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• 'Our truth comes out': Unmarked graves strike a different July 1

  01-07-2021 23:27 via thestarphoenix.com
  
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• Sask. reports 34 new cases of COVID-19, first dose vaccine trend continues

  01-07-2021 23:18 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Saskatchewan finally hit one of the key vaccination targets for its reopening plan — 10 days after the target was abandoned in favour of removing restrictions regardless. Read More
  
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• 34 new COVID-19 cases in Sask. on Thursday

  01-07-2021 23:11
  
  Saskatchewan reported 34 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, along with 22 more recoveries.
  
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• COVID-19: Saskatchewan hospitalizations at 61, 34 new infections

  01-07-2021 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  There were 34 new COVID-19 infections confirmed in Saskatchewan Thursday, according to the provincial government’s online dashboard.
  
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• Sask. premier's dismissal of vaccine passports for events draws ire from resident, opposition

  01-07-2021 22:45 via cbc.ca
  
  Premier Scott Moe's statement that proof of immunization won't be needed to work at or attend events has some questioning the safety of popular gatherings, like Roughrider games.
  
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• Unattended cooking leads to kitchen fire resulting in $20K worth of damages

  01-07-2021 22:44
  
  The Saskatoon Fire Department responded to a call for a kitchen fire in the 200 block of Tait Crescent early Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Saskatoon unofficially breaks daily heat record; scorcher to continue - CKOM News Talk Sports

  01-07-2021 22:43
  
  Saskatoon unofficially breaks daily heat record; scorcher to continue  CKOM News Talk Sports
  
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• ‘We are thriving’: Buffalo Day a time of reflection, celebration

  01-07-2021 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  Buffalo Day festivities took over Buffalo Meadows Park in Regina as a day to celebrate being Indigenous.
  
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• 'Today is about bringing awareness': Hundreds gather to remember residential school survivors on Canada Day

  01-07-2021 22:25
  
  Traditional red and white colours usually seen on July 1 at Kiwanis Memorial Park on Canada Day were replaced with orang to show solidarity for residential school survivors.
  
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• Photos: Rallies, speakers in Saskatoon mark legacy of residential schools on Canada Day

  01-07-2021 22:09 via thestarphoenix.com
  As Canada marked its 154th birthday on Thursday, events held in downtown Saskatoon opted to turn the focus from traditional festivities to the impact of residential schools on Indigenous people since the country's founding. Read More
  
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• Politicians, Indigenous leaders say burning churches not the way to get justice

  01-07-2021 21:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  "To burn things down is not our way," Perry Bellegarde said Wednesday. "Our way is to build relationships and come together."
  
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• Structure Fire - 2000 Block Quebec Av

  01-07-2021 21:54 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  
  The Saskatoon Fire Department and Saskatoon Police Service are currently on the scene of a structure fire in the 2000 block of Quebec Av.Traffic restrictions are in place for both northbound and southbound traffic while fire suppression occurs.Police ask that citizens avoid the area.Anyone with information is asked to call the Saskatoon Police Service at 306-975-8300 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.(Occurrence Number: 2021-66454)
  
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• Backpacks line steps of legislative building to represent unmarked graves

  01-07-2021 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Hundreds of backpacks lay on the steps of the provincial legislative building to represent unmarked graves found at residential schools.
  
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• Precautionary evacuation at northern Saskatchewan mine due to wildfire

  01-07-2021 20:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Production at Cigar Lake uranium mine has been temporarily suspended while a northern Saskatchewan wildfire that is currently burning in the vicinity of the operation.
  
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• RCMP say death of man found on highway near Big River is suspicious

  01-07-2021 20:16 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Saskatchewan RCMP are investigating a suspicious death after a body was found near Big River. Read More
  
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• Cigar Lake uranium mine evacuated as a precaution due to wildfire

  01-07-2021 20:15
  
  Cameco is evacuating all non-essential personnel from the Cigar Lake uranium mine as a precautionary measure.
  
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• Cigar Lake uranium mine being evacuated as a precaution due to wildfire

  01-07-2021 20:15
  
  Cameco is evacuating all non-essential personnel from the Cigar Lake uranium mine as a precautionary measure.
  
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• Saskatchewan woman accused of defrauding retail company - Global News

  01-07-2021 19:57
  
  Saskatchewan woman accused of defrauding retail company  Global News
  
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• Saskatchewan woman accused of defrauding retail company

  01-07-2021 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police say a Saskatchewan woman defrauded or attempted to defraud a retail company of approximately $250,000.
  
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• Cooling needed for people, pets as mercury rises in Sask.

  01-07-2021 19:26 via cbc.ca
  
  Laura Herman, development and engagement manager at the Friendship Inn, says that when it is this hot, their guests have the same worries as everyone else.
  
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• Cooling needed for people and pets as heat dome settles into Sask. for next few weeks

  01-07-2021 19:26 via cbc.ca
  
  Laura Herman, development and engagement manager at the Friendship Inn, says that when it is this hot, their guests have the same worries as everyone else.
  
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• Lytton fire: Residents unaccounted for; most of B.C. village destroyed, officials say

  01-07-2021 19:08
  
  Ninety per cent Lytton, B.C., has burned in a devastating fire, the village's local member of Parliament says.
  
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• Maple Leaf Foods signs deal to buy 4 pig farms in Saskatchewan

  01-07-2021 18:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  Maple Leaf Foods says the deal is part of its plan to grow production at its pork processing plant in Brandon, Man.
  
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• Saskatchewan observes a different kind of Canada Day

  01-07-2021 17:44 via cbc.ca
  
  It's different kind of Canada Day in Saskatchewan this year, with traditional events cancelled and a number of alternative gatherings scheduled instead. 
  
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• How people are marking a different Canada Day this year in Sask.

  01-07-2021 17:44 via cbc.ca
  
  It's different kind of Canada Day in Saskatchewan this year, with traditional events cancelled and a number of alternative gatherings scheduled instead. 
  
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• Traffic restrictions in place in downtown Saskatoon - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  01-07-2021 17:39
  
  Traffic restrictions in place in downtown Saskatoon  Saskatoon StarPhoenix
  
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• Traffic restrictions in place in downtown Saskatoon

  01-07-2021 17:32 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Saskatoon police are advising drivers of traffic restrictions in place downtown Thursday. Read More
  
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• 'Free of the mask': Businesses taking cautious approach to Alberta's full reopening

  01-07-2021 16:17
  
  Alberta lifted almost all its remaining COVID-19 restrictions Thursday, but many businesses said they are taking a more cautious approach as things start to return to normal.
  
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• Your Saskatchewan photo of the day: July 2021

  01-07-2021 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  A viewer-submitted photo is featured daily in Your Saskatchewan on Global Saskatoon and Global Regina.
  
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• Trudeau tells Canadians to ‘be honest’ about our past in Canada Day statement

  01-07-2021 15:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  His comments come after over 1,100 unmarked graves were found at the sites of three former residential schools across the country.
  
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• Trudeau says ‘be honest’ about our past, as residential school reflections mark Canada Day

  01-07-2021 15:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  His comments come after over 1,100 unmarked graves were found at the sites of three former residential schools across the country.
  
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• Canada Day arrives as country reels from residential school discoveries

  01-07-2021 14:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  Groups, organizations and municipalities who have decided against holding special events today after hundreds of unmarked graves were found at residential school sites.
  
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• Trudeau says Canadians ‘must be honest’ about country’s history in Canada Day message

  01-07-2021 14:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his Canada Day message Wednesday, spoke about the recent discoveries of unmarked graves found at and near former residential schools in B.C. and Saskatchewan in the past month. Trudeau said Canadians “must be honest with ourselves” about the country’s history, saying the country has a “long way to go to...
  
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• Sask. crop report says heat baking moisture out of farm country

  01-07-2021 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The province released the crop report for the week of June 22 on Wednesday and it says the current heat is quickly drying out crop land in Saskatchewan.
  
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• 13 of 14 Saskatchewan MPs among Conservatives who voted against bill banning conversion therapy

  01-07-2021 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Thirteen out of the 14 Conservative MPs in Saskatchewan voted against Bill C-6, which would make conversion therapy a crime under the Criminal Code.
  
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• Downtown Traffic Restrictions

  01-07-2021 13:27 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  
  The Saskatoon Police Service has been in contact with organizers from various events occurring today, July 1, 2021, in Friendship Park and Kiwanis Memorial Park.Participants are expected to gather in the parks and march from Spadina Crescent East & 20th Street E to Idylwyld Drive North. The group will travel north on Idylwyld Drive to 22nd Street East, then eastbound to return to the park. Traffic restrictions will be in place along the route, as well as on Spadina Crescent East from 3rd Ave
  
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• Poet Danny Knight shares why he doesn’t celebrate Canada Day

  01-07-2021 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Knight says the truth has been revealed to the masses that Canada's monstrous side isn't 150 years ago, it's way closer than thought, and in some people it's here and now
  
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• Sask. residents asking themselves tough questions about what Canada Day means

  01-07-2021 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  While July 1 is often a day for celebration and patriotism, some say the events of this past year have shown that this country still has a lot of work to do before it deserves to be truly celebrated.
  
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• Why Canada is divided over reopening despite controlling COVID-19

  01-07-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The end of the pandemic may be finally within sight in Canada, after incredible progress has been made battling back the spread of COVID-19 — but nothing is set in stone with COVID-19 and that uncertainty is dividing experts on what to do next.
  
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• Firm that offered vaccine to First Nations now embroiled in Brazilian scandal

  01-07-2021 03:26 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The company that made headlines for trying to sell millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine to a Saskatchewan First Nation is now wrapped up in a Brazilian corruption scandal. Read More
  
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• Saskatoon woman sentenced to 6 years in 2018 stabbing death of retired educator Colin Sutherland

  01-07-2021 03:16 via cbc.ca
  
  Sheritta Kahpeaysewat, 34, was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in a federal institution for the stabbing death of her partner, 54-year-old retired Saskatoon educator Colin Sutherland, in 2018.
  
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• SaskPower breaks summer power demand record as heat blankets province

  01-07-2021 02:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  As the mercury rises, so does the demand for power in Saskatchewan as people try to keep cool from near record-setting heat.
  
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• Saskatchewan NDP calls for COVID-19 vaccine requirements at events like Rider games

  01-07-2021 02:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  The NDP is calling on the provincial government to discuss vaccination requirements for largely attended events such as Saskatchewan Roughrider games.
  
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• Saskatoon woman sentenced to 6 years in 2018 stabbing death of retired educator Colin Sutherland - CBC.ca

  01-07-2021 02:16
  
  Saskatoon woman sentenced to 6 years in 2018 stabbing death of retired educator Colin Sutherland  CBC.ca
  
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• No Canada Day events for Saskatoon, Regina due to COVID-19; reflection urged instead - Global News

  01-07-2021 02:14
  
  No Canada Day events for Saskatoon, Regina due to COVID-19; reflection urged instead  Global News
  
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• No Canada Day events for Saskatoon, Regina due to COVID-19; reflection urged instead

  01-07-2021 02:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  One advocate is leading the 'Paint Regina Orange' initiative on Canada Day this year to raise awareness about residential schools and their legacy.
  
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• Global News at 6 Saskatoon – June 30, 2021

  01-07-2021 02:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Wednesday, June 30, 2021, edition of Global News at 6 with Lisa Dutton on Global Saskatoon.
  
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• ‘A special project’: Saskatchewan students build Titanic replica

  01-07-2021 02:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Glen Smith, along with about 30 of his Grade 7 and 8 students at Lucky Lake School, spent hundreds of hours between February and June constructing a replica of the Titanic.
  
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• As Catholic Church fundraising falls short, Saskatoon bishop still hopes Pope will apologize for residential schools - CTV News Saskatoon

  01-07-2021 01:58
  
  As Catholic Church fundraising falls short, Saskatoon bishop still hopes Pope will apologize for residential schools  CTV News Saskatoon
  
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• As Catholic Church fundraising falls short, Saskatoon bishop still hopes Pope will apologize for residential schools

  01-07-2021 01:58
  
  The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says the Catholic Church hasn’t done enough to reach fundraising goals set out in a 2006 agreement.
  
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