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• 'In that room there is no racism': annual event celebrates diversity - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-03-2019 23:49 via thestarphoenix.com
  'In that room there is no racism': annual event celebrates diversity  Saskatoon StarPhoenixSpring Free from Racism's Family Day Celebration is an opportunity for the community to come together to share traditions and culture.
  
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• Educators give Sask. budget a failing grade

  21-03-2019 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatchewan’s school boards and teacher’s union both say they appreciate increased funding, but it isn’t keeping up with rising costs and growing classrooms. David Baxter reports.
  
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• Woman accidentally crashes into restaurant, police say - CTV News

  21-03-2019 23:40 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
  Woman accidentally crashes into restaurant, police say  CTV NewsSaskatoon police say a 62-year-old woman driving a car may have accidentally accelerated instead of applying her brake and crashed into a restaurant in the ...
  
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• Woman accidentally crashes into restaurant, police say

  21-03-2019 23:40
  Saskatoon police say a 62-year-old woman driving a car may have accidentally accelerated instead of applying her brake and crashed into a restaurant in the 3100 block of Clarence Avenue.
  
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• 35 years in prison: Man exonerated in rape case and freed - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-03-2019 23:35 via thestarphoenix.com
  35 years in prison: Man exonerated in rape case and freed  Saskatoon StarPhoenixBATON ROUGE, La. — Criminal justice advocates say a man convicted of a 1982 rape in Louisiana's capital city has been exonerated and freed after 35 years ...
  
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• RCMP investigate after man, woman found dead on James Smith Cree Nation

  21-03-2019 23:31 via thestarphoenix.com
  A man and woman were found dead outside a home in the Saskatchewan community of James Smith Cree Nation.
  Melfort RCMP responded Thursday around 2:20 a.m. “to a call for assistance,” police said in a news release. Upon arrival, a 19-year-old man and 19-year-old woman were found dead. Both are residents of James Smith Cree Nation, RCMP said. Their names were not released.
  “The incident is not considered a risk to public safety,” RCMP said in a statement.
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• Education sector says Sask. budget falls short of financial pressures

  21-03-2019 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatchewan's school boards and teacher's union both say they appreciate increased funding, but it isn't keeping up with rising costs and growing classrooms.
  
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• 19-year-old man, woman, found dead on James Smith Cree Nation

  21-03-2019 23:19
  Melfort RCMP say they found a 19-year-old man and 19-year-old woman dead at a home on James Smith Cree Nation early Thursday morning.
  
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• #WHLPlayoffs Preview: Moose Jaw Warriors (3) vs. Saskatoon Blades (2) – WHL Network - Western Hockey League

  21-03-2019 23:18 via whl.ca
  #WHLPlayoffs Preview: Moose Jaw Warriors (3) vs. Saskatoon Blades (2) – WHL Network  Western Hockey LeagueWith the 2019 WHL Playoffs set to begin Friday, March 22, WHL.ca provides a look in at each of the eight head-to-head matchups across the league.
  
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• Co-op Hero CONTEST OFFICIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS - CTV News

  21-03-2019 23:09 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
  Co-op Hero CONTEST OFFICIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS  CTV News1. The Co-op Hero contest (the “Contest”) starts at 6:00 a.m. Central Time (CT) on March 25, 2019 and closes on March 29, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. CT (the “Contest ...
  
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• Friday road report: Lane closure on Circle Drive West - CTV News

  21-03-2019 23:08 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
  Friday road report: Lane closure on Circle Drive West  CTV NewsONGOING. CIRCLE DR W EB & WB MEDIAN LANE CLOSED FROM AVE B N TO IDYLWYLD DR N. (Water main repairs). Start: March 18, 9:00 a.m. End: March ...
  
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• Friday road report: Lane closure on Circle Drive West

  21-03-2019 23:08
  Here's what you need to know for your morning commute.
  
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• With Saskatoon freshman on roster, Bradley comes up short vs. Michigan State in March Madness - Regina Leader-Post

  21-03-2019 22:58 via leaderpost.com
  With Saskatoon freshman on roster, Bradley comes up short vs. Michigan State in March Madness  Regina Leader-PostThe underdog Bradley Braves, with a freshman from Saskatoon on the roster, gave No. 2-seeded Michigan State a scare before dropping the first-round game ...
  
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• With Saskatoon freshman on roster, Bradley comes up short vs. Michigan State in March Madness - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-03-2019 22:57 via thestarphoenix.com
  With Saskatoon freshman on roster, Bradley comes up short vs. Michigan State in March Madness  Saskatoon StarPhoenixThe underdog Bradley Braves, with a freshman from Saskatoon on the roster, gave No. 2-seeded Michigan State a scare before dropping the first-round game ...
  
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• Pipeline proponent argues B.C. legislation only applies to Trans Mountain project

  21-03-2019 22:55 via globalnews.ca
  Environmental legislation proposed by British Columbia is targeting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and would significantly impact it, says the proponent of the project.
  
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• Saskatoon Tim Hortons patrons not seriously hurt inside after vehicle drive-thru - Global News

  21-03-2019 22:42 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatoon Tim Hortons patrons not seriously hurt inside after vehicle drive-thru  Global NewsPolice say a vehicle was driven through the wall of a Tim Hortons on Clarence Avenue South in Saskatoon.
  
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• Saskatoon Tim Hortons patrons not seriously hurt inside after vehicle drive-thru

  21-03-2019 22:42 via globalnews.ca
  Police say a vehicle was driven through the wall of a Tim Hortons on Clarence Avenue South in Saskatoon.
  
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• No serious injuries after vehicle slams into Tim Hortons in Saskatoon - Global News

  21-03-2019 22:42 via globalnews.ca
  No serious injuries after vehicle slams into Tim Hortons in Saskatoon  Global NewsPolice say a vehicle was driven through the wall of a Tim Hortons on Clarence Avenue South in Saskatoon.
  
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• Prince Albert man admits causing head-on collision that killed two men

  21-03-2019 22:36 via thestarphoenix.com
  The last thing Clarence Guenter remembers seeing before a life-altering collision in October 2016 was the headlights of an oncoming vehicle.
  The 72-year-old spent the next four months in hospital having his partially detached arm reconstructed, his hip replaced and screws and plates inserted into his crushed ribs.
  Larry Gavel, 69, was driving Guenter and Brian Emisch, 61, from Watrous to Saskatoon for an appointment when David Deagnon’s Ford F350 hit their medical transport bus head-on at
  
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• Charges against Idle No More co-founder dropped

  21-03-2019 22:20 via cbc.ca
  Sylvia and Kurtis McAdam, who were warned for "unlawfully occupying park land" in 2017, have had the charges against them dropped by a judge in Prince Albert, Sask.
  
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• Charges against Idle No More co-founder dismissed

  21-03-2019 22:20 via cbc.ca
  Sylvia and Kurtis McAdam, who were warned for "unlawfully occupying park land" in 2017, have had the charges against them dismissed by a judge in Prince Albert, Sask.
  
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• Saskatoon police investigating 2 reported machete attacks - CBC.ca

  21-03-2019 21:54 via cbc.ca
  Saskatoon police investigating 2 reported machete attacks  CBC.caSaskatoon police say they are investigating two machete attacks in the city on Wednesday. It's believed the incidents are connected.
  
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• Saskatoon police investigating 2 reported machete attacks

  21-03-2019 21:54 via cbc.ca
  Saskatoon police say they are investigating two machete attacks in the city on Wednesday. It's believed the incidents are connected.
  
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• Meth, loaded shotgun seized in Saskatoon drug trafficking bust - Global News

  21-03-2019 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  Meth, loaded shotgun seized in Saskatoon drug trafficking bust  Global NewsTwo Saskatoon men are facing numerous charges involving heroin, meth and GHB trafficking.
  
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• Collision - Vehicle/Restaurant - 3100 block Clarence Avenue

  21-03-2019 21:41 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  Saskatoon Police are at the scene of a collision involving a vehicle and a restaurant in the 3100 block of Clarence Avenue.  Police were called to the scene shortly after 2:00 p.m., March 21, 2019.  A vehicle had driven through the wall of the restaurant with approximately 20 customers and employees inside at the time.  Fortunately, it appears no one was hurt seriously.  They are being assessed at the scene by Medavie Health Services. Initial investigation has
  
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• Saskatoon office vacancy rate could double with new towers - Western Investor

  21-03-2019 21:22 via westerninvestor.com
  Saskatoon office vacancy rate could double with new towers  Western InvestorThe managing director of CBRE isn't worried about the potential rise.
  
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• Sask. university students worried about rising tuitions, labour strife after flat provincial budget

  21-03-2019 21:17 via cbc.ca
  Students at Saskatchewan's two universities are concerned after this year's provincial budg​​​​​​​et.
  
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• Waging war on tuberculosis: How Sask is trying to reduce its TB burden

  21-03-2019 21:16 via thestarphoenix.com
  BUFFALO RIVER — When James Sylvester was in his late 50s, he knew something was wrong with him.
  The Buffalo River Dene Nation man forgot things — and not just little things. Once, he spent 12 hours on the road running errands and the next day could not remember ever doing it.
  One day, Sylvester fell asleep on his couch and didn’t wake up. His common-law partner drove him 100 kilometres south to the hospital at Île-à-la-Crosse. From there, he was airlifted a further
  
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• Separate machete attacks on same street send two to hospital - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-03-2019 21:10 via thestarphoenix.com
  Separate machete attacks on same street send two to hospital  Saskatoon StarPhoenixBoth attacks took place in the 1800 block of Avenue D North, according to a police news release.
  
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• Curbside compost pickup in Saskatoon could be delayed to 2023 - CBC.ca

  21-03-2019 21:10 via cbc.ca
  Curbside compost pickup in Saskatoon could be delayed to 2023  CBC.caBoth garbage and organics pickup would be paid for via property taxes, after the city's original plan for user fees collapsed at city hall.
  
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• Separate machete attacks on same street send two to hospital

  21-03-2019 21:09 via thestarphoenix.com
  City police are investigating after two men were attacked with machetes on Wednesday.
  Both attacks took place in the 1800 block of Avenue D North, according to a police news release. At roughly 10 a.m. officers were called to the area for a report of an injured man.
  When police arrived, they found a 20-year-old man suffering from an injury that is not considered life threatening.
  Then, just six hours later, police were called to a home on the same street where a 19-year-old man was suffering an
  
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• More autism money in budget a step in the right direction, but not enough: advocate

  21-03-2019 21:09 via cbc.ca
  A Saskatchewan autism advocate would like to see more money earmarked to help parents of children with autism and the age of coverage increased.
  
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• Three Arrested - Drug Trafficking - 3000 block Clarence Ave. South

  21-03-2019 21:05 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  Two men and a woman, all from Saskatoon, are facing charges following an investigation by members of the Saskatoon Integrated Drug Enforcement Street Team (SIDEST) into methamphetamine and heroin trafficking.The three were arrested in the parking lot of a business in the 3000 block of Clarence Avenue South on March 18, 2019, after being observed making what investigators believed to be activity consistent with drug trafficking. A search of a Chevrolet Impala connected to the activity, resul
  
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• Father of Humboldt Broncos player lauds budget's $20M for highway improvements

  21-03-2019 20:50 via cbc.ca
  Chris Joseph says highway intersection improvements won't bring back his son, Jaxon, but they will make roads safer for others.
  
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• 'Words matter': Following New Zealand shootings, Sask. human rights commissioner urges hate-speech provisions

  21-03-2019 20:41 via thestarphoenix.com
  In the wake of 50 people being fatally shot at two New Zealand mosques, Saskatchewan’s human right commissioner says meaningful legislation that will hold accountable those who disseminate hate online is vital.
  Hate speech provisions with “real consequences” have to be enacted in Canada, says David Arnot, the chief commissioner of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission, adding that citizens need to “stand together in unison against hate” and demand that leaders &l
  
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• Truck driver responsible for Broncos' bus crash to be sentenced Friday

  21-03-2019 20:35 via thestarphoenix.com
  The sentencing of Calgary truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu will take place just under one year after the Humboldt Broncos bus crash that lawyers say is incomparable to any other in Canada.
  On Friday, Sidhu, 30, will return to the Kerry Vickar Centre in Melfort to be sentenced on 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm — charges to which he’s pleaded guilty — in connection with the April 6, 2018 bus tragedy.
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• Two Men Injured - 1800 block Avenue D North

  21-03-2019 20:34 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  Members of the SPS Targeted Enforcement Unit are investigating incidents in which two men were injured on the same block.  Both were reported to be injured by a machete.At approximately 10:50 a.m, March 20, 2019, Police were called to a report of an injured man in the 1800 block of Avenue D North.  A 20 year old was found to be suffering from a non-life threatening injury and transported to hospital. At approximately 4:00 p.m., March 20, 2019, Police were called to a home on a sam
  
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• Humboldt Broncos bus crash: Semi driver Jaskirat Sidhu to learn sentence Friday

  21-03-2019 20:33 via thestarphoenix.com
  MELFORT — The sentencing of Calgary truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu will take place just under one year after the Humboldt Broncos bus crash that lawyers say is incomparable to any other in Canada.
  On Friday, Sidhu, 30, is due back at the Kerry Vickar Centre in Melfort to be sentenced on 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm, to which he pleaded guilty in connection with the April 6, 2018 bus tragedy.
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• Saskatoon’s Juno Awards expected to be bigger and better than 2007 - CTV News

  21-03-2019 20:25 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
  Saskatoon’s Juno Awards expected to be bigger and better than 2007  CTV NewsNext year's Juno Awards in Saskatoon are expected to be bigger and better than the last time the city played host in 2007.
  
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• Saskatoon’s Juno Awards expected to be bigger and better than 2007

  21-03-2019 20:25
  Next year’s Juno Awards in Saskatoon are expected to be bigger and better than the last time the city played host in 2007.
  
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• Saskatoon's city-wide organics pickup likely on hold until 2023 - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-03-2019 20:13 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon's city-wide organics pickup likely on hold until 2023  Saskatoon StarPhoenixCity hall administration recommends one per cent tax increases for three years before program start.
  
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• Saskatoon's city-wide organics pickup likely on hold until 2023

  21-03-2019 20:13 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatoon residents seem destined to wait years for a new program to collect food and yard waste.
  City hall administration is recommending a plan that would not introduce a new curbside collection program for organics until 2023.
  Under the plan that was debated over months last year, the new organics program was supposed to start next year.
  A new report to be considered by city council on Monday proposes a plan to phase in property tax increases over three years before starting the program.
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• Excerpts from the Humboldt Broncos victim impact statements submitted to court

  21-03-2019 20:08
  The driver of a transport truck involved in a deadly crash with the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus will be sentenced Friday. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
  
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• 'It has to send a message:' Broncos families await sentencing for truck driver

  21-03-2019 19:59
  Kevin Matechuk says he will never, never forgive the semi driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash.
  
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• 'We are very disappointed': Potash mining firms against tax changes in Sask. budget

  21-03-2019 19:43 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatchewan potash mining companies are not happy with the provincial government’s decision to change the way it taxes production of the fertilizer, an alteration estimated to generate an additional $117 million for the province over the next year.
  “We are disappointed in (Wednesday’s) announcement and that these changes were made without any consultation with potash producers,” Nutrien Ltd. spokesman Will Tigley said in an email.Maeghan Dubois, a spokeswoman for K+S Pot
  
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• Trump says U.S. now recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  21-03-2019 19:11 via thestarphoenix.com
  Trump says U.S. now recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights  Saskatoon StarPhoenixIn a recent report the State Department had dropped the phrase 'Israeli-occupied' from a section on the Golan Heights, instead calling it 'Israeli-controlled'
  
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• Curbside compost pickup in Saskatoon could be delayed to 2023

  21-03-2019 19:05 via cbc.ca
  Both garbage and organics pickup would be paid for via property taxes, after the city's original plan for user fees collapsed at city hall.
  
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• Curbside compost pickup could launch 3 years behind original plan

  21-03-2019 19:05 via cbc.ca
  Both garbage and organics pickup would be paid for via property taxes, after the city's original plan for user fees collapsed at city hall.
  
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• Judge considers 'shockingly high' sentence request for truck driver in Humboldt bus crash

  21-03-2019 18:59 via cbc.ca
  Legal experts question Crown prosecutor Thomas Healey's reasoning that truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu should receive a 10-year prison sentence related to the Saskatchewan crash that killed 16 people and injured 13 on the Humboldt Broncos bus nearly a year ago.
  
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• Police seize gun, ammo after executing warrant on Avenue X home

  21-03-2019 18:55
  A 30-year-old Saskatoon man faces gun charges following an investigation by patrol members and a search of a home in the 200 block of Avenue X North.
  
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