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• Outgoing gallery board chair says he was not given a reason

  22-02-2019 23:41 via thestarphoenix.com
  The chair of the Remai Modern art gallery’s board of trustees says he does not know why Saskatoon city council is ousting him.
  Scotty Verity, who has been chair of the board for more than a year, released an emailed statement on Friday that addressed turnover on the board.
  Council is set to approve five new members on Monday. The number of people departing the 12-member board is not yet known, but two members shared their letters of resignation on Friday.
  Verity acknowledged in the stateme
  
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• 3 Canadian premiers call for an end to American tariffs on steel, aluminum

  22-02-2019 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Saskatchewan's Scott Moe and Blaine Higgs from New Brunswick urged federal governments to end American tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
  
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• Saskatoon Police allege 3 accused dealers continued to sell bad cocaine as people died

  22-02-2019 23:31 via cbc.ca
  Saskatoon Police say that three men accused of selling cocaine cut with fentanyl continued to make deals even after being told by users it was tainted.
  
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• P.A. food bank turns away wild game donations over disease concerns

  22-02-2019 23:23
  The Prince Albert food bank is awaiting a meat donation next week from the Hunters with Heart program – and it may be the only wild meat they see this year.
  
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• First Sask. MLA to announce pregnancy hopes to change political arena

  22-02-2019 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  Regina Douglas Park MLA Nicole Sarauer is already the first female Saskatchewan Opposition Leader, and is now the first pregnant MLA in the province.
  
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• MVA looks to build 8.5 km trail in northeast Saskatoon - CTV News

  22-02-2019 23:03
  MVA looks to build 8.5 km trail in northeast Saskatoon  CTV NewsMeewasin Valley Authority has issued a request for proposals for concept for a new 8.5-kilometre trail in the northeast part of Saskatoon.
  
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• MVA looks to build 8.5 km trail in northeast Saskatoon

  22-02-2019 23:03
  Meewasin Valley Authority has issued a request for proposals for concept for a new 8.5-kilometre trail in the northeast part of Saskatoon.
  
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• Saskatchewan Huskies men’s volleyball in playoffs 1st time since 2015-16 season

  22-02-2019 22:39 via globalnews.ca
  The Saskatchewan Huskies men’s volleyball squad will be in Calgary this weekend for the opening round of playoffs.
  
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• Outgoing art gallery board chair says he was not given a reason

  22-02-2019 22:32 via thestarphoenix.com
  The chair of the Remai Modern art gallery’s board of trustees says he does not know why Saskatoon city council is ousting him.
  Scotty Verity, who has been chair of the board for more than a year, released an emailed statement on Friday that addressed turnover on the board.
  Council is set to approve five new members on Monday; the number of people departing the 12-member board is not yet known, but two members shared their letters of resignations Friday.
  Verity acknowledged in the statement
  
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• Cause of fire that spread from RV to Saskatoon attic ‘incendiary’

  22-02-2019 22:21 via globalnews.ca
  Flames spread from a recreational vehicle into the attic of a house in the Dundonald neighbourhood in Saskatoon on Thursday.
  
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• Alleged drug dealers knew cocaine was laced, police say - CTV News

  22-02-2019 21:34
  Alleged drug dealers knew cocaine was laced, police say  CTV NewsPolice say the alleged drug dealers charged in connection to a string of Saskatoon overdose deaths knew the cocaine was tainted.
  
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• Alleged drug dealers knew cocaine was laced, police say

  22-02-2019 21:34
  Police say the alleged drug dealers charged in connection to a string of Saskatoon overdose deaths knew the cocaine was tainted.
  
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• Cause of fire that spread from RV to Saskatoon attic ‘incendiary’ - Global News

  22-02-2019 21:23
  Cause of fire that spread from RV to Saskatoon attic ‘incendiary’  Global NewsFlames spread from a recreational vehicle into the attic of a house in the Dundonald neighbourhood in Saskatoon on Thursday.
  
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• Smile: Some airliners have cameras on seat-back screens

  22-02-2019 21:18
  Newer seat-back entertainment systems on some airplanes operated by American Airlines and Singapore Airlines have cameras, and it's likely they are also on planes used by other carriers.
  
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• City council 'attempting to interfere' with Remai Modern vision, says ousted board member

  22-02-2019 20:41 via cbc.ca
  Board secretary Alison Norlen says a clash between "strong" board voices and the desires of city councillors are at play in a planned board shakeup that became public this week.
  
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• Manslaughter charges connected to drug trafficking a first for Saskatchewan: police

  22-02-2019 20:31 via thestarphoenix.com
  In a first for the province of Saskatchewan, manslaughter charges have been laid in connection to drug trafficking, say Saskatoon police.
  Three men — Japmanjot Grewal, Shervin Dass Beeharry and Azam Kabani — were charged Thursday with four counts each of manslaughter in connection with a string of fatal overdoses in Saskatoon last March. In addition to the manslaughter charges, each of the men is also accused of four counts of criminal negligence causing death and three counts of cri
  
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• Manslaughter charges in connection to 2018 overdose deaths laid for first time in Saskatchewan

  22-02-2019 20:29 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  Three people are facing charges of Manslaughter in relation to their role of distributing fentanyl-laced cocaine that resulted in the death of four people in 2018.On March 10, 2018, Saskatoon Police Service (SPS), along with Medavie Health Services and the Saskatoon Fire Department, responded to multiple calls across the city for people reportedly overdosing. In total, seven people were transported to hospital. Four individuals died, including;A 34-year-old man in the 3000 blk of Arlington Avenu
  
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• Repairs at Leader, Sask. healthcare facility almost done

  22-02-2019 20:07 via globalnews.ca
  Repairs to the Leader and District Integrated Healthcare Facility are nearing completion after water line break earlier this month.
  
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• Olympic scouts to hold open tryout in Saskatoon - News Talk 650 CKOM

  22-02-2019 20:04
  Olympic scouts to hold open tryout in Saskatoon  News Talk 650 CKOMEver wondered if you have what it takes to be an Olympian? Here's your chance. RBC Training Ground makes a stop in Saskatoon on Saturday. Local athletes ...
  
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• Ontario’s autism funding overhaul — here’s how it compares to the rest of Canada

  22-02-2019 19:59 via globalnews.ca
  A look at how government-funded autism therapy across Canada.
  
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• ‘It really shakes up your world’: DNA testing reduces sperm donor anonymity

  22-02-2019 19:25
  Jae Blakley, like millions of others, is using services such as Ancestry DNA and 23 And Me to learn about his family tree.
  
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• Woman charged in Prince Albert’s 2nd homicide of 2019

  22-02-2019 19:17 via globalnews.ca
  Police are considering the death of a 50-year-old man as a homicide in Prince Albert, Sask.
  
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• Saskatchewan skip Silvernagle using Schmirler as inspiration at Scotties

  22-02-2019 19:03 via thestarphoenix.com
  SYDNEY, N.S. — As a kid growing up in Biggar, Sask., Robyn Silvernagle dreamed of one day following in the footsteps of the town’s most famous athlete.
  She’s living at least part of that dream just by wearing Saskatchewan colours in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts here on Cape Breton Island.
  “It definitely is a special connection,” the 31-year-old skip said Thursday.
  “It’s very cool to represent the same province that she did.”
  Sandra Schmirler
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• Man accused in string of fatal overdoses scheduled for bail hearing

  22-02-2019 18:31
  One of the three men charged in relation to a rash of overdose deaths in Saskatoon is scheduled for a bail hearing.
  
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• Woman charged with 2nd-degree murder after Prince Albert's 2nd homicide of the year

  22-02-2019 18:21 via cbc.ca
  A 36-year-old woman has been charged with second-degree murder following a homicide in Prince Albert, Sask. Police say the suspect was arrested at the same home where the 50-year-old male victim was found in critical condition on Wednesday.
  
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• Patriots owner Robert Kraft accused of soliciting prostitute

  22-02-2019 18:21
  New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is being charged with misdemeanour solicitation of prostitution after he was twice videotaped paying for a sex act at an illicit massage parlour in Florida, police said Friday.
  
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• Patriots owner Kraft denies charges of soliciting prostitute

  22-02-2019 18:21
  Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, faces charges of soliciting a prostitute after he was twice videotaped in a sex act at a shopping-centre massage parlour in Florida, police said Friday.
  
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• Sask. police lay 224 impaired driving offences in January

  22-02-2019 17:51 via globalnews.ca
  Impaired driving was once again SGI's focus in its monthly traffic safety spotlight, and more than 200 offences took place across the province.
  
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• Photos: Editorial Cartoons: Feb. 16-22

  22-02-2019 17:36 via thestarphoenix.com
  Here’s a compilation of the StarPhoenix’s editorial cartoons from the past week.
  
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• Sask. premier in Washington, D.C. for National Governors Association meeting

  22-02-2019 17:32
  Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is in Washington, D.C. this week for the National Governors Association winter meeting.
  
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• Wilson-Raybould battled Bennett, other ministers over Indigenous rights framework

  22-02-2019 17:30 via cbc.ca
  The federal government’s top bureaucrat revealed Thursday that former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould was locked in a fierce battle with Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and other ministers over the direction of the Indigenous rights framework.
  
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• Agribition 2020 rescheduled for Grey Cup festivities

  22-02-2019 17:22
  The Canadian Western Agribition will move its dates in 2020 to accommodate Grey Cup festivities.
  
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• Graduate of Indigenous-led flight program wants to encourage youth

  22-02-2019 17:09 via thestarphoenix.com
  As Daniella Petitti worked through her shift at a Calgary lab, she had no idea what was in the envelope a patient had left her.
  In a brief conversation with him, she’d talked about flying. Petitti had applied to attend ground school, but was short the money she needed to enrol.
  “He ended up leaving me an envelope with money in it. I had no idea at the time that he had given me money,” she recalls.
  Petitti thought it was just an information package about flying, but when she ope
  
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• Men accused in fatal overdoses make first appearances on manslaughter charges

  22-02-2019 17:03 via thestarphoenix.com
  The three men charged with four counts each of manslaughter in connection with a string of fatal overdoses in Saskatoon last March will return to court next week.
  Japmanjot Grewal and Shervin Dass Beeharry each made a brief appearance Friday in Saskatoon provincial court. They are scheduled to appear again Monday.
  A bail hearing date for Azam Kabani, the third man facing the same charges, was set for Wednesday.
  Grewel and Beeharry have been in custody since their arrests last March. Kabani had b
  
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• Letter of the Day: Spendthrifts rule on city council - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  22-02-2019 17:00
  Letter of the Day: Spendthrifts rule on city council  Saskatoon StarPhoenixSo, our “spending has no limit” or “tax them until it hurts” (pick one) city council has decided that the taxpayers of this city can handle a 4.7 per cent tax increase ...
  
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• Letter of the Day: Spendthrifts rule on city council

  22-02-2019 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  So, our “spending has no limit” or “tax them until it hurts” (pick one) city council has decided that the taxpayers of this city can handle a 4.7 per cent tax increase so they can implement a waste recycling program as well as another almost four per cent increase in property tax just to maintain services already in place (which are suspect).
  This is no problem for the mayor and council as they just gave themselves a combined $122,000 (mayor and councillors) raise, but fo
  
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• Police hand out 224 impaired driving tickets in January spotlight

  22-02-2019 16:57
  Saskatchewan police handed out 224 tickets for impaired driving offences during Saskatchewan Government Insurance’s January spotlight.
  
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• PM Trudeau tells Canadians to listen to clerk in SNC-Lavalin matter

  22-02-2019 16:27
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be pressured Monday to testify at a House of Commons committee looking into allegations the PMO pressured former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to stop a criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin.
  
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• 'It's anyone's game': Playoff battle ignites on final day of Scotties championship round

  22-02-2019 16:15 via cbc.ca
  The 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts has quickly become one of the most dramatic in recent history with all eight teams still in contention as the final day of championship round curling begins Friday.
  
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• Woman charged in Prince Albert's second homicide of 2019 - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  22-02-2019 15:28
  Woman charged in Prince Albert's second homicide of 2019  Saskatoon StarPhoenixPrince Albert police have charged a 36-year-old woman with second-degree murder in the death of a 55-year-old man.
  
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• Woman charged in Prince Albert's second homicide of 2019

  22-02-2019 15:27 via thestarphoenix.com
  Prince Albert police have charged a 36-year-old woman with second-degree murder in the death of a 55-year-old man.
  Police received a weapons call Wednesday around 6:40 p.m. from a home in the 1200 block of 17th Street West, according to a P.A. police news release. Officers and paramedics responded to the scene and found a 50-year-old man in critical condition. He was rushed to Prince Albert’s Victoria Union Hospital, where he later died.
  An arrest was made at the home, police said. An auto
  
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• 'You should be charged with murder': Father of one overdose victim says son was poisoned - CBC.ca

  22-02-2019 15:17
  'You should be charged with murder': Father of one overdose victim says son was poisoned  CBC.caThree men previously accused of selling cocaine cut with fentanyl in Saskatoon are expected to face charges of manslaughter for the first time in court today.
  
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• 'You should be charged with murder': Father of one overdose victim says son was poisoned

  22-02-2019 15:17 via cbc.ca
  Three men previously accused of selling cocaine cut with fentanyl in Saskatoon faced charges of manslaughter for the first time in court on Friday.
  
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• Woman charged in Prince Albert homicide

  22-02-2019 15:03
  Prince Albert police have charged a 36-year-old woman in the city’s second homicide of 2019.
  
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• A former Saskatoon cop and a former crown prosecutor — both Cree — on how to fix Canada's justice sys

  22-02-2019 15:03 via cbc.ca
  Indigenous people are overly represented in Canada’s courts and jails. Many face discrimination and prejudice from police, prosecutors, and judges. Ernie Louttit, a veteran police officer, and Harold R. Johnson, a veteran lawyer and prosecutor, both Cree, offer their analysis and their prescriptions for change.
  
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• Everyone is losing in Saskatoon Co-op, UFCW labour dispute - Regina Leader-Post

  22-02-2019 14:01
  Everyone is losing in Saskatoon Co-op, UFCW labour dispute  Regina Leader-PostRising inequality is driven more by asset ownership than organizational wage structures, writes Dionne Pohler.
  
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• Senior executive locations less important than Nutrien's 'net benefit' to province: Magro

  22-02-2019 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The head of the world’s largest fertilizer producer will not be moving to Saskatoon, but he says it was always the plan to move two more senior executives to Saskatchewan and that the province is better off now than it was when the company was formed.
  Nutrien Ltd. CEO Chuck Magro made his first appearance in the province, at a well-attended Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce lunch, since the government raised red flags upon learning that all but one of the potash giant’s senior le
  
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• Here's what we know about the Remai Modern board shakeup - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  22-02-2019 13:01
  Here's what we know about the Remai Modern board shakeup  Saskatoon StarPhoenixThe Remai Modern art gallery board of trustees is undergoing a major shakeup as Saskatoon city council is set to approve five new members on Monday.
  
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• Gardening: Some Explorer roses trial results (Part 2 of 3) - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  22-02-2019 13:01
  Gardening: Some Explorer roses trial results (Part 2 of 3)  Saskatoon StarPhoenixThe Explorer Series of roses was developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Ontario and Quebec, to give gardeners roses which were winter-hardy to ...
  
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• Bridges Events Feb. 22-28 - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  22-02-2019 13:01
  Bridges Events Feb. 22-28  Saskatoon StarPhoenixEvent listings are a free, community *service* offered by Bridges. Listings will be printed if space permits. Submission deadline is two weeks before the publication ...
  
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