Saskatoon news

• Scheer sends Trudeau a letter calling for end to border 'queue jumping'

  15-06-2018 23:50
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking him to table a plan to immediately stop "queue jumping" by the ongoing influx of illegal border crossers.
  
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• RCMP receives $1.6M in provincial funding to tackle gangs and guns

  15-06-2018 23:41 via cbc.ca
  Earlier this year a crime response team was deployed for a trial period of 90 days. On Friday the RCMP and provincial government announced two permanent teams will be created in Saskatchewan.
  
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• In a green Canada, small town Saskatchewan will be the victim

  15-06-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  “It sort of shadows over everything that there is a closure date,” Catherine MacKay-Wilson knows in a post-coal future, Coronach, Sask., loses theirs.
  
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• ‘It won’t even get a fly high’: Sask. farmer on people comparing hemp to marijuana

  15-06-2018 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  They serve completely different purposes, yet there is sometimes confusion when it comes to hemp and marijuana. Abigail Turner reports.
  
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• White Butte RCMP investigate skate park assault

  15-06-2018 23:10 via globalnews.ca
  White Butte RCMP are investigating an alleged assault that occurred between youth at an outdoor park.
  
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• New developments will revitalize Broadway, downtown, says Saskatoon planner

  15-06-2018 22:30 via cbc.ca
  A lot of changes are coming to Broadway and downtown in Saskatoon and Alan Wallace, former director of planning and development with the City of Saskatoon, says they will be good for the economy.
  
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• Flood recovery centre to open in RM of Frenchman Butte

  15-06-2018 22:09 via globalnews.ca
  A Provincial Disaster Assistance Program (PDAP) flood recovery centre will open in the village of Paradise Hill.
  
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• Firearms & Drug Charges Laid - 1300 Block Ave F North

  15-06-2018 22:04 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  A 35 year old male has been arrested following a single vehicle collision in the 1300 block of Avenue F North.On June 15, 2018, at approximately 7:00 a.m., Saskatoon Police were called for a single vehicle collision where a pick-up truck hit a pole in the west alley of the 1300 block of Avenue F North.Upon Police arrival a witness pointed out a man that had fled the vehicle and was attempting to hide nearby.   He was arrested and found to be in possession of ammunition, cocaine, fentan
  
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• Roughriders running back Jerome Messam motivated by providing for his daughter

  15-06-2018 22:03 via cbc.ca
  Roughriders running back Jerome Messam says becoming a father has changed his life and is why he's so passionate about supporting people with a developmental disabilities.
  
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• Father's Pride: What it means to celebrate both events in June

  15-06-2018 22:01 via thestarphoenix.com
  For a gay father and his daughter, and a father with a queer daughter, the month of June calls for extra celebration — a chance to celebrate both Father’s Day and Pride with their daughters.
  Brent Beatty came out when his now five-year-old daughter, Cam, was around one year old.
  JQ Norris, the daughter of Rob Norris, came out when she was 12 years old.
  
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• Alleged hammer-wielding home invader stabbed by Kindersley trucking company worker: Witness

  15-06-2018 21:49 via cbc.ca
  A Kindersley trucking company employee fought off a masked man armed with a hammer during a home invasion. The intruder ended up in hospital.
  
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• Alleged hammer-wielding home invader stabbed by Kindersley trucking company worker: RCMP

  15-06-2018 21:49 via cbc.ca
  A Kindersley trucking company employee fought off a masked man armed with a hammer during a home invasion. The intruder ended up in hospital.
  
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• Protesters evicted from camp by Regina police early Friday morning

  15-06-2018 21:45 via globalnews.ca
  At 5:00 am Friday, the Regina Police Service began tearing down the makeshift camp that has been in front of the provincial legislature for 108 days.
  
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• Letter containing suspicious white powder sent to Trump’s envoy in Ottawa

  15-06-2018 20:54 via thestarphoenix.com
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is offering supportive words for U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft after a suspicious white powder was found in an envelope addressed to the American embassy in Ottawa.
  Following a meeting with Craft on Friday, Freeland condemned the “wholly unacceptable threat made against her.”
  “She does an essential and difficult job and Canada respects her service,” Freeland wrote on Twitter.
  The U.S. Embassy in Ottawa called police
  
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• Southeast Sask. hit with 151 km/h winds, tennis ball sized hail

  15-06-2018 20:50 via globalnews.ca
  Hail as large as baseballs and tennis balls, as well as 151 km/h wind gusts were reported near Estevan, flattening crops, and breaking windows and windshields.
  
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• Saskatoon weather outlook: funnel clouds, flooding & fabulous Father’s Day forecast

  15-06-2018 20:47 via globalnews.ca
  Funnel clouds, flooding and a fabulous Father’s Day weekend weather forecast for Saskatoon and central Saskatchewan.
  
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• Riders announce partnership with Corner Gas Animated

  15-06-2018 20:31
  The Roughriders will kick off their 2018 season on Friday night against the Toronto Argonauts. But they will also be joining forces with the new Corner Gas Animated TV show.
  
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• Pick your price at the SPCA to adopt the loveable Oreo

  15-06-2018 20:11 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 Education and Public Relations Coordinator Jasmine Hanson introduces Oreo, a lovable 14-week-old domestic short-hair cat.
  Oreo is also available for the pick what you pay option.
  To adopt Oreo or any other pet, go online to http://www.saskatoonspca.com/, contact the SPCA at 306 374-7387 or
  
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• School bus driver credited for evacuation of 16 students in P.A. fire

  15-06-2018 20:10 via thestarphoenix.com
  The “quick and professional” response of a Prince Albert school bus driver is the reason 16 children were not injured when a bus caught fire, says the P.A. fire department.
  The P.A. fire department received a report Friday at 8:13 a.m. about a fire in the RM of Prince Albert. When crews got to the scene, approximately 12 kilometres west of the city, the school bus was “fully involved,” the fire department said in a Facebook post.
  Crews extinguished the fire, but the blaze
  
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• First-ever two spirit powwow set for Saskatoon

  15-06-2018 20:09 via cbc.ca
  The powwow happens on Saturday in the bowl at the University of Saskatchewan. The grand entry is set to begin at noon.
  
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• Japan suspends sale of Canadian wheat after GMO grain found in Alberta

  15-06-2018 19:49 via globalnews.ca
  Japan's farm ministry said on Friday it has suspended its tender and sale of wheat from Canada after grain containing a genetically modified trait was discovered last summer in southern Alberta.
  
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• Japan suspending sale of Canadian wheat after GMO discovery concerns Alberta farmers

  15-06-2018 19:49 via globalnews.ca
  Japan has suspended its tender and sale of wheat from Canada after grain containing a genetically modified trait was discovered last summer in southern Alberta.
  
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• Oxbow-area resident describes devastation after Thursday storm ravaged farm

  15-06-2018 19:34 via cbc.ca
  There was no tornado in Saskatchewan on Thursday but the wind gusts were recorded as high as 151 km/h.
  
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• Big, bad storm had tennis ball-sized hail stones, gusts of up to 151 km/h

  15-06-2018 19:34 via cbc.ca
  There was no tornado in Saskatchewan on Thursday but the wind gusts were recorded as high as 151 km/h.
  
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• Photos: Editorial Cartoons: June 9-15

  15-06-2018 19:26 via thestarphoenix.com
  Here’s a compilation of the StarPhoenix’s editorial cartoons from the past week.
  
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• Protest camp torn down at Saskatchewan legislature

  15-06-2018 19:24 via globalnews.ca
  Jim Billington says the camp violated a ban on overnight camping, burning wood or putting up signs in the park surrounding the Saskatchewan legislature.
  
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• Protest camp taken down by Regina police early Friday morning

  15-06-2018 19:24 via globalnews.ca
  Early Friday morning, the Regina Police Service fulfilled the province's promise and began tearing down a protest camp at the Saskatchewan legislature.
  
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• Sask Government announces new funding for RCMP team

  15-06-2018 19:08
  The Saskatchewan Ministry of Corrections and Policing will be giving $1.6 million to the RCMP to permanently fund and expand the Crime Reduction Team (CRT).
  
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• Saskatchewan's minimum wage, currently Canada's lowest, to rise 10 cents per hour

  15-06-2018 19:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatchewan’s minimum wage is set to rise by 10 cents to $11.06 per hour —  no longer the lowest hourly rate in Canada.
  Currently, the province’s minimum wage of $10.96 per hour is the lowest among all provinces and territories, according to the Retail Council of Canada. The minimum wage increase is based on an indexation formula, which the province has been using since 2011.
  Don Morgan, minister responsible for labour relations and workplace safety, said using the i
  
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• Upcoming GIFS conference on global food security

  15-06-2018 18:36 via globalnews.ca
  Jackie Wilson speaks with the head of the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) on their upcoming conference about feeding the world in the face of a growing population.
  
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• Garden Tips: June planting

  15-06-2018 18:34 via globalnews.ca
  Garden Tips: summer
  
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• Sask. bus driver credited with getting kids off school bus during fire

  15-06-2018 18:03
  No one was injured after a school bus caught fire west of Prince Albert.
  
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• Letter of the Day: Changing title changes meaning of art

  15-06-2018 18:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  I read with dismay the article, “The Long road to Yuquot Village” (SP, May 23) indicating that the Art Gallery of Ontario has decided to change the title of Emily Carr’s painting, “Indian Church,” to “Church of Yuquot Village.”
  First of all this strikes me as a terrible violation of the artist’s work. But it also undermines, in my view, the significance of the artist’s message.
  I am a passionate supporter of art therapy and have experienced h
  
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• After 12 hours of overnight votes, Filibuster 2.0 over carbon-tax costs ends without new price tag

  15-06-2018 17:54 via globalnews.ca
  The marathon voting session was sparked by Conservative demands for the government to release details on the cost of a carbon tax to Canadians.
  
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• Traffic Safety for Saskatchewan Roughriders’ home opener – June 15

  15-06-2018 16:53 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  The Saskatoon Police Service Traffic Unit and Combined Traffic Unit will be working with RCMP in order to make sure football fans travelling to and from Regina are safe on June 15th.
  Police will be increasing patrols on roads linking Saskatoon and Regina and will be conducting sobriety check stops before and after the game.Officers will be looking for aggressive driving behaviour, distracted driving and impaired driving.  There will also be no tolerance for liquor being transported or consu
  
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• Streets flood in Warman after rainstorm

  15-06-2018 16:49
  Some wild weather hit some Saskatchewan communities on Thursday evening. Streets in Warman were completely underwater.
  
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• Japan blocks Canadian wheat after unapproved GMO plants found in Alberta

  15-06-2018 16:01 via cbc.ca
  Japanese Farm Ministry said on Friday it has suspended its tender and sale of wheat from Canada after grain containing a genetically modified trait was discovered last summer in Alberta.
  
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• Justice for our Stolen Children protesters evicted from legislative grounds

  15-06-2018 15:52
  After camping out at the legislative grounds for over 100 days, the Justice for our Stolen Children protesters is being evicted.
  
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• Bridges Events June 15-21

  15-06-2018 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].
  # MUSIC
  Fri., June 15
  Piano Friday: Paul SuchanBack of the BusThe Bassment, 202 Fourth Ave. N.
  Hung JuryBuds on Broadway, 817 Broadway Ave.
  DriftwoodArmy & Navy Club, 359 First Ave. N.
  Leon OchsFairfield Seniors’ Centre, 103 Fairmont Ct.
  Rachel ElizabethMcNally Robinson,
  
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• Powerful storm hits Estevan, Sask. with high winds, hail

  15-06-2018 14:12 via globalnews.ca
  Residents in Estevan, Saskatchewan captured video of a powerful storm rolling across the region on Thursday, bringing dark clouds, high winds and hail.
  
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• 'This is my real life': Freelance travel writer makes a career of adventuring

  15-06-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  When she stepped onto a beach in Antarctica a less than a year before her 30th birthday, her heart felt so full she was sure it would burst, Ashlyn George says.
  “It was a little bit surreal, a little bit emotional, too. Even now it gives me goosebumps; the weather was extraordinary, there were whales, we did a hike up the side of a mountain and there were penguins going up little penguin highways … I wanted to slow things down a little bit. I had a little celebration inside. It&rsqu
  
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• 'Saskatchewan is a bit safer today': Project Forseti concludes to mixed reviews

  15-06-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Prosecutors and police are hailing the largest organized crime prosecution in Saskatchewan history a success, but not everyone agrees.
  
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• Research into Saskatchewan seniors' care gets $300,000

  15-06-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatchewan researchers will have a chance to delve further into innovations for the aging population, thanks to a new partnership between two organizations.
  “Saskatchewan has an aging population and we have many issues that we’re trying to deal with. Research is one of the solutions to working in these areas and improving the health of Saskatchewan people,” said Patrick Odnokon, CEO of the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation.
  SHRF and the Centre for Aging and Brain Health
  
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• Read My Book: My Buddy Dido honours men from different cultures

  15-06-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Last May, we honoured all women and grandmothers from around the world with More Babas, Please!
  A donation of $1,500 was given to Grandmothers 4 Grandmothers local for the Stephen Lewis foundation honouring and supporting women and especially grandmothers around the world.
  This June, it is appropriate to honour men.
  Men are important role models in our society and grandfathers play a significant place in families. My Buddy, Dido! honours and recognizes the role of grandfathers or didos in the wo
  
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• Library taking steps to address intoxicated patrons

  15-06-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon Public Library managers say they are taking steps to address what has been described as a daily occurrence at the downtown Frances Morrison branch — people under the influence of drugs and alcohol walking in and sometimes causing disturbances.
  The library has in the past been “welcoming and accommodating” to intoxicated people, but that approach “needs to change,” library managers said in a memo to staff circulated this spring.
  “Our past practices ha
  
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• Gormley: Decoding Trump important for Canada

  15-06-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Ever polarizing, U.S. President Donald Trump typically evokes one of two reactions: contempt from his detractors or, among his supporters, praise for being the anti-politician “draining the swamp.”
  This week, as Canadians jumped to the defence of our country’s trade interests as they were being savaged by Trump — compelling many of us to align our interests with an otherwise inept Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — it was perverse.
  The same Donald Trump, months ago, sp
  
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• Gardening: Saskatchewan's newest horticultural pest

  15-06-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  It’s taken a while to get here, but it’s made it.
  The lily leaf beetle (Lilioceris lilii), native to Europe and Asia, was accidentally introduced into North America (specifically, Montreal) in the early 1940s, most likely through importations of flowering (potted) bulbs. Its spread in North America is also attributed to the sale and movement of potted lilies, which can carry eggs and larvae on the leaves, and pupae and not-yet-emerged adults in the soil.
  Its Euroasian distribution &m
  
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• Food: Roasted rhubarb strawberry shortcake

  15-06-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  “The first day of summer” has to be one of the finest phrases in the English language.
  To celebrate June 21st, I made us a special treat. Strawberry shortcake is synonymous with summer, when the ripe, juicy berries are at their best and all you want to do is sit at a picnic table with your favourite people.
  This is a pretty familiar set-up — biscuits, berries, cream — but I’ve added some rhubarb to the mix and roasted the fruit with a bit of sugar and a vanilla bean
  
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• Downtown Saskatoon businesses suggest street switch for bus-only lanes

  15-06-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Downtown businesses support improvements to Saskatoon’s transit service, but they think First Avenue would provide a better home for bus-only lanes than Third Avenue.
  The city released the configuration this week of new rapid-service corridors that will be discussed at a special meeting of city council on Wednesday.
  The most contentious part of the rapid service routes that snake their way through the city are bus-only lanes in the Broadway Avenue business district and on Third Avenue down
  
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• Big hair and clean air: 5 Things to fill your weekend, June 15-17

  15-06-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  It’s the middle of June already and we have summer on the brain. Here are some fun things to contemplate for the weekend:
  1 — Two of the biggest bands of the ’80s are at Dakota Dunes on Saturday night. Wang Chung and The Cutting Crew will play their biggest hits while they pull you down memory lane. Big hair is optional. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8. Everybody have fun tonight …
  2 — Patrons of local opera will enjoy La Boheme when the production hi
  
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