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• Third area code set aside for Saskatchewan

  22-07-2018 23:41 via thestarphoenix.com
  With Saskatchewan’s two area codes, 306 and 639, projected to be exhausted by June 2022, a third area code has been set aside for the province.
  The third code is 474.
  The news was contained in a notice of consultation from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
  The notice establishes an ad hoc relief planning committee for the 306 and 639 area codes.
  The committee “may contemplate relief measures that would require some customers to change their telep
  
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• Fire engulfs homes, vehicles in Saskatoon's Montgomery neighbourhood

  22-07-2018 23:31 via cbc.ca
  A fire has engulfed at least two homes in Saskatoon's Montgomery neighbourhood.
  
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• Fire engulfs homes in Saskatoon's Montgomery neighbourhood

  22-07-2018 23:31 via cbc.ca
  A fire has engulfed at least two homes in Saskatoon's Montgomery neighbourhood.
  
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• Photos: Firefighters respond to multi-structure fire in Montgomery neighbourhood

  22-07-2018 22:40 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatoon FIre Department was busy fighting a fire that appeared to engulf multiple structures on Crescent Boulevard Sunday afternoon.
  StarPhoenix photographer Liam Richards was at the scene in the Montgomery neighbourhood.
  Saskatoon Firefighters respond to a multiple structure fire on Crescent Boulevard in the Montgomery neighbourhood in Saskatoon, SK on Sunday, July 22, 2018.
   
  Saskatoon Firefighters respond to a multiple structure fire on Crescent Boulevard in the Montgomery neighbou
  
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• Photos: FIBA 3x3 World Tour Masters in Saskatoon - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  22-07-2018 21:48 via thestarphoenix.com
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  Photos: FIBA 3x3 World Tour Masters in Saskatoon
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  Team Saskatoon player Michael Lieffers moves the ball against Team Montreal player Alex Johnson during the FIBA 3x3 World Tour Saskatoon Masters in Saskatoon on Saturday, July 21, 2018. Liam Richards / Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Share Adjust ...and more »
  
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• Photos: FIBA 3×3 World Tour Masters in Saskatoon

  22-07-2018 21:47 via thestarphoenix.com
  Team Saskatoon took on Team Montreal on Saturday during the FIBA 3-on-3 World Tour, which made its first stop in Saskatoon this weekend.
  StarPhoenix photographer Liam Richards captured the action.
  Team Saskatoon player Steve Sir moves the ball against Team Montreal player Tramar Sutherland during the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Saskatoon Masters in Saskatoon on Saturday, July 21, 2018.
   
  Team Saskatoon player Michael Lieffers goes up for a lay up against Team Montreal during the FIBA 3×
  
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• Abu Sheikh describes being attacked by truck driver while walking home from Saskatoon mosque

  22-07-2018 19:17 via thestarphoenix.com
  66-year-old Abu Sheikh describes the moments when he says a truck driver in Saskatoon threatened and attacked him while he walked home from the mosque, and then threw bricks through the window of his home.
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• Highway 378 back open after flooding

  22-07-2018 19:13
  Flooding was reported on Highway 378 between Rabbit Lake and Spiritwood around 1:40 a.m. on Sunday morning.
  
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• 'Worse than oil': Sask. farmers say Husky downplaying damage from salt water leak

  22-07-2018 18:35 via cbc.ca
  The Saskatchewan farming family that owns the land where salt water leaked from a Husky Energy line says the company is “underplaying” the damage.
  
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• 'I couldn't wait to get inside': Rider fan from New York experiences first CFL game

  22-07-2018 17:00 via cbc.ca
  A Roughriders fan from New York experienced his first CFL game on Thursday.
  
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• Grazing on weeds: Goats brought to Edmonton parks as herbicide alternative

  22-07-2018 16:37
  A little taste of farm life has descended on Edmonton as nearly 400 goats have been hired to help out with weed removal in the city’s parks.
  
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• Couple acquitted of marijuana trafficking, production charges for grow-op on their property

  22-07-2018 16:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  A Battleford judge found a Medstead-area couple not guilty of marijuana trafficking and production charges after RCMP seized 700 cannabis plants on their property.
  Cory Graham and Melanie Boulette were acquitted on June 25 in Battleford Court of Queen’s Bench of possession for the purpose of trafficking, producing marijuana and possession of proceeds of crime.
  Graham and Boulette were charged along with Oscar Gutierrez Reyes after RCMP seized the plants, 2.3 kilograms of packaged mari
  
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• 'It's old fashioned and I like that': Sask. dairy approved to sell milk directly from farmyard

  22-07-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  For Martha Froese-Kooijenga, being able to sell her cows' milk directly to regular customers is a return to a simpler time of life.
  
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• White Helmet volunteers evacuated from Syria; some to head to Canada

  22-07-2018 13:48
  The Israeli military said Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country, the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war.
  
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• White Helmet volunteers evacuated from Syria

  22-07-2018 13:48
  The Israeli military said Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country, the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war.
  
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• Northeastern Ontario wildfire doubles size within 24 hours

  22-07-2018 13:31
  Crews are continuing to battle dozens of forest fires in northeastern Ontario, after the biggest of the blazes more than doubled in size over the course of a day.
  
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• Fire crews continue battling dozens of fires in northeastern Ontario

  22-07-2018 13:31
  Crews from across the country continued to cut down dozens of raging fires in northeastern Ontario on Sunday, after evacuation orders left some property owners uncertain of whether their homes and businesses would survive the flames.
  
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• Saskatoon Muslim man says a pickup truck tried to run him down

  22-07-2018 02:14 via thestarphoenix.com
  Abu Sheikh was walking home from his morning prayer in the early hours of July 13 when a truck swerved across lanes of traffic towards him.
  The 66-year-old Muslim man said he thought it was the police looking to ask him a question, until the white pickup accelerated south down the northbound lane on Cumberland Avenue and jumped the curb to apparently try to get to him.
  “It was very scary,” he said. “Between me and the truck … (There was) maybe three inches or something l
  
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• Man says he was attacked leaving Saskatoon mosque - CTV News

  22-07-2018 01:56 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
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  Man says he was attacked leaving Saskatoon mosque
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  A Saskatoon man says that he was attacked walking home from his Mosque early in the morning on July 13. Abu Shiek says he was walking home after his morning prayers when a white truck jumped the sidewalk and accelerated towards him. “He was just ...and more »
  
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• Man says he was attacked leaving Saskatoon mosque

  22-07-2018 01:56
  A Saskatoon man says that he was attacked walking home from his Mosque early in the morning on July 13.
  
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• Team-building for a good cause at the Dragon Boat Festival

  22-07-2018 01:44 via globalnews.ca
  The FMG Saskatoon Dragon Boat Festival raised money for the Children's Wish Foundation and Ronald McDonald House Charities on Saturday.
  
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• FSIN 'disappointed' with government's legal action against justice camp

  22-07-2018 01:00 via cbc.ca
  The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) says the government should not be using a court order to remove the Justice For Our Stolen Children Camp.
  
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• Ryan Straschnitzki returns to the ice for 1st time since Humboldt Broncos bus crash

  22-07-2018 00:01 via cbc.ca
  Humboldt Bronco Ryan Straschnitzki returned to the ice Friday in Okotoks, Alta. — as a sledge hockey player.
  
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• Don't get burned: here's how to identify toxic wild parsnip

  22-07-2018 00:01 via cbc.ca
  Wild parsnip is an invasive species with toxic sap that can cause skin to burn horribly when exposed to sunlight. If you don't know how to recognize it, you could be in for a nasty surprise.
  
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