Saskatoon news

• RCMP lay 24 charges after reported home invasion in northern Sask.

  24-09-2018 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  Seven people are facing a total of 24 charges after a reported home invasion in northern Saskatchewan last week.
  
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• The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has pulled an allegedly racist ad

  24-09-2018 23:43 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Frontier Centre for Public Policy appears to have scrubbed from its website a two-minute radio advertisement questioning the effects of Canada’s Indian residential school system.
  Posted last week, the Winnipeg-based think tank’s spot opens with former Saskatchewan broadcaster Roger Currie asking the question: “Are Canadians being told the whole truth about residential schools?
  “For many years now we’ve been told that the residential school system deserves the bl
  
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• Saskatchewan-made documentary puts anxiety and depression in the spotlight

  24-09-2018 23:43 via cbc.ca
  Nurses in Saskatchewan are taking viewers to the frontlines of healthcare in a new series of documentaries. The latest instalment focuses on youth mental health.
  
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• Charges laid after Deschambault Lake home invasion

  24-09-2018 23:35
  Seven people have been charged after a home invasion in Deschambault Lake.
  
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• Chages laid after Deschambault Lake home invasion

  24-09-2018 23:35
  Seven people have been charged after a home invasion in Deschambault Lake.
  
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• No geotech study done on Sask. bridge that collapsed on opening day

  24-09-2018 23:23 via globalnews.ca
  A reeve in eastern Saskatchewan says no geotechnical investigation was performed on a riverbed where a newly built bridge collapsed only hours after opening.
  
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• Radio ad aired in Sask. claiming to debunk 'myths' of residential schools draws criticism

  24-09-2018 23:21 via cbc.ca
  A radio ad that aired in Saskatchewan talking about "myths" of residential schools is drawing criticism from listeners.
  
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• Man charged in North Battleford Amber Alert had been out of custody less than one month

  24-09-2018 22:52 via thestarphoenix.com
  The 19-year-old man charged in last week’s child abduction in North Battleford was released from provincial custody less than one month before the incident that prompted an Amber Alert.
  Johnathan Ryann Gunville appeared Monday in North Battleford provincial court. He is charged with child abduction, unlawful confinement, abandoning a child, two counts of dangerous driving, motor vehicle theft, possession of the proceeds of crime, evading a police officer, two counts of driving while disqua
  
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• Soiled rags must be dealt with properly, fire department says

  24-09-2018 22:46
  Saskatoon Fire Department is reminding people to properly store soiled rags to prevent them catching fire.
  
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• 'Nervous and excited': Regina's Marty Klyne named to Canadian senate

  24-09-2018 22:09 via cbc.ca
  Regina's Marty Klyne is one of two new members of the Canadian senate.
  
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• Saskatoon home for pregnant women with HIV to open doors Oct. 1

  24-09-2018 22:02 via cbc.ca
  Women who have been infected with HIV and who find themselves pregnant will soon have a place to stay - and thrive - in Saskatoon.
  
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• Spontaneous combustion of soiled rags concerning for Saskatoon Fire Department

  24-09-2018 21:35 via globalnews.ca
  Some recent structure fires in Saskatoon, including one involving several homes in Montgomery Place, have been caused by the spontaneous combustion of soiled rags.
  
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• Frontier Centre radio spot describes residential school harm as a 'myth'

  24-09-2018 21:08 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Frontier Centre for Public Policy appears to have scrubbed from its website a two-minute radio spot questioning the effects of Canada’s Indian residential school system.
  Posted last week, the Winnipeg-based think tank’s spot opens with former Saskatchewan broadcaster Roger Currie asking the question: “Are Canadians being told the whole truth about residential schools?
  “For many years now we’ve been told that the residential school system deserves the blame for m
  
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• Saskatoon's first pre-natal HIV care home opens

  24-09-2018 21:07
  Pregnant woman with HIV now have a new place to call home.
  
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• Saskatchewan farmers stock Saskatoon Food Bank shelves with 72K eggs

  24-09-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatchewan egg farmers delivered a donation of 6,000 dozen eggs to the Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre on Monday.
  
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• Saskatoon weather outlook: snowy start to fall, warmer air returns

  24-09-2018 20:35 via globalnews.ca
  Snow has stopped and warmer days return to Saskatoon’s weather forecast – for now. Meteorologist Peter Quinlan explains.
  
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• Aura Cannabis eyes mid-November opening for Riversdale pot store

  24-09-2018 20:32 via cbc.ca
  It's the fourth confirmed location among the city's seven future recreational cannabis retail stores.
  
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• Wrong way driver on Highway 16 charged with impaired driving

  24-09-2018 20:27 via globalnews.ca
  A Saskatoon man driving the wrong way on Highway 16 has been charged with impaired driving after crashing into a light pole.
  
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• New SGI ‘Knock on the Door’ campaign aims to curb impaired driving

  24-09-2018 20:16 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) has launched new ads that feature a police officer knocking at the door with news that will change a family’s life.
  
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• Flyers new mascot 'Gritty' a bearded, googly-eyed terror

  24-09-2018 20:06
  The Philadelphia Flyers unveiled their new mascot Monday, and as one would expect of the team that gave us the "Broad Street Bullies," he's far from cuddly.
  
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• Diefenbaker Drive traffic closed for new raised pedestrian crossing construction

  24-09-2018 19:56 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Saskatoon is advising Saskatoon drivers of a traffic closure on Diefenbaker Drive needed for the construction of a mid-street pedestrian crossing.
  
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• Saskatchewan to celebrate Biotech Week

  24-09-2018 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  Agriculture Minister David Marit has proclaimed Sept. 24 to 30 as Biotech Week in Saskatchewan, to celebrate the benefits of biotechnology in the province.
  
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• Saskatchewan's Marty Klyne one of Trudeau's two new picks for Senate

  24-09-2018 19:45 via cbc.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named two new senators to the Red Chamber Monday - one a former top Mountie, the other a prominent Saskatchewan businessman.
  
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• CN police urge safety around Saskatchewan railway crossings

  24-09-2018 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  CN Rail said 222 accidents occurred at rail crossings across Canada in 2017, resulting in 72 deaths and 44 serious injuries.
  
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• Improving outcomes in Saskatoon for pregnant women living with HIV

  24-09-2018 19:07 via globalnews.ca
  Sanctum 1.5 aims to change the way society responds to the most vulnerable by providing support to pregnant women with HIV or those dealing with substance abuse.
  
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• Watch for these 3 road closures this week

  24-09-2018 18:54
  Sections of three streets in Saskatoon will be closed for multiple days this week for various projects.
  
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• Missing teen in western Saskatchewan found in North Battleford

  24-09-2018 18:47 via globalnews.ca
  Meadow Lake RCMP said Shaylene Roy was found in North Battleford after last being seen on Sept. 2. at a powwow on the Flying Dust First Nation.
  
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• Two charged after short police chase on Monday morning

  24-09-2018 18:45 via thestarphoenix.com
  Two man are facing numerous charges after they reportedly fled from police on Monday morning.
  At roughly 3:30 a.m., police spotted a black sedan travelling southbound in a northbound traffic lane on Highway 16.
  The vehicle then took an exit on to Circle Drive West and when a traffic stop was attempted, the suspect sedan fled from police.
  A short time later, it struck a centre median and a street light at the overpass of 51st Street and the suspects fled on foot. Police gave chase, and after a sh
  
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• Canada has removed six out of 900 asylum seekers already facing U.S. deportation

  24-09-2018 18:41
  Newly released figures show Canadian officials have removed only a handful of the hundreds of irregular migrants who arrived in Canada while they were already facing deportation orders from the United States.
  
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• SGI launches "hard-hitting and heartbreaking" campaign against impaired driving

  24-09-2018 18:26 via cbc.ca
  SGI has launched a new campaign against impaired driving that includes real-life stories of people in Saskatchewan impacted by impaired driving.
  
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• Evade Police/Impaired Driving - Highway 16 and Circle Drive

  24-09-2018 18:16 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  Two men are facing charges following an evade police incident early this morning.At approximately 3:30 a.m. officers on patrol spotted a black sedan traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of traffic on Highway 16.  The vehicle then took the exit onto Circle Drive west.  A traffic stop was attempted however the occupants of the vehicle began evading Police.  Moments later the vehicle struck the center median and light standard at the overpass at 51st Street, and the suspects
  
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• Letter of the Day: Mental health services lacking

  24-09-2018 18:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Recently my father passed away and I’ve been struggling much harder than I’d expected to. In part this is because loss is always hard and death always punches below the belt, but additionally this loss has appeared to be a large crack in a dam. Today the masonry of my mind threatens to crumble and I am forced to seek help, as many of us are at one time or another.
  No matter the robust or fragile nature of one’s personal support networks composed of family, friends and colleague
  
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• Blair Prokopetz, 26, appears on first-degree murder charge in death of Ken Balan

  24-09-2018 17:58 via thestarphoenix.com
  Family members of Saskatoon’s sixth homicide victim of 2018 cried as a first-degree murder charge against a 26-year-old man was read into court.
  Blair Prokopetz appeared Monday in Saskatoon provincial court, charged in the July 6 death of 27-year-old Ken Balan. According to Saskatoon police, Balan and the accused were known to each other.
  Balan, 27, was found in an alley in the 1400 block of 20th Street West on July 6 around 5:30 p.m., after police responded to a report of an injured
  
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• Jpoirier Health Presents: OUT OF THE SHADOWS

  24-09-2018 17:55 via globalnews.ca
  OUT OF THE SHADOWS – Our Artists, in their words: Join us for a lovely evening as we journey through varying depictions of life emerging from the shadows.  Out of the Shadows is an exploration of the emergence of colour and light from out of the corners, hidings and Shadows that spread across this world,...
  
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• Kawhi Leonard breaks silence on blockbuster trade that brought him to Toronto

  24-09-2018 17:36
  Kawhi Leonard says he's healthy and excited to be a Toronto Raptor. Leonard finally addressed the media in a jam-packed press conference, the first time he's talked publicly since the blockbuster trade that sent DeMar DeRozan to San Antonio.
  
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• Jochen Tilk to leave Nutrien at end of September

  24-09-2018 17:11 via thestarphoenix.com
  The former head of Saskatchewan’s largest potash mining company is stepping down from his new position as Nutrien Ltd.’s executive chairman nine months after the company’s formation.
  The fertilizer giant said Monday that Jochen Tilk, who joined Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. in 2014 and ran it until the Jan. 1, 2018 merger with Agrium Inc. — is leaving on Sept. 30 “to pursue other opportunities.”
  “Jochen’s key objectives are well on track and he
  
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• Foods to help ward off the flu

  24-09-2018 16:55 via globalnews.ca
  Registered dietitian Sophie Khan on some foods you can make that can help ward off the flu and other sickness.
  
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• Saskatchewan RCMP searching for prisoner who escaped from hospital

  24-09-2018 16:38 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatchewan RCMP are searching for Tyler Cote, who escaped from police custody while being treated at hospital.
  
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• Nutrien’s new potash president talks supply and demand

  24-09-2018 16:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Susan Jones is the new head of Nutrien’s potash operations, and believes demand for the Saskatchewan-mined fertilizer will continue to climb.
  In a wide-ranging interview, she covered a broad range of topics and — perhaps not surprisingly given Nutrien’s Feeding the Future tagline — framed her upbeat answers around the farmers who fertilize their fields with Saskatchewan potash.
  Read the full story here
  
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• Mayor Charlie Clark explains city’s position on Saskatoon Farmers’ Market building

  24-09-2018 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark explains the city’s position on a proposal to develop a six-day-a-week public market at the Saskatoon Farmers’ Market building.
  
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• Saskatoon city council to vote on waste utility and 'Pay as You Throw' system Monday

  24-09-2018 14:53 via cbc.ca
  Saskatoon city councillors will today vote on whether to create a new waste utility that would charge customers for curbside collection based on usage.
  
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• Willowgrove church spat Nimbyism shows the problem with public consultation

  24-09-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  People who work and live in our community can provide important suggestions and insight. However, public consultation can also yield poor results.
  
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• Three-quarters of Sask. third-graders reading at or above their grade level

  24-09-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  A couple of years ago, a provincial auditor’s report singled out the Northeast School Division because its Grade 3 students were falling below the provincial average in reading at or above their grade level.
  In the 2016 report, the auditor found 66 per cent of Grade 3 students in the school division, which covers Melfort, Nipawin, Tisdale and Hudson Bay areas, were reading at or above their grade level. In the 2018 report, the auditor found the division’s Grade 3 students’ read
  
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• Tank: Canada's cities, like Saskatoon, have the people, not the power

  24-09-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  You need not look as far away as Toronto if you want to confirm the perception that Canada’s cities remain the playthings of the provinces.
  The drama created by Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s reduction of Toronto city council seats in the middle of a civic election has come to symbolize the provincial-municipal power struggle.
  It hardly ranks as much of a struggle, though, with provinces not just holding all the cards, but making up the rules of the game as they go.
  That same dynamic ap
  
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• Nutrien's new head of potash optimistic as industry enters 'mode of recovery'

  24-09-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Sitting in her office on the 11th floor of the Scotia Centre, her back to a wrap-around view of autumn bursting along the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, Susan Jones contemplates her new position as head of the world’s largest supply of potash.
  It’s a big job: Jones is responsible for six of the 10 potash mines currently operating in Saskatchewan, as well as a supply chain that carries the pink-hued fertilizer from the Canadian prairies to India, China and 40 or so other count
  
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• Letters to the editor Sept. 24, 2018

  24-09-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Mental health services lacking
  Recently my father passed away and I’ve been struggling much harder than I’d expected to. In part this is because loss is always hard and death always punches below the belt, but additionally this loss has appeared to be a large crack in a dam. Today the masonry of my mind threatens to crumble and I am forced to seek help, as many of us are at one time or another.
  No matter the robust or fragile nature of one’s personal support networks composed o
  
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• Business as usual in Sask. classroom discussions as cannabis legalization nears

  24-09-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  A Saskatoon Public Schools superintendent doesn’t expect a huge change in the conversations happening in classrooms around cannabis and healthy living.
  Conversations about cannabis will be similar to discussions about alcohol in the past, Paul Janzen said.
  Adults over the age of 19 can legally buy and consume cannabis in Saskatchewan as of Oct. 17, but for youth it will still be off limits. However, marijuana will be topical discussion item for students in classrooms, and school divisions
  
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• Man, 19, accused of sparking Sask. Amber Alert to have bail hearing Tuesday

  24-09-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  A 19-year-old man from North Battleford appeared in court Monday in relation to the disappearance of a young girl which prompted an Amber Alert earlier this month.
  
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• Bail hearing set for 19 year-old accused of sparking Sask. Amber Alert

  24-09-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  A 19-year-old man from North Battleford appeared in court Monday in relation to the disappearance of a young girl which prompted an Amber Alert earlier this month.
  
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• 19-year-old charged following Sask. Amber Alert to make 1st court appearance

  24-09-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  A 19-year-old man from North Battleford will appear in court Monday in relation to the disappearance of a young girl which prompted an Amber Alert earlier this month.
  
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