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• Environment Canada issues severe thunderstorm warning for Saskatchewan

  07-07-2018 23:01 via globalnews.ca
  Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a cluster of severe thunderstorms in Saskatchewan.
  
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• Environment Canada ends severe thunderstorm warnings in Saskatchewan

  07-07-2018 23:01 via globalnews.ca
  Environment Canada meteorologists were tracking a cluster of severe thunderstorms in Saskatchewan.
  
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• Die-hard English soccer fans cheer their team to victory

  07-07-2018 22:36 via thestarphoenix.com
  Being thousands of kilometres away from the game and their team’s home country didn’t stop a crowd of England fans from coming out to Boston Pizza at 8 a.m. to cheer their team on against Sweden in the 2018 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match.
  
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• Review: Sum's Seraphina is thoughtful and touching

  07-07-2018 21:15 via thestarphoenix.com
  Sum Theatre’s new play Queen Seraphina and the Land of Vertebraat is intended to advocate for people living with disability.
  While not a perfect piece of theatre, the show on Thursday afternoon brought more than enough pizzazz to enthrall a young audience — and get their point across beautifully.
  The play, written by local playwright Adam Pottle, told the story of the mythical land of Vertebraat where everyone is welcomed and celebrated. The titular, wheelchair-riding Queen Seraphina
  
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• Heat breaks records in Saskatchewan

  07-07-2018 21:02 via globalnews.ca
  Record-high temperatures were experienced in a few places in Saskatchewan on Friday.
  
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• 'It was pretty much mayhem': Wild storm at Emma Lake destroys trailers, left campers trapped by fallen trees

  07-07-2018 20:52 via cbc.ca
  It was a close call for a number of families camping at Emma Lake Friday night as they awoke to a storm tearing through the Murray Point campground.
  
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• 'It was pretty much mayhem': Wild storm at Emma Lake destroys trailers, leaves campers trapped by fallen trees

  07-07-2018 20:52 via cbc.ca
  It was a close call for a number of families camping at Emma Lake Friday night as they awoke to a storm tearing through the Murray Point campground.
  
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• English team World Cup soccer fans take over Saskatoon bar at 8 ... - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  07-07-2018 20:46
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  The quarterfinal match was England against Sweden, but the only fans to be seen wore English colours.and more »
  
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• 'Proud to be English': World Cup soccer fans take over Saskatoon bar Saturday morning

  07-07-2018 20:45 via thestarphoenix.com
  The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between England and Sweden drew a sizeable crowd Saturday morning – to a bar in the middle of the Canadian prairie.
  Saskatoon is approximately 6,600 kilometres away from London in the United Kingdom, and about 8,100 kilometres away from the Samara Arena in Russia where England took on Sweden. But a group of devoted fans still made their way to the Boston Pizza on Nelson Road for the start of the game at 8 a.m. local time.
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• Man found injured in Saskatoon's Pleasant Hill neighbourhood dies ... - Globalnews.ca

  07-07-2018 20:15
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  Police are investigating the death of a man who was found injured in Saskatoon.and more »
  
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• Man found injured in Saskatoon’s Pleasant Hill neighbourhood dies

  07-07-2018 20:15 via globalnews.ca
  Police are investigating the death of a man who was found injured in Saskatoon.
  
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• Intense storm sweeps through central Sask. Friday night, downing trees

  07-07-2018 19:29 via thestarphoenix.com
  A summer storm swept through the central portion of the province Friday night, leaving fallen trees in its wake.
  In a Facebook post, the Lakeland and District Fire Department said it received and responded to calls about entrapments due to fallen trees at the Murray Point campground at Emma Lake. The fire department said it received a call about a person being trapped in their camper by a fallen tree and responded at 12:37 a.m.
  It also received reports about six other entrapments with injuries,
  
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• Why manner of driving will be focus of Humboldt bus crash court case

  07-07-2018 19:19 via cbc.ca
  The decision to lay dangerous driving charges against the truck driver who allegedly caused the Humboldt Broncos bus crash has caused many people to speculate the potential outcome.
  
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• Arguments in case against driver in Humboldt crash will focus on circumstances, not consequences

  07-07-2018 19:19 via cbc.ca
  The decision to lay dangerous driving charges against the truck driver who allegedly caused the Humboldt Broncos bus crash has caused many people to speculate the potential outcome.
  
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• Review: A merry amusement keeps summer light at Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan

  07-07-2018 19:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  It says something about progress when Shakespeare is altered to include a same-sex romance and it’s hardly even noteworthy.
  In The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan director Greg Ochitwa turns Master Fenton, one of the suitors of Miss Page (Jacqueline Bloc), into Mistress Fenton. Played beautifully by Elizabeth Nepjuk, we see real love here even without the playwright’s words — making the efforts and motives of the other two would-be husbands pale by compa
  
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• Chris Joseph thanks hockey community for ‘picking us up’ after Humboldt Broncos bus crash

  07-07-2018 17:25 via globalnews.ca
  The father of Humboldt Broncos’ Jaxon Joseph, Chris Joseph, thanked the hockey players and organizers of a charity hockey tournament held Friday for their work on helping “pick up” the families of players following the fatal bus crash and for their constant support.
  
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• Canadian climber dies in fall on Pakistan's treacherous K2

  07-07-2018 17:15
  A Pakistan official says the Canadian leader of an international mountaineering expedition has fallen to his death on the country's K2 mountain, often considered the world's most difficult to climb.
  
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• ‘Let’s have some fun’: Mother of Humboldt Broncos’ Logan Hunter thanks organizers of charity tournament

  07-07-2018 16:41 via globalnews.ca
  Shauna Nordstrom, the mother of Humboldt Broncos’ Logan Hunter, thanked organizers of a charity hockey tournament Friday for putting together the game to raise money for the families, saying the tournament was about the “moment” and that her son lived “moment to moment.”
  
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• Fuller: An old home movie takes me by (sniff) surprise

  07-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Fullerian researchers made a major discovery last week: I wasn’t adopted after all.
  Claiming I was adopted was just one of the ways my brothers and sisters tormented me through childhood. I was the youngest and, let’s face it, most special. They didn’t like that. They got me back with “You’re adopted, you know.”
  Adopted! I felt the tragic weight of it. No real family of my own. My whole life, all 60 to 72 months of it, spent living a lie. I demanded proof. The
  
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• Cuthand: Too many Indigenous people in Saskatchewan prisons

  07-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  There is a crisis in Saskatchewan and it’s flying below the radar. The Indigenous prison population is growing at an alarming rate.
  In 2006-07, 70 per cent of male youth admissions to custody in Saskatchewan were Indigenous, but by 2016-17 it was 92 per cent. That’s the highest rate of all the provinces. Saskatchewan has a First Nations and Metis population of around 15 per cent of the total population but our numbers in the province’s jails far outnumber that.
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• Bring your pet to Kiwanis Memorial Park, and help other animals too

  07-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  If you’re looking for something to do with your furry friend this weekend, look no “fur”ther than bringing them Sunday to Kiwanis Memorial Park — a park that doesn’t usually allow pets — for the 12th annual Pets in the Park.
  Tami Vangool, executive director of New Hope Dog Rescue, said the goal of the event is to not only raise awareness for the work of the three founding organizations, New Hope Dog Rescue, the Saskatoon SPCA, and SCAT Street Cat Rescue, but a
  
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• Four rescued from Thailand cave in risky operation; 9 remain inside

  07-07-2018 13:07
  Expert divers Sunday rescued four of 12 boys from a flooded cave in northern Thailand where they were trapped with their soccer coach for more than two weeks, as a dangerous and complicated plan unfolded amid heavy rain and the threat of rising water underground.
  
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• Four rescued from Thailand cave in risky operation

  07-07-2018 13:07
  Rescuers in northern Thailand on Sunday extracted four members of a youth soccer team from the cave where they had been trapped for more than two weeks, part of an ongoing operation to rescue the 12 boys and their coach. The head of the operation said it was going "better than expected."
  
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• The thinning ranks of Canadian Second World War veterans

  07-07-2018 13:00
  On CTVNews.ca: As we come upon the 75 anniversary of the Allied invasion of Sicily, author Larry Rose reflects on the thinning ranks of Second World War veterans.
  
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• Humboldt Broncos honoured through charity hockey tourney in St. Albert

  07-07-2018 06:19 via globalnews.ca
  Exactly three months after a horrific bus crash that has claimed the lives of 16 people, injured others and devastated the global hockey community, a charity hockey tournament hit the ice north of Edmonton to pay tribute to the Humboldt Broncos and raise money for their families.
  
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• Check out the week’s best StarPhoenix photos (June 29 – July 5)

  07-07-2018 06:16 via thestarphoenix.com
  The best StarPhoenix photos from the week of June 29 – July 5.
  
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• Police investigating suspicious death after body found at house fire

  07-07-2018 06:11 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatoon police major crime unit is investigating a suspicious death after a body was found following an early-morning house fire on the city’s west side on Friday.
  
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• Police say an injured person found in alley has died

  07-07-2018 05:11 via thestarphoenix.com
  A male that Saskatoon police found injured in an alley near 20th Street West has died.
  Saskatoon police say they were called to the north alley in the 1400 block of 20th Street Friday evening after receiving a report about an injured person, according to a media release. The male was taken to a hospital and he later died.
  His age was not released.
  Officers from the major crime unit and the forensic identification unit will be at the scene.
  Police are asking the public to avoid the area if possib
  
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• Major crime unit called in after man dies of unspecified injuries

  07-07-2018 04:05 via cbc.ca
  Police say they were called to the back alley of the 1400 block of 20th Street shortly after 5:30 p.m. Friday following a report of an injured person. The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and did not survive.
  
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• NLL protected player lists present variety of options for expansion draft

  07-07-2018 02:50 via globalnews.ca
  Ryan Flaherty and Evan Schemenauer preview the NLL expansion draft and examine which Saskatchewan Rush players may be selected.
  
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• Sask. man gets 10 years for crash that killed 3 Edmonton women

  07-07-2018 02:48 via cbc.ca
  A Saskatchewan man who pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal negligence causing death for a crash that killed three Edmonton women has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
  
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• One dead after stabbing in Saskatoon | CTV Saskatoon News - CTV News

  07-07-2018 02:28
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• Stabbing sends one to hospital with serious injuries

  07-07-2018 02:25
  Several Saskatoon police cruisers are on scene at a back alley near 20th Street and Avenue O following a stabbing.
  
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• One dead after stabbing in Saskatoon

  07-07-2018 02:25
  Police say one person is dead after a stabbing in Saskatoon.
  
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• Ten years for driver of stolen vehicle that killed three near Maidstone

  07-07-2018 02:14 via thestarphoenix.com
  A Saskatchewan man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a crash in a stolen vehicle that killed three Edmonton women on Highway 16 last fall.
  Brandon Stucka, 27, was sentenced to three eight-year terms to be served concurrently, for criminal negligence causing the deaths of Eva Fatu Tumbay, 37, Jeannette Wright, 53, and Glorious Decontee David-Blamo, 35, in the early morning hours of Sept. 21, 2017.
  Stucka will also serve a fourth concurrent eight-year sentence for criminal negligen
  
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• Man sentenced in stolen truck crash that killed 3 Edmonton women

  07-07-2018 02:04 via globalnews.ca
  Brandon Stucka was sentenced in a stolen truck crash in western Saskatchewan that killed three Edmonton women. Adam MacVicar was in court for the sentencing.
  
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• Semi driver charged in Humboldt Broncos bus crash

  07-07-2018 02:00 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatchewan RCMP have charged the driver of a semi involved in the fatal Humboldt Broncos bus crash with dangerous driving causing death. Sarah Komadina reports.
  
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• Humboldt Broncos victims’ families happy with charges, but they won’t ‘take away our heartbreak’

  07-07-2018 01:58 via globalnews.ca
  But while the families are pleased with the charges, they say there isn’t closure yet.
  
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• Saskatchewan man gets 10 years for crash that killed three Edmonton women

  07-07-2018 01:53
  A Saskatchewan man who pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal negligence causing death for a crash that killed three Edmonton women has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
  
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• ‘Happy charges were laid’: Widow of Humboldt Broncos head coach Darcy Haugan

  07-07-2018 01:48 via globalnews.ca
  Christina Haugan, the widow of Humboldt Broncos head coach Darcy Haugan who was one of those killed in the tragic bus crash, reacts to news the RCMP have charged the truck driver involved.
  
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• Conservation area near Craven, Sask., to help preserve wildlife corridor

  07-07-2018 01:47 via thestarphoenix.com
  CRAVEN, Sask. — An area of native grasslands and seasonal wetlands that are home to several birds deemed threatened or of special concern is being protected in southern Saskatchewan.
  The Nature Conservancy of Canada and its partners have purchased 135 hectares in the Upper Qu’Appelle Natural Area near Craven.
  The new Valley View conservation area becomes part of a significant wildlife habitat corridor that stretches west to east across the province.
  The Nature Conservancy says the Sp
  
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• Minute at the Movies: July 6

  07-07-2018 01:21 via globalnews.ca
  In the latest edition of Minute at the Movies, Todd James reviews Ant-Man and the Wasp.
  
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• TSB releases image of VIA Rail derailment that injured 2

  07-07-2018 01:03 via cbc.ca
  The train was carrying 16 passengers when it crashed early yesterday morning. It was heading to The Pas and derailed outside of Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan.
  
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• Avoid drinking, swimming in algae-contaminated water, government warns

  07-07-2018 00:55 via cbc.ca
  The weather is hot and calm in many parts of Saskatchewan this weekend and that increases the risk of blue-green algae blooms.
  
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• Avoid drinking, swimming in aglae-contaminated water, government warns

  07-07-2018 00:55 via cbc.ca
  The weather is hot and calm in many parts of Saskatchewan this weekend and that increases the risk of blue-green algae blooms.
  
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• Woman says Trudeau apologized day after encounter at B.C. music festival in 2000

  07-07-2018 00:34
  A former newspaper reporter confirms Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized to her the day after what she says was an inappropriate encounter at a B.C. music festival almost two decades ago.
  
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• Detour changes coming to portion of MVA trail starting Monday

  07-07-2018 00:31 via thestarphoenix.com
  Motorists and pedestrians alike are being reminded about some upcoming changes to the Meewasin Valley Trail as upgrades on the municipal paths continue this summer.
  Work on the trail between the Meewasin Riverworks Weir and the Children’s Discovery Museum — the former Mendel Art Gallery — started in 2017 and will continue this summer with a detour to the current route starting on Monday, July 9, according to a news release from the Meewasin Valley Authority.
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• Saskatchewan man gets 10 years for crash that killed 3 Edmonton women

  07-07-2018 00:21 via globalnews.ca
  Brandon Stucka was sentenced after crashing a stolen truck crash in western Saskatchewan killing three Edmonton women.
  
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• Read My Book: That is Not Me — a Journey of Perception

  07-07-2018 00:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  I was born in a small city hospital in Saskatchewan in the early 1960s. I weighed seven pounds, three ounces and was twenty-one inches long. The medical care professionals regarded this birth as normal and I was sent home after the mandatory three-day hospital stay.
  Soon afterwards, a nurse, who later became a great support for my family, approached my mother and informed her that the size of my head seemed unusually large. While uncertain what condition I had, this professional believed that so
  
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