Saskatoon news

• Saskatchewan Indigenous leaders welcome changes to Criminal Code, repeal of mandatory minimums

  19-02-2021 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan Indigenous leaders are feeling encouraged by changes to the Criminal Code.
  
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• Death of woman, 29, considered homicide: Saskatoon police - CTV News Saskatoon

  19-02-2021 23:40
  
  Death of woman, 29, considered homicide: Saskatoon police  CTV News Saskatoon
  
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• Death of woman, 29, considered homicide: Saskatoon police

  19-02-2021 23:40
  
  Saskatoon police say they are investigating the city’s second homicide of the year.
  
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• 'You practice in order to play': Remaining Sask. minor hockey games cancelled

  19-02-2021 23:08
  
  The recent extension of a provincial public health order has ended the minor hockey season in Saskatchewan, but teams will still be able to practice.
  
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• UPDATE: Saskatoon police investigating city’s second homicide - Global News

  19-02-2021 23:08
  
  UPDATE: Saskatoon police investigating city’s second homicide  Global News
  
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• Bail decision for woman charged with making child porn adjourned at Saskatoon court

  19-02-2021 22:52
  
  A woman facing a list of disturbing child pornography charges was back in front of a Saskatoon judge for a bail hearing on Friday.
  
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• COVID-19 in Sask: 3 more deaths, 146 new cases reported Friday

  19-02-2021 22:39 via cbc.ca
  
  The three new deaths in Saskatchewan involve one person in their 50s, one person in their 70s and one person why was in the 80+ age group.  
  
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• Outdoorsman’s help 'the best thing we could've had' in Sask. RCMP search for stranded snowmobilers

  19-02-2021 22:38
  
  The Meadow Lake RCMP detachment has recognized a man for his help saving two stranded men with a Certificate of Appreciation.
  
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• Jess Moskaluke releases new album ‘The Demos’

  19-02-2021 22:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan country music artist Jess Moskaluke released her new album on Friday that features the demos of her hit singles 'Mapdot,' 'Country Girls' and 'Halfway Home.'
  
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• Sask. NDP calls for more clarity from province on plan for COVID-19 variants

  19-02-2021 22:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan NDP health critic Vicki Mowat said COVID-19 variants are raising the fear of a possible third wave in the province.
  
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• Death of woman in Mayfair home ruled a homicide

  19-02-2021 22:32 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The death of a 29-year-old woman whose body was found inside a home in the Mayfair neighbourhood Thursday is being investigated as a homicide. Read More
  
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• 'It made me pretty nervous': Sask. man in Texas prepared to handle record-breaking winter storm

  19-02-2021 22:31
  
  A Saskatchewan man living in Houston, Texas is one of the millions of people who have lost heat and water during a record-breaking winter storm.
  
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• Homicide Investigation - 700 Block of 33rd Street West

  19-02-2021 22:26 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  
  The SPS Major Crime Section is investigating the city’s second homicide of the year.  On Thursday afternoon police were called to a residence in the 700 block of 33rd St W.  The body of a 29 year old woman was discovered in the house.  Police are not releasing the manner of death or the identity of the victim until family can be located.  There have been no arrests however investigators do not believe there is any threat to the public.The investigation is ongoing. 
  
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• Saskatchewan adds 3 more coronavirus-related deaths

  19-02-2021 22:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan health-care workers administered 2,403 COVID-19 vaccine doses on Thursday and will run clinics throughout the weekend to keep up with vaccine administration.
  
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• S.C.O.A. COFFEE BREAK SERIES: What Pharmacists Can Do For You

  19-02-2021 22:11 via globalnews.ca
  Your pharmacist works with you and other health professionals to ensure the best decisions are made to keep you well and improve your health. HOW TO REGISTER: Phone the Saskatoon Council on Aging 306-652-2255 or Email [email protected] COST IS FREE and is ONLINE ONLY.
  
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• Willingness to take COVID-19 vaccines in Sask. has plateaued, online survey suggests

  19-02-2021 21:52 via cbc.ca
  
  In late December and early January, 81.6 per cent of people who participated in a survey said they would take a vaccine. Four weeks later, the percentage had shifted only slightly, to 80.3 per cent, according to Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) survey.
  
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• Willingness to take COVID-19 vaccines in Sask. has plateaued, online poll suggests

  19-02-2021 21:52 via cbc.ca
  
  In late December and early January, 81.6 per cent of people who participated in a poll said they would take a vaccine. Four weeks later, the percentage had shifted only slightly, to 80.3 per cent, according to Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) survey.
  
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• From ballet dancer to zombie slayer: Cree actor Michael Greyeyes on his prolific career

  19-02-2021 21:27 via cbc.ca
  
  The Plains Cree actor and performer from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan has appeared in more than 50 films and TV shows, ranging from prominent Indigenous leaders like Sitting Bull to Gooch in Dance Me Outside, one of his most well-known roles.
  
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• COVID-19: Vaccinations to start in southwest, NDP warns of 'third wave'

  19-02-2021 21:26 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Saskatchewan's government reported 146 new cases of COVID-19 and three deaths on Friday as the province moves to get a fresh delivery of vaccine into peoples' arms. Read More
  
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• Bail decision adjourned for woman accused of sexually assaulting girls

  19-02-2021 20:58 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  A bail decision for a Saskatoon woman accused of making child pornography of her two- and four year-old daughters has been adjourned to Feb. 25. Read More
  
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• Almost a third of people with 'mild' COVID-19 still battle symptoms months later, study finds

  19-02-2021 20:28
  
  Researchers from the University of Washington followed 177 people with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection for up to nine months and found that 30 per cent of respondents reported persistent symptoms.
  
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• Province requests review after woman released from Pine Grove and found frozen days later

  19-02-2021 20:16 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The Saskatchewan government has requested a review into the circumstances surrounding the release of a 34-year-old woman whose frozen body was found three days after she was let out of Pine Grove Correctional Centre. Read More
  
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• Bill to relax criminal drug penalties will 'make change in First Nations peoples lives,' says Sask. chief

  19-02-2021 19:54 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Mark Arcand says he was “overjoyed” to hear the federal government announce a new bill to relax penalties for drug offences.
  
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• Persephone Theatre brings in community co-leads for new Artists' Working Group

  19-02-2021 19:52 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Persephone Theatre is trying something new with its artistic leadership by appointing a pair of co-leads for a new, community-driven artist group. Read More
  
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• Saskatchewan Cattlemen's Association votes down motion to rebrand with gender-neutral name

  19-02-2021 19:43 via cbc.ca
  
  The Saskatchewan Cattlemen's Association voted down a motion that would have changed the organization's name to better reflect the gender diversity of its members.
  
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• Provincial opposition won't deter federal action on municipal handgun bans, PM says

  19-02-2021 19:38 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signalled Friday the federal government won't let provincial opposition stand in the way of municipalities that want to work with Ottawa to ban handguns. Read More
  
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• Many Indigenous communities seeing success during vaccine rollout despite unique challenges

  19-02-2021 19:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  If Canada's Indigenous population was its own nation, it would rank five spots ahead of Canada on Bloomberg's world vaccine tracker, which compares countries based on how many doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered per 100 people. Read More
  
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• Jury trials in Saskatchewan postponed until the end of April due to COVID-19

  19-02-2021 18:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan’s chief justice said they are taking steps to ensure the safety of everyone while ensuring access to the justice system.
  
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• Former Saskatchewan Penitentiary inmate calls COVID-19 outbreak ‘inevitable’

  19-02-2021 17:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  A former inmate at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary said the spread of COVID-19 at the federal prison was ‘inevitable’ due to the number of people ‘locked up in a small space.’
  
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• Sask. man leading science program for Mars campaign

  19-02-2021 17:40 via cbc.ca
  
  A man from Canora, Sask., is part of the team that successfully landed a rover on Mars Thursday. The rover — called Perseverance — will seek out ancient life and collect soil samples on the Red Planet.
  
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• Province requests review after woman found frozen days after release from Pine Grove

  19-02-2021 17:30 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The Saskatchewan government has requested a review into the circumstances surrounding the release of a 34-year-old woman whose frozen body was found three days after she was let out of Pine Grove Correctional Centre. Read More
  
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• Saskatoon police to put new unarmed alternative response officers on the streets - CBC.ca

  19-02-2021 17:13
  
  Saskatoon police to put new unarmed alternative response officers on the streets  CBC.ca
  
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• Saskatoon police to put new unarmed alternative response officers on the streets

  19-02-2021 17:13 via cbc.ca
  
  Spec. Insp. Darren Pringle said the service is recruiting for the program and noted there are people eager to be involved.
  
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• COVID, curling, and the Scotties: It's been quite a season for Sherry Anderson

  19-02-2021 16:33 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Sherry Anderson will miss the noise, bustle, chants, claps. Read More
  
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• SaskPower exporting electricity to help Texans impacted by winter storm

  19-02-2021 16:24 via cbc.ca
  
  The Crown corporation began exporting 150 megawatts of electricity south of the border on Sunday, then bumped that number up to 175 megawatts four days later.
  
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• SaskPower exporting electricity to help Americans impacted by winter storm

  19-02-2021 16:24 via cbc.ca
  
  The Crown corporation began exporting 150 megawatts of electricity south of the border on Sunday, then bumped that number up to 175 megawatts four days later.
  
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• 'Saskatoon really is a four-season city': How grants for outdoor activities are supporting safe winter fun - CBC.ca

  19-02-2021 16:16
  
  'Saskatoon really is a four-season city': How grants for outdoor activities are supporting safe winter fun  CBC.ca
  
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• Councillor encourages people to get tested after bout with COVID-19

  19-02-2021 16:09 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  A Saskatoon city councillor is urging everyone with even the mildest COVID-19 symptoms to get tested after enduring his own bout with the disease earlier this month. Read More
  
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• Stabbing - 21st Street West and Avenue T South

  19-02-2021 16:07 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  
  A 32 year old Saskatoon man is recovering in hospital after being stabbed overnight.Just before midnight, February 18, 2021, Police received a report of a stabbing in an alley at 21st Street West and Avenue T South.  Upon arrival at the location officers found an injured male suffering from non life-threatening stab wounds.  Further investigation led officers to a residence in the 100 block of Avenue U South where several people were located inside.  Two males, ages 23 and 27, wer
  
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• With variants, current health measures not enough to stop pandemic resurgence: modelling

  19-02-2021 15:52
  
  With COVID-19 variants of concern continuing to spread across Canada, new national modelling shows that even the current level of public health measures will not be enough to prevent a resurgence of the virus nationwide.
  
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• Variants could spark resurgence even under current health measures: modelling

  19-02-2021 15:52
  
  With COVID-19 variants of concern continuing to spread across Canada, new national modelling shows that even the current level of public health measures will not be enough to prevent a resurgence of the virus nationwide. 'We have to keep taking strong public health measures… Otherwise we could see a third wave that is even worse than the second or the first,' said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  
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• Suspicious death investigation launched in Saskatoon

  19-02-2021 15:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatoon police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman at a home in the 700 block of 33rd Street West.
  
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• 3 deaths, 146 new COVID-19 cases in Sask.

  19-02-2021 15:44
  
  Saskatchewan reported 146 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, along with three more deaths and 227 recoveries.
  
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• North Battleford, Sask. health-care worker first in Saskatchewan to die from COVID-19

  19-02-2021 14:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  A long-term care home worker in North Battleford, Sask., has died from what his family believes was from complications from COVID-19.
  
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• Take It Outside grants support safe winter fun in Saskatoon

  19-02-2021 13:53 via cbc.ca
  
  Winters in Saskatoon can be cold and bleak months, and the COVID-19 pandemic is only exacerbating the impacts of being stuck indoors for long periods of time. But the City of Saskatoon is encouraging people to get outside.
  
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• 'Saskatoon really is a four-season city': How grants for outdoor activities are supporting safe winter fun

  19-02-2021 13:53 via cbc.ca
  
  Winters in Saskatoon can be cold and bleak months, and the COVID-19 pandemic is only exacerbating the impacts of being stuck indoors for long periods of time. But the City of Saskatoon is encouraging people to get outside.
  
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• Woman's death in Saskatoon considered suspicious - CBC.ca

  19-02-2021 13:26
  
  Woman's death in Saskatoon considered suspicious  CBC.ca
  
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• Woman's death in Saskatoon considered suspicious

  19-02-2021 13:26 via cbc.ca
  
  Police were called to a home on the 700 block of 33rd St. W. shortly after 5 p.m. CST Thursday. Someone living at the home reported a woman had died.
  
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• Enjoy the warmer weather: Five things to do in Saskatoon this weekend - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  19-02-2021 13:07
  
  Enjoy the warmer weather: Five things to do in Saskatoon this weekend  Saskatoon StarPhoenix
  
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• Enjoy the warmer weather: Five things to do in Saskatoon this weekend

  19-02-2021 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  With the warmer weather comes the opportunity to enjoy some fun outdoor activities. But if you'd rather stay inside, there's ways to enjoy that too. Here are five things to do in and around Saskatoon this weekend. Read More
  
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