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• Estevan truck convoy organizer says protest is not just for oil and gas, but "for a basic way of life"

  22-12-2018 23:33 via cbc.ca
  Frustration with the federal government and an ailing oil and gas sector brought hundreds of trucks to Estevan to mass together, with an organizer and Estevan business owner describing it as an “astronomical” turnout to demand change.
  
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• FSIN makes public appeal for information in case of missing Ahtahkakoop woman, Ashley Morin

  22-12-2018 22:01 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is appealing for information in the search for for Ashley Morin, a 31-year-old woman from Ahtahkakoop First Nation who has been missing since early July.
  On Friday, the FSIN made the public appeal and said it is standing in support of Morin’s family. Morin, who is described as a five-time FSIN soccer champion with a love of baseball, was last seen in North Battleford on July 10.
  “Our prayers continue to go out to the Morin and Bird famil
  
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• My Soul Still Dances: Book documents beloved nun's journey with Parkinson's disease

  22-12-2018 21:02 via thestarphoenix.com
  Gifted teacher, extremely creative person, unfailing encourager, stoutly courageous in the face of terminal illness — these are only a few of the descriptors people use for Sister Adelaide Fortowsky.
  Sr. Adelaide belonged to the Ursulines of Prelate. Born Bertha Fortowsky in 1930 to a family near Cavell, Sask., she entered the Ursulines of Prelate in 1951. After attending Teachers’ College in Saskatoon, she taught school in various locales, then joined the staff of St. Angela’s
  
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• City of Saskatoon: What's open, what's closed over holidays - News Talk 650 CKOM

  22-12-2018 20:54
  City of Saskatoon: What's open, what's closed over holidays  News Talk 650 CKOMCity of Saskatoon services will see some schedule changes over the holidays. City hall will be closed for Chri...
  
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• Delta airplane failed taking off for a second time - CTV News

  22-12-2018 20:51
  Delta airplane failed taking off for a second time  CTV NewsSome Delta passengers are still stranded in Saskatoon after their plane failed to take off for a second time.
  
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• Delta airplane failed taking off for a second time

  22-12-2018 20:51
  Some Delta passengers are still stranded in Saskatoon after their plane failed to take off for a second time.
  
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• Delta airplane failed at taking off for a second time

  22-12-2018 20:51
  Some Delta passengers are still stranded in Saskatoon after their plane failed to take off for a second time.
  
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• 'Erase that year:' Family of injured Humboldt Broncos player looks to better times ahead

  22-12-2018 20:46 via thestarphoenix.com
  AIRDRIE, Alta. — Injured Humboldt Broncos hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki is keeping his dark side in check as he and his family celebrate their first Christmas since a bus crash last spring that left him partially paralyzed.
  It will also be their first away from their home in Airdrie, Alta.
  Straschnitzki, 19, was one of 13 survivors in the crash between the Broncos team bus and a semi-trailer in rural Saskatchewan. Sixteen people were killed.
  Humboldt Broncos bus crash survivor Ryan Stra
  
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• Family of injured Broncos player looks to 'erase that year' and focus on better times ahead

  22-12-2018 19:21 via cbc.ca
  Injured Humboldt Broncos hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki is keeping his dark side in check as he and his family celebrate their first Christmas since a bus crash last spring that left him partially paralyzed.
  
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• Police searching for missing pair from Ahtahkakoop First Nations

  22-12-2018 18:19
  Police are looking for a man and woman from Ahtahkakoop First Nations who have not been heard from in over a week.
  
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• Grown for the holidays: Sask. pot shops pitch cannabis gifts for Christmas

  22-12-2018 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Saskatchewan pot stores are pushing their products as holiday gifts and some are encouraging people to try incorporate cannabis into holiday baking.
  
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• 1 dead, 3 injured after head-on collision north of Saskatoon

  22-12-2018 17:35 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP closed Highway 305 north of Saskatoon after a collision between two half-ton trucks left one dead and three injured.
  
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• 1 dead, 3 injured after head-on collision north of Saskatoon - Global News

  22-12-2018 17:03
  1 dead, 3 injured after head-on collision north of Saskatoon  Global NewsRCMP closed Highway 305 north of Saskatoon after a collision between two half-ton trucks left one dead and three injured.
  
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• 11-year-old girl's death in head-on collision near Warman 'an unspeakable tragedy': fire chief

  22-12-2018 16:52 via cbc.ca
  The crash that claimed the life of an 11-year-old girl happened just north of Warman on Highway 305.
  
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• 11-year-old girl dead after head-on collision near Warman; police believe alcohol a factor

  22-12-2018 16:52 via cbc.ca
  The crash happened just north of Warman at Highway 305 and Highway 11 Friday night.
  
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• Girl, 11, dies in collision near Warman

  22-12-2018 16:29 via thestarphoenix.com
  Alcohol is believed to be a factor in a fatal collision between two half-ton trucks at Highway 305 and Highway 11 near Warman.
  RCMP members responded to the crash at approximately 6:40 p.m. Friday, according to an RCMP news release.
  A white truck was on Highway 305 when it was struck by a blue truck. Alcohol is believed to be a factor “in relation to the driver of the blue truck,” the news release said.
  There were three people in the white truck. An 11-year-old girl was pronounced de
  
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• 'Erase that year:' Family of injured Broncos player looks to better times ahead

  22-12-2018 16:17
  Injured Humboldt Broncos hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki is keeping his dark side in check as he and his family celebrate their first Christmas since a bus crash last spring that left him partially paralyzed.
  
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• Scandals and scams: The ways people were tricked in 2018

  22-12-2018 16:12
  Learning you've been tricked by a good story is frustrating, especially when you've parted with some cash.
  
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• New Faces New Places: Pub and grill makes exceptional food with a neighbourhood feel

  22-12-2018 16:08 via thestarphoenix.com
  It’s hard to miss the Blue Rhino Pub and Grill when driving past Sutherland on College Drive.
  The vibrant blue building, just a block off of College Drive, acts as a family friendly restaurant during the day — but once 8 p.m. hits, everyone under 19 has to clear out.
  “We wanted to make sure minors were allowed in here because there is lots of nearby residential and because we have three kids we wanted them to be able to be here with us at times,” owner Meagan Nicklin says
  
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• New Faces New Places: Get active with help from Craven Sport Services

  22-12-2018 16:08 via thestarphoenix.com
  Whether you’re an elite athlete looking to improve performance or someone heading into retirement who wants to be more active in the golden years, Craven Sport Services has a training system that will meet your needs.
  A long-known name in the Saskatoon sporting community, Craven Sport Services has expanded their practice into a new training centre right across the parking lot from their main facility.
  “The new location will be pretty much 100 per cent training,” says owner Bruc
  
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• Work continues on Saskatoon's largest subdivision - Saskatoon Star-Phoenix

  22-12-2018 13:01
  Work continues on Saskatoon's largest subdivision  Saskatoon Star-PhoenixDream Development expects it will take about 10 years before Brighton, on Saskatoon's east side, is complete.
  
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• Troy Cooper reflects on his first year helming the Saskatoon Police Service - Saskatoon Star-Phoenix

  22-12-2018 13:01
  Troy Cooper reflects on his first year helming the Saskatoon Police Service  Saskatoon Star-PhoenixAs his first year as Saskatoon police chief draws to a close, Troy Cooper — who was sworn in to the position in February, replacing Clive Weighill — sat down ...
  
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• Work continues on Saskatoon's largest subdivision

  22-12-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The landscape was still barren — just open prairie, a few curving roads and a developer’s plan for the future — when Karen Eminger and her husband decided to take a chance on Saskatoon’s newest neighbourhood.
  Almost three years later, their home sits in the middle of a vast construction site, surrounded by houses in varying stages of completion on the edge of what is expected to become the city’s largest subdivision.
  “When we first broke ground here, we were t
  
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• Troy Cooper reflects on his first year helming the Saskatoon Police Service

  22-12-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  As his first year as Saskatoon police chief draws to a close, Troy Cooper — who was sworn in to the position in February, replacing Clive Weighill — sat down with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix to reflect on taking over a much larger police service, the legalization of cannabis, street checks and officer morale.
  Q: What was the most significant challenge you faced in coming to Saskatoon from Prince Albert?
  A: The makeup of the community. Saskatoon is incredibly diverse, and there are key
  
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• Sporting Christmas: Be thankful for time with family

  22-12-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Turkey, gifts, mashed potatoes, bright eyes, wide smiles … that’s what happens when the Salvation Army delivers hampers, and Christmas spirit, to approximately 1,400 area families this holiday season.
  It’s a huge undertaking.
  Those families benefit directly from our Sporting Christmas fundraiser, which is why people like Brian Swidrovich are so important to what we do.
  “We buried my dad (Thursday), writes Brian, “and asked that in lieu of flowers, that friends and
  
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• Paulsen: Saskatchewan Rush should champion a better cause

  22-12-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Ninety per cent of people polled said they believed the debate over the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside” was overrated. After briefly pulling the song from its playlist, the CBC restored the song to its airwaves. The world seemed to oddly unite over the lyrics of a Christmas carol.
  Enter the Saskatchewan Rush …
  Even if I don’t know my own opinion of the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” I know I don’t like the Rush’s opinion of the song &ldq
  
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• My daughter's disease is terrible, but I refuse to hate it

  22-12-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Like an awful hurricane, I just stand in fear and awe and resolve to keep living through it.
  
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• Cuthand: We have the gift of life within us this Christmas

  22-12-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Christmas for many Metis and First Nations people is a time of stress and sadness. Over the past year we have said farewell to friends and relatives who have left us because of chronic diseases like cancer or diabetes. For others, the future is hazy and some feel that this may be another loved one’s last Christmas.
  We don’t have to give up. We need to educate ourselves about the reasons these chronic diseases exist and if we can’t prevent them how we can survive through tr
  
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• 100 years on: Spanish flu's toll on Saskatchewan not forgotten

  22-12-2018 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 marched across the Prairies, killing thousands in Saskatchewan. Its victims outnumbered the soldiers from the province who died during the First World War.
  Spanish flu, caused by a variant of the H1N1 influenza A virus, killed more than 20 million people globally and an estimated 50,000 in Canada.
  The StarPhoenix takes a look back at how the deadly pandemic affected people in Saskatchewan a century ago.Number of deaths in 1918:716 people in cities417 in tow
  
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• Saskatoon doctor is an ardent advocate and activist for children's health - CBC.ca

  22-12-2018 12:00
  Saskatoon doctor is an ardent advocate and activist for children's health  CBC.caDr. Mahli Brindamour says working with the most vulnerable people in our society is not only a passion, it's a duty.
  
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• Saskatoon doctor is an ardent advocate and activist for children's health

  22-12-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Dr. Mahli Brindamour says working with the most vulnerable people in our society is not only a passion, it's a duty.
  
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• 'Try it, you'll like it': Indigenous relations minister defends much-maligned Bill C-69

  22-12-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett is calling for patience from oilpatch boosters who have sought to undermine the government's overhaul of environmental law — telling them to embrace better relations with Indigenous peoples or risk seeing even more energy projects held up by the courts.
  
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• Short-staffed RCMP looking at 'everything' to attract new recruits

  22-12-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  The RCMP are taking a radical look at their recruitment strategy — including the possibility of ditching credit checks and allowing people with criminal backgrounds in — to help them rebuild their depleted ranks.
  
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• Short-staffed RCMP look at lifting ban on recruits with criminal records

  22-12-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  The RCMP are taking a radical look at their recruitment strategy — including the possibility of ditching credit checks and allowing people with criminal backgrounds in — to help them rebuild their depleted ranks.
  
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• Santa Claus busts out the hoop dance for the holidays

  22-12-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Tallcree First Nation dancer James Jones puts a First Nations spin on Santa Claus.
  
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• Humboldt's 'long, tough struggle' to balance remembering and moving on

  22-12-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Voted as Canada’s News Story of the Year by the Canadian Press, the Humboldt Broncos bus crash on April 6 united the country in grief and made headlines around the world. The community is still struggling to balance moving on with remembering those lost.
  
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• Big telcos offer bonus-data deals but 3 provinces get the best bargains

  22-12-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  The holiday season has sparked wireless wars amongst Rogers, Bell and Telus, which are all doubling the data on select phone plans. But not all customers are thrilled because of glaring regional price differences.
  
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• As Gatwick grapples with drones, Canadian military eyes ways to drone-proof airspace

  22-12-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  The key to detecting tiny drones flying over military bases, airports and other sensitive areas could be to use an existing TV signal.
  
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• 11 year old girl killed in highway crash - CTV News

  22-12-2018 06:11
  11 year old girl killed in highway crash  CTV NewsRCMP say an 11-year-old girl is dead following a crash along a highway near Warman.
  
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• 11 year old girl killed in highway crash

  22-12-2018 06:11
  RCMP say an 11-year-old girl is dead following a crash along a highway near Warman.
  
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• Joint effort brings cannabis and holiday cheer to Saskatoon streets - CBC.ca

  22-12-2018 04:04
  Joint effort brings cannabis and holiday cheer to Saskatoon streets  CBC.caSaskatoon residents were treated to some unique holiday cheer on Friday, as members of the Saskatoon cannabis community hit the streets to hand out tube ...
  
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• Joint effort brings cannabis and holiday cheer to Saskatoon streets

  22-12-2018 04:04 via cbc.ca
  Saskatoon residents were treated to some unique holiday cheer on Friday, as members of the Saskatoon cannabis community hit the streets to hand out tube socks and cannabis joints.
  
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• A health care team separated by 500 kilometres worked together to save an infant's life. Here's how they did it

  22-12-2018 03:42 via thestarphoenix.com
  On a chilly afternoon at the end of November, Quentel Merasty was at home in the northern community of Pelican Narrows when she realized her four-month old son Guentzel was having a seizure.
  Pelican Narrows, population 2,000, is more than an hour’s drive from the nearest hospital in Flin Flon, on the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. The nearest airstrip to medevac someone out of the community is a bumpy 45-minute drive away, in Sandy Bay.
  The Pelican Narrows nursing station is served by
  
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• 'Bad luck': Saskatoon passengers stuck after 2nd flight grounded by mechanical issue - CBC News

  22-12-2018 02:02
  'Bad luck': Saskatoon passengers stuck after 2nd flight grounded by mechanical issue  CBC NewsDelta plane slides off taxiway amid ice in Saskatoon  The Weather NetworkPassengers and crew safe after Delta jet slips off runway in Saskatoon  CTV NewsPlane slides off runway at Saskatoon airport  News Talk 650 CKOMView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Charities hope to meet fundraising targets - CTV News

  22-12-2018 01:29
  Charities hope to meet fundraising targets  CTV NewsCharities that are not meeting their holiday fundraising goals are hoping for a big weekend.
  
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• Charities hope to meet fundraising targets

  22-12-2018 01:29
  Charities that are not meeting their holiday fundraising goals are hoping for a big weekend.
  
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• Minute at the Movies: Dec. 21

  22-12-2018 01:22 via globalnews.ca
  In the latest edition of Minute at the Movies, Todd James reviews “Mary Poppins Returns” and “Aquaman.”
  
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• Global News at 6: Dec. 21

  22-12-2018 00:59 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, December 21, 2018 edition of Global News at 6 with Carlyle Fiset on Global Saskatoon.
  
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• Family of Ashley Morin seeks answers into her disappearance

  22-12-2018 00:28 via globalnews.ca
  The family of Ashley Morin, a North Battleford woman last seen in July, say they won’t stop searching for her.
  
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• Bus slides into deck

  22-12-2018 00:23
  A Saskatoon Transit bus slid through an intersection into a front deck Friday morning.
  
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