Saskatoon news

• More inmates in Sask.'s jails, shortage of Crown prosecutors in Regina

  09-12-2017 23:48 via cbc.ca
  Saskatchewan's Ministry of Justice has received an extra $12 million to deal with more people being in the province's jails and to cover the cost of training staff to administer Naloxone
  
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• Man, woman wanted for stolen vehicles get stuck fleeing attempted vehicle theft

  09-12-2017 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  A wanted man and woman were arrested after an attempted vehicle theft east of North Battleford, Sask.
  
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• Young Saskatoon Blades goalie emerges from U.S. road trip as solid option

  09-12-2017 22:36 via globalnews.ca
  They only won two of their five games against U.S. division teams, but one of the Saskatoon Blades goalies has emerged as a solid option in the crease.
  
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• Hawksley Workman brings Christmas tunes from Almost a Full Moon album to Sask.

  09-12-2017 22:18 via cbc.ca
  Shauna Powers interviewed Workman and he spoke about the shows and some of his Christmas memories on CBC’s Sask. Weekend radio show on Saturday.
  
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• Another Saskatchewan paper set to fold unless Oxbow-Carnduff Herald-Gazette finds buyer

  09-12-2017 21:31 via cbc.ca
  Star News Publishing has plans to close the Oxbow-Carnduff Herald-Gazette if it doesn’t sell in two weeks time.
  
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• Boys and Girls Clubs hit the skies over Saskatoon in search of Santa

  09-12-2017 21:24 via thestarphoenix.com
  Magic was in the air Saturday as children from across the city piled into an airplane and took to the air in search of Santa. 
  It was all part of the third annual Searching for Santa Flight sponsored by Jazz Aviation. This year the 36 lucky kids, aged between five and 13 years old, from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Saskatoon arrived bright and early at the airport for their 7:15 a.m. flight to the “North Pole.”
  “These kids don’t come from normalized circumstances,&rdq
  
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• Driver freed after van collides with pole on Circle Drive

  09-12-2017 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  Members of the Saskatoon Fire Department freed the man from a van using hydraulic rescue tools on Circle Drive.
  
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• Man charged with drug-related offences after N. Battleford vehicle stop

  09-12-2017 18:55
  A man is facing multiple drug-related charges after police pulled over his vehicle in North Battleford on Friday night.
  
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• Lake Named In Tribute Of Pioneers dlvr.it/Q58sQf https://t.co/iFFD8i179n

  09-12-2017 18:45
  
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• Photography club inspires youth in northern Saskatchewan

  09-12-2017 18:40 via globalnews.ca
  A photographer and a nurse in the northern Saskatchewan community of Pinehouse are inspiring youth with a photography club.
  
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• Man suffers undetermined injuries following collision

  09-12-2017 18:30
  A man was taken to hospital with serious undetermined injuries after he crashed a minivan into a large sign pole Saturday morning.
  
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• Witnesses stop thieves trying to steal vehicle from work site near North Battleford

  09-12-2017 16:39 via thestarphoenix.com
  Two people trying to steal a vehicle from a work site on Highway 40 were interrupted by witnesses and then got stuck trying to flee the scene.
  The 32-year-old man and 37-year-old woman, both from Alberta, attempted the theft shortly after noon on Friday at the work site about five kilometres east of North Battleford, according to an RCMP news release.
  The man tried to escape in the stolen vehicle, but got stuck in the ditch. The woman tried to flee in a separate vehicle — which turned out
  
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• First Home Game Since Western Swing dlvr.it/Q581Hv https://t.co/60amZpOIqt

  09-12-2017 16:38
  
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• The Saskatoon StarPhoenix daily update for Dec. 9, 2017

  09-12-2017 15:00 via thestarphoenix.com
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  Sask. Party investigating after three contenders raise concerns about possible leak of debate questions to candidate
  The Saskatchewan Party is investigating a possible leak of debate questions to one leadership candidate after three of the other candidates vying to replace Brad Wall signed a letter requesting an internal review. Saskatchewan Party executi
  
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• New Faces, New Places: A taste of Mexico on the prairies

  09-12-2017 15:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  It was the hot sauce that hooked Utsang Desai.
  After visiting a BarBurrito in Ontario, Desai says it was the hot sauce that gave him the drive to bring the franchise to Saskatchewan.
  After a back and forth between BarBurrito’s Canadian corporate headquarters, Desai says he went all in and became the master franchisee for the province, which includes one restaurant in Regina and more planned for there and in Saskatoon. As well, he’s hoping to expand the BarBurrito brand into Prince Al
  
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• Government advertising revenue is a matter of life or death for Canadian newspapers: association head

  09-12-2017 14:00 via cbc.ca
  A report released on Friday from Statistics Canada indicates the newspaper publishing industry took a 20 per cent hit when it comes to operating revenue from 2014 to 2016.
  
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• Saskatoon Police Caution Against Crimes Of Opportunity dlvr.it/Q56l1J https://t.co/Jb2oFYFKYV

  09-12-2017 13:03
  
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• Doubling Renewable Energy Generation By 2030 dlvr.it/Q56l1X https://t.co/Q495Ir3BtH

  09-12-2017 13:03
  
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• Another Holiday Tradition In Saskatoon dlvr.it/Q56kzT https://t.co/bbUw2gJL7P

  09-12-2017 13:03
  
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• Saskatoon homeowners affected by riverbank slump score property assessment win

  09-12-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Homeowners who live in an area affected by riverbank slumping in the Nutana neighbourhood are celebrating a victory: Some of their property taxes are going down.
  Two property owners along 11th Street East appealed the 2017 reassessed value of their properties based on the damage to their property value caused by slope failure.
  They won their appeals — and their victory will be felt by 35 other properties on 11th Street and along Saskatchewan Crescent. Residents in the area had questioned t
  
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• Pancakes and Sporting Christmas: Sierras have a worthy tradition

  09-12-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Pancakes, and sausage, and the Salvation Army, oh my!
  The wonderful folks at the Sierras of Erindale seniors’ condo have, for the last 16 years, gathered on a December morning for food and fellowship. They eat pancakes and sausages, with the proceeds going to Sporting Christmas; then they pass the figurative hat and take a big collection.
  This year, they did it again — the Sierras’ coffee club paid for the ingredients, and “150 Sierra residents, family and friends”
  
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• High on meth, Saskatoon man slashed stranger's throat in unprovoked attack

  09-12-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  A random, unprovoked attack at a Saskatoon trailer park this summer left a 29-year-old man with a thick pink scar across his neck — and a fear of leaving his home.
  The right side of his face has been paralyzed ever since July 18 — the day a stranger slashed his throat from ear to neck, the man’s mother told court.
  On Thursday, the man showed Judge Donna Scott his scar during a sentencing hearing for his attacker, Joseph Micheal Kilcher, in Saskatoon provincial court.
  Kilch
  
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• Fuller: Getting to the bottom of the underwear debate

  09-12-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Not long ago and not far away, in a city called Berryville, there was a group of men who liked a certain kind of underwear very much.
  It was the same kind of underwear their great-grandfathers wore when they proved up their homesteads and built bustling villages that would turn into busy towns and important cities.
  The underwear they liked more than any other? Long johns. These were neck to ankle long johns, also called combination underwear or union suits because the torso and arms part was joi
  
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• Cuthand: NORTEP an invaluable program for Saskatchewan's north that must be restored

  09-12-2017 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Historically there was a high turnover of teachers in northern Saskatchewan, and few of the teachers were Indigenous. Today, that situation has changed and the Northern Teacher Education Program (NORTEP) is the reason.
  NORTEP was headquartered in La Ronge and run by a board of governors that included the Prince Albert Grand Council, the Meadow Lake Tribal Council, the Northern Lights school division, the Ile-à-la-Crosse school division and the Creighton school division. Classes were offer
  
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• All Sask. coaches should receive Indigenous-specific training: chief

  09-12-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Some advocates believe the cultural education of coaches should go farther than knowing not to make racist comments.
  
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• Global News at 6: December 8

  09-12-2017 05:43 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, December 8, 2017 edition of Global News at 6 on Global Saskatoon
  
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• Blades Maier U.S. growth

  09-12-2017 05:36 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatoon Blades are fresh off a grueling road trip which saw them play five games in eight nights. But on top of that, they had Nolan Maier starting in net the entire time. Claire Hanna reports.
  
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• Inspiring youth in northern Saskatchewan

  09-12-2017 05:24 via globalnews.ca
  A photographer and a nurse in the northern Saskatchewan community of Pinehouse are inspiring youth with a photography club. As Peter Quinlan reports, the youth say the club has helped them deal with a number of mental health issues, including suicide thoughts.
  
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  09-12-2017 04:51
  
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• Cash, cocaine found by Saskatoon police officers searching home for check of court conditions

  09-12-2017 04:03 via thestarphoenix.com
  While searching a home to ensure court-ordered conditions were being followed, Saskatoon police discovered thousands of dollars in cash and more than 100 grams of cocaine.
  Officers, shortly after midnight on Friday, went to a home in the 1400 block of Ninth Avenue North on a check of court conditions for one of the home’s residents, police said in a news release. Among the conditions ordered by the court: police were allowed to search the residence. According to police, officers inside the
  
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• Grilling with the Gryba: Edmonton Oilers defenceman moonlights as king of the kitchen

  09-12-2017 03:05 via globalnews.ca
  Edmonton Oilers defenceman Eric Gryba has a number of off-ice passions. One of them is cooking with his wife, Cate. Grilling with Gryba is a huge hit on Instagram, and it's grown to include a branding iron and T-shirts.
  
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• Oilers’ Eric Gryba gets grilling with Global News

  09-12-2017 02:27 via globalnews.ca
  It’s not often we get a glimpse into the private life of an Edmonton Oiler but Eric Gryba let us into his kitchen recently. If you follow him on Instagram, you know all about how he likes to cook and he let Quinn Phillips get a firsthand glimpse of his grilling skills.
  
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• CBC's Political Panel looks back at the Brad Wall premiership

  09-12-2017 02:00 via cbc.ca
  Stefani Langenegger and Murray Mandryk pay tribute to Brad Wall by sharing some of the funny and emotional stories from his time as premier.
  
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• Sask. Party investigating after three contenders raise concerns about possible leak of debate questions to candidate

  09-12-2017 01:55 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatchewan Party is investigating a possible leak of debate questions to one leadership candidate after three of the other candidates vying to replace Brad Wall signed a letter requesting an internal review.
  Saskatchewan Party executive director Patrick Bundrock confirmed on Friday that the party received a letter signed by Tina Beaudry-Mellor, Scott Moe and Gord Wyant, and subsequently sent it to the six-member Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) for review.
  Bundrock decl
  
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• 3 Saskatchewan Party candidates call for action over possible leaked debate questions

  09-12-2017 01:46 via globalnews.ca
  As first reported by The Leader-Post, three Saskatchewan Party candidates have signed a letter calling for an investigation into a possible leak of debate questions.
  
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• Sask. Party leadership candidates 'living in the shadow of Brad Wall': prof

  09-12-2017 01:41 via cbc.ca
  The Saskatchewan Party will elect a new leader on January 27.
  
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• Hursh: Given its disregard for the Canadian beef industry, A&W's donation is bittersweet

  09-12-2017 01:36 via thestarphoenix.com
  Surprising and ironic. Those are a couple of the words that come to mind with the news that A&W is donating $5 million toward the University of Saskatchewan’s $36-million Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence under construction near Clavet, just east of Saskatoon.
  The beef industry has had a long-standing issue with A&W, but now there are five million reasons for the university and beef producers to curtail criticism.
  If you watch any regular television, it’s hard to miss
  
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• Saskatoon Blades swap goalies with Victoria Royals, welcome Hunter Arps into the mix

  09-12-2017 01:31 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatoon Blades are back at home and goalie Hunter Arps has a new temporary home.
  The Blades swapped 1999-born goalies with the Western Hockey League’s Victoria Royals on Friday, exchanging Joel Grzybowski for Arps, who had been playing for the Melfort Mustangs in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.
  Grzybowski had been up and down between the WHL’s Blades and SJHL’s Battlefords North Stars.
  The 6-foot-3, 165-pound Arps hails from Pleasantdale, about 20 minutes south of
  
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• Saskatoon students talk with Santa over radio connection

  09-12-2017 01:18 via globalnews.ca
  A group of Saskatoon Army Reservists used their signals equipment to link school children to the North Pole in Operation Radio Santa.
  
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• University of Regina study to address mental health in RCMP officers

  09-12-2017 01:15 via globalnews.ca
  The federal government has awarded an $8.9 million contract to the University of Regina to conduct a study on the effects policing has on the mental health of RCMP officers.
  
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• Sask. victims may be warned of partners' violent past

  09-12-2017 01:00 via cbc.ca
  A father who fought for more disclosure by police to protect victims of domestic violence says “Clare’s Law” has proved its worth in the United Kingdom and may save lives in Saskatchewan if adopted here, too.
  
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• Prince Albert tax system most 'unfair' in Saskatchewan for small businesses: CFIB

  09-12-2017 00:32
  The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says Prince Albert is the city in Saskatchewan with the most “unfair tax system” for small businesses.
  
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• Sask. contractors say Alberta protectionism started licence plate spat

  09-12-2017 00:27 via cbc.ca
  The Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association says Saskatchewan contractors have experienced being shut out from bidding on projects in Alberta.
  
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• Dangerous offender status ordered for Sask. man who sexually assaulted three women

  09-12-2017 00:09 via thestarphoenix.com
  A man from Saskatchewan’s White Bear First Nation who was convicted of sexually assaulting three women, including a Calgary security guard he violently raped in 2006, has been deemed a dangerous offender and ordered to serve two consecutive 10-year prison sentences.
  The Crown had requested an indeterminate sentence for Renno Lonechild, 30, which could have put him behind bars indefinitely, depending on his conduct in prison.
  However, in a written decision released last month, Queen’s
  
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