Saskatoon news

• Health officials investigate salmonella outbreak in western provinces

  20-10-2018 23:16 via cbc.ca
  Public health officials in five provinces are investigating a salmonella outbreak that has affected 45 individuals, some of whom ate cucumbers, although other sources are being investigated.
  
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• Trump says U.S. will pull out of nuke agreement with Russia

  20-10-2018 23:04
  U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he will exit a landmark arms control agreement the United States signed with the former Soviet Union, saying that Russia is violating the pact and it's preventing the U.S. from developing new weapons.
  
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• Salmonella outbreak in 5 provinces may be linked to cucumbers: officials

  20-10-2018 22:46
  The Public Health Agency of Canada says an investigation is underway into an outbreak of salmonella infections involving five provinces, mostly in western Canada.
  
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• House fire causes $60,000 of damage

  20-10-2018 20:47
  An accidental Saturday morning house fire caused $60,000 of damage.
  
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• Statistics Canada adds warning to survey after concerns raised about triggering questions

  20-10-2018 20:44 via cbc.ca
  Statistics Canada has surveyed more than 35,000 Canadians on gender-based violence, including sensitive questions about domestic violence, sexual abuse, online harassment and discrimination.
  
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• Saskatchewan SPCA says protection officers have more to do, need more support

  20-10-2018 18:33 via thestarphoenix.com
  The executive director of the Saskatchewan SPCA says animal protection officers in the province have more to do and need more government support.
  Frances Wach says the recent updates to animal cruelty legislation are a positive step.
  These include updated guidelines for both the care of livestock and pets.
  Animal protection officers can also inspect a broader range of animal care facilities, including those that offer pet adoptions and businesses that do animal care services.
  But she says this w
  
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• See what's spooky: Halloween events in Saskatoon

  20-10-2018 17:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  Halloween has become quite the holiday.
  And rightly so — it’s in the shoulder season between the end of summer festivities and before the Christmas holidays kick into high gear. No longer simply a night for kids to throw on a costume and head out for tricks and treats, Oct. 31 has evolved into a week of celebrations. At any retail store, they are covered in cobwebs and pumpkins promoting this annual extravaganza.
  These listings span a range of Halloween events in Saskatoon. There&rsq
  
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• New Faces New Places: Cannabis companies looking forward to Saskatchewan expansion

  20-10-2018 17:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  With cannabis legalization looming, B.C. based Aura Cannabis and Alberta based Westleaf Cannabis are working to integrate themselves into Saskatchewan communities, knowing that all eyes are on them as the cannabis market finally opens to recreational users.
  Through the provincial lottery process, Aura Cannabis won a permit for a shop in Saskatoon, and the only permit up for grabs in La Ronge. It’s expected to open its Saskatoon shop at 212 20th St. W by mid-November, although executive vic
  
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• Brighton Parade of Homes continues

  20-10-2018 17:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Brighton Parade of Homes continues to showcase a variety of show homes in this up-and-coming neighbourhood on Saskatoon’s eastside.
  Already outfitted with green space, parks, playgrounds, retail space, and Landmark Cinemas, the neighbourhood is proving popular with buyers.
  D&S Homes offers a spectacular show home with more than 2,043-square-feet and several must-see features.
  The three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath home is located at 314 Dagnone Cres. The main level features an open
  
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• Migrants vow to re-form caravan as they trek toward U.S.

  20-10-2018 16:02
  About 2,000 Central American migrants who circumvented Mexican police at a border bridge and swam, forded and floated across the river from Guatemala decided to re-form their mass caravan Saturday and continue their trek northward toward the United States.
  
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• Migrant caravan, now at 5,000 people, resumes journey toward U.S.

  20-10-2018 16:02
  A growing throng of approximately 5,000 Central American migrants resumed their advance toward the U.S. border early Sunday in southern Mexico despite efforts by Mexican authorities to stop them.
  
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• Mexico slowly processes caravan migrants at Guatemala border

  20-10-2018 16:02
  Mexican authorities for a second straight day Saturday refused mass entry to a caravan of Central American migrants held up at the border with Guatemala, but began accepting small groups for asylum processing.
  
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• Caravan at Mexico-Guatemala border shrinks as migrants cross

  20-10-2018 16:02
  A standoff between thousands of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States and Mexican police stretched through the night with some migrants hanging from the closed border gate wailing "there are children here" while others slept on the crowded bridge linking Guatemala to Mexico.
  
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• Price is right for reigning four-time Canadian Bowl champion Saskatoon Hilltops

  20-10-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Ssshhhh.
  Jason Price doesn’t even want to think about life after football.
  Price — who is enrolled in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan after doing a four-year degree in kinesiology — is wrapping up his fifth and final year of eligibility with the Saskatoon Hilltops who are chasing an unprecedented fifth straight Canadian Bowl championship.
  Saskatoon Hilltops’ Jason Price catches the ball during the 2017 Prairie Football Conference final against R
  
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• Ottawa, Saskatchewan view intergovernmental relationship differently

  20-10-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The federal minister responsible for managing relations with the provinces is downplaying the effects of a major disagreement over carbon pricing between Ottawa and the Saskatchewan government, less than three months before it comes into force.
  In an interview this week, Dominic LeBlanc said he is neither surprised nor rattled by both levels of government engaging in “political positioning” and “partisan comments” about the plan, which is set to roll out nationwide on Jan
  
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• Letters to the editor Oct. 20, 2018

  20-10-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Speed camera report
  SGI’s report on the speed camera project proves that speeding rates can be reduced by placement of cameras on our roadways. However, SGI only provides numbers for the monitored zones. Until SGI can prove equivalent speed reductions on the remaining vast majority of unmonitored roads, the project is, at best, incomplete. A driver who obeys the limit only while on camera has learned only where the cameras are. They have not otherwise changed their behaviour or helped make
  
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• Five things for the cannabis-uninitiated to know about bud

  20-10-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Jonathon Page, a botany professor and cannabis tester at the University of British Columbia, and Tim Cullen, CEO of Colorado Harvest Company, offier a crash-course for the cannabis-uninitiated.
  
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• Cuthand: Changes are afoot among First Nations

  20-10-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  A few weeks ago, Romeo Saganash, the NDP member of Parliament for Abitibi-Baie James-Nunavik-Eeyou dropped an f-bomb in the House of Commons. He was clearly frustrated with the Liberals’ determination to proceed with the Trans Mountain pipeline despite First Nations opposition.
  “Why doesn’t the prime minister just say the truth and tell Indigenous peoples that he doesn’t give a f**k about their rights?” he asked the stunned members of the House of Commons.
  Of course
  
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• Roughriders sign on Jorgen Hus for another year

  20-10-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Football fans would be hard-pressed to think of a time Jorgen Hus made a mistake snapping the football.
  
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• It's good to 'bee' here: Saskatchewan's honey business thriving

  20-10-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  When it comes to honey, Saskatchewan produces some sweet statistics.
  
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• 'They're wrong': Freeland rejects claim USMCA ties Canada's hands on trade

  20-10-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says that anyone who thinks the new trilateral North American trade agreement limits Canada's trade sovereignty is misguided.
  
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• Northern food security program has 'lost its way,' says LeBlanc

  20-10-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs Minister Minister Dominic LeBlanc is promising changes to the federal government’s northern food security subsidy program in the coming weeks, acknowledging that Nutrition North has “lost its way.”
  
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• U of S Huskies still unbeaten in new rink, blank Lethbridge Pronghorns 5-zip

  20-10-2018 06:38 via thestarphoenix.com
  Wyatt Johnson notched a pair of goals as the University of Saskatchewan Huskies blanked the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns 5-zip Friday night.
  Taran Kozun needed to make only 13 saves to record the shutout.
  Carson Stadnyk, Wyatt Johnson, Jaimen Yakubowski and Kohl Bauml also scored for the Hockey Dogs, who remain unbeaten at Merlis Belsher Place.
  Saskatchewan dominated the game, out-shooting Lethbridge 54-13.
  The Huskies were 1-for-4 on the power play. The Horns were 0-for-3.
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• Saskatoon Blades pull off OT win over Spokane Chiefs

  20-10-2018 06:37 via thestarphoenix.com
  Kirby Dach scored 37 seconds into overtime to give the host Saskatoon Blades a 3-2 win Friday night over the Spokane Chiefs.
  Dach had a pair of goals and an assist for the Blades, who improved their Western Hockey League record to 8-3-1-0.
  Spokane moves to 6-2-1-2.
  Eric Florchuk had the other goal for Saskatoon, which got out-shot 43-33.
  Nolan Maier made 41 saves for the win.
  Luke Toporowski and Ty Smith replied for Spokane, which went 2-for-5 on the power play.
  Saskatoon was 1-for-6 with the ma
  
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• 'Event was spectacular': Saskatoon sexual assault centre holds 15th annual fundraiser

  20-10-2018 05:17 via cbc.ca
  The Saskatoon Sexual Assault and Information Centre held their annual fundraiser on Friday. It included police officers modelling on a runway.
  
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• 'The right thing to do': parents share Logan Boulet's story and decision to donate organs

  20-10-2018 03:33 via cbc.ca
  More than six months after their son gave the gift of life, Toby and Bernadine Boulet still can not believe the incredible impact that decision has made. They were guests at a Kidney Foundation of Canada event in Saskatoon to talk about the importance of organ donation.
  
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• Saskatoon Symphony offices moving after executive director attacked

  20-10-2018 03:07 via thestarphoenix.com
  When Mark Turner returned to the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra’s Riversdale office about two weeks after he was attacked there by a stranger, he felt a “dark cloud” over the space.
  Turner, the symphony’s executive director, had always been proud of the organization’s open-door policy. The symphony’s office is near a bus stop on a high-traffic corner of 20th Street West by the Roxy Theatre parking lot.
  Before Turner was attacked there on July 31, staff had alway
  
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• Coming up at Saskatoon city council: Trash fees and lower speed limits

  20-10-2018 02:53 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon city council will tackle two of the most controversial issues in recent memory at Monday’s meeting: Trash collection changes and lower residential speed limits.
  Here’s how Monday’s meeting is shaping up.
   
  WASTE NOT …
  Council asked for some more information from the city administration last month before delivering a final verdict on big changes to the way trash is collected and how residents pay for it.
  The changes would shift payment for trash collection
  
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• Local STARS team headed to Arizona for international simulation competition

  20-10-2018 02:04
  A local STARS Air Ambulance team is getting ready to showcase their emergency medical skills at an international competition – representing Saskatoon for the first time.
  
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• Sentencing hearing for Mark Donlevy in sexual assault conviction

  20-10-2018 02:01 via globalnews.ca
  Lawyers laid out their cases for Mark Donlevy’s sentence after a Saskatoon judge found the former registered massage therapist guilty of sexual assault last month. Ryan Kessler reports.
  
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• 1 person dead after accident at rural site: Saskatoon fire department

  20-10-2018 02:01 via cbc.ca
  The Saskatoon Fire Department says a person has died after an accident in rural Saskatchewan.
  
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• Global News at 6: October 19

  20-10-2018 02:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, October 19, 2018 edition of Global News with Carlyle Fiset on Global Saskatoon.
  
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• Youth 'have to hold their leaders accountable,' student leader says at U Sask. FSIN forum

  20-10-2018 01:41 via cbc.ca
  With voting for in Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations election starting next week, students at the University of Saskatchewan asked what the candidates are doing to better support First Nations students in the province.
  
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• Mark Donlevy developed PTSD years before sexual assault conviction: lawyer

  20-10-2018 01:34 via globalnews.ca
  Mark Donlevy served in the Canadian military and took a controversial drug exacerbating his post-traumatic stress disorder, according to his lawyer.
  
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• Minute at the Movies: ‘Sharkwater Extinction’ and ‘Colette’

  20-10-2018 01:22 via globalnews.ca
  It’s a busy weekend at the box office. Todd James takes a look at Sharkwater Extinction, a moving documentary which is also a eulogy to a Canadian director. He also reviews Colette, a biopic about a famous French novelist.
  
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• From playground to gridiron, it's a busy fall for Huskies' Koronkiewicz

  20-10-2018 01:18 via thestarphoenix.com
  Tristian Koronkiewicz is the biggest kid in class, by a hefty 210 pounds or so.
  The University of Saskatchewan Huskies’ defensive lineman — who is tied for the Canada West lead with five sacks through six games — spends his days as an intern kindergarten teacher at South Corman Park School.
  They keep him humble, those kids.
  “The first week we played Calgary, I had a couple kids in my class tell me they want the Dinos to win, because they like dinosaurs better than dogs,&r
  
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• Crown seeks 3.5 years for Donlevy following sexual assault conviction

  20-10-2018 01:14 via thestarphoenix.com
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  A Saskatoon judge will decide next month how long Saskatoon massage therapist Mark Donlevy will spend behind bars for raping a woman following their first date in the summer of 2004.
  Sentencing arguments for Donlevy — who last month was found guilty of sexual assault in connection with the 2004 incident — were made Friday afternoon at Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench. Both the Crown and defence acknowledged prison time is a certainty. The Crown
  
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• Retail sales struggling in Saskatchewan compared to the rest of Canada

  20-10-2018 01:08 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatchewan's retail sales dropped 2.7 per cent between July and August, while posting the second slowest growth in Canada.
  
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• Animal Protection Officers need more consistent training, Sask. SPCA says

  20-10-2018 00:47
  Animal Protection Officers could face an even heavier workload under the new animal cruelty legislation, according to the Saskatchewan SPCA.
  
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• SaskPower announces second utility-scale wind energy project in a month

  20-10-2018 00:34 via globalnews.ca
  For the second time in a month, SaskPower has announced a partnership for a utility-scale win farm. This one will power up to 90,000 homes.
  
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• Retail sales down in Saskatchewan

  20-10-2018 00:22 via globalnews.ca
  Retail sales in Canada saw a slight decline between July and August according to Statistics Canada. This affects all provinces but Saskatchewan saw some of the biggest decline and it’s not just for one month.
  
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