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• Police believe shooting at Saskatoon home not a random incident

  26-05-2018 23:55 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatoon police do not believe a shooting on Fairlight Drive was random in nature.
  
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• Edmonton Eskimos Training Camp: Roughriders to provide first real test

  26-05-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  On Sunday the Edmonton Eskimos will take part in their first real test of the young season as they will host the Saskatchewan Roughriders in their first pre-season game.
  
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• Warnings issued as cluster of severe storms moves through Sask.

  26-05-2018 23:38 via cbc.ca
  Environment Canada is tracking a cluster of severe thunderstorms which could produce strong wind gusts, nickel-sized hail and heavy rain.
  
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• Warnings ended as cluster of severe storms moves out of Sask.

  26-05-2018 23:38 via cbc.ca
  Environment Canada has ended all watches and warnings in Saskatchewan Sunday after a cluster of severe thunderstorms made its way through the province.
  
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• At this Saskatoon shop, come for the metal recycling, stay for the crazy art installations

  26-05-2018 23:18 via cbc.ca
  The Transformers arrived first. The T. Rex, named Rusty, "showed up about three months later," says Mark Riffel, the owner of BN Steel and Metals.
  
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• Shots fired through front door of Saskatoon home Saturday

  26-05-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
  Saskatoon police are investigating after shots were fired into the front door of a home in a Parkridge neighbourhood complex.
  
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• Canadian completing 10 marathons in 10 days logs best time at Wascana Park

  26-05-2018 22:45 via cbc.ca
  A dedicated ultramarathoner from Quebec was in Regina Saturday as part of his series of marathon runs across the country.
  
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• Shot fired into front door of home on Fairlight Drive in Saskatoon

  26-05-2018 22:39 via thestarphoenix.com
  Police are investigating after a shot was fired into the front door of a home on Saskatoon’s west side.
  Officers were dispatched at about 7 a.m. Saturday to the residence in the 3800 block of Fairlight Drive, according to a Saskatoon Police Service news release.
  They determined someone had fired a shot and then fled. No one was injured.
  A police canine track led officers to a firearm that had been abandoned in a yard. Officers also determined a vehicle may been used during the shooting.
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• Shooting - 3800 Block Fairlight Drive

  26-05-2018 22:27 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  At approximately 7:00 a.m., May 26, 2018, Saskatoon Police were dispatched to a residence in the 3800 block of Fairlight Drive for an unknown problem. Upon arrival, officers discovered that an unknown person or persons had discharged a firearm into the front door of a residence and then fled. Fortunately, no persons were injured during the incident.In an attempt to locate the assailants, police Canine Unit officers attended and a track ensued. While no persons were located, an abandone
  
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• Video: Watford in the hunt for Riders’ backup QB spot

  26-05-2018 22:25 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatchewan Roughriders veteran quarterbacks Zach Collaros and Brandon Bridge aren’t expected to see much action Sunday in Edmonton for the Riders’ preseason game at Commonwealth Stadium because the Riders are already familiar with what they have to offer. The game is primarily an opportunity for backups David Watford, Marquise Williams and B.J. Daniels to step up.
  
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• CP Rail union formally serves strike notice

  26-05-2018 22:08 via cbc.ca
  Union members representing Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd's conductors, locomotive engineers and communications employees have served a notice to strike as early as May 29, according to a union statement released on Saturday.
  
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• Rush Hulk on Saturday’s big game

  26-05-2018 21:16 via globalnews.ca
  Rush Halk and PR spokesperson on the show to talk about Saturday’s big game.
  
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• Top of the Hops

  26-05-2018 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  Top of the Hops beer fest preview, it starts Friday evening.
  
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• Aviation museum open house

  26-05-2018 21:13 via globalnews.ca
  Aviation museum open house
  
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• Saskatoon woman indecently exposed herself to boys: police

  26-05-2018 20:54 via globalnews.ca
  Police say a 20-year-old Saskatoon woman approached several boys and indecently exposed herself.
  
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• Riders’ Brandon Bridge aims to change perceptions about Canadian QBs

  26-05-2018 19:54 via globalnews.ca
  Even with Zach Collaros on the Saskatchewan Roughriders roster, Brandon Bridge said he has to play as if he is trying to win the starting job.
  
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• Humboldt Broncos honoured before Memorial Cup semifinal

  26-05-2018 19:37 via globalnews.ca
  Humboldt team president Kevin Garinger along with the parents of late Broncos athletic therapist Dayna Brons performed the ceremonial puck drop.
  
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• Saskatoon, parts of central, southern Saskatchewan under severe thunderstorm watch

  26-05-2018 18:46 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon and many parts of Saskatchewan are under severe thunderstorm watches on Saturday.
  Conditions are favourable for severe storms that could produce strong wind gusts and large hail, Environment Canada said in the alert, issued at 10:19 a.m. Saturday.
  North Battleford, Kindersley, Rosetown, Swift Current, Moose Jaw and Prince Albert are also under severe thunderstorm watches.
  “Remember, severe thunderstorms can produce tornadoes. Be prepared for severe weather,” the notice said
  
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• Video: A sneak peek at the new movie theatre in Saskatoon

  26-05-2018 18:22 via thestarphoenix.com
  StarPhoenix reporter Cam Fuller tests out the new movie theatre in Saskatoon and interviews Landmark Cinemas CEO Bill Walker at an early-access tour.
  
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• Video: Premier Scott Moe answers questions after first state of the province address

  26-05-2018 18:19 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe responds to questions about oil pipelines on Friday, May 25th. Moe’s first state of the province address focused heavily the prospects of a carbon tax.
  
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• Video: First World War internment camp a little known part of Sask. history

  26-05-2018 18:15 via thestarphoenix.com
  On February 25, 1919, 65 internees were forcibly relocated from the Munson Internment Camp in Alberta to the railway siding at Eaton, Sask., where a camp was constructed.
  On Friday, the Eaton Internment Camp Memorial Garden was officially dedicated with a reflection area and a bronze plaque. This event will also mark the beginning of a year of remembrance, recognizing 2019 as the centenary of the Eaton Internment Camp.
  
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• Indigenous Nations federation threatens court action over hunting rights

  26-05-2018 18:11 via globalnews.ca
  The FSIN is threatening to take the Saskatchewan government to court over a new policy restricting when hunting is allowed on certain lands.
  
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• Acreage setting adds to STARS Lottery home's appeal

  26-05-2018 18:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Since 2012, D & S Homes has been proud to supply the grand prize homes for the STARS Lottery in both Saskatoon and Regina.
  Supporting the STARS Foundation Lottery is a cause near and dear to the Slater family, who established D & S Homes over 40 years ago. “It’s an organization that our family is proud to support. They save so many lives across the province and benefit so many families,” says Dennis Slater, president of D & S Homes.
  STARS stands for Shock Trauma Air
  
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• 60 years of service: Celebration to honour dedication of Colin Clay, Bernard de Margerie

  26-05-2018 18:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Rev. Canon Colin Clay and Rev. Bernard de Margerie share a unique connection. On June 1, 1958, both were ordained for Christian ministry, one as an Anglican, the other as a Catholic.
  Clay, along with 15 deacons and 14 other priests, was ordained at 800-year-old Southwark Anglican Cathedral in London, England. The congregation was so large the event was ticketed and it was, Clay says, “a very long service.”
  On the same day, de Margerie was the only priest ordained at Saint-Philippe-Ne
  
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• 'Massive blood loss': Witnesses describe scene at Ont. restaurant bombing

  26-05-2018 17:36
  A day after two men detonated an explosive device inside a Mississauga, Ont. restaurant, witnesses and family of the restaurant’s owners are expressing their shock about what happened.
  
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• Riders pre-season test big opportunity for rookies

  26-05-2018 15:00 via cbc.ca
  Riders pre-season test big opportunity for rookies. Sunday's game in Edmonton will be one and only chance for many
  
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• No winning ticket for Friday night's $60 million Lotto Max jackpot

  26-05-2018 14:07
  The massive $60 million Lotto Max jackpot has gone unclaimed for another week.
  
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• Walter Murray student set to compete in the CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee

  26-05-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon may soon be able to claim bragging rights over being home to Canada’s “Best Brain” when local high school student Alina Sami competes for the title during the 11th annual Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canadian National Brain Bee.
  A Grade 11 student at Walter Murray collegiate, Sami is involved in a lot of school activities, but she says training and competing in the Brain Bee is a perfect way to start down her recently realized dream of pursuing a career
  
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• Saskatoon sitcom as twisted as a pig's tale

  26-05-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Some people huff and puff, but two local filmmakers have blown the house down with Four in a Blanket.
  It’s a four-episode sitcom featuring a family of pigs played by humans. Of course.
  Darren Zimmer plays the dad
  “The idea started as a joke,” says writer-director-producer Gavin Baird. “I was driving with some friends and I joked that it would be funny to make a show with real live pigs. For some reason, the idea stuck with me.”Bernadette Mullen
  Ultimately, Baird and
  
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• Regina tiny food artist brings mini masterpieces to the masses

  26-05-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Regina artist Tom Brown has created a tiny kitchen with a fully functioning gas stove and over 300 tools and appliances. He can make everything from mini pizzas to doughnuts the size of quarters.
  
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• New Faces New Places: Escaping the mundane with some virtual reality fun

  26-05-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  After Adrian Wendling noticed a void in the virtual reality gaming market in Saskatoon, he decided it was time to expand Deadlock Escape’s repertoire and open a new location in Riversdale.
  With more than 130 different single and multiplayer VR games — allowing players to experience everything from shooting zombies to milking a cow — there is something for everyone.
  Wendling says the most exciting new addition is the first VR duelling escape room in Saskatchewan, where two teams
  
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• New Faces New Places: Come for the kickboxing, stay for the personalized experience

  26-05-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon’s iLoveKickboxing (ILKB) franchise is not your everyday gym experience.
  Owners Brett Fee and his brother Dustin, who already own martial arts studios in B.C., have family in the city and decided it would be the perfect place to open a franchise, thanks to Saskatoon’s small town feel.
  “It’s a big city, but it’s a small town,” Fee says. “It was just a gut feeling we had about the city and we were right … and it’s perfect because we f
  
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• Memorial garden to offer education on Eaton Internment Camp

  26-05-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  A year of remembrance began on Friday with an official dedication of the Eaton Internment Camp Memorial Garden, including a reflection area and plaque.
  In 1919, 65 people were relocated from a camp in Alberta to a railway siding at Eaton, Sask., where the Eaton Internment Camp was built. The original site is now on the grounds of the Saskatchewan Railway Museum, where the CN tracks intersect with the Pike Lake Highway west of Saskatoon .
  “Approximately 100 years ago, people were brought to
  
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• Letters to the editor May 26, 2018

  26-05-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Transit system needs to be fixed
  Again Saskatoon Transit speaks of things to come, using fancy buzz words like “DART” and “BRT — Bus Rapid Transit.”
  The latest study version, Future Bus Rapid Transit Plans, calls for a restructuring of Saskatoon Transit to more of a grid network with direct two-way routes serving major corridors and development nodes. Hmm, that sounds like what Transit had before the complete overhaul in 2005 — two-way bus routes abandoned for
  
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• Fuller: A fire, a woolly mammoth and, maybe, a lesson

  26-05-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  There’s a lesson for me in the Kyle Hotel fire. It’s just that I’m not sure what it is.
  On May 14, I was driving from Medicine Hat to Saskatoon. The middle part is a clear shot from Swift Current to Rosetown on Highway 4, a two-lane stereotype of Saskatchewan-straight pavement made for big pickup trucks to guzzle gallons and spit out miles.
  The town of Kyle is on that road. It dates back to 1923, named after original settler Jeremiah Kyle. In the 1960s, they unearthed a 12,000-
  
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• Cuthand: Indigenous people see the balance in natural events

  26-05-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  When it comes to nature and the natural world, Indigenous people have a much different world view than the rest of the modern world. This comes out at times when the news media reports on natural disasters that Indigenous people refer to as natural disturbances.
  It’s overkill to call a natural event a disaster when it has been occurring since the world began.
  A good example is all the hoopla about the eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii.
  The spreading erupting fissures are destroying
  
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• Book review: Coming to grips with warlike horrors in the B.C. interior

  26-05-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Before the Vietnam War and subsequent conflicts brought Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to the attention of the general public, there were the First and Second World Wars and the people who returned from them (or didn’t), often damaged in some way and, following the code of the times, unwilling to talk about it.
  Patrick Lane — one-time Saskatchewan resident — grew up in the British Columbia interior and was the right age (born 1939) to take in all the stories of death, de
  
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• 'Big hockey' time: Saskatoon's Chandler Stephenson in the thick of things

  26-05-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon’s Chandler Stephenson is into that part of the hockey season when every flick of the wrist, every bump into the boards, carries added weight.
  NHL playoff hockey just feels different, says Stephenson, a Washington Capitals’ rookie who has helped his team reach the upcoming Stanley Cup finals against the upstart Las Vegas Golden Knights.
  “The crowd, the media, the fans … it’s more,” Stephenson said Friday while preparing for the best-of-seven finale,
  
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• Sex, lies and video: The story behind Alexa Emerson's 'rampage of social media terrorism'

  26-05-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  An agreed statement of facts at Alexa Emerson's sentencing laid out the means and methods behind her campaign of terror that targeted her ex-boyfriends, their families, friends and employers.
  
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• NAFTA advisors say Canada has to 'hit back' against Trump trade action

  26-05-2018 13:00
  If NAFTA negotiations fail and U.S. President Donald Trump lashes out against Canada on trade, Ottawa shouldn’t hesitate to fight back, two members of the federal NAFTA advisory panel said.
  
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• Exes, lies and video: The story behind Sask. woman's 'rampage of social media terrorism'

  26-05-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  An agreed statement of facts at Alexa Emerson's sentencing laid out the means and methods behind her campaign of terror that targeted her ex-boyfriends, their families, friends and employers.
  
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• Cat Crisis: overpopulation in Regina combined with financial troubles common problem for shelters

  26-05-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  The Vegaboo Cat Haven is closing due to a lack of funds; the Regina Humane Society lost $70,000 in one year; and the Regina Cat Rescue is seeing an increase in demand but donations were down $30,000.
  
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• Justice minister's tweet on Boushie verdict inspired wave of angry emails, letters

  26-05-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Hundreds of Canadians sent emails and letters to Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould after she posted a comment to Twitter in the wake of a jury verdict in the death of Colten Boushie. Many accused the minister of political interference after she wrote: "We can and must do better."
  
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• Justice minister's tweet on Boushie verdict inspired a wave of angry e-mails and letters

  26-05-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Hundreds of Canadians sent e-mails and letters to federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould after she posted a comment to Twitter in the wake of a jury verdict in the death of Colten Boushie. Many accused the minister of political interference after she wrote, "We can and must do better."
  
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• Receiver depth at Saskatchewan Roughriders training camp

  26-05-2018 06:38 via globalnews.ca
  One term that is thrown around a lot with successful teams is “depth,” and the Riders have it at receiver. Derek Bidwell has more on a veteran, happy to be back for another year.
  
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• Woman charged with indecent exposure after incident near Saskatoon school

  26-05-2018 05:32 via thestarphoenix.com
  A 20-year-old woman has been charged after several boys said she indecently exposed herself to them.
  The incident happened at about 4 p.m. Thursday in the 1400 block of Byers Crescent, near a school in the Westview neighbourhood, according to a Saskatoon Police Service news release.
  The woman fled the area when she was approached by an adult, but investigators identified her and made an arrest on Friday, police said.
  She has been charged with committing an indecent act and is scheduled to appear
  
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• Saskatchewan man pleads guilty for 2017 crash that killed three Edmonton women

  26-05-2018 05:23 via cbc.ca
  A Saskatchewan man has pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal negligence causing death for a crash that killed three Edmonton women.
  
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• Saskatchewan man pleads guilty for 2017 crash that killed 3 Edmonton women

  26-05-2018 05:23 via cbc.ca
  A Saskatchewan man has pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal negligence causing death for a crash that killed three Edmonton women.
  
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• Police ask for help in investigation of Brennan Ahenakew's death on Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation

  26-05-2018 04:41 via thestarphoenix.com
  Police are asking for the public’s help in the investigation of the death of Brennan Ahenakew, whose remains were found in a burnt-out car on Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation.
  Anyone who had contact with Ahenakew, 20, or saw his two-door grey 2002 Pontiac Grand Am between 11 p.m. on Wednesday, May 9, to 6:30 a.m. the next morning is asked to contact police.
  Police first learned of the burning vehicle on the morning of May 10, but the officer who responded didn’t search the vehicle, so Ahenake
  
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• Season series loss no concern to Saskatchewan Rush ahead of NLL Finals

  26-05-2018 04:40 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatchewan Rush lost both of their regular season games against the Rochester Knighthawks but they don't believe it hurts their chances in the finals.
  
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