Saskatoon news

• How Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut compare

  15-09-2018 22:41
  Two deadly storms -- Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut -- roared ashore on the same day, half a world apart, but the way they spread devastation was as different as water and wind.
  
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• 'We have to move forward': Humboldt station hires new play-by-play voice

  15-09-2018 22:21 via thestarphoenix.com
  HUMBOLDT — A plan to bring hockey broadcasters in from across the country to call Humboldt Broncos games this season will not go ahead.
  Instead, local radio station CHBO Bolt FM has hired an up-and-coming Winnipeg broadcaster to take over for Tyler Bieber, its play-by-play voice who was killed along with 15 others in last April’s Broncos bus crash.
  Rory McGouran, 27, said he knew after the crash that he wanted to be part of the radio station’s team.
  “People ask me on how
  
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• 9 out of 10 workers injured in rural Saskatchewan collision discharged from hospital

  15-09-2018 22:18 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP said the semi was hauling two trailers of canola, and that the bus was a "converted school bus."
  
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• 10 people injured, 1 still in hospital after semi and bus collision in Kerrobert, Sask.

  15-09-2018 20:07 via cbc.ca
  All but one of the people injured in a serious collision between a tractor-trailer and a bus in Kerrobert, Sask., on Friday have been released from hospital, according to the company that employs the oilfield workers who were on the bus.
  
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• All but one of 10 workers injured in crash between bus and truck out of hospital

  15-09-2018 19:41 via thestarphoenix.com
  A spokesman for the company that employs 10 workers who were hurt in a crash between a semi-truck and a bus in Saskatchewan says all but one have been released from hospital.
  Paul Stuckless, corporate safety manager for O.J. Pipelines, says the workers were travelling to Kindersley from a worksite when their bus was struck by a grain truck in Kerrobert on Friday afternoon.
  He says 16 workers in the pipe welding crew — including the driver — were on board at the time.
  Stuckless says t
  
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• Nechvatal family continues its fight against Cystic Fibrosis

  15-09-2018 18:45 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Nechvatal family has two children, Dominic and Ben, with Cystic Fibrosis.
  Parents Shaun and Katarina Nechvatal, along with Shaun’s sister Sharlene McNairn, have organized the Hoops for Hope basketball tournament since 2010 to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis research and care.
  Cystic Fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disease affecting Canadian children and young adults. The progressive, multi-organ disease primarily affects the lungs and digestive system, making it difficult to
  
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• Couple charged for leaving 5-year-old in the woods after he wets himself

  15-09-2018 18:38
  A man and woman in southern Minnesota are accused of dropping off a 5-year-old boy in the woods as punishment for wetting himself.
  
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• Rosewood Gardens tailored to owners' preferences

  15-09-2018 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The 2018 Parade of Homes, presented by the Saskatoon & Region Home Builders’ Association (SRHBA), draws to a close this Sunday. This year’s parade showcases 30 diverse model homes located across Saskatoon, as well as in Warman, Martensville and the R.M. of Corman Park, all designed and constructed by Certified Professional Home Builders.
  A popular stop along the Parade of Homes route is Boychuk Homes’ new Rosewood Gardens bungalow-style townhome condominium development, loc
  
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• 'Religion helps us understand the world': Season of Creation celebrated in Saskatoon

  15-09-2018 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  If God had given an 11th commandment, Dr. Lesya Sabada believes it would be: Love the trees.
  Sabada teaches at St. Thomas More College and also works with the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon in Human and Environmental Development.
  “My academic focus expanded from Eastern Christianity to a broader study of the Abrahamic faiths and a developing interpretation of nonviolence,” she says. “Then I began exploring religious nonviolence as a precursor to ecological spirituality
  
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• New Faces New Places: Longtime obsession becomes business opportunity for local motorcycle enthusiast

  15-09-2018 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  A longtime hobby has morphed into the perfect business opportunity for Slade Sillers — who officially opens the doors to his new motorcycle repair shop Slade’s Cycle today.
  Sillers grew up around motorcycles and quickly became “obsessed” with them thanks to his dad and uncle who both rode. He recieved his first bike at only three-years-old and the skill of learning how to fix them wasn’t far behind.
  “I always had to fix my own bikes because I couldn’t af
  
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• New Faces New Places: Fun, games and dinosaurs abound at family fun centre

  15-09-2018 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  You have to see it to believe it.
  From the giant animatronic T-Rex that greets you as you walk in the door to the fog machines and wall murals, Troy Burke perfected every detail when he opened Prairie Jurassic Family Fun Centre — finally bringing eight long years of planning to life.
  The idea first materialized when Burke’s children started to get older and found there was no space in the city designed specifically for older kids to get out and have fun.
  Though Prairie Jurassic cater
  
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• 'We're not getting full value': Sask., Alta. oil stream sees widest price gap in 5 years

  15-09-2018 16:20 via cbc.ca
  West Texas Intermediate Crude oil is worth over twice as much in dollar value as its Canadian counterpart Western Canadian Select.
  
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• Letters to the editor Sept. 15, 2018

  15-09-2018 14:06 via thestarphoenix.com
  Focus on the good Macdonald did for Canada
  After Victoria removes John A. Macdonald’s statue it might consider replacing it with one of Ulysses S. Grant. Had Macdonald not persuaded British Columbia to join Confederation in 1871 by promising it a rail link, the British colony could have joined the U.S.
  The Americans, after purchasing Alaska from Russia in 1867, wanted to annex B.C. to bridge the gap between their two territories. This proposal was also attractive to some of the colony&rsqu
  
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• What a time it was: Towriss looks back on career with Huskies

  15-09-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Brian Towriss went to the web this week and watched his old work play out on the screen.
  Towriss, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies’ former head-coach, will be honoured at a gathering Saturday night at the Field House, and he wanted to refresh his memory before reuniting with former players.
  Some of those old games can be found online, including the 1996 and 1998 Vanier Cup titles.
  “A thing that stuck out when I was watching those teams — especially the ’96 and &rsqu
  
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• Saskatoon's big bridge bash happens Oct. 2

  15-09-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Here’s the schedule for the public events to celebrate the opening of Saskatoon’s two new bridges:
  CHIEF MISTAWASIS BRIDGE
  Wednesday, Oct. 2
  The public is invited to attend and some parking is available on the bridge, but people and vehicles must enter from the intersection of Marquis Drive and Wanuskewin Road on the west side of the bridge. Vehicles must leave the bridge from the east side and use the Central Avenue and McOrmond road extensions.8:50 a.m.: Grand entry starts by Indig
  
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• Saskatoon set to update approach to selling water to region

  15-09-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The last time the City of Saskatoon updated the agreement to sell its water to nearby communities, Pierre Trudeau was prime minister and Ronald Reagan was U.S. president.
  With two of the largest communities nearby, Martensville and Warman, now near 10,000 people or more, the 1983 approach to regional water needs to be refreshed, said the City of Saskatoon’s water and sewer engineering manager, Galen Heinrichs.
  “There just needs to be a big rethink because these are large cities now,&
  
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• Saskatoon Hilltops back on the road, still undefeated

  15-09-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Still undefeated.
  Still untested.
  The Saskatoon Hilltops want to keep it that way.
  “If we don’t play a close game all year, we’ve done our job,” says long-time Hilltops head coach Tom Sargeant, whose team (3-0) heads to Calgary to play the Colts (0-3) on Saturday night at McMahon Stadium.
  “We’re not coming down to anyone. They’ve got to come up and find us. That’s the program we’ve created and instilled. Obviously we’ve been fortunate t
  
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• Northern Sask. teachers who've been there for decades say there's nowhere they'd rather be

  15-09-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Before classes got underway in northern Saskatchewan this fall, the region’s school division was faced with a daunting task: hiring 97 teachers — nearly one-third of its teaching complement.
  Jason Young, director of education for the provincially funded Northern Lights School Division, said teacher turnover in northern Saskatchewan was “unusually high” this year.
  The division, which planned to hire 331 teachers this school year, was able to hire 83 teaching staff over the
  
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• Moe, Scheer line up against proposed handgun ban

  15-09-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The federal government is forging ahead with its plan to study a complete ban on handguns — but don’t expect Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe to line up behind Ottawa’s latest gun control initiative.
  “We do not endorse the banning of firearms here in the province,” Moe told reporters Wednesday afternoon, after emerging from a 45-minute meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during which gun control did not come up.
  Asked if he thought a blanket ban on pistols and
  
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• Investor wants to know what happened to her money after financial adviser ordered to cease trading securites

  15-09-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Darlene Saxinger wants some answers.
  The single mother from Saskatoon wants to know what happened to the $37,000 she signed over to Vincent John Mullee, her parents’ trusted financial adviser, for him to invest in the bond market.
  Saxinger also wants to know why the financial company that sponsored Mullee appeared to distance itself from him after it emerged that he is alleged to have taken $2.1 million from more than a dozen investors.
  “I feel very mad. I feel angry. Because these a
  
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• Cuthand: Treaties did not extinguish any Aboriginal rights

  15-09-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Indigenous recognition of the rights framework bill proposed by the Liberal government is meeting increasing opposition from First Nations leaders.
  On Feb. 14, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government would table a bill recognizing Indigenous rights before Christmas and it would be passed before the election in the fall of 2019.
  Seven months into the process, little has been done to achieve an agreement between the First Nations and the federal government.
  When Section 35 was
  
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• Searchers pursue the truth on mysterious disappearance of Métis leader

  15-09-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Mystery has swirled around the death of Métis leader James (Jim) Brady and Absolom (Abbie) Halkett for 51 years. But now, sonar technology may answer at least one long-simmering question — where did the two men go?
  
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• Roughriders newest star Matt Elam not wasting his 2nd chance

  15-09-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  The CFL is often seen as a second-chance league for former NFL players and Matt Elam isn't taking his second chance at a football career for granted.
  
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• Dinos' Sinagra on fire as Huskies drop home scrap

  15-09-2018 07:28 via thestarphoenix.com
  Adam Sinagra lugged his shredder from Calgary to Saskatoon and put it to work Friday night at Griffiths Stadium.
  The Calgary Dinos’ quarterback put up a game for the record books, hitting 32 of 40 passes for 569 yards and three touchdowns in a 37-28 football victory over the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. Only one quarterback — Calgary’s Greg Vavra, in 1983 — has put up more yards in a single Canadian university game.
  Vavra, who is Sinagra’s former position coa
  
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• 10 workers with pipeline contractor hospitalized after collision between bus, semi near Kerrobert

  15-09-2018 06:37 via thestarphoenix.com
  Ten people were taken to hospital after a bus transporting pipeline workers collided with a semi at an intersection on the northwest edge of Kerrobert.
  According to RCMP, there were 16 workers on the bus when the collision took place Friday around 4 p.m. O.J. Pipelines, a pipeline contractor in operation since 1977, confirmed in an email that the bus was carrying its employees.
  Of the 10 workers who were taken to hospital in Kerrobert, three were later transported to Saskatoon — two by STA
  
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• Bus collides with semi-truck in western Saskatchewan

  15-09-2018 06:02 via globalnews.ca
  The RCMP were called to a crash involving a bus and a semi-truck near Kerrobert, Sask. on Friday afternoon.
  
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• No life-threatening injuries after bus and semi collide in west Sask.

  15-09-2018 04:50
  RCMP is currently on scene of a crash between a bus and a semi-truck near Kerrobert.
  
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• Saskatoon hit by large-scale power outage

  15-09-2018 04:24 via cbc.ca
  The City of Saskatoon is experiencing an extensive power outage, with several neighbourhoods affected and the restoration time still unknown.
  
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• 2 people taken to hospital after collision between tractor-trailer and bus

  15-09-2018 04:07 via cbc.ca
  A collision between a tractor-trailer hauling grain and a bus carrying oilfield workers at the northwest edge of Kerrobert, Sask., on Friday evening.
  
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• 10 people taken to hospital after collision between tractor-trailer and bus

  15-09-2018 04:07 via cbc.ca
  10 people were taken to hospital after a collision between a tractor-trailer hauling grain and a bus carrying oilfield workers at the northwest edge of Kerrobert, Sask., on Friday evening.
  
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• Up to 50 million goldfish in Lake Ontario, hurting ecosystem

  15-09-2018 04:00
  An estimated 40 million to 50 million goldfish inhabit the waters of Lake Ontario, threatening native species.
  
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• Parents sue Alberta government after son locked, naked, in 'seclusion room'

  15-09-2018 04:00
  The parents of a boy with autism who is non-verbal are suing his teacher and principal, the school board and the Alberta government after they claim he was locked -- naked and unsupervised -- in a seclusion room at an Edmonton school in 2015, where he was later found covered in his own feces.
  
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• Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Derrick Moncrief has 2 reasons to smile

  15-09-2018 03:24 via globalnews.ca
  Derrick Moncrief returns at a great time - Saskatchewan's defence leads the league with 29 sacks.
  
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• Dakota Dunes Hotel is part of vision for sustainable community, Whitecap Dakota chief says

  15-09-2018 03:21 via thestarphoenix.com
  The chief of Whitecap Dakota First Nation says the new $38-million Dakota Dunes Hotel is part of Whitecap Dakota First Nation’s vision for a sustainable community.
  Dakota Dunes is already home to a casino and golf course; the hotel is expected to be complete in 2020. The project is expected to create up to 150 permanent jobs and about 230 jobs during the construction period.
  “As we move forward, we’ll continue to roll them out and continue to create opportunity for the communit
  
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• Saskatoon Public Schools encouraging kids to get active with ‘Move to Grow’ campaign

  15-09-2018 03:04 via globalnews.ca
  The 'Move to Grow' campaign encourages students to add more physical activity into their day through their commute to and from school.
  
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• City of Saskatoon set to restore regular water service to Aspen Ridge

  15-09-2018 03:02 via thestarphoenix.com
  Water is expected to flow freely in a few weeks through the underground pipes connecting to 10 homes in the Aspen Ridge neighbourhood.
  Angela Gardiner, the City of Saskatoon’s acting director of transportation and utilities, said the city has lifted the advisory warning not to use water from the city’s pipes for bathing or drinking.
  City staff discovered hydrocarbons in fire hydrants near the homes in January, prompting the installation of above-ground hoses to connect the homes to t
  
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• ‘I didn’t intend for this to happen’: Claude Gauthier’s guilty plea to manslaughter in 2016 killing

  15-09-2018 02:58 via globalnews.ca
  Claude Gauthier, 27, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for the role he played in the death of 37-year-old Patrick Dong.
  
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• Mother reunited with daughters in Saskatchewan after 13 years

  15-09-2018 02:43
  Gueltte Luse hasn’t seen her daughters since they were four and five years old - but Thursday night, that all changed.
  
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• Holes were huge for Huskies, who hit the ice for pre-season

  15-09-2018 02:27 via thestarphoenix.com
  Big-time departures.
  Huge holes.2018-19 Recruiting ClassG Travis Child (Edmonton Oil Kings, WHL)
  D Gordie Ballhorn (Kelowna Rockets, WHL)
  D Shane Collins (London Knights, OHL)
  D Evan Fiala (Saskatoon Blades, WHL)
  D Kendall Fransoo (Battlefords North Stars, SJHL)
  F Donavan Neuls (Seattle Thunderbirds, WHL)
  F Layne Young (Battlefords North Stars, SJHL)
  F Dakota Boutin (Penticton Vees, BCHL)
  On paper, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies men’s hockey team needed some new pieces to rebuild&s
  
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• Emergency services called to crash by Kerrobert, Sask.

  15-09-2018 02:17 via globalnews.ca
  Emergency services have been called to a motor-vehicle collision near Kerrobert, Sask.
  
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• Bus collision with semi-truck in western Saskatchewan injures 10

  15-09-2018 02:17 via globalnews.ca
  A crash involving a semi-truck and a bus near Kerrobert, Sask., late Friday afternoon sent 10 people to hospital, according to the RCMP.
  
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• Bus collides with semi-truck in western Saskatchewan, 10 people taken to hospital

  15-09-2018 02:17 via globalnews.ca
  A crash involving a semi-truck and a bus near Kerrobert, Sask., late Friday afternoon sent 10 people to hospital, according to the RCMP.
  
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• Saskatchewan family pushes for the province to modernize its back braces

  15-09-2018 02:10 via globalnews.ca
  A renewed call from a Sask. family asking the province to modernize its back braces.
  
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• Global News at 6: September 14

  15-09-2018 02:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, September 14, 2018 edition of Global News at 6 with Carlyle Fiset on Global Saskatoon.
  
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• Lloydminster doctor sanctioned after admitting sexual relationship with patient

  15-09-2018 01:56 via thestarphoenix.com
  The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan (CPSS) barred a Lloydminster family doctor from practising medicine for nine months after he admitted participating in a consensual sexual relationship with a patient in 2016 and 2017.
  The woman later filed a complaint with the college.
  During a hearing on Friday in Saskatoon, Dr. Mohammed A.R. Sayeed’s defence lawyer, Sheila Caston, said Sayeed accepted responsibility for his actions with the unnamed female patient, who is in her
  
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• John Lake School drops Core French classes

  15-09-2018 01:54
  A parent of two boys who attend John Lake School says it’s “disappointing” the school has dropped Core French.
  
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• Claude Gauthier sentenced to seven years for role in beating death of Patrick Dong

  15-09-2018 01:49 via thestarphoenix.com
  As he lay dying alone on a dark country road, Patrick Dong must have spent his final moments in “sheer terror,” a Saskatoon Queen’s Bench judge observed.
  Justice Gerald Allbright had just heard that Dong, 37, was dragged into a truck and driven five kilometres southwest of Saskatoon, crying and pleading with his captors the entire way.
  Their intention was to beat Dong and leave him on the city’s outskirts, according to the Crown’s facts. Instead, he was hit on the h
  
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• Core French enrolment, instruction shrinking in Sask., but more students opting for immersion

  15-09-2018 01:36 via cbc.ca
  Some parents still want core French classes available to their children, even if the trend across Saskatchewan is declining enrolment.
  
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• Minute at the Movies: Sept. 14

  15-09-2018 01:21 via globalnews.ca
  In the latest edition of Minute at the Movies, Todd James reviews “Mandy.”
  
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• ‘I never thought this was going to happen.’: craft beer on sale at Mosaic Stadium

  15-09-2018 01:09 via globalnews.ca
  Beer and Roughrider games go together so well there’s a section at Mosaic Stadium named after Pilsner. Now, there’s a new brew on the block; Craft Beer Corner.
  
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