Saskatoon news

• Cold weather good news for Saskatoon ice castle builders

  30-03-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Sonia Kasstan explains how they built the ice castle in her front yard.
  
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• Police still seeking leads in Saskatoon teen’s shooting death 3 years ago

  30-03-2018 21:59 via globalnews.ca
  Danil Tsannie's family has released a video asking anyone with information about his death to come forward to police.
  
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• Missing man last seen in Cypress Hills Provincial Park

  30-03-2018 21:54 via globalnews.ca
  Christopher Tuttle has not had contact with his family in over a month.
  
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• 'Volatile' Sask. spring brings record lows as cold as –39 C

  30-03-2018 21:32 via cbc.ca
  Biting cold is bearing down on most of Saskatchewan this holiday weekend and an Environment Canada meteorologist says not to expect any reprieve until after the first week of April.
  
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• John Chick announces retirement after eight CFL seasons

  30-03-2018 20:43 via globalnews.ca
  Edmonton Eskimos defensive end John Chick retires from football after eight seasons in the CFL.
  
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• Winter blast hits southern Saskatchewan

  30-03-2018 20:29 via globalnews.ca
  Snowfall warnings, strong winds will affect most of the province on Good Friday.
  
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• Four Canadian diplomats expelled from Russia

  30-03-2018 20:26
  Global Affairs Canada says four Canadian diplomats have been expelled from Russia as the dispute between the Kremlin and the West escalates over the alleged poisoning of a former spy and his daughter earlier this month.
  
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• Regina Man Facing Child Pornography Charges dlvr.it/QMwJh9 https://t.co/2rw2U5pcKx

  30-03-2018 20:09
  
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• Damage estimated at $130K in Saskatoon house fire

  30-03-2018 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  Unattended cooking started a house fire in Saskatoon that caused an estimated $130,000 in damages.
  
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• Friday Sports Schedule dlvr.it/QMw9K3 https://t.co/JymViqs7Kw

  30-03-2018 19:37
  
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• Want to know everything Google knows about you? (Spoiler alert: It's even more than you think)

  30-03-2018 19:26 via cbc.ca
  Web developer Dylan Curran explains how to get all of the data Google and Facebook are storing about you. You should probably be sitting down for this.
  
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• P.A. Police Experience Busy 24 Hours dlvr.it/QMw1V8 https://t.co/DYKYzEXGcN

  30-03-2018 19:05
  
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• Convicted sex offender, under new name, facing more child porn charges in Regina

  30-03-2018 18:50 via thestarphoenix.com
  Previously sentenced four times on child pornography offences, and later declared Saskatchewan’s first long-term offender for that type of crime, a 48-year-old man is facing several new child porn charges.
  Gabriel Michael Fisher, previously known as Kevin Daniel Hudec, has been charged with three counts each of possession of child pornography and accessing child pornography, as well as one count each of making child pornography and breach of probation.
  According to the Saskatchew
  
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• Wind turbine entrepreneur, wanted by the FBI, found hiding in Saskatoon

  30-03-2018 18:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  James Alan Rowan seemed to have a winner with his latest innovation, a wind turbine for the home that didn’t need a tower.
  Celebrities like former Tonight Show host Jay Leno and actor Ed Begley Jr. endorsed the Canadian entrepreneur’s product. Rowan was making national headlines with his invention. But skeptics wondered if it actually worked.
  Eventually, fame turned into notoriety. In October 2013, a grand jury indicted Rowan for wire and securities fraud in North Carolina.
  
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• Retired couple wins Hospital Home Lottery grand prize

  30-03-2018 18:27 via thestarphoenix.com
  Two Saskatoon residents were the lucky winners of the $1.7 million Hospital Home Lottery grand prize show home.
  It was a normal day for retired couple — and longtime supporters of the lottery — Josie and Norman Shulhan when they got the phone call informing them of their big win. Josie was at home tackling some laundry while Norman was out getting in a few ends of curling. 
  “I did phone him (at the rink) but he had already left, so I was patiently waiting for him — p
  
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• Regina Police Conduct a Further Drug Search dlvr.it/QMvXpp https://t.co/1SM4ud5wA4

  30-03-2018 17:28
  
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• Devotees nailed to crosses on Good Friday in Philippines

  30-03-2018 17:09
  Seven Filipino Roman Catholic devotees, including a woman, were nailed to wooden crosses in a Good Friday reenactment of Jesus Christ's suffering that was watched by thousands of spectators but frowned upon by church leaders.
  
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• Alberta third province to allow Sikhs to ride motorcyles without helmets

  30-03-2018 16:03
  Alberta is to allow turban-wearing Sikhs to ride motorcycles without helmets.
  
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• Fire Crews Respond to Early Morning Downtown Crash dlvr.it/QMv2Y1 https://t.co/TN5rKorQJs

  30-03-2018 15:52
  
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• Ave X Fire Causes Over $100 Thousand Dollars Damage dlvr.it/QMv2gV https://t.co/PvBGjDBFpD

  30-03-2018 15:52
  
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• Kitchen fire causes $130K worth of damage at Saskatoon house

  30-03-2018 15:45 via cbc.ca
  A man and a woman escaped without being harmed when a kitchen fire broke out at a Saskatoon home on Thursday evening.
  
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• Bridges Events March 30 – April 5

  30-03-2018 15:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  Event listings are a free, community service offered by Bridges. Listings will be printed if space permits. Submission deadline is two weeks before the event date. Please send submissions to [email protected].
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  Fri., March 30
  Dangerous CheeseBuds on Broadway, 817 Broadway Ave.
  Lights w/ Dear Rouge and DCFO’Brians Event Centre, 241 Second Ave. S.
  Harlequin and Lee AaronDakota Dunes Casino, 204 Dakota Dunes Way, Whitecap
  Harlequin
  Common Deer w/ Jesse and the DandelionsAmigos
  
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• 'Easy fix' that could prove no fix: Saskatoon lawyer disappointed with move to end peremptory challenges

  30-03-2018 15:05 via cbc.ca
  A new major bill meant to modernize Canada's criminal justice system is eliciting mixed reactions from the legal community, with a Saskatoon criminal lawyer saying he was “disappointed” in the move to end peremptory challenges.
  
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• Thursday Scoreboard dlvr.it/QMs9C2 https://t.co/QGYfq0Tv4J

  30-03-2018 08:52
  
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• Kitchen fire causes $130K in damage

  30-03-2018 06:31
  It’s a reminder of how quickly a fire in your kitchen can spread.
  
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• Mountie wounded in exchange of gunfire west of Edmonton, suspect killed

  30-03-2018 05:28
  Alberta RCMP say a Mountie was wounded and a fleeing suspect was fatally wounded in an exchange of gunfire on Thursday near Evansburg, Alta., a small community about 100 kilometres west of Edmonton.
  
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• Hospital Home Lottery winners 2018

  30-03-2018 04:13 via thestarphoenix.com
  Two Saskatoon residents were the lucky winners of the $1.7 million Hospital Home Lottery grand prize show home.
  It was a normal day for retired couple — and longtime supporters of the lottery — Josie and Norman Shulhan when they got the phone call informing them of their big win. Josie was at home tackling some laundry while Norman was out getting in a few ends of curling. 
  “I did phone him (at the rink) but he had already left, so I was patiently waiting for him — p
  
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• Ban protecting identity of Jacqueline Henderson, teen who killed baby, lifted

  30-03-2018 04:12
  The publication ban protecting the identity of a girl who killed a six-week-old baby in Saskatoon has been lifted.
  
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• U of S student innovates touchscreen menu to use 10 fingers

  30-03-2018 03:48
  A University of Saskatchewan PhD student wants to change how people use menus on touchscreen devices.
  
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• Convicted pedophile, under new name, facing more child porn charges in Regina

  30-03-2018 03:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  Previously sentenced four times on child pornography offences, and later declared Saskatchewan’s first long-term offender for that type of crime, a 48-year-old man is facing several new child porn charges.
  Gabriel Michael Fisher, previously known as Kevin Daniel Hudec, has been charged with three counts each of possession of child pornography and accessing child pornography, as well as one count each of making child pornography and breach of probation.
  According to the Saskatchew
  
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• CTV honours Hugo Alvarado with 2017 Saskatoon Citizen of the Year Award

  30-03-2018 03:22
  Hugo Alvarado has not only created art with each stroke of his paint brush. He’s also transformed lives.
  
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• Court’s decision on Onion Lake Cree Nation finances upheld

  30-03-2018 03:01
  The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says a recent court decision ordering the Onion Lake Cree Nation to publish its financial documentsis a victory and re-enforces financial transparency for First Nations.
  
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• Young offender who brutally killed a baby boy in Saskatoon now identified

  30-03-2018 02:49 via globalnews.ca
  The name of the killer of a baby boy in Saskatoon has been released after she was sentenced as an adult and the time for an appeal expired.
  
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• Lawyer for Colten Boushie’s family responds to jury selection changes

  30-03-2018 02:25 via globalnews.ca
  The lawyer representing Colten Boushie’s family says the jury selection process needs change beyond a recent announcement.
  
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• Radisson rock collector gets donation from U of S geology department

  30-03-2018 02:13 via globalnews.ca
  A Radisson boy who recently had part of his rock collection stolen was given a chance to select some rare samples from the University of Saskatchewan’s geology department. Rebekah Lesko reports.
  
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• Radisson rock collector receives donation from U of S geology department

  30-03-2018 02:08 via globalnews.ca
  The U of S invited Judah Tyreman to campus to give the young collector an opportunity to select rare samples.
  
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• Teen killer of baby boy in Saskatoon identified

  30-03-2018 02:02 via globalnews.ca
  The name of the killer of a baby boy in Saskatoon that was protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been released. Meaghan Craig reports.
  
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• Regina Police raid cannabis dispensaries, leave medicinal users stranded

  30-03-2018 02:00 via globalnews.ca
  Regina Police Service raided six illegal cannabis dispensaries across the city but the victims aren’t the store owners, they’re the customers who depend on medicinal marijuana.
  
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• Colten Boushie’s family reacts to jury reform

  30-03-2018 02:00 via globalnews.ca
  The family of Colten Boushie reacts to proposed changes to Canada’s jury selection process as part of shakeup to the justice system announced by Ottawa. Ryan Kessler reports.
  
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• ‘A lot of people are going to die,’ advocates warn of fentanyl crisis

  30-03-2018 02:00
  Harm reduction organizations urge opiod users to get naloxone kits
  
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• Global News at 6: March 29

  30-03-2018 01:59 via globalnews.ca
  The Thursday, November 29, 2018 edition of Global News at 6 on Global Saskatoon
  
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• Federal Legislation Introduced Which Includes Reforms To Jury Selection dlvr.it/QMqy7Q https://t.co/UYWDIYBmJo

  30-03-2018 01:53
  
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• H & M grand opening in Regina draws big crowds

  30-03-2018 01:51 via globalnews.ca
  By 11:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, around 500 eager shoppers lined up awaiting the grand opening of H&M at the Cornwall Centre.
  
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• Saskatoon marijuana dispensary co-owner worried after Regina raids

  30-03-2018 01:39 via thestarphoenix.com
  A series of co-ordinated police raids on six marijuana dispensaries in Regina do not appear to have deterred Saskatoon smokers from lining up at a local outlet to buy strains with names like “God Kush” and “Hawaiian Cheese.”
  The smell of fresh weed hung in the air at Best Buds Society on Second Avenue just before lunchtime on Thursday, as sales associates poured sticky-looking buds onto scales for a diverse range of customers — old, young, and every age in between.&
  
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• SPCA's adoptable pet of the week: Apollo ready to roar

  30-03-2018 01:33 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatoon SPCA has many animals waiting to be adopted into loving homes.
  As a regular feature, The Saskatoon StarPhoenix is teaming up with the SPCA to feature an Adoptable Pet of the Week.
  Today SPCA Volunteer and Public Relations Coordinator Heather Sutherland introduces Apollo, a playful one-year-old  flame point domestic medium-hair cat.
  To adopt Apollo or any other pet, go online to http://www.saskatoonspca.com/, contact the SPCA at 306 374-7387 or drop by the shelter at 
  
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• Sask. government makes good on revenue sharing consultation promise ahead of budget

  30-03-2018 01:33 via globalnews.ca
  The heads of Saskatchewan's largest municipality organizations are pleased with the government's budget consultation approach after cuts in last year's budget.
  
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• Jacqueline Henderson is the teen who killed baby Nikosis Cantre

  30-03-2018 01:31 via thestarphoenix.com
  A publication ban on the name of the 18-year-old woman who killed baby Nikosis Jace Cantre when she was 16 years old has been lifted after no appeal was filed within the required 30-day period. 
  Jacqueline Danielle Henderson was sentenced last month, as an adult, after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. She received the maximum sentence applicable to a 16-year-old convicted of murder as an adult: Life in prison with no parole eligibility for seven years. 
  Henderson said she stomp
  
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• Paulsen: Banning plastic bags from recycling a confusing move

  30-03-2018 01:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  Throwing plastic into your garbage bin instead of recycling it is a modern day equivalent crime against humanity. However, it appears this is where Saskatoon is headed.
  By the time you get around to reading this, you will no longer be allowed to put plastics bags into your recycling bin (the change comes into effect April 1). The solution: City council has told us we can just throw them into the garbage instead.
  The thought of purposely throwing any type of plastic into my garbage, instead of re
  
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• Jacqueline Henderson is the teen who killed baby Nikons Cantre

  30-03-2018 01:21 via thestarphoenix.com
  A publication ban on the name of the 18-year-old woman who killed baby Nikosis Jace Cantre when she was 16 years old has been lifted after no appeal was filed within the required 30-day period. 
  Jacqueline Danielle Henderson was sentenced last month, as an adult, after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. She received the maximum sentence applicable to a 16-year-old convicted of murder as an adult: Life in prison with no parole eligibility for seven years. 
  Henderson said she stomp
  
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• U of S helps out teen whose rock and gem museum was burglarized

  30-03-2018 01:03 via thestarphoenix.com
  When the University of Saskatchewan Geology department learned about the break-in and theft of Jonah Tyreman’s Sesula Mineral and Gem Museum in Radisson, staff decided to give the 13-year-old rock enthusiast a helping hand.
  Members of the U of S and the Geology department invited Tyreman on campus on Thursday and gave the young collector an opportunity to select rare samples from its treasure trove of rocks, minerals, meteorites and fossils in the secure storage vault.
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