Saskatoon news

• Jerome Messam ready to get back on the field with the Riders

  21-05-2018 23:58
  As the Saskatchewan Roughriders prepare for the upcoming CFL season, the team is starting to see its offence come together with big-time running back Jerome Messam looking to prove he’s still got a lot to give.
  
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• Alberta Premier Rachel Notley backs out of Western Premiers’ Conference over pipeline spat

  21-05-2018 23:19 via globalnews.ca
  “With 10 days remaining before Kinder Morgan’s deadline, Premier Notley’s only priority is working with the federal government and Kinder Morgan to secure the construction of the pipeline."
  
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• Saskatchewan couple survives being buried in B.C. mudslide

  21-05-2018 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  Don Struthers the Saskatchewan couple was lucky that a pileup of trees stopped the vehicle from tumbling all the way down the cliff.
  
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• Sask. couple survives being buried in mudslide on B.C. highway

  21-05-2018 22:39
  A Saskatchewan couple is recovering in hospital after a mudslide swept them off a cliff in British Columbia.
  
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• Sask. can expect a warmer summer than usual: climatologist

  21-05-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  Environment Canada says rain is especially hard to predict but that they're expecting it to be dryer than normal again this year.
  
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• Sask. program helping youth in high-crime communities stay on right side of the law

  21-05-2018 20:06 via cbc.ca
  A pilot program in a high-crime area of northeast Saskatchewan is helping to prevent young people with violent tendencies from breaking the law.
  
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• Majority of flood evacuation orders lifted in Boundary region of B.C.

  21-05-2018 19:20
  The majority of residents in British Columbia's Boundary region who were forced from their homes by catastrophic floods are free to return home.
  
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• 'So grateful:' Injured Bronco hockey player glad he's alive, works on recovery

  21-05-2018 19:06
  Seven weeks after being paralyzed from the chest down when a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team crashed, Ryan Straschnitzki has embarked on the thing a lot of athletes dread -- two-a-day workouts.
  
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• Injured Humboldt Broncos player glad he’s alive, works on recovery

  21-05-2018 19:06 via globalnews.ca
  Ryan Straschnitzki was badly hurt in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash: a spinal injury, broken ribs, a broken collar bone, and a punctured lung.
  
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• Special air quality statement issued in northern Saskatchewan

  21-05-2018 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  Environment Canada has issued a special air quality statement in northern Saskatchewan.
  
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• Wildfire risks remain extreme throughout much of Saskatchewan

  21-05-2018 18:36 via cbc.ca
  There will be no holiday Monday relief from extreme fire risks throughout much of the province.
  
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• Saskatchewan Roughriders training camp opens in Saskatoon

  21-05-2018 18:08 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders got reacquired with each other at Griffiths Stadium and began another quest for the Grey Cup.
  
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• Jupiter's backward-flying asteroid from another star system

  21-05-2018 17:54
  Just months after the discovery of our first known interstellar visitor, it turns out there's another asteroid from yet another star system residing in our cosmic club in plain view.
  
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• South African man, 23, found guilty of axe murders of family

  21-05-2018 17:10
  A South African man has been found guilty of murdering three members of his immediate family on Monday, more than three years after the gruesome attack in an upscale housing estate that shocked the nation.
  
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• Royal Family releases the first official photographs of the newlyweds

  21-05-2018 17:09
  Kensington Palace is sharing three official photos from the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
  
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• Edmonton police searching for escaped killer

  21-05-2018 16:27
  Edmonton police are searching for an inmate convicted of second degree murder who escaped custody Saturday night.
  
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• Taylor Swift is doing more to stop scalpers than Ontario's new ticket act: experts

  21-05-2018 16:25
  Step aside Ontario lawmakers, because Taylor Swift is giving you a lesson in how to deflect concert scalpers.
  
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• LGBT community cheers pope's 'God made you like this' remark

  21-05-2018 14:49
  Pope Francis' reported comments to a gay man that "God made you like this" have been embraced by the LGBT community as another sign of Francis' desire to make gay people feel welcomed and loved in the Catholic Church.
  
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• How a 94-year-old retiree became a gym rat

  21-05-2018 13:26
  Like many gym rats, Paul Russell lifts weights and runs obstacle courses. What makes Russell unlike other gym rats is that he's 94.
  
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• Bye bye ice cream: Sask. business owners bitter over vanilla prices

  21-05-2018 11:00 via cbc.ca
  It may seem like a pretty basic flavour, but vanilla beans are now worth more than silver.
  
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• Meet the artist who gets art supplies to Indigenous schools and promotes artists

  21-05-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Thanks to the efforts of an Ottawa-area artist, a 16-year-old from a First Nation in Saskatchewan will be showcasing and selling her artwork at a gallery in Ottawa from June through December.
  
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• Something to prove for Zach Collaros at first day of Riders 2018 Training Camp

  21-05-2018 04:48 via cbc.ca
  Riders Kick off 2018 Training Camp
  
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• Something to prove for Zach Calloras at first day of Riders 2018 Training Camp

  21-05-2018 04:48 via cbc.ca
  Riders Kick off 2018 Training Camp
  
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• Review: Blow Wind a force of nature, but an inconsistent one

  21-05-2018 04:06 via thestarphoenix.com
  The play Blow Wind shares a lot of characteristics with the storms that appear multiple times throughout the plot: They are powerful, gripping, chilling and a bit erratic. 
  Blow Wind is the final show of Dancing Sky Theatre’s 20th season, and at the show on Sunday in Meacham, the audience was treated to cutting emotional outbursts followed by clever quips as they followed a family dealing with the fate of their dementia-suffering mother and the family farm. The strengths of the show m
  
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• Victims of alleged LSD brainwashing experiments in Montreal plan to file lawsuit

  21-05-2018 03:46
  Survivors and families of those who allegedly underwent brainwashing experiments at McGill University in Montreal are planning a class-action lawsuit against the Quebec and federal governments because of what they claim had been done to them decades ago.
  
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• Saskatchewan Roughriders Duron Carter addresses marijuana possession charge

  21-05-2018 03:00 via globalnews.ca
  Duron Carter, a receiver with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, addressed his marijuana possession charge.
  
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• Sask. couple swept away by B.C. mountain landslide can't believe they're alive

  21-05-2018 02:56 via cbc.ca
  Saskatchewan couple Sheri Niemegeers and Gabe Rosescu were swept away when a wall of mud and trees came hurtling down a steep mountain pass toward their vehicle.
  
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• Air guitar enthusiasts rock out at Roxy Theatre

  21-05-2018 02:13 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatchewan Air Guitar Championships took place on Saturday at the Roxy Theatre.
  
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• Artists struggling to find new home

  21-05-2018 01:56
  Several artists in Saskatoon are scrambling to find a new studio after the building they were working out of was sold.
  
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• All positives for Collaros at camp

  21-05-2018 01:53
  It’s all positives for Zach Collaros after his first training camp day with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
  
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• Body recovered from South Saskatchewan River

  21-05-2018 01:49
  The Saskatoon fire department’s water rescue team has recovered a body from the South Saskatchewan River.
  
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• Highland Gathering and Festival visits Regina

  21-05-2018 01:46
  The annual Saskatchewan Highland Gathering and Celtic Festival kept the traffic steady in Victoria Park over the weekend.
  
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• Comfort of Calgary draws ex-Roughrider Derek Dennis back to Stampeders

  21-05-2018 00:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  CALGARY — Derek Dennis didn’t dye his hair red for Calgary Stampeders training camp, but says he’ll be sporting crimson locks by the season-opener.
  The man who won the CFL’s outstanding lineman award as a Stampeder in 2016 had green hair last season as a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
  But the Roughriders abruptly released Dennis the day free agency opened in February.
  The 29-year-old from New York chose to return to the Stampeders for multiple reasons and previou
  
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