vehicle was stolen in the 2100 block of 22nd Street West on Friday night.
  
  Read more

• Two arrested after firearms complaint in North Battleford

  24-06-2017 19:00
  
  Two men have been taken into custody after a firearm complaint in the2000 block of 101st Street in North Battleford on Saturday.
  
  Read more

• Area in North Battleford blocked by RCMP due to firearm complaint

  24-06-2017 19:00
  
  North Battleford RCMP are asking the public to avoid the 2000 block of 101st Street due to a firearm complaint.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Amanda Marshall rocks Saskatoon for first time in 20 years

  24-06-2017 18:55
  Canadian pop-rock singer Amanda Marshall sang her heart out to kick off opening night of the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival.
  The sold out show of 3,500 people could be heard singing to almost every song at the Delta Bessborough Gardens Friday night.
  "I flew in from Vancouver at 7 a.m. this morning to see her," said Tracy Mitchell Friday night, she saw the singer eight years ago in Vancouver. "Now we get to see a little bit of Saskatoon, I'm so thankful for the experience."
  The 44-year-old si
  
  Read more

• Province Slows Down Elimination Process for Hearing Aid Plan dlvr.it/PPnPkv https://t.co/lcBXEl4iWh

  24-06-2017 18:50
  
  Province Slows Down Elimination Process for Hearing Aid Plan dlvr.it/PPnPkv https://t.co/lcBXEl4iWh
  
  Read more

• No shrinking violet: Begonia talks power and confidence ahead of Saskatoon jazz fest shows

  24-06-2017 18:21 via cbc.ca
  
  Alexa Dirks took her stage name from a flower but she's no shrinking violet.
  
  Read more

• Regina, Saskatoon Police charge seven after drug trafficking investigation

  24-06-2017 18:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  Seven people have been charged after Saskatoon and Regina police arrested many in relation to their drug trafficking investigation.
  
  Read more

• Pride Parade Today dlvr.it/PPn4bw https://t.co/Z5pClotWgf

  24-06-2017 18:10
  
  Pride Parade Today dlvr.it/PPn4bw https://t.co/Z5pClotWgf
  
  Read more

• Wowed by the crowd: Big turnout for 2017 Saskatoon Pride parade

  24-06-2017 17:53 via cbc.ca
  
  Charlie Clark became the first mayor of the city to lead the parade, which drew thousands of participants and spectators.
  
  Read more

• At least 5,000 people expected for 17th Saskatoon Pride parade Saturday

  24-06-2017 17:53 via cbc.ca
  
  Charlie Clark is the first mayor of the city to lead the parade, which is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, according to the Saskatoon Pride Festival.
  
  Read more

• Police seek suspect in Mount Royal carjacking

  24-06-2017 17:24
  A terrifying incident for a driver on the 2100 block of 22nd Street West Friday night.
  According to Saskatoon Police, a man armed with a knife approached a Kia around 8:45 p.m. and forced the driver out, taking the car, cash and a cell phone.
  As he drove off he hit a parked vehicle, soon after he collided with another parked car on Avenue X North.
  After the second collision, he abandoned the Kia, stole a bicycle and fled.
  The suspect is described at Indigenous, in his mid 20's standing 5-feet-10
  
  Read more

• Saskatoon's Babey lives a "life dream" through sledge hockey

  24-06-2017 17:04 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Coach Ken Babey was always a standup guy when it came to hockey. 
  He’s since discovered there’s more than one way to play the game — standup hockey, as they call it, is just one version — which is why he speaks so passionately about the Paralympics staple of sledge hockey.
  “I was amazed about the physicality of the game,” says Babey, who coached the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology men’s hockey team for 27 years before taking head-coaching d
  
  Read more

• Kite Flying Festival This Weekend dlvr.it/PPmG1R https://t.co/OOkKAuPUUY

  24-06-2017 16:36
  
  Kite Flying Festival This Weekend dlvr.it/PPmG1R https://t.co/OOkKAuPUUY
  
  Read more

• Suspect in Saskatoon holdup crashes stolen Kia into 2 parked vehicles

  24-06-2017 16:03 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatoon police say a man armed with a knife stole a vehicle from its driver before crashing it into two parked cars Friday night.
  
  Read more

• Saturday Sports Schedule dlvr.it/PPlz77 https://t.co/y02VpI6ZY9

  24-06-2017 16:03
  
  Saturday Sports Schedule dlvr.it/PPlz77 https://t.co/y02VpI6ZY9
  
  Read more

• Friday Scoreboard dlvr.it/PPlz2K https://t.co/KEsIttbnfY

  24-06-2017 16:03
  
  Friday Scoreboard dlvr.it/PPlz2K https://t.co/KEsIttbnfY
  
  Read more

• Montreal police seek suspect scamming women on dating apps

  24-06-2017 16:01
  
  Montreal police are looking for a suspect whom they allege used mobile dating apps like Tinder to scam women out of money.
  
  Read more

• Saskatoon StarPhoenix daily update: June 24, 2017

  24-06-2017 16:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Stay up to date with the news and stories that matter in Saskatoon and beyond, delivered each morning Monday through Saturday.
  LOCAL
  Hearing Aid Plan to continue past July 1 in Saskatoon
  Hearing impaired children in Saskatoon can continue to access the subsidized provincial hearing aid plan after its scheduled July 1 termination date. Health Minister Jim Reiter said the program will continue to run until the government is confident the private sector can pick up the slack. “My ministr
  
  Read more

• Good and bad debt

  24-06-2017 16:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Canadians today are carrying more debt than previous generations. Some debt is good debt. Other debt is bad. Then there is ugly debt.
   
  Good debt
  Good debt helps you to purchase a home or a vehicle or investments. Business loans and education loans that help you increase your income are good, too. The majority of Canadian debt is good debt.
  Of course, you should have a strategy to repay even good loans in full — either during the life of the asset or by the time you retire.
  Unfortunat
  
  Read more

• Traffic restrictions in place for Pride Parade

  24-06-2017 15:07
  With thousands of people expected to line the streets of downtown Saskatoon Saturday for the Pride Parade parking and traffic restrictions will be in effect.
  From 12 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. the parade route will be closed off.
  It includes:
  -The off ramp from Idylwyld Drive northbound to 1st Avenue.
  -4th Avenue from 21st Street East to 22nd Street East.
  -21st Street East from 3rd Avenue S to 4th Avenue South.
  -3rd Avenue South from 20th Street East to 21st Street East.
  -20th Street East from 1st Avenue
  
  Read more

• PLAY REVIEW: Who’s Afraid of Chris Jones?

  24-06-2017 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  What if sports stories looked more like theatre reviews? Why, I imagine they would sound a lot like this:
  PLAY REVIEW: Who’s Afraid of Chris Jones?
  The curtain opened on a disappointing night for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, who lost 17-16 to the Montreal Alouettes in front of a small audience at Percival Molson Theatre on Thursday.
  The plot was interesting, though not terribly original — the story of a coach who underestimates his quarterback, insults him and trades him to another
  
  Read more

• Lexis Homes offers new layout in Evergreen

  24-06-2017 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The Thrive floor plan is new for Lexis Homes, but offers a comfortable living space that will serve a busy family well. Located at 239 Baltzan Boulevard in Evergreen, this spec-built home offers an affordable, modern take with an efficient design.
  “With it being just a little over 1,600 square feet people are surprised it has a mud room, full laundry (room) upstairs, and in the ensuite bathroom it has a tub and a shower. So those are all things you see when you start getting into the bigge
  
  Read more

• 'It's a living hell': Problems with neighbours in illegal suite are escalating, Saskatoon man says

  24-06-2017 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Sheldon Tarry says he spends every night awake, sitting in a chair in his kitchen with a two-by-four piece of lumber in his hands, waiting for someone to break into his home again. 
  He’s too afraid to sleep after his house has been repeatedly vandalized, broken into, and robbed, the 50-year-old said in an interview on Friday.
  “It’s a living hell,” he said. “I fight the same battle as everybody else here … and we’re the ones getting called names and
  
  Read more

• Cuthand: Reconciliation is not enough to create change in Sask

  24-06-2017 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Once again Aboriginal Day has come and gone and things in Saskatchewan can go back to the lopsided existence we regard as normal.
  It seems that our people are always reaching out and making efforts to foster inclusion. When our people first began the urban migration, each major city in Canada developed a friendship centre. The object of these institutions was to welcome aboriginal people and create a safe space to go and integrate into the city. The concept behind the friendship centres was that
  
  Read more

• Camp Oshkidee is unique for focusing solely on families

  24-06-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  In the 1960s, Saskatoon physician Dr. Henry Block was instrumental in establishing Camp Oshkidee on Jeannette Lake about 40 minutes north of Meadow lake.
  Initially, the camp was established as a permanent site for Christian Service Brigade in Saskatoon to use to take members of the boys club on wilderness camping and canoe trips. The Brigade’s stringent conservation practices, that always left its camping sites in better condition than they were found, tipped the scale when Parks and Conse
  
  Read more

• Andrew Scheer distances himself from Kellie Leitch's Syrian refugee tweet

  24-06-2017 13:00
  
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says party members endorsed his positive message on immigration during the leadership campaign, suggesting former leadership rival Kellie Leitch is offside with a recent comment about Syrian refugees.
  
  Read more

• Robbery - 2100 Block 22nd Street West

  24-06-2017 12:04 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  Saskatoon Police are investigating a robbery that took place in the 2100 block of 22nd St. W.  just before 9:00 p.m. June 23, 2017.At approximately 8:42 p.m., a lone male operating a maroon Kia, was held up by a lone male armed with a knife. The suspect stole the victims vehicle, cash, and a cell phone. When the suspect left, he collided with a parked vehicle and continued to flee. He then collided with a second parked vehicle in the 900 block of Ave. X  N. at which point&nbs
  
  Read more

• These Indigenous artists say there's more to life than being 'left on the reserve'

  24-06-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Select young dancers have been tapped to showcase their skills alongside rapper Taboo at the North American Indigenous Games, and they say it's a rare opportunity to tell the world that there's more to their cultures than stereotypes.
  
  Read more

• 'I want them to be special': kite artist creates flying portraits

  24-06-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Ron Bohart is one of the kite artists whose work people can see at Windscape — the annual kite-flying festival in Swift Current, Sask.
  
  Read more

• Free trade between provinces? That would be anarchy: Neil Macdonald

  24-06-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The Gerard Comeau case, which will be heard at the Supreme Court, could change everything. It depends on how willing the high justices are to upend our entrenched statism.
  
  Read more

• Marshall makes most of main stage jazz fest show

  24-06-2017 09:40 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Amanda Marshall hasn’t released album since 2001. She doesn’t have a Twitter account, a Facebook page or a website. But based on her performance Friday night at the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, the only reasonable explanation for her absence is that she’s been cryogenically frozen for the last 16 years. She looks and sounds exactly the same. Her concert was a 1995 dream come true. And damn, did those songs hold up.
  Accompanied by a seven-piece band, the Canadian singer-s
  
  Read more

• Saskatoon robbery foiled when worker disarms thief by hitting him with metal rod

  24-06-2017 03:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  A robbery attempt in Saskatoon was apparently foiled when an employee disarmed the suspect.
  
  Read more

• Roughrider fans react with optimism to first regular season game

  24-06-2017 03:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fri, Jun 23: Thursday marked the first game Darian Durant played against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. And in it, Montreal won by a single point. As Sarah Komadina reports, the loss has left many fans with mixed emotions.
  
  Read more

• Pizzeria owner thwarts gunpoint robbery with metal rod

  24-06-2017 02:42
  A suspect is on the run, and licking his wounds, after biting off more than he could chew at Vern's Pizza early Friday morning.
  Saskatoon police said in a release the man forced his way into a business at the corner of Warman Road and Assiniboine Drive through the back entryway at 12:20 a.m. by pointing what appeared to be a black handgun at an employee.
  Staff at Vern's confirmed the incident to 650 CKOM.
  They said when the suspect entered the pizzeria, the owner attacked him with a metal rod an
  
  Read more

• Reeling in a great Saskatchewan fishing experience

  24-06-2017 02:26 via cbc.ca
  
  Longtime fishermen Jason Matity and Wayne Phillips discussed some of the best fish to reel in when fishing in Saskatchewan.
  
  Read more

• Combustible cladding allowed in some Saskatoon buildings

  24-06-2017 02:20
  
  The City of Saskatoon says some types of combustible cladding is permitted in construction projects in the city under certain conditions.
  
  Read more

• New accountable care unit reduces hospital stays by 2.5 days at St. Paul's Hospital

  24-06-2017 02:16 via cbc.ca
  
  The Saskatchewan government and its Saskatoon Health Region have launched a new unit at the city's St. Paul's Hospital designed to decrease the amount of time patients spend in the hospital.
  
  Read more

• Footing the bill: Yukon willing to swap free trip for human toes

  24-06-2017 02:11
  
  Tourism Yukon has started a strange (but they insist, very real) search for donated human toes. The macabre contest comes after a brown, mummified toe served in a famous cocktail in Dawson City went missing.
  
  Read more

• Four cases dismissed due to delays following Supreme Court decision

  24-06-2017 01:54 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  In the year since the Supreme Court set rules for how long people can wait for criminal trials, four cases in Saskatchewan — including a sexual assault case — have been dismissed because of delays.
  In a ruling last July, R. v. Jordan, the Supreme Court of Canada said trials must go ahead in provincial court within 18 months of charges being laid and in superior court within 30 months of charges being laid. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, waits longer than that are deemed
  
  Read more

• 'You've got to be kidding me': NDP blasts government appointment process after SHA director resigns

  24-06-2017 01:49 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The Saskatchewan NDP is blasting the provincial government’s appointment process after one of the directors of its new Saskatchewan Health Authority resigned over a series of “unacceptable” posts shared on his personal Facebook page, including one less than a week before he was named to the new organization’s board. 
  Don Rae, who is the president and CEO of Yorkton-based Crusader Drilling Corp., submitted his resignation to Health Minister Jim Reiter on Thursday, hou
  
  Read more

• Hearing Aid Plan to continue past July 1 in Saskatoon

  24-06-2017 01:26 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Hearing impaired children in Saskatoon can continue to access the subsidized provincial hearing aid plan after its scheduled July 1 termination date.
  Health Minister Jim Reiter said the program will continue to run until the government is confident the private sector can pick up the slack.
  “My ministry officials tell me that there’s not as robust a private sector to be able to provide hearing aid services to children in Saskatoon because of the size of the program that Saskatoon Heal
  
  Read more

• 'Think of social media as a virtual resumé,' expert warns in light of health board resignation

  24-06-2017 01:24 via cbc.ca
  
  A communications expert was surprised to learn a member of the new Saskatchewan Health Authority board stepped down because of social media posts.
  
  Read more

• Local senior stitches quilt to honour Canada Day

  24-06-2017 01:23 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  After owning a dairy farm and working as a school custodian, John Friesen is not one for letting his hands fall idle.
  The 87-year-old, who lives with his wife Anne in Lawson Heights, now enjoys spending his days quilting, a pastime he took up after a spinal surgery left him paralyzed on the right side of his body.
  “I had to do something, I can’t just sit still,” he explains. “And it’s a good thing that I got a machine that I can control with my fingers so I don&rsqu
  
  Read more

• Minute at the Movies: June 23

  24-06-2017 01:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  In this week’s edition of Minute at the Movies, Todd James reviews “The Bad Batch” and “Churchill.”
  
  Read more

• City hall proposes $1.3M to help upgrade Mendel building

  24-06-2017 00:59 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Saskatoon city council faces a 2,052-page agenda at Monday’s meeting.
  Some of the issues and initiatives under consideration:
  MUSEUM MONEY
  A City of Saskatoon report proposes the city spend $1.3 million to upgrade the former Mendel Art Gallery building to help prepare it to become the new home for the Children’s Discovery Museum. Dave Hunchak, chair of the museum’s facilities committee, has asked for the money now because he believes more than $500,000 can be saved by doing ren
  
  Read more

Follow @Saskatoon_News on Twitter!