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• Thunderstorms rolling through Saskatchewan Saturday

  21-07-2018 21:26 via cbc.ca
  Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a line of severe thunderstorms in Saskatchewan.
  
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• The Dead South's Eliza Doyle celebrates Ness Creek festival roots

  21-07-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  Eliza Doyle grew up going to Ness Creek and has graced the stage countless times in a variety of bands and solo shows.
  
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• New, 3rd area code picked for Saskatchewan

  21-07-2018 20:00 via cbc.ca
  Saskatchewan is running out of phone numbers again. Seven years after the province got a 639 area code to accompany the 306 area code, both options are going to be exhausted by June 2022, according to the Canadian Numbering Administrator (CNA).
  
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• Three arrested after altercation at Melfort Fair

  21-07-2018 19:54
  Three people were arrested at the Melfort Fair after an altercation on Friday night.
  
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• Wildfire burning near Prince Albert contained

  21-07-2018 19:48 via thestarphoenix.com
  A wildfire that ignited at about 1 p.m. Friday just north of Prince Albert has been contained.
  The fire was located northeast of the wildfire operations centre and southeast of the Red River Roping and Riding Arena. As of 4 p.m., it was between seven and eight hectares large, or 0.07-0.08 square kilometres.
  By Saturday morning, the size of the fire had been updated to 15 hectares, or 0.15 square kilometres. The fire hadn’t grown, but crews had been able to better estimate its size. The est
  
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• Dangerous driver arrested after Friday night chase

  21-07-2018 19:23
  A 24-year-old man was arrested for dangerous driving on Highway 11 near Bladworth on Friday night.
  
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• Woman found dead following single vehicle rollover near Maidstone

  21-07-2018 19:19
  A 21-year-old woman is dead following a vehicle roll over on Highway 21 north of Maidstone on Wednesday morning.
  
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• Irish woman, 21, killed in Sask. highway rollover

  21-07-2018 19:12 via cbc.ca
  A 21-year-old woman from Ireland has died following a crash north of Maidstone, Sask.
  
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• Irish woman dies in single-vehicle rollover near Maidstone

  21-07-2018 19:02 via thestarphoenix.com
  An Irish woman was the lone occupant of a vehicle that rolled on Highway 21 north of Maidstone, say RCMP.
  The 21-year-old from Ireland was found deceased at the scene at about 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 18, according to a police news release.
  Police are investigating, with the assistance of a collision re-constructionist and the coroner’s office.
  
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• Spike belt used to stop erratic driver as he neared Saskatoon ... - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-07-2018 18:34 via thestarphoenix.com
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  A 24-year-old man is in custody after drivers on Highway 11 south of Saskatoon reported a dangerous erratic driver who was passing other vehicles on the right ...and more »
  
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• Spike belt used to stop erratic driver as he neared Saskatoon

  21-07-2018 18:33 via thestarphoenix.com
  A 24-year-old man is in custody after drivers on Highway 11 south of Saskatoon reported a dangerous erratic driver who was passing other vehicles on the right and entering the ditch.
  The first reports were at about 7:30 p.m. Friday near Bladworth, about 100 kilometres south of Saskatoon.
  The driver was travelling north towards Saskatoon at speeds of 140 to 170 kilometres per hour, according to an RCMP news release.
  Saskatoon RCMP, Saskatoon Police Service and Corman Park Police Service officers
  
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• Métis Nation signs historic agreement with Canada

  21-07-2018 17:50 via cbc.ca
  The Métis Nation of Saskatchewan has praised the federal government for signing on to a framework agreement to recognize and implement Métis rights under the Canadian constitution.
  
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• Saskatoon's newest highrise gives awe-inspiring view - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-07-2018 17:39 via thestarphoenix.com
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  A new 20-storey condominium and 15-storey hotel being built in downtown is expected to open in 2019. It has been 34 years since a tower of more than 16 storeys was built in Saskatoon. Read the Q&A with the senior structural engineer here · Spike belt ...
  
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• Saskatoon's newest highrise gives awe-inspiring view

  21-07-2018 17:38 via thestarphoenix.com
  A new 20-storey condominium and 15-storey hotel being built in downtown is expected to open in 2019. It has been 34 years since a tower of more than 16 storeys was built in Saskatoon.
  Read the Q&A with the senior structural engineer here
  
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• No hydrocarbons found in river after salt water leak, says Husky

  21-07-2018 17:17 via cbc.ca
  Two days after Husky Energy detected a leak associated with oil production, it says testing of the nearby Englishman River has not detected hydrocarbons in the water.
  
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• Survivors recount deadly Missouri duck boat sinking

  21-07-2018 16:36
  More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson lake were members of the same Indiana family, and they likely would not have been on the ill-fated trip but for a ticket mix-up.
  
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• Indiana family, Missouri couple among duck boat victims

  21-07-2018 16:36
  More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson lake were members of the same Indiana family, and they likely would not have been on the ill-fated trip but for a ticket mix-up.
  
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• Edmonton man charged following investigation into alleged $5.5M Ponzi scheme

  21-07-2018 15:39
  Police say a 59-year-old Edmonton man is facing charges after allegedly orchestrating a Ponzi scheme valued at $5.5 million.
  
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• Edmonton man charged after investigation into alleged $5.5M Ponzi scheme

  21-07-2018 15:39
  Police say a 59-year-old Edmonton man is facing charges after allegedly orchestrating a Ponzi scheme valued at $5.5 million.
  
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• Traffic Bridge 'can't open soon enough for us,' couple says - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-07-2018 14:01 via thestarphoenix.com
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  Traffic Bridge 'can't open soon enough for us,' couple says
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  The Actons, who have lived on McPherson Avenue near Ninth Street for 29 years, look forward to using the bridge again to walk downtown from Nutana. They are also expecting a lot less traffic on McPherson once Victoria Avenue, which connects to the ...
  
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• Saskatoon's Parcel Y project: By the numbers - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-07-2018 14:01 via thestarphoenix.com
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  Saskatoon's Parcel Y project: By the numbers
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  Here are some key numbers from the hotel condominium project being built on Parcel Y at River Landing. Phil Tank, Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Updated: July 21, 2018. Saskatoon's newest highrise gives awe inspiring view. Info. Shopping. Tap to unmute.
  
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• Saskatoon expertise helping build River Landing high-rise - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-07-2018 14:01 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon expertise helping build River Landing high-rise
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  The StarPhoenix asked senior structural engineer Tara Reichert about the challenges of building a high-rise building in Saskatoon. Phil Tank, Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Updated: July 21, 2018. Share Adjust Comment Print. The StarPhoenix asked senior ...
  
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• Traffic Bridge 'can't open soon enough for us,' couple says

  21-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Kevin and Heather Acton are thrilled about the October opening of the rebuilt Traffic Bridge.
  The Actons, who have lived on McPherson Avenue near Ninth Street for 29 years, look forward to using the bridge again to walk downtown from Nutana.
  They are also expecting a lot less traffic on McPherson once Victoria Avenue, which connects to the bridge, is reopened.
  The original Traffic Bridge, which opened in 1907 to connect Nutana to downtown, closed for good eight years ago.
  “We’re exci
  
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• Saskatoon's Parcel Y project: By the numbers

  21-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Some key numbers from the hotel-condominium project being built on Parcel Y at River Landing:The 15-storey Alt Hotel is expected to open in January and the condo building is expected to be complete next summer.
  34 years since a tower of more than 16 storeys was built in Saskatoon (Hallmark Place downtown was built in 1984).
  Eight years since the Parcel Y project was taken over by Saskatoon’s Victory Majors Development Corp. In addition to the hotel-condo towers, work on the first of two of
  
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• Saskatoon expertise helping build River Landing high-rise

  21-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The StarPhoenix asked senior structural engineer Tara Reichert about the challenges of building a high-rise building in Saskatoon.
  Reichert, a native of Saskatoon and a University of Saskatchewan graduate, is overseeing the construction of the 20-storey condominium tower and 15-storey hotel on Parcel Y at River Landing.
  Q: It’s been about 35 years since a structure of this size and height was built in Saskatoon. What has changed in that time?
  A: There’s been lots of changes. Every fi
  
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• Project Canaan: Egg producers feed bodies and hopes in Swaziland

  21-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  In early June, Cam Broten, the executive director of Saskatchewan Egg Producers, had the unique opportunity to visit a Canadian-initiated humanitarian project in Swaziland, Africa. Bordered by South Africa and Mozambique, Swaziland is the last absolute monarchy in Africa and was recently renamed eSwatini by the country’s king.
  The purpose of Broten’s trip was to visit Project Canaan, a farm project in which Saskatchewan Egg Producers (SEP) have a vested interest.
  Project Canaan was e
  
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• Parade home achieves affordable elegance

  21-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Maison Design + Build has perfected the formula for affordable elegance at its newest show home located at 318 Dagnone Crescent. The 2,045-square-foot, two-storey is one of nine homes featured in the Brighton Parade of Homes, presented by Dream Development.
  Strategic splurges elevate the style of this inviting family home while keeping overall costs down to earth, explains Jilaire Wagner, who co-owns Maison Design + Build with her husband Andrew. “We really tried to show how our curated li
  
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• Letters to the editor July 21, 2018

  21-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Weekly earnings
  I have just about had enough of public service unions and their TV ads telling us how wonderful they are.
  Just recently we heard how the average weekly salary rose 1.5 per cent in Saskatchewan, which would be good news. We are then told this was mostly due to the public service wage increases.
  Public Service get annualized cost of living while the private sector has job sharing, reduced salaries and/or layoffs.
  Isn’t it wonderful that the private sector gets to pay for thes
  
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• Cuthand: Assembly of First Nations prepares for leadership vote

  21-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The field of candidates running for leader of the Assembly of First Nations has grown to five individuals and it makes an interesting mix of ideologies and styles.
  The election will take place on July 25 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
  Here are thumbnail sketches of each candidate in alphabetical order:
  Perry Bellegarde from Saskatchewan is the incumbent. He has been criticized for his close relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the government; on the other hand, he is quick to
  
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• Book reviews: Harrowing tale also offers redemption

  21-07-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon poet, novelist, and director of the MFA in writing program at the University of Saskatchewan, Jeanette Lynes, returns with a second novel, The Small Things That End the World (Coteau, $24.95), and in it there are a number of small things at work, all right, but also a couple of very large ones.
  Part of Lynes’s conceit in her opening is a bit of fuzz on a phonograph needle that allows 14-year-old Sadie Wilder to hear the telephone so she can accept a babysitting job she wouldn&rsq
  
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• Higher crude prices and weaker loonie could mean royalty windfall for Saskatchewan

  21-07-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador poised for unexpected gains from resource royalties.
  
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• Firearm seized after altercation at Melfort Exhibition

  21-07-2018 06:07 via thestarphoenix.com
  No shots were fired and no one was injured during an altercation between a man and three women at the Melfort Exhibition, but a firearm was seized afterward, police say.
  Melfort RCMP responded at about 7:50 p.m. Friday after receiving a report of a man at the fair with what appeared to be a firearm.
  Three people were arrested at the scene and a fourth “person of interest” has yet to be located, RCMP said in a news release.
  “There is not believed to be a risk to public safety,&r
  
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• Historic day for Metis starts with a canoe trip, ends with signing agreement

  21-07-2018 05:54 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Metis Nation-Saskatchewan will no longer be “the forgotten people” after signing a framework agreement with Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett that opens the way to addressing Metis rights guaranteed in the Constitution.
  Read the full story here
  
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• 5 things you need to know about changes at Legal Aid Saskatchewan

  21-07-2018 03:41 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatoon StarPhoenix’s Alex MacPherson provides an update on what you need to know about changes to Legal Aid Saskatchewan, a government agency helping those who can’t afford a lawyer navigate their case through the province’s court system.
  Read his latest story here
  
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• ‘Milestone’ agreement made at Back to Batoche

  21-07-2018 02:51
  Batoche is a place rich in history, and on Friday new history was made.
  
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• Health officials investigate salmonella cases after Englefeld Hogfest

  21-07-2018 02:44 via thestarphoenix.com
  Health officials say they are investigating an outbreak of salmonella poisoning related to a public supper in a village east of Saskatoon.
  The Saskatchewan Health Authority says 11 people reported symptoms after eating at the Englefeld Hogfest on June 30.
  The health authority says 750 meals were served, but no specific food has been pinpointed as the cause of the outbreak.
  Salmonella infection usually results from eating raw or undercooked meat, poultry, eggs or egg products.
  The illness typical
  
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• 5 things to know about FIBA Masters 3-on-3 basketball

  21-07-2018 02:28 via thestarphoenix.com
  The FIBA 3-on-3 World Tour returns to Saskatoon this weekend for a second straight year.
  Here are five things to know about the event, which begins today at noon in downtown Saskatoon at the intersection of 21st Street and Fourth Avenue:
  THE WORLD’S ON STAGE
  The Saskatoon three-on-three basketball championship will feature 12 teams from across the world with the host Saskatoon team being joined by representatives from Canada, Serbia, United States, Mongolia, Latvia and Bosnia and Herzegovi
  
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• Nolan Brudehl's basketball comeback brought him onto the FIBA Masters Tour world stage

  21-07-2018 02:26 via thestarphoenix.com
  It was 2012.
  Nolan Brudehl thought he was done like an old, worn-out pair of high-top sneakers.
  He definitely thought his competitive basketball career was over.
  His surgeon initially didn’t think Brudehl would be able to play again. In fact, he advised strongly against him trying.
  However, as time went on, Brudehl couldn’t resist.
  His buddies dangled the proverbial carrot — an orange basketball, in this case — in front of him.
  Not only did Brudehl return to the game he l
  
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• Oil prices are growing, the loonie is low — for Alberta, that could mean $3 billion: BMO

  21-07-2018 02:19 via globalnews.ca
  Oil prices are giving the industry something it hasn't seen too much of in recent years — good news.
  
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• Healing Camp for Justice leaves Victoria Park, looks to the future

  21-07-2018 01:45 via thestarphoenix.com
  The teepee was disassembled and the remaining camp supplies were already packed away by late morning on Friday, ending the 10-day Healing Camp for Justice in Saskatoon’s Victoria Park.
  The camp, organized by Chris Martell, started on July 10 and had a permit to remain there until July 20. The camp’s aim was to provide a healing space for people who endured painful experiences in the foster care system. Martell’s son, Evander Daniels, died at a foster home in 2010.
  Longtime frie
  
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• Metis Nation, Ottawa sign historic agreement to negotiate

  21-07-2018 01:32 via thestarphoenix.com
  BATOCHE — The Metis Nation-Saskatchewan will no longer be “the forgotten people” after signing a framework agreement with Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett that opens the way to addressing Metis rights guaranteed in the Constitution.
  The agreement creates a process for developing a nation-to-nation relationship and sets out priorities for future negotiations, including self government and self-determination.
  “All the years that the Metis have been left o
  
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• Minute at the Movies: July 20

  21-07-2018 01:20 via globalnews.ca
  In this week’s edition of Minute at the Movies, Todd James reviews “American Animals” starring Emma Roberts and Evan Peters.
  
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• Sask. government pledges to stand up for uranium producers

  21-07-2018 01:14 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatchewan government is expected to intervene on behalf of the province’s uranium producers after the U.S. government announced an investigation into the national security implications of nuclear fuel imports.
  Premier Scott Moe said he discussed uranium with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross last month, and plans to send him a letter explaining that Saskatchewan-mined uranium is a “safe, stable and sustainable supply of energy to the United States.”
  “The Gover
  
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• Global News at 5: July 20

  21-07-2018 01:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, July 20, 2018 edition of Global News at 5 on Global Saskatoon
  
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• Health officials investigate salmonella cases after Hogfest in Saskatchewan

  21-07-2018 00:52
  Health officials say they are investigating an outbreak of salmonella poisoning related to a public supper in a village east of Saskatoon.
  
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• Southeast Saskatchewan could see an increase of mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus

  21-07-2018 00:51 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatchewan Health Authority is warning residents in southeastern Saskatchewan that the risk of West Nile virus infection is increasing.
  
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• Woman 'livid' after Air Canada allegedly failed to put mother’s remains on connecting flight

  21-07-2018 00:49
  A Brampton, Ont. woman says her mother’s remains spent days in an unrefrigerated Miami warehouse after Air Canada allegedly failed to transfer them to a connecting flight on time.
  
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• City, public school board deny claims in lawsuit over boy's drowning in pond near Dundonald School

  21-07-2018 00:41 via thestarphoenix.com
  While calling the accidental drowning of a Kindergarten student “a tragedy,” the two organizations being sued by the boy’s family deny any negligence or recklessness in the five-year-old boy’s death, according to their statements of defence.
  The Saskatoon Public School Division and the City of Saskatoon have filed statements of defence in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench, in response to a lawsuit filed in March.
  The parents of Ahmedsadiq (Ahmed) Hussein Elmmi &mdash
  
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• 11 people sick after eating at Englefeld Hogfest: Saskatchewan Health Authority

  21-07-2018 00:32 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatchewan Health Authority says 11 people have reported symptoms related to salmonella poisoning after eating at Engelfeld Hogfest.
  
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• Salmonella outbreak linked to Hogfest in Englefeld, Sask.

  21-07-2018 00:21 via cbc.ca
  Eleven people have reported symptoms of salmonella after an outbreak at a festival in late June.
  
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