Saskatoon news

• Bre McAdam's Saskatoon court wrap for February 2

  02-02-2018 23:56 via thestarphoenix.com
  Watch: In a regular feature, StarPhoenix court reporter Bre McAdam talks about some of the cases that went through Saskatoon courts this week.
  
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• Two vital wetlands now protected in Alberta and Saskatchewan

  02-02-2018 23:19 via globalnews.ca
  Two vital tracts of wetlands in Alberta and Saskatchewan are now under the protection of the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
  
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• Death of woman found on Saskatoon fire escape not believed to be suspicious: police

  02-02-2018 23:04 via thestarphoenix.com
  The death of a 55-year-old woman whose body was found on the fire escape of a downtown Saskatoon building does not appear to be suspicious, according to police.
  A passerby on Thursday around 6:15 a.m. noticed the woman’s body on a fire escape in the 200 block of Third Avenue South, according to Saskatoon police in a news release. The early investigation and autopsy “has shown nothing suspicious about the woman’s death,” police said.
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• Collision/Traffic Restrictions - 71st St. W & Thatcher Ave.

  02-02-2018 22:55 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  Saskatoon Police are asking drivers to avoid the area of 71st Street West and Thatcher Avenue following a collision.At approximately 2:40 p.m., February 2, 2018, officers were dispatched to a collision involving two semi-trucks and a power pole. No one was injured. The Saskatoon Fire Department responded as well; no hazardous material was being transported. One semi has been towed, but the other remains at the scene as it is in contact with a live, downed power line. Police are currently detouri
  
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• Alanna Koch out as Premier Scott Moe completes office makeover

  02-02-2018 22:36 via cbc.ca
  Premier Scott Moe’s main adversary in the race for Saskatchewan Party leadership will not be joining him as deputy minister.
  
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• Saskatchewan Teachers Federation Optimistic About New Education Minister dlvr.it/QDmRVH https://t.co/t1NJcPg4fA

  02-02-2018 22:00
  
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• Opposition Parties' Views On New Cabinet dlvr.it/QDmRcQ https://t.co/9lgxb1TuTB

  02-02-2018 22:00
  
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• Duron Carter arrested in Saskatoon dlvr.it/QDmRPX https://t.co/br7NSWsC8M

  02-02-2018 22:00
  
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• Sudden Death - 200 block 3rd Avenue South

  02-02-2018 21:35 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  The Saskatoon Police Major Crime Section is assisting the Office of the Chief Coroner of Saskatchewan in the investigation of the sudden death of a 55 year old woman.On February 1, 2018 at approximately 6:15 a.m. a passerby noticed a deceased woman on the fire escape of a building in the 200 block of 3rd Avenue South.  Initial police investigation and an autopsy which was conducted has shown nothing suspicious about the woman’s death. Investigators are asking anyone with informat
  
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• Grouchy groundhog emerges from sock drawer to make Sask. spring and Grey Cup predictions

  02-02-2018 21:17 via cbc.ca
  Woody the Woodchuck from Whelan Bay 'likes to sleep' and needed rousing for his annual day of work.
  
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• Saskatoon weather outlook: -30 to -50 wind chills continue

  02-02-2018 21:12 via globalnews.ca
  -30 to -50 morning wind chills continue in Saskatoon’s weather forecast into next week. Meteorologist Peter Quinlan has your weekend forecast.
  
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• Sask. Roughrider Duron Carter charged with marijuana possession at Saskatoon airport

  02-02-2018 21:09 via cbc.ca
  Saskatchewan Roughrider Duron Carter was charged with marijuana possession at the Saskatoon International Airport on Thursday night.
  
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• Roughrider Duron Carter charged with marijuana possession in Saskatoon

  02-02-2018 21:08
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders have confirmed that Duron Carter has been charged with marijuana possession in Saskatoon.
  
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• Sask. First Nation, education groups sign agreement for stronger treaty education

  02-02-2018 21:04 via cbc.ca
  Four groups signed a memorandum of understanding around treaty education in Saskatchewan schools at a press conference hosted by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Friday.
  
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• Roughriders receiver Duron Carter facing drug possession charges in Saskatoon, Winnipeg

  02-02-2018 20:54 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatchewan Roughriders star receiver Duron Carter faces drug possession charges in two provinces.
  Carter, 26, was arrested in Saskatoon on Thursday and charged with marijuana possession, the team confirmed Friday.
  Carter, has previously been arrested in Winnipeg on Nov. 25 for possession of a controlled substance. A court spokesperson did not reveal what drug Carter allegedly possessed.
  “We can confirm there was an incident last night where Duron Carter was charged with marijuana possess
  
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• Byelections called in 3 Saskatchewan ridings

  02-02-2018 20:47 via globalnews.ca
  Byelections will be held on March 1 in three Saskatchewan ridings.
  
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• Photos: The Week in Photos (Jan. 26 – Feb. 1)

  02-02-2018 20:29 via thestarphoenix.com
  Take a look at some of the best StarPhoenix pictures from the past week in and around Saskatoon.
  
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• Photos: Stanley trial courtroom sketches

  02-02-2018 20:29 via thestarphoenix.com
  Take a look at some courtroom sketches from Gerald Stanley’s trial at the Court of Queen’s Bench in Battleford.
  
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• Photos: Editorial Cartoons: Jan. 27 – Feb. 2

  02-02-2018 20:28 via thestarphoenix.com
  Here’s a compilation of the StarPhoenix’s editorial cartoons from the past week.
  
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• Witness inconsistencies addressed at Gerald Stanley’s murder trial

  02-02-2018 20:25 via globalnews.ca
  The judge at Gerald Stanley’s murder trial gave jurors instructions on how to deal with inconsistencies in witness’s testimony.
  
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• More Indigenous members needed on juries: FSIN

  02-02-2018 20:17
  The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is calling for more Indigenous representation on juries in Saskatchewan.
  
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• 'I love playing in Saskatchewan … they let me be me,' says Duron Carter

  02-02-2018 19:50 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver/defensive back Duron Carter and quarterback Brandon Bridge were in Saskatoon on Friday for the annual Kinsmen Sports Celebrity Dinner tonight at TCU Place.
  The pair talk about staying with the Riders and their hopes for the upcoming season.
   
  
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• Rush have another Mammoth challenge in Colorado dlvr.it/QDlhPn https://t.co/ktGSqOH2Wk

  02-02-2018 19:48
  
  Rush have another Mammoth challenge in Colorado dlvr.it/QDlhPn https://t.co/ktGSqOH2Wk
  
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• Premier Scott Moe sworn in and names first cabinet, awarding positions to Saskatchewan Party leadership opponents

  02-02-2018 19:45 via thestarphoenix.com
  Scott Moe has been officially sworn in as Saskatchewan’s 15th premier.
  With the official change in leadership — Moe follows Brad Wall, who served as premier from 2007 until last month — comes a cabinet shuffle and eight existing ministers (Donna Harpauer, Lyle Stewart, Jim Reiter, Dustin Duncan, Greg Ottenbreit, David Marit, Joe Hargrave and Paul Merriman) were not affected.
  Larry Doke, Nancy Heppner and Steven Bonk were shuffled out of cabinet.
  New ministers
  Gord Wyant: D
  
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• Treaty education key to ending racism in Sask., says new commissioner

  02-02-2018 19:27 via cbc.ca
  Mary Culbertson, Saskatchewan’s new treaty commissioner, says treaty education in schools is the key to ending racism.
  
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• Premier Scott Moe calls three Sask. byelections

  02-02-2018 19:01
  Premier Scott Moe has called three provincial byelections in Kindersley, Melfort and Swift Current.
  
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• Premier Sworn In, Announces His Cabinet dlvr.it/QDlHVN https://t.co/mDd7sm5t7w

  02-02-2018 18:37
  
  Premier Sworn In, Announces His Cabinet dlvr.it/QDlHVN https://t.co/mDd7sm5t7w
  
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• Saskatoon pastor reunited with lost guitar, thanks to social media

  02-02-2018 18:34
  A Saskatoon pastor says he’s thrilled to have his custom-made guitar back, after he lost the “treasured” instrument last week.
  
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• Scott Moe sworn in as premier

  02-02-2018 18:08
  Scott Moe has officially been sworn in as premier at Government House on Friday morning.
  
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• Premier Scott Moe sworn in, names new cabinet

  02-02-2018 18:08
  Scott Moe was officially sworn in as premier of Saskatchewan at a ceremony at Government House on Friday morning.
  
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• Hot and cold options: Five things to fill your weekend, Feb. 2-4

  02-02-2018 18:06 via thestarphoenix.com
  We’ve entered into a new month and there are plenty of new things to do this weekend. Here’s a few to consider:
  The annual Kinsmen Sports Celebrity Dinner is this evening at TCU Place. Featured this year are some big, bad Boston Bruins of yesteryear, including Cam Neely, Gerry Cheevers and Terry O’Reilly, among others. This is always one of the sporting highlights of the year in Saskatoon. Dinner starts at 6 p.m.
  Wintershines concludes this weekend. The event, sponsored by Nutr
  
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• Scott Moe sworn-in as Saskatchewan’s next premier

  02-02-2018 18:05 via globalnews.ca
  Scott Moe was elected leader of the Saskatchewan Party last Saturday to replace Brad Wall, who retired from politics after leading the province for 10 years.
  
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• Gerald Stanley trial: Chief justice instructs jurors after conflicting witness testimony in Colten Boushie death

  02-02-2018 18:04 via thestarphoenix.com
  BATTLEFORD — The day after two people who were with Colten Boushie on the afternoon Boushie was fatally shot admitted to lying in police statements, the chief justice overseeing the second-degree murder trial of Gerald Stanley has told jurors they will have to consider if the differences in statements are significant and why the witnesses changed their stories.
  Before testimony in the trial resumed, Chief Justice Martel Popescul on Friday gave instructions to the seven-woman, fiv
  
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• Scott Moe sworn-in as Saskatchewan’s premier, unveils cabinet

  02-02-2018 17:47 via globalnews.ca
  Scott Moe was sworn in Friday morning as Saskatchewan’s 15th premier and named his 17-member cabinet.
  
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• Letter of the Day: Finish SaskTel Centre first

  02-02-2018 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  As this SaskTel Centre arena celebrates 30 years of events, a study in 2018 will assess its status. It is time to resolve the access and parking issues that have plagued its lifetime. The promise of interchanges never happened and funding for any improvements have been sparse. Better flow would make events more enticing to attend.
  It took 27 years to install traffic lights on Highway 16, yet the Rosewood Costco had lights before opening. Access to Idylwyld Drive from the east parking lot has the
  
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• Take to the Hill This Saturday dlvr.it/QDkbH4 https://t.co/JqkbJczJTw

  02-02-2018 16:56
  
  Take to the Hill This Saturday dlvr.it/QDkbH4 https://t.co/JqkbJczJTw
  
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• Scott Moe sworn in as premier, provincial cabinet announced

  02-02-2018 16:30 via cbc.ca
  Scott Moe will officially become premier of Saskatchewan after a swearing in ceremony on Friday morning.
  
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• Sask. government earmarks $340,000 for northern caribou study

  02-02-2018 16:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatchewan government is committing an additional $340,000 to an ongoing multi-million-dollar program aimed at learning more about what two experts describe as one of the province’s most secretive animals — woodland caribou.
  “In some ways, they’re kind of mysterious. They challenge us to understand them and to predict what they’re going to do from year to year,” said Tim Trottier, a Ministry of Environment wildlife biologist who has studied the animals f
  
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• Premier-designate Scott Moe, new cabinet will be sworn in this morning

  02-02-2018 16:30 via cbc.ca
  Scott Moe will officially become premier of Saskatchewan after a swearing in ceremony on Friday morning.
  
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• "A very difficult decision": Premier Scott Moe unveils new cabinet

  02-02-2018 16:30 via cbc.ca
  At a swearing in ceremony, Moe unveiled his choices for cabinet appointments, including newly appointed Deputy Premier and Education Minister Gordon Wyant and Minister of Advanced Education Tina Beaudry-Mellor.
  
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• Architecture magazines praise Saskatoon's 'dazzling' Remai Modern

  02-02-2018 16:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Come for the art, stay for the architecture.
  Saskatoon’s new Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan continues to rack up recognition for its design.
  The gallery, which has been open slightly more than three months, was the only Canadian building to crack a list of the Top 10 museums in the world worth visiting for the “interiors alone” by London-based Dezeen magazine.
  Remai Modern is also featured on the cover of the January edition of Toronto-based Canadian Archite
  
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• Olympics: No more spit, Emily Clark all polish for Team Canada

  02-02-2018 15:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  As the Olympics draw closer, the StarPhoenix and Leader-Post are teaming up to profile each of Saskatchewan’s seven athletes. Today, we interview hockey player Emily Clark.
  Emily Clark made her first foray into a hockey rink across the street from an old barn on the University of Saskatchewan campus.
  As much as Clark loved hockey, she had to plug her nose before entering Rutherford Rink for her learn-to-skate session. That foul smell from the nearby research farm would also leave a foul ta
  
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• Raising mental health issues in agriculture

  02-02-2018 15:23 via globalnews.ca
  Kim Keller and Himanshu Singh talk about Do More Ag – their initiative that focuses on doing more for mental health in agriculture.
  
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• Friday Schedule dlvr.it/QDjvL7 https://t.co/25w7RJICzQ

  02-02-2018 15:17
  
  Friday Schedule dlvr.it/QDjvL7 https://t.co/25w7RJICzQ
  
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• Saskatchewan Huskies, Alberta Golden Bears reach milestone in ‘fierce’ rivalry

  02-02-2018 15:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatchewan Huskies and Alberta Golden Bears men’s hockey teams will play their 500th game in their long-running rivalry. Claire Hanna reports.
  
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• 'No sentencing can ever bring my mom back' says daughter of Sask. woman killed in Winnipeg

  02-02-2018 15:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Nautia Crier read a poem to the man who killed her mother over $20.
  Last week, Crier, 16, and her aunt Candice Poorman made the trip from Saskatoon to Winnipeg to make victim impact statements at the sentencing of the man convicted of the second-degree murder of Angela Poorman, Crier’s mother. The man cannot be identified as he was a minor in December 2014 when the crime occurred. 
  “(The poem) was, basically, how she’s not going to ever see me graduate or be there with me
  
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• No evidence gun that killed Colten Boushie malfunctioned, expert testifies

  02-02-2018 14:48 via cbc.ca
  The RCMP firearms expert who studied the gun that's believed to have killed Colten Boushie says he didn’t rule out “mechanical malfunction” when examining the gun himself. But he found no evidence of it either.
  
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• Gerald Stanley murder trial judge advises jury on contradictory testimony

  02-02-2018 14:48 via cbc.ca
  Saskatchewan Judge Martel Popsecul is asking jurors to apply "common sense" when wading through the conflicting testimony they have heard at the trial of Gerald Stanley, the man accused of killing Colten Boushie.
  
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• Gerald Stanley murder trial: Defence lawyer may begin laying out argument

  02-02-2018 14:48 via cbc.ca
  The lawyer for a Saskatchewan farmer accused of fatally shooting a man from a nearby reserve may begin laying out his defence today, as the second-degree murder trial that started this week is ahead of schedule.
  
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• Editorial: In age of social media, balancing free and responsible speech difficult

  02-02-2018 14:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  News outlets like the StarPhoenix and the Leader-Post have always delivered news to people where they live.
  Today, we are truly at home on our hand-held phones and devices. For many, Facebook is a place we spend more time in than our own living rooms. Since the media is tasked with getting the important events of the day in front of as many members of the community as possible, that news is channelled through social media.
  This brings some new challenges. During the second-degree murder tri
  
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