Saskatoon news

• Saskatoon's Bessborough hotel to be renovated, rebranded

  21-08-2018 23:43 via cbc.ca
  Saskatoon’s iconic Delta Bessborough hotel will undergo “extensive” renovation and re-branding starting in early 2019.
  
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• Saskatoon police recover stolen RCMP firearm

  21-08-2018 23:19 via thestarphoenix.com
  An RCMP firearm that was stolen earlier in August has been recovered say Saskatoon police.
  The firearm, which was reported stolen to city police on Aug. 8, was turned into the Saskatoon police’s Service Centre on Tuesday, according to a news release from the city police.
  The service’s guns and gangs unit has been “actively pursuing numerous avenues of investigation and executing a number of search warrants in an effort to locate the firearm.”
  A news release from the Saska
  
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• Anonymous person returns stolen RCMP gun

  21-08-2018 23:13
  A stolen RCMP firearm has been recovered, Saskatoon Police said in a news release.
  
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• Jess Moskaluke among Canadian country singers to perform Shania Twain tribute at CCMAs

  21-08-2018 22:48 via thestarphoenix.com
  TORONTO — Three of Canadian country music’s new generation of female voices are gearing up for a tribute to Shania Twain.
  Saskatatchewan’s Jess Moskaluke, along with Kira Isabella and Madeline Merlo, will open next month’s Canadian Country Music Association Awards with an homage to the Timmins, Ont. native, organizers announced on Tuesday.
  The trio of singers will each perform one of Twain’s songs before the superstar joins them onstage to begin her hosting duties f
  
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• Update - RCMP Firearm Located

  21-08-2018 22:45 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  The RCMP firearm that was reported stolen to the Saskatoon Police Service on August 8, 2018 has been recovered. The SPS Guns & Gangs Unit has been actively pursuing numerous avenues of investigation and executing a number of search warrants in an effort to locate the firearm. As a result of their efforts, an anonymous individual turned it in to the SPS Service Centre earlier today. Charges will not be laid in relation to how the firearm was returned.Other units
  
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• Community comes together to help family with harvest after farmer’s death

  21-08-2018 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  About 100 spectators and volunteers came together to help harvest the large wheat crop of a deceased Saskatchewan farmer considered to be a pillar of his community.
  
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• Opening day roster taking shape for the Saskatchewan Huskies

  21-08-2018 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  The opening day roster is starting to take shape as the Saskatchewan Huskies look ahead to their season opener with the Alberta Golden Bears on Aug. 31.
  
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• 2 Saskatoon golfers qualify for 2018 CP Women’s Open

  21-08-2018 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  Bobbi Brandon is one of 16 Canadians vying at the 2018 CP Women’s Open at the Wascana Country Club in Regina.
  
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• Sir John A. Macdonald statue vandalized

  21-08-2018 20:35
  The Sir John A. Macdonald statue in downtown Regina has been vandalized again.
  
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• Saskatoon weather outlook: hot temperatures before weekend cool-down

  21-08-2018 20:11 via globalnews.ca
  There will be some heat in Saskatoon over the next two days, but then temperatures start to cool off ahead of the weekend.
  
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• Saskatoon police investigating pair of overnight shootings

  21-08-2018 20:01 via thestarphoenix.com
  Members of the city police service’s guns and gangs unit are investigating after a pair of overnight shootings a few blocks apart.
  The first shooting took place Monday around 11:15 p.m. in the 100 block of Avenue I South, with the second taking place Tuesday around 2:30 a.m. in the 600 block of Avenue I South, according to a police news release.
  In both incidents, police “located evidence of a firearm being discharged towards residences,” according to the news release. Inv
  
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• Saskatoon police investigate shots fired at 2 homes within 6 blocks on Avenue I

  21-08-2018 19:43 via cbc.ca
  Police are trying to discover who shot at two homes in Saskatoon's west side Monday night.
  
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• Saskatoon police investigating after series of overnight shootings

  21-08-2018 19:42 via thestarphoenix.com
  Members of the city police service’s guns and gangs unit are investigating after a series of shootings overnight.
  The first shooting took place in the 100 block of Avenue I South at roughly 11:15 p.m. on Monday, with the second taking place in the 600 block just hours later at 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, according to a police news release.
  Police say nobody was hurt in the shootings, but say there was evidence of guns being fired at residences in the area. Investigators believe one resid
  
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• Court case adjourned to October for accused in Humboldt Broncos bus crash

  21-08-2018 19:42 via thestarphoenix.com
  The second court date for the Alberta semi driver charged in connection with the Humboldt Broncos bus crash that killed 16 and injured 13 others consisted of a quick telephone call before it was adjourned to October.
  Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, 29, was not in Melfort provincial court on Tuesday. His lawyer, Satnam Aujla, instead filed a designation to appear on his behalf. Sidhu is living in Calgary after he was released on $1,000 bail last month.
  He is charged with 16 counts of dangerous driving caus
  
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• Source: Regina-born punter Jon Ryan to sign contract with Buffalo Bills

  21-08-2018 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  According to a source, the Regina-born punter has agreed to terms with the NFL's Buffalo Bills. The move comes a day after the Seattle Seahawks released Ryan after 10 seasons.
  
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• 2 Saskatoon shootings hours apart on Avenue I South

  21-08-2018 19:28 via globalnews.ca
  Two shootings happened within hours of each other on Avenue I South overnight, according to Saskatoon police.
  
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• Saskatoon police investigate shots fired on Avenue I

  21-08-2018 19:12
  Saskatoon Police are investigating after two shootings were reported on Avenue I South overnight Monday.
  
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• Shootings - Avenue I South

  21-08-2018 19:00 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  Saskatoon Police are investigating after two shootings were reported on Avenue I South last night. The first shooting occurred in the 100 block of Avenue I South at approximately 11:15 p.m., August 20, 2018. The second occurred in the 600 block of Avenue I South at approximately 2:30 a.m., August 21, 2018. In both calls, Police located evidence of a firearm being discharged towards residences.No one was injured in either incident. Investigators believe that one of the residences i
  
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• Farmers are the real victims of the GTH land deal

  21-08-2018 18:55 via cbc.ca
  According to the news-media version of the land scandal at the Global Transportation Hub, taxpayers lost about $14 million to opportunistic land developers. In reality, the cost of the scandal could be in the billions. And the real victims are farmers.
  
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• Veteran Canadian punter Jon Ryan to sign contract with Buffalo Bills

  21-08-2018 18:45
  It didn't take Jon Ryan long to find new home.
  
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• Letter of the Day: Dormant grass does not need to be cut

  21-08-2018 18:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  So, my question of the day is why is the city so intent on destroying the grass in Kinsmen Park?
  As I write this letter to the editor I am sitting here, watching a utility sized, city owned lawn mower work over stretches of grass that have long since gone into hibernation due to the dry weather conditions.
  The cumulative effect has been large sections, on the east side of the park, are now in serious danger of being turned into a virtual dust bowl.
  I could turn my attention to speculation about
  
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• Canadian Alena Sharp honours Humboldt Broncos at LPGA event in Regina

  21-08-2018 17:56 via thestarphoenix.com
  REGINA — Canadian golfer Alena Sharp will be supporting the Humboldt Broncos this week.
  The LPGA Tour veteran has a special golf bag and towel this week for the CN Canadian Women’s Open, featuring the Broncos’ logo.
  Sixteen people were killed after the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League team’s bus collided with a transport truck in April.
  “Excited to show my support for @HumbodtBroncos and @theSJHL with my new bag for the week @cpwomensopen!,” Sharp tweeted. &l
  
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• Court adjourns case for accused in Humboldt Broncos crash

  21-08-2018 17:54 via cbc.ca
  The court case of the man facing 29 charges stemming from the Humboldt Broncos bus crash has been adjourned until this fall.
  
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• Sheraton Cavalier executive chef Robin Andreas prepares vegetarian ravioli

  21-08-2018 16:44 via globalnews.ca
  Sheraton Cavalier executive chef Robin Andreas prepares vegetarian ravioli made with locally grown ingredients ahead of the upcoming Marriott Golf Classic and Culinary Showcase in Saskatoon.
  
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• Coolican: Diverting household organics is not 'gross'

  21-08-2018 16:43 via thestarphoenix.com
  In a recent StarPhoenix column, Tiffany Paulsen took a pessimistic view of the City of Saskatoon’s plans for diverting household organics from the landfill through a mandatory green bin collection program, and adopting a pay-as-you-throw residential garbage utility.
  Paulsen wrote that keeping food waste separate from non-organic trash in a bin under the kitchen sink is “gross and it stinks.” She described “disgust at the thought of storing a container full of rotting food
  
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• City of Saskatoon looking to hire position to deal with parking complaints

  21-08-2018 16:27 via globalnews.ca
  The $80,000 per year position will focus on dealing with customer inquiries and complaints made to the City of Saskatoon.
  
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• Second court appearance for semi driver charged in Humboldt Broncos bus crash

  21-08-2018 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  Jaskirat Sidhu, who is facing 29 dangerous driving charges in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, makes a second court appearance in Melfort, Sask.
  
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• Court appearance adjourned for semi driver charged in Humboldt Broncos bus crash

  21-08-2018 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  The second court appearance for Jaskirat Sidhu, who is facing 29 dangerous driving charges in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, was adjourned.
  
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• Truck driver in Humboldt Broncos bus crash scheduled to appear in court today

  21-08-2018 15:51
  The semi-driver charged in connection with the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash is due back in court in Melfort today.
  
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• Case of Jaskirat Sidhu, Humboldt Broncos truck driver, adjourned to Oct. 2

  21-08-2018 15:51
  The semi-driver charged in connection with the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash is due back in court in Melfort today.
  
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• Search temporarily called off for missing Saskatchewan man

  21-08-2018 15:29 via globalnews.ca
  Police have temporarily called off the search for Victor Falk, a missing Saskatchewan man who was last seen on Aug. 14.
  
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• Saskatoon council takes early crack at setting budget priorities

  21-08-2018 15:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Both the calendar and the weather clearly indicate August, but the discussion in Saskatoon city council chamber more closely resembled November budget deliberations.
  Council made some early decisions Monday on what to include and what to eliminate from the debate on the 2019 budget, which is already projected to bring a property tax increase of four per cent to 4.5 per cent.
  None of the decisions made at council’s governance and priorities committee is set in stone, but they do provide dir
  
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• 'In wild, screaming dives he swooped on airdromes, roads and other points': 74 years before the Sea-Tac airliner theft, a Saskatchewan man took a stolen bomber for a wild ride over Vancouver

  21-08-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Seventy-four years before a stolen airliner streaked across the sky over Puget Sound and then plunged to Earth, a Saskatchewan man put on an eerily similar air show in a medium bomber stolen from an airfield near Vancouver.
  Like that of Horizon Air employee Richard Russell, Royal Canadian Air Force Sgt. Donald Palmer Scratch’s “sensational display of aerial acrobatics” ended when the purloined B-25 Mitchell plowed into a small island in the Fraser River.
  “For four and a h
  
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• Air Canada consortium to buy Aeroplan program

  21-08-2018 13:47
  A consortium including Air Canada, TD Bank, CIBC and Visa Canada Corp. have reached a deal to acquire the Aeroplan loyalty program from Aimia Inc.
  
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• Changes on 2nd Avenue as some doors close, others open

  21-08-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  The recent closures of two clothing boutiques on the same block of 2nd Avenue does not indicate a wider pattern of closures in the area, says the executive director of the downtown business improvement district.
  
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• 'I'm upset': Sask. couple out more than $5K after Drake postpones show twice

  21-08-2018 05:42 via cbc.ca
  Drake fans were in their feelings on Monday after Live Nation Ontario notified ticket holders that the first Canadian stop on his Aubrey & The Three Migos Tour is postponed "due to circumstances" beyond their control.
  
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• Moving 2020 election would create issues for Saskatoon city hall

  21-08-2018 03:50 via thestarphoenix.com
  Extending the term of Saskatoon city council by an entire year would disrupt the city hall plan for a multi-year budget.
  The provincial Saskatchewan Party government has asked City of Saskatoon administration for feedback on moving the scheduled municipal election from 2020 to 2021, extending the term of city council to five years from four.
  The province is proposing the change to avoid overlapping election campaigns in 2020, when the municipal and provincial campaigns are scheduled five days ap
  
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• Saskatoon’s mayor wants 2020 provincial election moved

  21-08-2018 02:52 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatchewan's municipal elections in 2020 are scheduled to occur five days before the provincial election.
  
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• Sask. sex offenders express willingness for chemical castration as treatment option

  21-08-2018 02:17 via globalnews.ca
  Some sex offenders have expressed a willingness to undergo chemical castration as part of their treatment but is it really the answer?
  
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• Some sex offenders opt for chemical castration

  21-08-2018 02:12 via globalnews.ca
  Some sex offenders have expressed a willingness to undergo chemical castration as part of their treatment but is it really the answer? Meaghan Craig reports.
  
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• Photos: Summer on Second Avenue

  21-08-2018 02:11 via thestarphoenix.com
  Summer in Saskatoon can be a vibrant place with all sorts of events and activities along Second Avenue. StarPhoenix photojournalist Kayle Neis captured a few people during the last few months along Second Avenue — the heart of Saskatoon’s downtown.
  Paola Herran (L) and her daughter Valentina Toro relax on the Joni Mitchell promenade out on Second avenue in Saskatoon, SK on Thursday, August 2, 2018.
   
  Adam Sarauer blames the bass down on second avenue, Sarauer has played for elev
  
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• La Loche man charged with assaulting RCMP officers

  21-08-2018 01:58 via thestarphoenix.com
  A 34-year-old La Loche man is accused of resisting arrest and assaulting two RCMP officers and causing them minor injuries early Saturday morning.
  Ramsey Herman is facing five charges including: uttering threats, resisting arrest, causing a disturbance and two counts of assaulting a peace officer.
  According to an RCMP news release, La Loche patrol officers had initially approached a group of people, including Herman, who were consuming alcohol on a public roadway at approximately 3:30
  
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• Saskatoon sisters bring competitive nature to the Huskies

  21-08-2018 01:54
  The plan for the 2018 Huskies women’s soccer team: be flexible and adaptable, play aggressively and do it all with speed.
  
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• Rider Express to operate on soon-to-be cancelled Greyhound routes in Saskatchewan

  21-08-2018 01:54 via thestarphoenix.com
  A Saskatchewan-based private bus company announced Monday it will provide bus service on the transportation routes Greyhound Canada plans to discontinue later this year.
  Rider Express, which currently serves Regina, Saskatoon, Prince Albert and Swift Current, says it plans to launch a Calgary to Winnipeg and an Edmonton to Winnipeg route that will include Saskatchewan stops in mid-September. The Calgary to Winnipeg run will pass through Regina, and the Edmonton to Winnipeg route will pass throug
  
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• Rider Express expanding services across Western Canada

  21-08-2018 01:33 via globalnews.ca
  In an announcement made Monday afternoon, Rider Express will soon be adding routes to Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia.
  
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• Coroner’s inquest called into death of Brydon Whitstone

  21-08-2018 01:26
  A coroner’s inquest has been called into the death of Brydon Whitstone.
  
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• X-Ray microscopy conference brings scientists from around the world to Saskatoon

  21-08-2018 01:24 via cbc.ca
  "I did not know much about Saskatoon, but I knew the Canadian Light Source is here. I've always wanted to come at least once in my life," German researcher Sara Koster said.
  
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• 2 Saskatchewan RCMP officers assaulted after telling man to pour out alcohol

  21-08-2018 01:05 via globalnews.ca
  La Loche RCMP say two of their officers were assaulted after a man refused to pour out his alcohol.
  
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• Woman charged with 'dine and dash,' drunk driving crash gets bail

  21-08-2018 00:58 via thestarphoenix.com
  A 35-year-old woman accused of skipping out on two bar tabs and drunkenly driving around Saskatoon — crashing twice — has been released on conditions that she not consume alcohol or be behind the wheel of a vehicle.
  A bail hearing for Krystle Janet Viglas was held Monday afternoon in Saskatoon provincial court. Viglas had been in custody since her arrest on Aug. 15.
  The Prince Albert woman is charged with impaired driving, driving while disqualified and two counts of fraudulently obt
  
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• ‘The family appreciated it’: Volunteers help in harvest following farmer’s death

  21-08-2018 00:54
  The community of Milestone and the surrounding area rallied over the weekend to help harvest after a farmer passed away last week.
  
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