Saskatoon news

• Host Huskies back on top in Ron and Jane Graham Shootout

  21-10-2018 23:21 via thestarphoenix.com
  For the first time since 2014, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies are Ron and Jane Graham Shootout champions.
  The host Huskies pulled off three consecutive convincing wins — knocking off the Nipissing University Lakers, MacEwan University Griffins and University of Fraser Valley Cascades — to claim the hardware in the 20th annual tournament.
  On Saturday, the Huskies downed the Lakers 88-61 to clinch the tournament title in front of Ron and Jane Graham.
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• Woman’s body found in basement suite after suspicious Saskatoon fire

  21-10-2018 23:11 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatoon Fire Department said the body of a woman was found in a basement suite at the scene of a fire.
  
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• Saskatoon police issue 1st ticket for using cannabis in a car

  21-10-2018 22:06 via cbc.ca
  Saskatoon police issued a ticket on Saturday morning for consuming cannabis inside a vehicle.
  
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• Saskatoon’s first cannabis ticket issued

  21-10-2018 21:07
  A woman found herself the recipient of Saskatoon’s first cannabis ticket after police found her consuming cannabis in a vehicle.
  
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• Gov. Gen. Julie Payette brings message of hope to Humboldt

  21-10-2018 21:07 via thestarphoenix.com
  Drawing on tragedy and loss from her own past, Gov. Gen. Julie Payette had words of hope for the community of Humboldt and first responders during a visit on the weekend.
  On Saturday at the Humboldt and District Gallery, Payette met with some members of the Broncos Junior Hockey Club as well as first responders and some family members of the 16 people killed in the April 6 crash. She then attended a Broncos hockey game.
  “I know exactly what it is to lose people close to me in a very public
  
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• Canada Post hit by rotating strikes in Victoria, Edmonton, Windsor and Halifax

  21-10-2018 21:01
  The union representing 50,000 Canada Post employees has begun a series of rotating strikes.
  
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• Saskatchewan SPCA says animal protection officers need more support

  21-10-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatchewan SPCA says the province needs to ensure the officers have the resources to do their jobs properly, including ongoing training.
  
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• Land-based learning links curriculum with Indigenous culture

  21-10-2018 20:40 via globalnews.ca
  Hunter Sasakamoose is taking part in land-based learning which combines lessons from his ancestors on the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation in Saskatchewan.
  
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• Prince Albert Raiders beat Spokane Chiefs 8-2, pick up 5th straight win

  21-10-2018 20:15 via globalnews.ca
  The Prince Albert Raiders earned their fifth-straight win with a victory against the Spokane Chiefs on Oct. 20.
  
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• ’In our bloodline:’ Land-based learning links curriculum with Indigenous culture

  21-10-2018 19:28 via thestarphoenix.com
  A school day for six-year-old Hunter Sasakamoose can start with lighting a fire for breakfast and end with doing math by candlelight.
  In between, the boy learns life skills such as hunting and fishing as well as first-hand science lessons about how rain soaks into the ground to help grow the plants he’s harvesting.
  His education combines lessons from his ancestors on the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation in Saskatchewan with the curriculum of his peers in Regina, where he goes to school half the yea
  
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• Ten-year-old boy found

  21-10-2018 18:37
  A ten-year-old boy has been found after going missing on Friday.
  
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• Roughriders rebound with 29-24 victory over Stampeders

  21-10-2018 18:37 via globalnews.ca
  After getting shut out in their previous game, the Saskatchewan Roughriders kept Calgary's defence on the field and generated points from long drives.
  
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• Police looking for 10-year-old boy

  21-10-2018 18:37
  Ten-year-old Braydin Moccasin was last seen at a school on Friday, and police are asking for the public’s help to locate him.
  
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• 'Headless chicken monster' filmed swimming near Antarctica for the first time

  21-10-2018 18:27
  A “headless chicken monster,” otherwise known as a deep-sea swimming cucumber, was filmed for the first time in the Southern Ocean off east Antarctica.
  
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• How a 98-year-old photographer captured the extraordinary in the 'ordinary women' of Saskatchewan

  21-10-2018 15:59 via cbc.ca
  Thelma Pepper has dedicated her late-found photography career to capturing the lives of Saskatchewan farm wives, residents of rural Prairie communities and seniors in nursing homes — people often overlooked by society.
  
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• Taiwan train derailment kills 22, injures 171

  21-10-2018 14:03
  Twenty-two people were killed and at least 171 others injured when one of Taiwan's newer, faster trains derailed on a curve along a popular weekend route, officials said.
  
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• Taiwan train derailment kills 18, injures 180

  21-10-2018 14:03
  Rescuers searched through wreckage Monday after one of Taiwan's fastest passenger trains derailed on a curve along a popular weekend route, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 180 others.
  
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• 'They've lost their vision': Some First Nations leaders pan FSIN ahead of election

  21-10-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations elects a chief this week, but some powerful First Nations leaders say the 72-year-old institution has lost its way.
  
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• 'They've lost their vision': First Nations leaders pan FSIN ahead of election

  21-10-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations elects a chief this week, but some powerful First Nations leaders say the 72-year-old institution has lost its way.
  
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• Goodale cautions Scheer: Reversing legal pot would trigger backlash

  21-10-2018 13:00
  If the Conservatives win the 2019 federal election and try to undo cannabis legalization, the party will face 'very substantial backlash,' Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale warns.
  
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• 'Everybody's a teacher' and a student: Northern Sask. food centre helps feed community, celebrate tradition

  21-10-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Two women who have poured their hearts into a Community Food Centre at Turner Lake and Birch Narrows Dene Nation says it's a unique service in the north.
  
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• How 98-year-old photographer Thelma Pepper captured the extraordinary in the 'ordinary women' of Saskatchewan

  21-10-2018 11:28 via cbc.ca
  Thelma Pepper has dedicated her late-found photography career to capturing the lives of Saskatchewan farm wives, residents of rural Prairie communities and seniors in nursing homes — people often overlooked by society.
  
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• Roughriders rebound with win over Stampeders

  21-10-2018 04:28 via cbc.ca
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders recovered their offence in a 29-24 win over the host Calgary Stampeders on Saturday.
  
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• Happy returns: Football Huskies clinch playoff spot by beating Bisons

  21-10-2018 04:10 via thestarphoenix.com
  Football season got longer, by just a little bit, Saturday afternoon at Griffiths Stadium.
  The University of Saskatchewan Huskies — who failed to make the playoffs last season for the first time since 2000 — stuffed that memory deep into a closet when they beat the Manitoba Bisons 27-4 at Griffiths Stadium.
  With that victory, they’re playoff bound, for the 17th time in 18 seasons.
  Huskies’ defensive lineman Tristian Koronkiewicz drags down Manitoba QB Des Catellier Saturd
  
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• Student-run dental clinic helping some over financial barriers

  21-10-2018 03:03
  Saskatoon’s first student-run dental clinic is helping bridge the gap between those who need dental care, but face financial barriers.
  
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• Sask. residents among Canadians honoured by Governor General

  21-10-2018 02:58
  Wrapping up her first trip to Saskatchewan as Governor General, Julie Payette presented medals to exemplary Canadian citizens in Regina on Saturday morning.
  
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• Men charged with repeatedly stealing vehicles, fleeing from Sask. RCMP

  21-10-2018 01:38 via thestarphoenix.com
  Two men from Frog Lake, Alta., are in custody after allegedly stealing and abandoning a vehicle, stealing another one and fleeing from police over two spike belts, driving until all the rubber came off their tires.
  The events started at 9:30 a.m. Friday when Maidstone RCMP received a call of an abandoned vehicle in the RM of Williton in west-central Saskatchewan, according to an RCMP news release. An officer in the area saw a different “suspicious vehicle” that had recently been stol
  
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• ‘Be a flamingo in a flock of pigeons’: Regina man hosts first prairie LGBT talk show

  21-10-2018 01:19 via globalnews.ca
  "Somebody at home, we hope, is watching and learning it's alright to drink a pink drink no matter what gender you are."
  
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• Student-run dental clinic officially opens in downtown Saskatoon

  21-10-2018 00:50 via thestarphoenix.com
  A team of dental students at the University of Saskatchewan has set up a clinic in Saskatoon to help those who don’t have the finances to get proper dental care.
  The new DIRECT Dental clinic, run out of the College of Dentistry’s Saskatoon West Dental Clinic facility, will offer dental services to people who are “uninsured and can’t otherwise afford it,” according to a news release from the University of Saskatchewan. The news release also stated that treatments wil
  
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