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• Saskatchewan football fans in Ottawa ready to cheer, even though Riders aren't in the Grey Cup

  25-11-2017 22:21 via thestarphoenix.com
  OTTAWA — During the CFL regular season, Conrad Brock and Mike Hassel are bitter rivals.
  Brock, a Saskatchewan native who lives in New Brunswick, bleeds Roughrider green. His long-time friend Hassel carries a small plastic horse wherever he goes in honour of his beloved Calgary Stampeders.
  At Sunday’s Grey Cup, however, they will be on the same side.
  With Brock’s Roughriders not in the big game, he’ll support his friend’s club when they face off against the Toronto A
  
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• Mayors Tory and Nenshi tease each other on Twitter ahead of Grey Cup

  25-11-2017 20:48 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Mayors of Toronto and Calgary exchanged words about the Grey Cup on Saturday, a day before the Argonauts and Stampeders face each other in the CFL’s championship game.
  A reporter tweeted that Jim Watson, the mayor of Ottawa, which is hosting the Grey Cup, would be supporting the Toronto Argonauts with his hometown Ottawa Redblacks being eliminated in the CFL East’s semifinal.
  Toronto Mayor John Tory replied to the tweet, welcoming Watson to the Argonauts’ fanbase.
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• Sask. commercial fishers becoming increasingly dependent on pickerel for income

  25-11-2017 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  The Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation paid out just over $4.2 million to Saskatchewan fishers in the last fiscal year.
  
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• 2 Quebec men arriving in Saskatoon on train arrested by police for fraud - Globalnews.ca

  25-11-2017 20:09
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  2 Quebec men arriving in Saskatoon on train arrested by police for fraud
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  Saskatoon police say two Quebec men were arrested for fraud as they arrived in the city on a passenger train. Phil Bollman / Global News. X. - A A +. Listen. Two Quebec men were arrested for fraud as they arrived in Saskatoon on a passenger train ...
  
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• 2 Quebec men arriving in Saskatoon on train arrested by police for fraud

  25-11-2017 20:09 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatoon police say two Quebec men were arrested for fraud as they arrived in the city on a passenger train.
  
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• Carrot River RCMP investigating damage to coin boxes

  25-11-2017 20:03
  Carrot River RCMP are investigating after coin boxes at the Carrot River Car Wash were damaged on two occasions.
  
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• 5 men charged with impaired driving in 5 overnight incidents: Saskatoon police

  25-11-2017 19:55 via globalnews.ca
  Five men are facing a charge of impaired driving after a busy night for Saskatoon police.
  
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• 'I am very very grateful': Ian Hanomansing thanks the man who gave him his first job

  25-11-2017 19:44 via cbc.ca
  How a Nova Scotia man named Geoff helped a 17-year-old Ian Hanomansing launch his broadcasting career.
  
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• Circle Drive with limited access

  25-11-2017 19:28
  Power line work will restrict access to Circle Drive East between Venture Crescent and Warman Road on Sunday.
  
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• There's a new cinema in town. But how accessible is Remai Modern's SaskTel Theatre?

  25-11-2017 19:23 via cbc.ca
  The immaculate screening room joins the long list of Saskatoon movie theatres offering vintage and classic films like the perennial Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life.
  
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• Remai Modern's SaskTel Theatre mixes art-house and family fare — but no popcorn allowed

  25-11-2017 19:23 via cbc.ca
  The immaculate screening room joins the long list of Saskatoon movie theatres offering vintage and classic films like the perennial Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life.
  
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• Grizzly bears back in hibernation for second year

  25-11-2017 19:18 via thestarphoenix.com
  It’s time for a long, well-deserved nap for two of the most popular animals at the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and Zoo.
  Grizzly bears Koda and Mistaya are now officially off display and in full hibernation mode as the zoo prepares for winter. This will be the second time the bears have taken this long sleep, the result of a change made by zoo manager Tim Sinclair-Smith when he joined the Forestry Farm team in 2016. 
  Although the zoo welcomes about 30,000 visitors every winter, S
  
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• REVIEW: No map needed to find fun on Persephone's Treasure Island

  25-11-2017 19:11 via thestarphoenix.com
  It emerges from the fog under a lightning-filled sky with thunder predicting doom.
  And the audience bursts into applause at the sight of it. A pirate ship on stage, moving as if on its own? “Okay, one thinks, this is going to be cool.”
  There’s a chest full of magic in Persephone Theatre’s Treasure Island and, despite some cold-blooded murders along the journey, much humour and delight.
  The Canadian debut of American playwright Ken Ludwig’s adaptation is in good hand
  
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• Mystery fireball that baffled witnesses was likely rocket falling back to Earth

  25-11-2017 19:06 via cbc.ca
  A large, burning object seen breaking up over the prairie provinces Friday night was likely a rocket booster re-entering the Earth's atmosphere after taking supplies to the International Space Station.
  
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• Mystery fireball seen breaking up over Saskatchewan, Alberta

  25-11-2017 19:06 via cbc.ca
  There are burning questions after reports of a fireball breaking up over southern Saskatchewan and Alberta Friday night.
  
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• Lawson Civic Centre to close for maintenance

  25-11-2017 18:38
  The Lawson Civic Centre is set to close its doors from November 27 to December 17 due to winter maintenance.
  
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• Police arrest 5 suspected impaired drivers in separate incidents

  25-11-2017 18:25
  Police in Saskatoon arrested five suspected impaired drivers in five separate incidents – including two collisions – between Friday evening and early Saturday morning.
  
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• Hops to it: Saskatchewan craft brewers name their favourites

  25-11-2017 18:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  As the list of local breweries and brew pubs continues to multiply, I contacted a number and asked them to recommend one beer. This rather limited them — brewers tend to foam like a freshly poured pint — but here are their picks. 
  Shawn of 9 Mile likes their eponymous 9 Mile Ale. “This is our tried and true English pale ale that is designed to be enjoyed with friends, family and good neighbours.” This is the first 9 Mile b
  
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• Gov't reaches agreement in principle with LGBT group

  25-11-2017 17:43
  A lawyer says a group of people seeking to sue the government over alleged state-sanctioned persecution for their sexual orientation have reached an agreement in principle. Details of the agreement will be released on Tuesday along with an apology.
  
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• Fish group says northern Saskatchewan fishers depending on pickerel for income

  25-11-2017 17:29 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatchewan commercial fishers are becoming increasingly dependent on pickerel for their income.
  The Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation paid out just over $4.2 million to Saskatchewan fishers in the last fiscal year, down slightly from the previous year, but still one of the best showings in recent years.
  Returns on pickerel accounted for 63 per cent of that total, even though pickerel only made up 23 per cent of the deliveries from Saskatchewan.
  The previous year, pickerel were responsible
  
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• Argos ground game boosts Grey Cup hopes

  25-11-2017 17:21 via thestarphoenix.com
  OTTAWA — Adding a strong running game to quarterback Ricky Ray’s pass attack helped make the Toronto Argonauts a more dangerous offensive team in the second half of the CFL season.
  Now they hope to use James Wilder Jr.’s explosive running to keep the Calgary Stampeders defence off balance in Sunday’s Grey Cup game.
  Wilder took over from veteran running back Brandon Whitaker late in the campaign and became a threat both on the ground and in the air for the Argonauts. He le
  
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• Calgary practises indoors, Dickenson wary of prying eyes overlooking stadium

  25-11-2017 17:14 via thestarphoenix.com
  OTTAWA — Dave Dickenson wasn’t going to risk prying eyes ahead of the season’s biggest game.
  Two days before they take on the Toronto Argonauts in the Grey Cup, the Calgary Stampeders chose to practise indoors at the University of Ottawa on Friday.
  Calgary Stampeders defensive lineman Micah Johnson (left) and linebacker Alex Singleton ham it up for photographers during Grey Cup practice Friday November 24, 2017 in Ottawa.
  Dickenson was leery about the highrise apartment buildin
  
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• 2 collisions, 5 charges in busy night for impaired drivers in Saskatoon

  25-11-2017 17:04 via cbc.ca
  Five people were charged with impaired driving in Saskatoon overnight, including two drivers involved in rear-end collisions.
  
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  25-11-2017 17:04
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  Five people were charged with impaired driving in Saskatoon overnight, including two drivers involved in rear-end collisions.
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• Still No Threat of Mountain Pine Beetle in Saskatchewan dlvr.it/Q2pwWL https://t.co/ELBH4IQdeb

  25-11-2017 16:45
  
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• Eggshells Central Focus of U of S Study on Combatting Fluorosis dlvr.it/Q2pwRL https://t.co/y3IY831Kkn

  25-11-2017 16:45
  
  Eggshells Central Focus of U of S Study on Combatting Fluorosis dlvr.it/Q2pwRL https://t.co/y3IY831Kkn
  
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• Saskatoon Blades snap 4-game skid with thrilling 3rd-period comeback

  25-11-2017 16:33 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatoon Blades scored three times in the final two minutes of regulation to earn a dramatic 6-5 victory over the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings.
  
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• Concerned citizens help Saskatoon police nab drunk drivers

  25-11-2017 16:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  Drunk drivers kept Saskatoon police busy at the start of the weekend.
  During an eight-hour period Friday night and Saturday morning, police charged drivers involved in five separate incidents with impaired driving, according to a Saskatoon Police Service news release.
  The first incident happened just before 7 p.m. Friday in the area of Lorne Avenue and Circle Drive. A citizen called police after seeing a vehicle being driven erratically, and continued to follow the vehicle until officers stopped
  
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• Saturday Sports Schedule dlvr.it/Q2phyK https://t.co/ehVuvcZYwc

  25-11-2017 16:10
  
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• Abortion challenge unlikely: Saskatoon StarPhoenix daily update for Nov. 25

  25-11-2017 15:00 via thestarphoenix.com
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  Abortion restrictions would create ‘insurmountable’ constitutional problems: expert
  Any attempt to introduce legislation forcing girls to receive parental consent before getting an abortion would likely create multiple constitutional issues, at least one of which would be “insurmountable,” internal provincial government documents show.&
  
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• Remai Modern revenue goals represent 'vulnerability,' gallery says

  25-11-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  As Saskatoon’s new art gallery prepares for its first full year of operation, a 2018 budget document acknowledges its planned revenue is “very ambitious” and an area of “vulnerability.”
  The Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan plans to raise nearly half of its operating budget in 2018, $5.3 million, from sources other than the city’s funding of $5.5 million.
  Overall, the gallery’s budget is expected to jump from $7.4 million this year, when the galle
  
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• On pins and needles: Murray Hill gives a first-person account of knee surgery in Saskatoon

  25-11-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  As I lay on an operating table listening to my favourite Jesse Cook tunes on an iPod, I found myself reflecting on the role a Playboy magazine played in putting me there.
  I was having my long-troublesome left knee replaced by Dr. Jeffery McKerrell, a prominent Saskatoon orthopedic surgeon. I was wide awake, and although I had a good set of noise-cancelling earphones and my own musical playlist running, I was quite able to take in some of the sights — and many of the sounds and smells &mdas
  
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• New Faces, New Places: Massage and aromatherapy businesses offer soothing relief

  25-11-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Kimberley Sattelmeier has turned it up a notch for people interested in more than just a standard massage treatment.
  Trained and accredited as a registered massage therapist, Sattelmeier offers those standard massages you might expect. But she also offers treatments designed to make a person feel better in different ways, from a hot stone massage, to vacuum cupping and rain drop therapy and an array other treatments.
  “I’m passionate about health and want to share the benefits wi
  
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• Loved ones remembered as Sporting Christmas picks up steam

  25-11-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  As Sporting Christmas waddles through November on tiny toddler legs, we find ourselves closing in on the $10,000 milestone, and going ever-higher.
  Our annual effort to help the Salvation Army’s holiday hamper program runs until Christmas, and we’ll enjoy watching cards, notes and donations pour in as the weeks go past.
  I took a quick look through our archives today, and Rocky and Bea Rochelle were always a steady Sporting Christmas presence for us — year after year after year.
  
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• Grimson feels fine, but ex-NHL puncher keeps a wary eye on the future

  25-11-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Stu Grimson’s old occupation is carved into his face — a scar here, an indent there, an array of fists leaving their mark at rinks from Vancouver to Florida.
  The brain, he’s not so sure about. Grimson — whose nickame is “the Grim Reaper” — admits he’s concerned. The long-time NHL enforcer, who fought more than 200 times in the big leagues, has watched some of his old grappling peers fall by the wayside — early deaths, post-mortem brain studie
  
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• Fuller: Leonardo da Vinci has a lot in common with me

  25-11-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived. Me, not so much.
  And yet both of us are credited with long-lost and latterly discovered masterpieces that have the art world buzzing.*
  Da Vinci’s is Salvator Mundi (“the saviour of the world”), a painting that fetched US$450 million this month at auction. I like “fetched” — the cliché they always use when something expensive gets sold, much more delicate than “raked in.”
  Salv
  
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• Cuthand: Racism needs to be a focus of the MMIWG inquiry

  25-11-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  This week the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls rolled into Saskatoon. This commission of inquiry has been fraught with internal strife and calls have been made for it to be abandoned and reset.
  It didn’t help that the first media scrum by commission chair Marion Buller was cut short when the reporters began to ask questions about the problems the commission was encountering. Later it was revealed through a leaked internal memo from Debbie Reid, the comm
  
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• Abortion restrictions would create 'insurmountable' constitutional problems: expert

  25-11-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Any attempt to introduce legislation forcing girls to receive parental consent before getting an abortion would likely create multiple constitutional issues, at least one of which would be “insurmountable,” internal provincial government documents show. 
  Two sources familiar with the documents — a three-page memorandum and covering email — said they were prepared after the Saskatchewan Party caucus discussed the idea of such legislation last year, and ultimately ende
  
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• Five Separate Arrests Overnight for Impaired Driving in Saskatoon dlvr.it/Q2nZ0H https://t.co/Rh20pL9LGF

  25-11-2017 12:53
  
  Five Separate Arrests Overnight for Impaired Driving in Saskatoon dlvr.it/Q2nZ0H https://t.co/Rh20pL9LGF
  
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• Saskatoon's weather for Saturday: High of plus 1

  25-11-2017 12:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon should continue enjoying warm temperatures through the weekend, according to Environment Canada.
  Some cloudiness is expected Saturday morning, but the skies are forecast to clear in the afternoon. 
  The forecast high for Saturday is plus 1, with an overnight low of -9.
  
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• Indigenous women on the Prairies deserve reproductive freedom

  25-11-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  To believe that life is truly sacred means acknowledging that the bodies of Indigenous women are no one's territory but our own, say Erica Violet Lee and Tasha Spillett.
  
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• Groups rally to promote supports for women facing domestic abuse

  25-11-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Business and Professional Women of Saskatoon, in partnership with the Grandmothers Advocacy Network, handed out helpful information about where abused women can turn.
  
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• Dust explosion claims decades-old grain elevator in Lawson, Sask: owner

  25-11-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  An elevator built in 1959 on the road between Central Butte and Riverhurst burned down earlier this week. The owner believes a spark inside the facility may have caused a dust explosion.
  
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• Very Impaired out overnight......

  25-11-2017 11:23 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  The Saskatoon Police Service was kept busy over night dealing with impaired drivers.Just before 7:00 PM Friday evening a citizen called police reporting a vehicle driving erratically in the area of Lorne Ave. and Circle Drive.  The citizen continued to follow the vehicle until police were able to stop it near Ave P and 19th Street.  The driver, a 50 year old Saskatoon man has been charged  for impaired driving and driving while over .08.  He will appear in court later next mo
  
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• Blades Win Following Another Wild Third Period dlvr.it/Q2lvzY https://t.co/RckMVHf5WH

  25-11-2017 07:26
  
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• WHL: Last-minute heroics, and Shmyr hat-trick, lift Saskatoon Blades over Brandon Wheat Kings

  25-11-2017 06:34 via thestarphoenix.com
  This was the comeback of the season for the Saskatoon Blades.
  The Blades rallied from 4-1 and 5-3 deficits with three goals in the final two minutes to defeat the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings by a 6-5 score in Western Hockey League action Friday night at SaskTel Centre.
  Braylon Shmyr netted the winner with just 18 seconds left in regulation to complete a hat-trick for Saskatoon. Shmyr, with a pair of goals, and defenceman Libor Hajek scored within a span of 1:37 — two of those tallies comi
  
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• Saskatoon Blades snap 4-game skid with thrilling third period comeback

  25-11-2017 05:33 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatoon Blades scored three times in the final two minutes of regulation to earn a dramatic 6-5 victory over the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings.
  
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• Friday Scoreboard dlvr.it/Q2lLYS https://t.co/YB3R32tjGK

  25-11-2017 05:16
  
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• Police pull two Quebec men from train, lay fraud charges

  25-11-2017 04:11 via thestarphoenix.com
  Two 23-year-old men from Quebec were hauled off a VIA Rail train by police on Thursday afternoon in Saskatoon.
  Staff aboard the train called police around 2 p.m. complaining about suspicious credit card activity.
  City police went to the rail yards on Chappell Drive on the city’s west end just before 5 p.m. and were there to greet the train.
  Officers were told the two Quebec men had used a credit card in someone else’s name. Further investigation resulted in the seizure of $1,000 wort
  
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• Pro boxing: Wayne Smith prepares for 'ocean' tilt against Jorge Castro

  25-11-2017 03:29 via thestarphoenix.com
  As Wayne Smith prepares for the biggest fight of his life, he does so in the smallest of spaces.
  One of the first things you notice about Saskatoon’s Top Dog Boxing Club gym is that it has no boxing ring.
  Instead, boxers spar inside a square, approximately four feet by four feet, taped onto the floor.
  When Smith steps into the ring Saturday to battle Mexico’s Jorge Castro in the Thunder on the Prairies eight-bout boxing card at SaskTel Centre, it’ll feel like he’s throwin
  
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