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• Saskatoon changing ward boundaries for 2nd straight election - News Talk 650 CKOM

  11-04-2019 23:51
  Saskatoon changing ward boundaries for 2nd straight election  News Talk 650 CKOMThe City of Saskatoon is looking at changing several council ward boundaries ahead of the next municipal election, which would shift where residents will go to ...
  
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• 7 child pornography charges laid against Saskatoon man - Global News

  11-04-2019 23:46
  7 child pornography charges laid against Saskatoon man  Global NewsPolice have charged a Saskatoon man in relation to complaints of child pornography being shared through popular social media applications.
  
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• 7 child pornography charges laid against Saskatoon man

  11-04-2019 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  Police have charged a Saskatoon man in relation to complaints of child pornography being shared through popular social media applications.
  
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• Court of Appeal judges will reserve decision in La Loche shooter appeal

  11-04-2019 23:24
  Three Saskatchewan Court of Appeal judges have decided to reserve their decision on whether or not the La Loche school shooter will be sentenced as a youth or an adult.
  Last year he was sentenced as an adult to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years.Defence lawyer Aaron Fox appealed that decision, arguing that the judge erred in sentencing the young man as an adult and should instead have sentenced him as a youth. The maximum youth sentence is six years in custody and four years un
  
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• Saskatoon's compost depots open April 15 - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  11-04-2019 22:44
  Saskatoon's compost depots open April 15  Saskatoon StarPhoenixResidents can drop off non-elm yard waste for free as of April 15, 2019. Finished compost is also available for free at the west depot. Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
  
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• Saskatoon's compost depots open April 15

  11-04-2019 22:43
  The compost users cometh.
  The City of Saskatoon’s two compost depots will soon be open for business, just in time for spring yard cleaning.
  Residents can drop off leaves, grass, sod, topsoil, garden refuse, pumpkins, and non-elm branches, stumps and tree trimmings for free as of April 15.
  “This helps keep yard waste out of the Landfill and produces a high quality, nutrient-rich compost and mulch that is used to keep Saskatoon parks and community gardens healthy and beautiful,”
  
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• Public safety minister should ensure coerced sterilization allegations probed: NDP MP

  11-04-2019 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  MP Don Davies' request comes after the RCMP said it conducted a preliminary review of its national database and found no records of specific complaints to pursue.
  
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• Aggravated Assault - 600 Block Idylwyld Drive

  11-04-2019 22:12 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  Saskatoon Police are investigating after a woman was unlawfully confined and physically assaulted yesterday morning.Between approximately 3:00 a.m. and 7:45 a.m., April 10, 2019, a woman reported being unlawfully confined and physically assaulted in a hotel room in the 600 block of Idylwyld Drive North following a verbal altercation. The woman was eventually able to get to safety where she reported the incident to Police.The 46-year-old woman sustained serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
  
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• Public offering of Saskatchewan’s Crown oil and natural gas rights nets $1.5M

  11-04-2019 22:07 via globalnews.ca
  A public offering of Saskatchewan’s Crown petroleum and natural gas rights on April 9 saw 38 leases purchased, according to the provincial government.
  
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• Embracing a fish tale: U of Sask. scholars looking for luck on exams visit spotted gar

  11-04-2019 22:07 via cbc.ca
  For a half-dozen years now, geology students at the University of Saskatchewan have been known to visit a special fish in the nervous hours leading up to a final exam. They do it for good luck.
  
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• Some Saskatoon city council ward boundaries are changing - CBC.ca

  11-04-2019 21:52
  Some Saskatoon city council ward boundaries are changing  CBC.caThe tweaks are meant to take effect before the 2020 civic election.
  
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• Impaired Driving / Speeding - Idylwyld Drive and 20th Street West

  11-04-2019 21:43 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  Early this morning, a 31-year-old man was arrested for impaired driving and issued a speeding ticket for over $1,000.At approximately 12:05 a.m., April 11, 2019, Patrol officers observed a black Jeep travelling at a high rate of speed southbound on Idylwyld Drive approaching 20th Street West. They also observed the vehicle disobey a red light. Officers activated their emergency equipment and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, however, the motorist accelerated as it continued southbou
  
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• Regina native takes over as interim CEO at Remai Modern

  11-04-2019 21:20
  The temporary executive director and CEO of Saskatoon’s beleaguered Remai Modern art gallery is used to challenges.
  The gallery announced Thursday that Lynn McMaster will take over on a temporary basis for Gregory Burke, who left the gallery last month in a cloud of controversy.
  McMaster, who is originally from Regina, most recently worked as the president and CEO of Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum, a children’s museum that survived crippling debt.
  McMaster guided Please Tou
  
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• Fraud Advisory - Counterfeit American $50 bills

  11-04-2019 21:05 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  The Saskatoon Police Service is advising the public of a number of reported incidents where counterfeit American bills in a $50 denomination were used.It is reported that the bills feel like regular paper and may be of varying sizes and/or with sloppy cut lines. So far, the ones that have been turned in to Police all have the same recurring serial numbers: MD31941004B, MD36623526B and MD32118894B.It is believed there may be multiple persons passing these bills. One male is believed to
  
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• 'Reconciliation should not be partisan': Ministers call for end to Tory stalling on Indigenous rights bill

  11-04-2019 20:53 via cbc.ca
  Attorney General David Lametti and Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett are demanding the Conservative leader in the Senate put an end to procedural delays by his caucus that threaten to derail a piece of legislation that would implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Canada.
  
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• New interim CEO to lead Remai Modern through transition phase

  11-04-2019 20:44 via cbc.ca
  Lynn McMaster replaces Gregory Burke, who resigned last December.
  
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• ‘It’s sad and frustrating’; Cats evicted from care home for people with disabilities

  11-04-2019 20:42
  Two cats that had been adopted by a care home in Rosetown have been evicted by the facility, according to a former employee.
  
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• 'I'll die with my boots on, right here': 99-year-old volunteer gives Saskatoon WDM colour

  11-04-2019 20:40 via cbc.ca
  99-year-old Paul Carson is turning his lifetime as a painter and decorator into colour on the walls of Saskatoon’s Western Development Museum.
  
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• Tuition rising 3.4% at University of Saskatchewan

  11-04-2019 20:21 via globalnews.ca
  Arts and science students at the University of Saskatchewan will be paying on average $220 to $260 more for tuition in the 2019-20 school year.
  
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• Defence argues La Loche shooter’s plan not sophisticated at appeal

  11-04-2019 20:06
  The young man who was sentenced to life in prison for killing four people during a shooting rampage in La Loche in 2016 is expected to appear via video at the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in Regina today.
  Last year he was sentenced as an adult to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years.Defence lawyer Aaron Fox appealed that decision, arguing that the judge erred in sentencing the young man as an adult and should instead have sentenced him as a youth. The maximum youth sentence is si
  
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• Western Canada oil and gas producer count down by nearly 300 names since 2014

  11-04-2019 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  The total number of companies producing oil and gas in Western Canada has fallen by 17.5 per cent in the four years since global oil prices began crashing.
  
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• A tale of 2 taxes: how carbon pricing and revenue rolls out in Alberta versus Sask.

  11-04-2019 19:17 via cbc.ca
  While Alberta’s NDP government rolled out its carbon pricing plan at the start of 2017 and has collected billions through it, Saskatchewan has ended up with a federally-imposed plan that just came into effect on April 1.
  
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• Remai Modern names Lynn McMaster interim CEO

  11-04-2019 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  Beau Atkins, the interim chair of the Remai Modern board of directors, said Lynn McMaster is uniquely qualified to lead the art gallery.
  
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• Some Saskatoon city council ward boundaries are changing

  11-04-2019 18:50 via cbc.ca
  The tweaks are meant to take effect before the 2020 civic election.
  
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• Canadians say new food guide looks pricey as grocery costs rise: new survey

  11-04-2019 18:35 via cbc.ca
  Canadians might like what they see in Canada’s food guide, but many worry new recommendations could add to the pain of their grocery bills, according to a new online survey from the Angus Reid Institute.
  
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• 'I'm told that I'm a miracle': Sask. village raising money for first responders after deadly crash

  11-04-2019 18:20 via cbc.ca
  The Kenosee Hall Recreation Centre will be a place of mourning, celebration and thanks on Thursday night as community members gather at the Dance of Gratitude.
  
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• Letter of the Day: Parental choice it not the issue

  11-04-2019 18:00
  When an argument cannot be won on its merits, the disingenuous simply substitute spurious grounds that are more amenable to their rhetoric. This is Tom Fortosky’s gambit in the debate over public funding for non-Catholic students in Catholic schools. He states, “the case is fundamentally about parental choice in education.” The issue is about nothing of the sort.
  The framework underpinning separate schools is set out in Section 93 of the Constitution Acts. Subsequent legislatio
  
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• HMCS Regina crew names helicopter after Humboldt Broncos

  11-04-2019 17:58 via cbc.ca
  Crew aboard the HMCS Regina have renamed their helicopter in honour of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.
  
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• Teen arrested in Lloydminster for allegedly making explosives

  11-04-2019 17:26
  A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after police found homemade explosives in a storage facility in Lloydminster.
  
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• Betty Boop looking to be adopted from Saskatoon SPCA

  11-04-2019 17:16 via globalnews.ca
  Jasmine from the Saskatoon SCPA introduces us to Betty Boop, a stray who is now looking for her new home.
  
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• Keeping Terry Fox’s dream alive in Saskatoon

  11-04-2019 16:42 via globalnews.ca
  Fred Fox, the older brother of Terry Fox, is in Saskatoon to share the importance of keep his brother’s dream alive.
  
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• 133 guns turned into police so far during Sask. gun amnesty

  11-04-2019 16:27 via cbc.ca
  The Saskatchewan Association of Police Chiefs released interim numbers on this year's gun amnesty.
  
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• 133 guns turned in to police so far during Sask. gun amnesty

  11-04-2019 16:27 via cbc.ca
  The Saskatchewan Association of Police Chiefs released interim numbers on this year's gun amnesty.
  
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• Saskatoon property manager claims Canada Post not delivering on time - News Talk 650 CKOM

  11-04-2019 16:25
  Saskatoon property manager claims Canada Post not delivering on time  News Talk 650 CKOMA Saskatoon woman says her property management business has been suffering because of mail delivery delays tied to the ongoing strike by Saskatoon Co-op ...
  
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• Saskatoon property manager claims Canada Post not delivering on time - CKOM News Talk Sports

  11-04-2019 16:25
  Saskatoon property manager claims Canada Post not delivering on time  CKOM News Talk SportsA Saskatoon woman says her property management business has been suffering because of mail delivery delays tied to the ongoing strike by Saskatoon Co-op ...
  
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• Talking to kids about money

  11-04-2019 16:10 via globalnews.ca
  Gary Robbior with the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education on why it is important to talk to kids about money.
  
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• Tourism to the Ukraine exploding

  11-04-2019 15:42 via globalnews.ca
  Vincent Reese, the owner of Cobblestone Freeway Tours, talks about what the Ukraine has to offer for those looking to explore Europe’s largest country. Ixtapa Travel in Saskatoon is hosting a presentation for those who want to learn more.
  
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• No one is under more pressure to win than Mike Babcock

  11-04-2019 15:41 via cbc.ca
  Maybe the Toronto Maple Leafs aren't built for the playoffs. But even though the Boston Bruins are favoured in this opening-round matchup against the Leafs, is this a situation where a head coach with Mike Babcock’s pedigree can make a difference?
  
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• Wanted: Welders, hockey experience preferred by Biggar, Sask. company

  11-04-2019 15:30 via cbc.ca
  A company in Biggar, Sask., is advertising in P.E.I. newspapers for workers who also might be skilled at hockey.
  
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• Nolan Maier shines as Saskatoon Blades even up series with Prince Albert Raiders

  11-04-2019 15:19 via globalnews.ca
  Nolan Maier made 43 saves and Max Gerlach had a goal and two assists as the Saskatoon Blades downed the Prince Albert Raiders 4-1.
  
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• FSIN among groups seeking to oppose Indian day school settlement agreement

  11-04-2019 15:00
  Gavin Baptiste still remembers his first day at the Little Pine Indian Day School nearly six decades ago.
  He was just seven years old at the time and small for his age. He walked a long way to the school on a warm September day with a duck bannock sandwich and apple in his blue lunch pail.
  He would be a student there for the next six years.
  “My time at Little Pine Day School was good, and also it was bad,” recalls Baptiste, who is now 66.
  “I enjoyed school because I was a good
  
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• Saskatoon Blades even up series with Prince Albert Raiders

  11-04-2019 14:42 via globalnews.ca
  Post-game comments after the Saskatoon Blades evened their WHL Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Prince Albert Raiders.
  
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• Saskatoon police investigate home invasion - CBC.ca

  11-04-2019 14:30
  Saskatoon police investigate home invasion  CBC.caA woman was taken to hospital after three men broke into a home and robbed the people inside.
  
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• Saskatoon police investigate home invasion

  11-04-2019 14:30 via cbc.ca
  A woman was taken to hospital after three men broke into a home and robbed the people inside.
  
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• Throwback Thursday: Muddy streets

  11-04-2019 14:15
  Every Thursday, we feature an image from the StarPhoenix archives. Today, we see an image of muddy residential streets, from April 11, 1956. (City of Saskatoon Archives StarPhoenix Collection S-SP-B465-4)
  
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• La Loche school shooter facing life in prison appealing adult sentence

  11-04-2019 14:02 via globalnews.ca
  Defence lawyer Aaron Fox plans to ask the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to sentence the La Loche school shooter as a youth or order a new hearing.
  
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• Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental

  11-04-2019 14:00
  By Sandee Moore
  Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, surveys Belmore’s more than 30-year career
  At Remai Modern, Saskatoon
  Feb. 1 — May 5, 2019
  Rebecca Belmore is a master artist — and punk as hell.
  By “punk” I mean that she is daring, uncompromising and aggressively political. At 59, Belmore is one of Canada’s most important and accomplished artists, participating in some of the world’s most highly-regarded fo
  
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• Letters to the editor April 11, 2019

  11-04-2019 14:00
  Wilson-Raybould deserves support from all Canadians
  In his Feb. 16 StarPhoenix column, Doug Cuthand described the recent events surrounding the apparent demotion of Ms. Jody Wilson-Raybould and the Justice Department dealings with the Quebec-based firm SNC-Lavalin.
  I agree with Mr. Cuthand’s view of Ms. Wilson-Raybould as a talented, ethical and principled individual as well as his perception of the politics involved between the government and the firm of SNC-Lavalin. However, Mr. Cuthand&
  
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• Appeal judges to hear arguments for La Loche shooter to serve youth sentence

  11-04-2019 14:00
  The young man who was sentenced to life in prison for killing four people during a shooting rampage in La Loche in 2016 is expected to appear via video at the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in Regina today.
  Last year he was sentenced as an adult to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years.Defence lawyer Aaron Fox appealed that decision, arguing that the judge erred in sentencing the young man as an adult and should instead have sentenced him as a youth. The maximum youth sentence is si
  
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• Saskatoon shop owner wants city to reveal pot licensing fee calculations - CBC.ca

  11-04-2019 13:00
  Saskatoon shop owner wants city to reveal pot licensing fee calculations  CBC.caThe City of Saskatoon has a $20000 licensing fee for anyone who wants to open a cannabis store in town.
  
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