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• 'There's still beauty here': Residents show passion for Pleasant Hill at community meeting about violent crime

  30-03-2019 23:22 via cbc.ca
  The emergency meeting was called in response to a spike in the number of shootings in the streets surrounding Saskatoon's St. Paul’s Hospital in recent weeks.
  
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• U of S researchers bring passion to problem of saving injured horses, with special harness

  30-03-2019 22:38 via cbc.ca
  Engineering and veterinary medicine research are joining forces to figure out a way to help injured horses. The University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine is designing a unique harness that could help horse rehabilitation, following a limb injury.
  
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• Review: A profound, poignant eulogy to a father in Empire of the Son

  30-03-2019 20:54 via thestarphoenix.com
  The moment Tetsuro Shigematsu stepped onto the stage and slipped the sandals from his feet, he invited the audience in — not to a one-man show, but to a courageous and stirring eulogy of a man and a culture that shaped his life.
  Shigematsu’s bravery and poise were on full display during Friday night’s performance of Empire of the Son at Persephone Theatre. The one-man show details Shigematsu’s sometimes tumultuous relationship with his father, and the interviews he conduc
  
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• Watch: Architect promotes same site for downtown arena - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  30-03-2019 17:33
  Watch: Architect promotes same site for downtown arena  Saskatoon StarPhoenixOkanagan architect Gary Marvin is back in Saskatoon touting the same River Landing site he championed 35 years ago.
  
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• Watch: Architect promotes same site for downtown arena

  30-03-2019 17:33 via thestarphoenix.com
  Okanagan architect Gary Marvin is back in Saskatoon touting the same River Landing site he championed 35 years ago for a new downtown arena and convention centre.
  Saskatoon voters soundly rejected his original proposal to build a new arena at a riverside location between Victoria Park and Idylwyld Drive.
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• Polachic: Inspire YXE - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  30-03-2019 17:05
  Polachic: Inspire YXE  Saskatoon StarPhoenixHigh school teacher Kaitlyn Cey has witnessed firsthand the issues that many young people struggle with today.
  
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• Three decades later, architect touts same site for new arena - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  30-03-2019 17:01
  Three decades later, architect touts same site for new arena  Saskatoon StarPhoenixGary Marvin still thinks the location south of the farmers' market is the best spot for an arena/convention centre.
  
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• Three decades later, architect touts same site for new arena

  30-03-2019 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Nearly 35 years ago, Saskatoon voters soundly rejected a proposal to build a new arena at a riverside location between Victoria Park and Idylwyld Drive.
  Okanagan architect Gary Marvin thought citizens made a huge mistake in the 1985 referendum vote and he still thinks the same River Landing site represents the best location for a new arena.
  Gary Marvin, an architect who led a campaign in the mid-1980s to locate a new arena on the site south of the Farmers’ Market, sits for a portrait by th
  
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• Polachic: Inspire YXE

  30-03-2019 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  High school teacher Kaitlyn Cey has witnessed firsthand the issues that many young people struggle with today.
  Among them she cites anxiety, hopelessness, lack of motivation, no sense of identity, low self-esteem, disengagement, and difficulty overcoming barriers — often with mental health issues, as well.
  The reality led Cey to engage in conversations with others in the city who work with youth. Among them were Garrett and Alex Janzen, youth pastors from Carpenter’s Church who work
  
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• New Faces New Places: If you can dream it, she can sew it

  30-03-2019 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  After selling the bridal shop she owned for more than 20 years, Mylynh Pham wasn’t quite ready to give up on her longtime passion of sewing.
  Pham has been sewing ever since she was a young girl taking home economics in school. Her passion grew from there, soon after she was taking sewing lessons and now she is continuing to put her expertise to use on whatever sewing project comes through the doors of Mylynh Sewing.
  It’s a career she enjoys thanks to its ability to let her creativity
  
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• Luxe condo in Riversdale the epitome of glamour

  30-03-2019 17:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Purchasing a condominium at The Banks has been an outlet for creative expression for one Saskatoon couple.
  The unique four-building development located next to the Saskatoon Farmer’s Market on 19th Street stands out for its eye-catching architecture and bold use of colour. It’s a signature look that developer Chris Le Fevre has embraced here in Saskatoon as well as on Vancouver Island.
  The Saskatoon couple purchased their unit at The Banks as a blank canvas: Bare white walls, no cabi
  
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• Cities around the world turn off lights to mark Earth Hour

  30-03-2019 16:10
  Cities around the world were marking Earth Hour on Saturday night by turning off the lights in a call for global action on climate change.
  
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• The old family farm: Collection of 1.5 million aerial photos shows a glimpse of prairie history - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  30-03-2019 16:03
  The old family farm: Collection of 1.5 million aerial photos shows a glimpse of prairie history  Saskatoon StarPhoenixWhen Bessette took over Homestead Aerial Photo in the early 1990s, the previous owner had established a massive collection of photos taken since 1953.
  
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• The old family farm: Collection of 1.5 million aerial photos shows a glimpse of prairie history

  30-03-2019 16:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  In Kim Bessette’s archive of aerial photos are snapshots of prairie history almost forgotten.
  When Bessette took over Homestead Aerial Photo in the early 1990s, the previous owner had established a massive collection of photos taken since 1953. It now extends to the early 2000s. Bessette said he estimates the collection includes around 1.5 million photos of farms, homesteads, towns and more.
  Homestead Aerial Photo will be set up at Gardenscape in Saskatoon this weekend. Bessette and his wi
  
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• New Faces New Places: Creating family legacies to share for generations

  30-03-2019 16:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Robin Bellamy has always been a student of history and now he is hoping to share that passion so local families can discover and share their own stories through the generations.
  With help from partners Tom Simes and Myron Glova of Five Stone Films, Legacy Pictures puts family histories in the spotlight by creating documentary style video autobiographies, creating a timeline that can be continued by each family well into the future.
  “We really want families to take what we do and carry it o
  
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• Blades, Raiders to begin WHL playoff series next Friday, April 5

  30-03-2019 16:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Saskatoon Blades and Prince Albert Raiders will have to wait another week to renew their Western Hockey League rivalry.
  The Blades and Raiders will meet in a best-of-seven WHL Eastern Conference semifinal series. Game 1 will be played Friday, April 5 in Prince Albert at the Art Hauser Centre Arena. Game-time is 7 p.m.
  Game 2 will also be played in Prince Albert. That game is slated for Sunday, April 7, at 6 p.m., at Art Hauser Centre.
  The series will then resume in Saskatoon for Games 3 and
  
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• Group raising money for Cyclone Idai relief efforts in Zimbabwe - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  30-03-2019 15:01
  Group raising money for Cyclone Idai relief efforts in Zimbabwe  Saskatoon StarPhoenixA group of Zimbabwean Saskatoon residents are hoping to send funds to the country to help cyclone Idai relief efforts.
  
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• Group raising money for Cyclone Idai relief efforts in Zimbabwe

  30-03-2019 15:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  A group of Zimbabwean Saskatoon residents are trying to raise money for relief efforts in the country following Cyclone Idai.
  Fundraiser organizer Malone Chaya grew up in Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands region, parts of which were made inaccessible due to extensive flooding. Chaya said that as immigrants who “straddle two worlds,” the group is in a unique position to understand the needs of the people affected.
  “I think as migrants we understand the resources that are there
  
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• Sask. musician teaches violin to schoolchildren in remote Nunavut communities

  30-03-2019 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Kim de Laforest is bringing the joy of music to some of Canada's most remote communities.
  
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• Doug Cuthand: First Nations education has history of failure

  30-03-2019 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  Many First Nations across Canada had day schools where the children could attend primary grades before going on to high school at a boarding school.
  Most of the day schools were church-run and in the 1960s the Department of Indian Affairs began the process of integrating students into local off-reserve schools.
  First Nations education has a long history of failure and incompetence. From the residential schools to the day schools to the integrated joint schools there was no parental involvement o
  
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• Man charged for crash that left cattle roaming Toronto highway

  30-03-2019 13:58
  A 36-year-old man was charged with careless driving after a cattle truck he was driving overturned on one of Toronto’s busiest highways, leaving cows roaming loose in the area.
  
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• Premier Scott Moe to attend anti-carbon tax rally, organizers say no to yellow vests

  30-03-2019 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Organizers say people from all around the province have committed to the event. They also say one politically-charged type of clothing is not welcome: yellow vests.
  
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• Opposition MPs call for Wilson-Raybould to testify again, citing new evidence

  30-03-2019 12:09
  Opposition MPs are clamouring for the House Justice Committee to call Jody Wilson-Raybould to testify for a second time on the SNC-Lavalin scandal, but a Liberal member of that committee said it’s time to move on.
  
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• Olive Garden mania: What Saskatchewan's obsession with franchises says about us

  30-03-2019 11:00 via cbc.ca
  Saskatchewan recently lost its collective mind with the announcement of two Olive Gardens opening respectively in Regina and Saskatoon later this year. The thing that surprises me is the outpouring of emotion incoming chain stores inevitably bring.
  
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• 'A horrendous month': Is September the wrong time to commemorate residential schools?

  30-03-2019 11:00 via cbc.ca
  Three former residential school students share their thoughts on the proposed holiday and how it should be celebrated.
  
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• Why breaded chicken makes so many people sick, and what's being done about it

  30-03-2019 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Hundreds of Canadians have become sick from raw breaded chicken contaminated with salmonella. Now the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is making a bold move to protect people from both the bacteria and themselves.
  
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• Millennials are on a quest to find meaningful work — and they're willing to take less pay to get it

  30-03-2019 09:00 via cbc.ca
  One survey found that Canadian office workers would give up an pay raise of more than $9,000 annually if it meant that they could do work that's more meaningful to them.
  
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• Millennials are on a quest to find meaningful work — and they're willing to take a pay cut to get it

  30-03-2019 09:00 via cbc.ca
  One survey found that Canadian office workers would give up an pay raise of more than $9,000 annually if it meant that they could do work that's more meaningful to them.
  
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• Canola producers want fast resolution to feud with China — but are ready to look elsewhere

  30-03-2019 09:00 via cbc.ca
  After Chinese authorities banned two major Canadian companies from shipping canola seed to China, producers say they're hoping for a quick resolution to the dispute — but are prepared to look to other markets.
  
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• WHL Roundup: Friday, March 29, 2019

  30-03-2019 06:39 via globalnews.ca
  Trey Fix-Wolansky scored twice as the Edmonton Oil Kings beat the Medicine Hat Tigers 5-4 on Friday in Game 5 of their Western Hockey League first-round playoff series.
  
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• Alberta, Sask. RCMP team up to stop fleeing suspects in speeding truck

  30-03-2019 05:05 via cbc.ca
  Police say it took joint efforts to stop and arrest suspects fleeing from Alberta to Saskatchewan in a stolen vehicle.
  
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• SGI, police urge road safety

  30-03-2019 04:19
  From CTV Saskatoon’s Francois Biber: As more snow and ice melt on the roads, SGI and police ask drivers to not speed.
  
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• Meet the new Voice of the Riders

  30-03-2019 04:16
  Newly named voice of the Saskatchewan Roughriders Derek Taylor joins Pat McKay to discuss the details on coming to Riderville.
  
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• N.B. nurse suspected of inducing labour without consent; as many as 120 emergency C-sections investigated

  30-03-2019 03:00
  A nurse in New Brunswick has been fired over suspicions that she gave a labour-inducing drug to patients without their consent, as RCMP investigate as many as 120 emergency C-sections.
  
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• N.B. nurse suspected of inducing labour without consent; 120 emergency C-sections investigated

  30-03-2019 03:00
  A nurse in New Brunswick has been fired over suspicions that she gave a labour-inducing drug to patients without their consent, as RCMP investigate 120 emergency C-sections.
  
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• Labach, Kozun among Huskies' Major 7 award winners

  30-03-2019 02:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  Julianne Labach was the big winner at the annual Huskie Salute held Friday night at TCU Place.
  Labach — a University of Saskatchewan law student in her fifth and final year of U Sports eligibility — captured two of the Major 7 Awards handed out by Huskie Athletics.
  Labach was awarded the Mary Ethel Cartwright Trophy as the Huskies’ female athlete of the year as well as the Valerie Girsberger Trophy given to the Huskies’ all-round female athlete.
  Taran Kozun, a second-year
  
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• Watch: Chinese politics have Canadian Canola farmers worried

  30-03-2019 02:25 via thestarphoenix.com
  China has closed the door on two major Canadian canola exporters over alleged safety concerns, but some say the refusal is an extension of a diplomatic divide between the two countries over Canada’s decision to detain a top executive with telecom giant Huawei.
  Saskatchewan’s government intends to be part of a Canadian delegation that is poised to travel to China to meet with officials about the ongoing dispute regarding exports of Canadian canola.
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• New voice of the Saskatchewan Roughriders announced

  30-03-2019 01:53 via globalnews.ca
  Derek Taylor is the new voice of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
  
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• ‘I was throwing up and believe I was overdosing’: Sask. woman sues pharma company after getting addicted to painkiller

  30-03-2019 01:47
  A Saskatoon woman is suing the manufacturer of a painkiller drug after getting addicted to the medication.
  
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• ‘I don’t see it as an end, just a change’: Sherbrooke Community Centre bus driver rolls into retirement

  30-03-2019 01:33
  A driver with the Sherbrooke Community Centre is rolling into retirement.
  
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• Sask. rancher welcomes rare calf quadruplets

  30-03-2019 01:13 via globalnews.ca
  The 2019 calving season will be one to remember for a Leross, Sask. farmer as he welcomed healthy quadruplet calves – a one in 11.2 million chance.
  
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• 'Such a rare thing': Sask. photographer captures shots of all-white deer near Eatonia

  30-03-2019 01:01 via cbc.ca
  A Saskatchewan woman got the snapshot of a lifetime earlier this week, when she spotted an all-white mule deer near Eatonia.
  
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• Judge denies pub ban, injunction sought by med resident who 'snooped' on Broncos crash victims' records

  30-03-2019 01:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  A Queen’s Bench judge had strong words for a young Saskatchewan physician and her lawyer, denying her application for an injunction and publication ban related to a public report by the province’s information and privacy commissioner.
  Dr. Crombie Stebner was one of several health care workers identified as having inappropriately accessed the medical records of multiple victims of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash last spring.
  Stebner, who went by the surname Maltman at the time she acce
  
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• Judge defends privacy commissioner's handling of case of doctor who accessed Humboldt Bronco victims' files

  30-03-2019 01:00 via cbc.ca
  A Saskatoon judge is defending how the province’s privacy commissioner handled a case that began when six doctors inappropriately accessed electronic health records of Humboldt Broncos players involved in a fatal bus crash last April.
  
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• Local play finds success in New York despite near cancellation

  30-03-2019 00:56 via thestarphoenix.com
  The first-ever Saskatoon play to perform in the New York City FRIGID Festival is putting on a show back home after their American tour was nearly derailed because things got a little too frigid.
  The Gay Card, a play by local company Sexual Space Walk Theatre and written by local dramaturge Logan Martin Arcand, originally premiered in the Saskatoon Fringe Festival back in 2016 as a one-man show. The newest and revised iteration of the show is set to play at the Free Flow Dance Centre on March 30-
  
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• Saskatchewan RCMP seize meth inside SUV stopped for window tinting

  30-03-2019 00:55 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP say drug trafficking charges have been laid after a vehicle was stopped for illegal window tinting near Maidstone, Sask.
  
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• Sask. hopes to join feds in China for a 'science-based' discussion about canola

  30-03-2019 00:38 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatchewan’s government intends to be part of a Canadian delegation that is poised to travel to China to meet with officials about the ongoing dispute regarding exports of Canadian canola.
  Federal ministers were in Saskatoon on Friday to speak with provincial officials and canola industry stakeholders about how to respond after China blocked shipments of canola seed from two Canadian producers.
  Chinese officials said the Canadian canola seed shipments from producers based in Regina and W
  
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• Remai Modern chief operations officer talks 1st year highs and search for new CEO

  30-03-2019 00:34 via cbc.ca
  The search for Gregory Burke's replacement may be nearing its end.
  
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• Saskatchewan Rush can clinch NLL playoff berth with win Saturday

  30-03-2019 00:31 via thestarphoenix.com
  Win and they’re in.
  It’s as simple as that, although nothing has been easy for the reigning National Lacrosse League champion Saskatchewan Rush during the 2019 season.
  Saskatchewan — currently tied for second in the NLL’s West Division with a 6-6 record — can clinch a playoff berth Saturday with a win over the Vancouver Warriors (4-10).
  Game-time is 7:30 p.m. (92.9 The Bull, Ticketmaster, B/R Live webcast) Saturday night at Sasktel Centre.
  Here are five things to kn
  
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• Calgary doctor to help take on workload for Sask. doc charged with child luring - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  30-03-2019 00:14
  Calgary doctor to help take on workload for Sask. doc charged with child luring  Saskatoon StarPhoenixThe SHA says all of the patients under a paediatric respirologist's care in Saskatoon have been transferred to other specialists.
  
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