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• Premier Brad Wall addresses Saskatchewan Party leadership convention

  27-01-2018 23:33
  Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall stood in front of the Saskatchewan Party one final time as its leader at the party’s leadership convention in Saskatoon on Saturday.
  
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• Sask. Rush's plan to wear Hulk patch at Calgary game smashed by league

  27-01-2018 23:27 via cbc.ca
  After announcing they would add a Hulk fist patch to their jerseys for a game against Calgary, the Saskatchewan Rush says the National Lacrosse League will not allow the alteration due to copyright concerns and dissatisfaction from the opposing team.
  
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• Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall looks ahead to 2020 election

  27-01-2018 23:12 via globalnews.ca
  Outgoing Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall looks ahead to 2020 as he steps down and the Saskatchewan Party selects a new leader.
  
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• Saskatchewan Party leader Brad Wall discusses 2020 election

  27-01-2018 23:12 via globalnews.ca
  Outgoing Saskatchewan Party leader Brad Wall looks ahead to 2020 as he steps down.
  
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• Man suffers life-threatening injuries in La Ronge, Sask. altercation

  27-01-2018 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  A 58-year-old man was hospitalized with what police believe are life-threatening injuries after an altercation in La Ronge, Sask.
  
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• Outgoing Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall gives thanks

  27-01-2018 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  Outgoing Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall gives thanks and asks for support for the new leader of the Saskatchewan Party.
  
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• Saskatchewan Party to pick new premier at leadership convention

  27-01-2018 22:35
  Saskatchewan will welcome a new premier in Saskatoon today.
  
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• Review: Coming-of-age play Peach bears fruit

  27-01-2018 22:27 via thestarphoenix.com
  Peach is an intimate story that’s universal at the same time.
  The play by Danielle Roy starring Alex Hartshorn opened to a packed house on Friday and held the audience’s attention from start to finish.
  It’s the story of a young woman’s coming of age, from a girl who never, ever, wants to fall in love (“Love is bull—-. It doesn’t happen to girls like me.”) to, in a hilarious split second, a teenager head-over-heels.
  Things move fast, in life and in
  
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• Man guilty of manslaughter following death of former CFL and NFL player

  27-01-2018 22:24
  The man who shot former NFL and CFL running back Joe Mcknight to death in a road-rage confrontation near New Orleans in 2016 was found guilty of manslaughter on Friday.
  
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• More snow forces Saskatoon crews to restart priority street clean-up

  27-01-2018 21:59 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Saskatoon says five more centimetres of snow was added to what crews were halfway through clearing from priority streets.
  
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• Video: Protesters on hand as people arrive at Prairieland Park for Sask. Party convention

  27-01-2018 21:40 via thestarphoenix.com
  Protesters were on hand at Prairieland Park in Saskatoon slowing vehicles trying to enter for the Saskatchewan Party convention where a new leader will be voted in later today.
  The protesters were part of Stop the Cuts, a group rallying against the cuts the Sask Party made in the 2017 budget.Follow our Facebook page for live coverage of events this afternoon, including outgoing premier Brad Wall’s keynote address at 4:15 p.m.  Beginning at 5:45 p.m., we will be live on Facebook again
  
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• Video: What to expect at the Sask. Party leadership convention this afternoon

  27-01-2018 21:34 via thestarphoenix.com
  Leader-Post reporter D.C. Fraser and StarPhoenix reporter Alex MacPherson are at the Sask. Party leadership convention today in Saskatoon.
  Watch them discuss what to expect this afternoon.
  Follow our Facebook page for live coverage of events this afternoon, including outgoing premier Brad Wall’s keynote address at 4:15 p.m.  Beginning at 5:45 p.m., we will be live on Facebook again as ballot results are announced with the StarPhoenix and Leader-Post team providing analysis on the outc
  
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• Saskatchewan Party chooses new leader, premier

  27-01-2018 20:52 via globalnews.ca
  Global News will have extensive coverage of the Saskatchewan Party leadership convention as members choose a new leader and premier.
  
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• Video: Protesters on hand for Sask. Party leadership convention in Saskatoon

  27-01-2018 20:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  Protesters were on hand at Prairieland Park in Saskatoon slowing vehicles trying to enter for the Saskatchewan Party convention where a new leader will be voted in later today.
  The protesters were part of Stop the Cuts, a group rallying against the cuts the Sask Party made in the 2017 budget.Follow our Facebook page for live coverage of events this afternoon, including outgoing premier Brad Wall’s keynote address at 4:15 p.m.  Beginning at 5:45 p.m., we will be live on Facebook again
  
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• Follow live coverage of the Saskatchewan Party convention today as a new premier is chosen

  27-01-2018 20:17 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatoon StarPhoenix will have up-to-the-minute coverage as we see if Ken Cheveldayoff, Alanna Koch, Scott Moe, Gord Wyant or Tina Beaudry-Mellor becomes Saskatchewan’s new premier.
  Later this afternoon, we’ll have a video from political reporters D.C. Fraser and Alex MacPherson on TheStarPhoenix.com as discussing the race so far and what to expect during today’s vote. And the province’s top political commentator Murray Mandryk will offer his take on what the vote me
  
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• Saskatoon Blades blank Edmonton Oil Kings 5-0

  27-01-2018 19:42 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatoon Blades shut out the Edmonton Oil Kings 5-0 on Friday at SaskTel Centre.
  
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• Card-writing campaign sends hope and encouragement to Fond du Lac residents

  27-01-2018 19:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  A project started by a University of Saskatchewan education student will soon be sending cards filled with words of support and encouragement to the northern community of Fond du Lac — and the organizer is hoping more Saskatonians will want to get involved.
  Aimen Aziz says the idea stems from time she spent in the community last summer working with students in partnership with the Science Ambassador Program, which helps bring hands-on science to schools in northern Indigenous communities.&
  
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• Manitoba company fined $140K after worker paralyzed in fall at Sask. jobsite

  27-01-2018 18:31 via globalnews.ca
  A Manitoba company pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Carlyle, Sask., provincial court to an occupational health and safety violation.
  
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• Coming-of-age play Peach bears fruit

  27-01-2018 18:28 via thestarphoenix.com
  Peach
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  Peach is an intimate story that’s universal at the same time.
  The play by Danielle Roy starring Alex Hartshorn opened to a packed house on Friday and held the audience’s attention from start to finish.
  It’s the story of a young woman’s coming of age, from a girl who never, ever, wants to fall in love (“Love is bull—-. It doesn’t happen to girls like me.”) to, in a hilarious split second, a te
  
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• New optimism on NAFTA: Sides start engaging on hard topics

  27-01-2018 18:08
  A glimmer of optimism is starting to emerge at NAFTA talks. The countries have begun engaging on difficult topics -- after earlier rounds marked by finger-pointing, recriminations and threats of a U.S. withdrawal.
  
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• New optimism emerging at NAFTA talks in Montreal

  27-01-2018 18:08
  A glimmer of optimism is starting to emerge at NAFTA talks. The countries have begun engaging on difficult topics -- after earlier rounds marked by finger-pointing, recriminations and threats of a U.S. withdrawal.
  
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• TSB launches investigation into death of CN worker in Melville, Sask. rail yard

  27-01-2018 18:05 via globalnews.ca
  The employee was fatally injured on Dec. 22, 2017, while performing “regular duties” at CN's Melville yard.
  
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• Why we should stay focused on original policy objectives of legalizing marijuana

  27-01-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  The legalization of marijuana presents a host of challenges for policy-makers in Canada, the provinces and municipalities. It is an emotional issue with vocal advocates on both sides, and it is further complicated by politics.
  
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  27-01-2018 17:33
  
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• RCMP in Search of a Wanted Pelican Narrows Man dlvr.it/QCzhMl https://t.co/l4NDc5Uf04

  27-01-2018 17:33
  
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• Sesame Seeds sold in 4 provinces recalled due to salmonella contamination

  27-01-2018 16:50 via globalnews.ca
  The meal kits were sold online in several provinces, including Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. 
  
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• B.C. teenager dies hours after he was released from hospital

  27-01-2018 16:26
  A hospital in B.C. has launched an investigation after a 14-year-old boy died hours after being released from the facility.
  
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• New Faces, New Places: Bulk grocery store focuses on the environment and a personalized experience

  27-01-2018 16:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  During his years growing up in India, Nag Arajan remembers being sent by his mother to buy groceries at the local shop where the owner would gather and weigh his purchases — packaging them neatly in paper tied with jute thread.
  That experience inspired the idea behind Arajan’s new no-waste grocery store Bulk Basket, which focuses on giving shoppers a wide variety of choices paired with a friendly personalized experience. 
  “When you went there you talked to the real owner a
  
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• RCMP Investigate Altercation Incident dlvr.it/QCzFj5 https://t.co/kg6XllUYv3

  27-01-2018 15:21
  
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• Letters to the editor, Jan. 27, 2018: Speed traps and marijuana legalization

  27-01-2018 15:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Welcome to 2018
  It is great to see SPS decided to kick off 2018 with yet another speed trap at the bottom of the First Avenue exit coming off the Sid Buckwold Bridge during the morning of Jan. 3 and again Jan. 5.
  No, I did not get a ticket but seeing half a dozen highly paid professional police officers using their training to tax citizens on their way to work is appalling. Meanwhile downtown Saskatoon is quickly becoming the next shooting location for the upcoming season of AMC’s The Walk
  
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• Cuthand: Time to sort out jurisdiction over Indigenous child welfare programs

  27-01-2018 15:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The issue of child welfare sits on the top of the social and health issues facing Indigenous people. The scope of this problem cannot be minimized.
  It is estimated today that there are more than 40,000 Indigenous children in care across Canada — the highest percentage of any group. More than half of the children under age 14 in care in Canada are Indigenous.
  This week the federal government and Indigenous organizations from across the country met in Ottawa to discuss and strategize on this
  
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• Fuller: At least seven things to know about the super blue blood moon

  27-01-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Do you know what was happening in 1866? In 1866, the first daylight robbery of a U.S. bank occurred. Jesse James was implicated. In 1866, Rev. James Nisbett established a mission in what would become Prince Albert. The Canadian parliament met for the first time in Ottawa. And America had its eye on Canada with the Annexation Bill. We could have been completely eclipsed by the United States.
  None of these events is connected in any way. However, they did take place the same year there was a super
  
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• Bombing in Kabul kills 95 people, wounds 158

  27-01-2018 13:35
  A suicide bomber driving an ambulance coasted through a security checkpoint in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday and detonated his explosives at a second checkpoint, killing at least 95 people and wounding 158 more in an attack claimed by the Taliban.
  
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• Bomber in ambulance detonates at Afghan checkpoint; 95 dead

  27-01-2018 13:35
  A suicide bomber driving an ambulance coasted through a security checkpoint in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday by telling police he was taking a patient to a nearby hospital and then detonated his explosives at a second checkpoint, killing at least 95 people and wounding 158 more in an attack claimed by the Taliban, authorities said.
  
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• 95 killed, 158 wounded in Afghan car bombing

  27-01-2018 13:35
  A suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded 158 more in an attack claimed by the Taliban in the Afghan capital Kabul, authorities said.
  
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• Government, Catholic section ordered to pay $960,000 of Theodore case costs pending appeal

  27-01-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Government of Saskatchewan and a school board representing the province’s Catholic schools have been ordered to pay more than $960,000 in costs associated with a contentious court case around Catholic education in the province, pending an appeal.
  The case concerns St. Theodore Roman Catholic School, the Catholic elementary school in Theodore, 40 kilometres northwest of Yorkton. Prior to 2003, it was a public school known as Theodore School.
  “We’re pleased with the decision,
  
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• Who will replace Brad Wall? Saskatchewan Party to name new leader today

  27-01-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  A new leader of the Saskatchewan Party and the province will be announced today. Five candidates are in the running to replace Premier Brad Wall, who announced his decision to retire from politics last summer.
  
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• 'This is the new Saskatchewan': Brad Wall makes final speech, vote for new premier underway

  27-01-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  A new leader of the Saskatchewan Party and the province will be announced today. Five candidates are in the running to replace Premier Brad Wall, who announced his decision to retire from politics last summer.
  
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• 'This is the new Saskatchewan': Brad Wall makes final speech before Scott Moe voted next premier

  27-01-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  ​​Brad Wall ended his final speech as premier on a message of hope for the Saskatchewan Party as his 10-year reign comes to an end.
  
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• Alanna Koch, Scott Moe neck and neck to become next Sask. premier

  27-01-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  A new leader of the Saskatchewan Party and the province will be announced today. Five candidates are in the running to replace Premier Brad Wall, who announced his decision to retire from politics last summer.
  
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• Tensions build around Colten Boushie case as trial nears

  27-01-2018 11:00 via cbc.ca
  Second-degree murder trial of Gerald Stanley in Saskatchewan could have fallout for reconciliation in Canada.
  
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• CBC Saskatchewan launches original podcast 'Boushie'

  27-01-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  In 2016, Colten Boushie, a young Indigenous man, was shot and killed on a farm in rural Saskatchewan, polarizing the province along racial lines. CBC Saskatchewan has launched "Boushie", a podcast series that brings together interviews and stories by CBC journalists covering his death.
  
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• Friday Scoreboard dlvr.it/QCxsBw https://t.co/cLT1Gi7A6d

  27-01-2018 07:36
  
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• Blades Blank Oil Kings to Maintain Lead on Raiders dlvr.it/QCxsDt https://t.co/OXogm9sh6u

  27-01-2018 07:36
  
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• WHL: Blades blank Oil Kings, get back on winning track

  27-01-2018 05:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  It was a convincing win when one was certainly needed.
  After dropping five of its previous seven games since the Western Hockey League’s Jan. 10 trade deadline, Saskatoon scored a big win at home Friday night.
  The Blades blanked the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings 5-0 before a crowd announced at 3,309 fans at SaskTel Centre.
  “It was huge to get back on track here,” said Blades D-man Jackson Caller, who scored his third goal of the season in the win.
  “A good win tonight. Guys
  
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• 'It basically ruined my life': Former Senate staffer on raising harassment allegations

  27-01-2018 04:56
  A former Senate staffer is speaking out about how the Red Chamber handles sexual harassment complaints.
  
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• Class action lawsuit accuses Ticketmaster of using ‘drip pricing’ to deceive Canadians

  27-01-2018 04:49 via globalnews.ca
  The litigation comes on the heels of a Competition Bureau lawsuit alleging widespread use of "drip pricing," in which customers pay hugely inflated prices due to various fees and surcharges.
  
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• Man found guilty of manslaughter in death of ex-CFL player Joe McKnight

  27-01-2018 04:44 via globalnews.ca
  The man who killed CFL and NFL running back Joe McKnight in a December 2016 road-rage confrontation was found guilty of manslaughter Friday by a jury in suburban New Orleans.
  
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• WHL: Blades blank Oil Kings, get back on winning track - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  27-01-2018 04:41 via thestarphoenix.com
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  WHL: Blades blank Oil Kings, get back on winning track
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  Saskatoon improves to 24-23-2-1 and maintains a cushion over the provincial rival Prince Albert Raiders in a race for the final playoff spot in the WHL's Eastern Conference. Darren Zary, Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Published on: January 26, 2018 | Last ...and more »
  
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• Global News at 6: January 26

  27-01-2018 03:15 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, January 26, 2017 edition of Global News at 6 on Global Saskatoon
  
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