Saskatoon news

• Government won't commit to improving 'stone age' salary disclosure

  08-11-2018 23:53 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatchewan NDP is joining the chorus of those calling for information about how bureaucrats are paid to be more accessible.
  
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• Alleged carjacker shoots himself in leg

  08-11-2018 23:47 via thestarphoenix.com
  A suspected car thief suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his leg during what appears to be an armed carjacking gone wrong.
  
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• Experts say Maclean’s cover is a blessing in disguise for Scott Moe

  08-11-2018 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  Scott Moe features in the backdrop of the photo but the Saskatchewan premier is at the core of a conservative movement; one he's directly responsible for.
  
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• Two arrested after RCMP seize crack in La Loche drug bust

  08-11-2018 23:19 via cbc.ca
  Police in La Loche seized 5.5 ounces of crack in Nov. 5 bust.
  
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• A '24/7 battle': Suspected fatal overdose at Saskatoon jail illustrates fight against drugs, contraband

  08-11-2018 22:37 via thestarphoenix.com
  A drug overdose is believed to be responsible for the death this week of an inmate at Saskatoon Correctional Centre — the latest illustration of what a provincial justice official calls a “24/7 battle” in Saskatchewan.
  Staff at correctional facilities across the province are on constant lookout for drugs and contraband, Ministry of Justice spokesman Drew Wilby said Thursday at a news conference.
  Inmates are willing to attempt all sorts of brazen ways to import such goods,
  
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• Man allegedly kidnaps victim, shoots himself in the leg

  08-11-2018 22:36
  A 31-year-old man faces eight firearms charges - including kidnapping with a gun – after an incident starting at a Saskatoon gas station early Wednesday morning.
  
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• Man shoots himself in leg during alleged abduction from Saskatoon gas station

  08-11-2018 22:32 via globalnews.ca
  A man shot himself in the leg after allegedly abducting a vehicle owner at a gas station in Saskatoon.
  
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• Suspect drops shotgun, shoots self in the leg during abduction: police

  08-11-2018 22:30 via cbc.ca
  Police say a suspected abductor shot himself in the leg mid-crime in a vehicle near Saskatoon.
  
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• Suspect drops shotgun, shoots self in the leg during abduction near Saskatoon: police

  08-11-2018 22:30 via cbc.ca
  Police say a suspected abductor shot himself in the leg mid-crime in a vehicle near Saskatoon.
  
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• Alleged car thief shoots himself in leg

  08-11-2018 22:28 via thestarphoenix.com
  A reported car thief suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his leg during what appears to be an armed car theft gone wrong on Wednesday.
  Warman RCMP indicate at roughly 4:20 a.m., they received a complaint from a person claiming they had been threatened at gunpoint while at a gas station in Saskatoon, according to an RCMP news release.
  RCMP said the man was originally asked by the man to drive him outside of Saskatoon while threatening him with what police said was a sawed-off shotgun.
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• Sask. to provide crack and crystal meth pipes at harm reduction centres

  08-11-2018 22:14 via cbc.ca
  The overarching goal is reducing the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C through used needles.
  
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• Kiel Stewart of B.C. guilty of drunk driving crash near Young, Sask. that killed two

  08-11-2018 21:46 via cbc.ca
  Kiel Stewart has been found guilty of nine charges related to a drunken high-speed crash in 2016 near Young, Sask. that killed two passengers and seriously injured a third.
  
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• Supreme Court dismisses appeal of overturned Sask. hunting conviction

  08-11-2018 21:40 via globalnews.ca
  An appeal of an overturned hunting conviction against an Indigenous man in Saskatchewan will not be heard by Canada’s top court.
  
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• Canadian last to die in First World War before armistice

  08-11-2018 21:16 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian Pvt. George Lawrence Price, the last British Empire soldier to die in the First World War, was shot two minutes before hostilities ceased.
  
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• How a tough #MeToo conversation forged a closer bond between a Saskatoon father and daughter

  08-11-2018 20:59 via cbc.ca
  It was through social media that Portia Crowe discovered her father was out of step with the #MeToo movement. But he was thoughtful, and in the end, the two found common ground and formed a closer bond.
  
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• Dillon RCMP officer accused of viewing 'sensitive, private' images of woman from surveillance footage in cellblock

  08-11-2018 20:57 via thestarphoenix.com
  RCMP say a nine-year veteran constable with the Dillon detachment viewed “sensitive, private images” of a woman taken from a surveillance video recorded in the cellblock area of the Buffalo Narrows detachment.
  According to a media release, two Dillon RCMP officers came across information on Oct. 13 which indicated that another on-duty officer had improperly accessed the images.
  They reported it to a supervisor and Prince Albert RCMP’s General Investigation Section launched
  
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• Saskatoon motel owner John Pontes guilty of groping guest in back hallway in 2017

  08-11-2018 20:43 via cbc.ca
  A Saskatoon judge ruled that Northwoods Inns and Suites owner John Pontes is guilty of sexually assaulting a female guest in 2017.
  
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• 'A story of incredibly bad timing': Canadian last to die before armistice

  08-11-2018 20:38 via thestarphoenix.com
  HALIFAX — Moments before the armistice ending the First World War took effect on Nov. 11, 1918, a sniper’s bullet sliced the morning air.
  It struck a Canadian soldier in the chest as he emerged from the doorway of a house in a small Belgian village. Pvt. George Lawrence Price died minutes later at 10:58 a.m. — a mere two minutes before hostilities ceased.
  He became the last British Empire soldier to die in a war that claimed millions of lives, including nearly 67,000 Canadians
  
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• Child killer McClintic back in prison after time in Saskatchewan healing lodge, Tori Stafford’s father says

  08-11-2018 20:07 via thestarphoenix.com
  A convicted child killer who became the subject of national outrage when it was learned she’d been transferred to an Indigenous healing lodge is back in prison, the father of her young victim said Thursday.
  Rodney Stafford issued a brief, celebratory Facebook post announcing that Terri-Lynne McClintic was no longer at the Saskatchewan lodge, but offered no other details.
  “It’s official!!! Terri-Lynne is back behind bars,” Stafford wrote in the post.
  McClintic pleaded guil
  
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• Province to investigate inmate death

  08-11-2018 19:44
  A male inmate on remand at Saskatoon Correctional Centre died Wednesday, the province says.
  
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• Northwoods Inn owner John Pontes found guilty of groping tenant, but not guilty of raping her

  08-11-2018 19:41 via thestarphoenix.com
  The owner of the Northwoods Inn and Suites in Saskatoon has been found guilty of sexual assault for grabbing a female tenant’s breasts, but not for a rape she alleged happened later that night.
  Both allegations against John Viveiros Pontes stem from June 1, 2017 and therefore were part of the same charge, Judge Morris Baniak explained when giving his decision in Saskatoon provincial court on Thursday.
  He found Pontes not guilty of extortion — the criminal offence of obtaining somethi
  
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• Saskatoon weather outlook: -30 wind chills, risk of frostbite Friday

  08-11-2018 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  -30 wind chills, risk of frostbite in Saskatoon’s weather forecast Friday morning.
  
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• RCMP officer charged after allegedly accessing private images from surveillance video

  08-11-2018 19:28
  A Saskatchewan RCMP officer stationed in Northern Saskatchewan has been charged with breach of trust.
  
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• Inmate dies at Saskatoon Correctional Centre

  08-11-2018 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  An inmate was found unresponsive in his bunk at Saskatoon Correctional Centre on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Man on remand found dead at Saskatoon Correctional Centre

  08-11-2018 19:11 via thestarphoenix.com
  An investigation is underway after an inmate was found dead Wednesday at the Saskatoon Correctional Centre.
  According to the province’s Justice Department, the man was on remand when he “was found unresponsive in his bunk.” He was pronounced dead around 1:30 p.m., the province said in a news release.
  Saskatoon police, the Ministry of Justice and and the provincial coroner are investigating.
  The man’s next of kin has been notified.
  The Ministry of Justice has scheduled a n
  
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• Motel owner found guilty of sexual assault on tenant

  08-11-2018 19:09
  John Pontes, the owner of the Northwoods Inn and Suites, has been found guilty of sexual assault.
  
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• Inmate on remand dies at Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre

  08-11-2018 19:00 via cbc.ca
  An inmate at Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre has died.
  
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• After inmate death, union calls for resources to keep drugs out of Sask. jails

  08-11-2018 19:00 via cbc.ca
  An inmate death at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre was likely a drug overdose, says a government official.
  
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• Dillon RCMP officer accused of viewing 'sensitive, private' images of woman from surveillance footage in cell block

  08-11-2018 18:55 via thestarphoenix.com
  The RCMP is alleging that a nine-year veteran constable with the Dillon detachment viewed “sensitive, private images” of a woman taken from a surveillance video recording taken in the cell block area of the Buffalo Narrows detachment.
  According to a media release, two Dillon RCMP officers came across information on Oct. 13 which indicated that another on-duty officer improperly accessed the images.
  They reported it to a supervisor and Prince Albert RCMP’s General Investigation
  
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• Dillon RCMP constable accused of accessing private images

  08-11-2018 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  A nine-year member of the RCMP is accused of accessing sensitive, private images from a Buffalo Narrows cell block surveillance recording.
  
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• 3 suspects arrested in jingle dress theft

  08-11-2018 18:47
  Saskatoon Crime Stoppers is being credited with helping to track down several stolen jingle dresses.
  
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• Riders Chris Jones and Jordan Willams-Lambert nominated for league awards

  08-11-2018 18:19 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced Thursday Chris Jones has been named West Division coach of the year in the CFL.
  
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• Saskatoon motel owner found guilty of sex assault

  08-11-2018 18:15 via globalnews.ca
  Northwoods Inn owner John Pontes was found guilty of sexual assault for touching a tenant’s breasts in Saskatoon provincial court.
  
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• Ukrainian-Canadian internment operations detailed in new documentary

  08-11-2018 18:04 via thestarphoenix.com
  When actor-filmmaker Ryan Boyko was in Grade 10 in Saskatoon, he saw a documentary about the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the First World War that left him stunned.
  Growing up in a Ukrainian-Canadian household, he’d never heard that about the war and he went to his history teacher to learn more.
  “He said, ‘You mean the Japanese internment during World War II?’ and I said, ‘No, I mean the Ukrainian internment during World War I,”‘ Boyko, 38, r
  
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• Two dresses recovered, three arrested after attempting to pawn stolen Indigenous regalia

  08-11-2018 17:57 via thestarphoenix.com
  Three arrests have been made in connection with the theft in a Saskatoon parking lot of seven jingle dresses and other traditional Indigenous regalia.
  Saskatoon Crime Stoppers, on Wednesday on its Facebook page, said a man and a woman were able to pawn two of the dresses only a few hours after the theft occurred on Oct. 30.
  The theft took place while Kalli Eagle Speaker had stopped for a meal before leaving the city on her way home to the Kainai Nation in Alberta following her performance in the
  
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• An open letter to the many fans of Bohemian Rhapsody from a concerned queer

  08-11-2018 17:45 via cbc.ca
  The Freddie Mercury biopic isn't just inaccurate — its demonization of his sexuality is actively harmful.
  
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• Child killer Terri-Lynne McClintic transferred from healing lodge to Edmonton prison

  08-11-2018 17:32 via cbc.ca
  Ontario child killer Terri-Lynne McClintic has been transferred from an Indigenous healing lodge to an Edmonton prison for women.​
  
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• Chris Jones named West Division’s nominee for Coach of the Year

  08-11-2018 17:23
  Saskatchewan Roughriders coach and GM Chris Jones has been named the Canadian Football League’s Western Division Coach of the Year.
  
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• Average to above-average crop quality as harvest wraps up in Saskatchewan

  08-11-2018 17:20 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatchewan Agriculture said 99 per cent of the crop is combined, with yields on par with the 10-year average.
  
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• Harvest wraps up for Sask. producers

  08-11-2018 17:13
  Harvest has wrapped up for producers across Saskatchewan.
  
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• Saskatoon Co-op picketers affecting nearby small business, owner says

  08-11-2018 17:05 via cbc.ca
  Supplement World Saskatoon has had a run of slow business days. Saskatoon Co-op employees have been striking since Nov 1, often in front of Josh McGowan's store on Ludlow Street.
  
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• Terri-Lynne McClintic is back in prison, Rodney Stafford says ‘it makes me feel amazing’

  08-11-2018 17:04 via globalnews.ca
  The father of murdered eight-year-old Tori Stafford says her killer, Terri-Lynne McClintic, is back behind bars.
  
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• Terri-Lynne McClintic transferred out of healing lodge: Rodney Stafford

  08-11-2018 17:01
  Killer Terri-Lynne McClintic has been transferred out of an Indigenous healing lodge in Saskatchewan and into a prison in Edmonton, according to Tori Stafford's father.
  
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• Letter of the Day: Choose a reasonable standard speed limit

  08-11-2018 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  I drove over the new Chief Mistawasis Bridge. The speed limit changes as many as five times, ranging from 50, 60, 70 back to 60 then 50 again. I have not seen a city that has so many different speed zones.
  Recently, the police had a radar unit out on Valley Road, as they have done many times. (No, I didn’t get a ticket.) The speed limit goes from 90 coming off the freeway down to 30 then back up to 60, then back to 90 again, and yes they are giving out tickets. The speed limit on this sect
  
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• Five events in Saskatoon on Remembrance Day

  08-11-2018 17:00 via globalnews.ca
  A number of events are taking place in Saskatoon on Remembrance Day to honour and remember those who served and made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
  
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• Saskatoon police searching for suspect who robbed two women at ATMs

  08-11-2018 16:12 via cbc.ca
  Police are searching for a suspect who robbed two women while they were withdrawing money from ATMs. The suspect is described as being 5'10" and of a slim build.
  
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• Adopt a Pet: Lucky and Bella

  08-11-2018 16:06 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatoon SPCA joins us with two guests in needs of a home for this edition of Adopt a Pet.
  
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• Cooking with apples

  08-11-2018 15:43 via globalnews.ca
  Global’s Jackie Wilson is joined by BC Tree Fruits to learn how to make apple pork rouladen as well as red cabbage and apple slaw.
  
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• Cooking segment with apples

  08-11-2018 15:43 via globalnews.ca
  Global’s Jackie Wilson is joined by BC Tree Fruit is learn about cooking apple pork rouladen as well as red cabbage and apple slaw.
  
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• Travel Tips: D-Day tours

  08-11-2018 15:17 via globalnews.ca
  This edition of Travel Tips with Barb Crowe takes a look at D-Day tours.
  
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