Saskatoon news

• COVID-19: Saskatchewan reports 173 cases, 3 deaths

  06-11-2021 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  There are 199 COVID-19 patients in hospital, including 51 patients in ICU.
  
  Read more

• New Indigenous relations minister to look into appeal dropped over Catholic Church's residential school payments

  06-11-2021 22:36 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  OTTAWA — Newly named Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says he wants to get to the bottom of why Ottawa abandoned its appeal of a ruling releasing the Catholic Church from its settlement obligations to residential school survivors. Read More
  
  Read more

• COVID-19 in Sask.: 3 more deaths, 173 new cases Saturday

  06-11-2021 21:44 via cbc.ca
  
  The province reported 173 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths from the illness Saturday.
  
  Read more

• 172 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths reported in Sask.

  06-11-2021 21:02
  
  The Government of Saskatchewan reported 173 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, along with three more deaths.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Sask. Party strongly endorses Moe in Saturday leadership review

  06-11-2021 20:47 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Premier Scott Moe survived a leadership review Saturday at the Saskatchewan Party's convention in Saskatoon, with a majority of members showing strong support for the leader. Read More
  
  Read more

• Sask. pilot project helping trans, gender diverse people access health-care needs

  06-11-2021 19:57 via cbc.ca
  
  The TRANS Health Navigator project helps people who identify as transgender or gender diverse navigate health services, such as finding transgender-friendly doctors, getting referrals and finding support groups.
  
  Read more

• Saskatchewan premier faces leadership review

  06-11-2021 17:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Scott Moe is facing a leadership review today at the Saskatchewan Party's convention in Saskatoon.
  
  Read more

• Moe takes aim at prime minister over emission cap

  06-11-2021 17:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Scott Moe took aim at the prime minister's commitment to place a federal cap on greenhouse gas emissions on Saturday as his leadership was reaffirmed at a Saskatchewan Party convention.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Majority of Saskatchewan Party supports Moe

  06-11-2021 17:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Scott Moe survived a leadership review today at the Saskatchewan Party's convention in Saskatoon, with a majority of members showing strong support for the leader.
  
  Read more

• Edmonton Elks go winless at home this season, fall 19-17 to Saskatchewan Roughriders

  06-11-2021 17:17
  
  The Edmonton Elks will finish a CFL season without a win at home for the first time in the team's 72-year history.
  
  Read more

• Premier Scott Moe faces vote on leadership during Saskatchewan Party convention

  06-11-2021 17:14
  
  Premier Scott Moe is facing a leadership review today at the Saskatchewan Party's convention in Saskatoon.
  
  Read more

• Premier Moe receives over 80% support in leadership review at Sask. Party convention

  06-11-2021 17:14
  
  Premier Scott Moe received over 80 per cent support from a Saskatchewan Party member’s vote during its convention at TCU Place in Saskatoon on Saturday.
  
  Read more

• Premier Moe receives more than 80% support in leadership review at Sask. Party convention

  06-11-2021 17:14
  
  Premier Scott Moe received more than 80 per cent support from a Saskatchewan Party member’s vote during its convention at TCU Place in Saskatoon on Saturday.
  
  Read more

• Saskatchewan lost 6,500 jobs in October, StatsCan labour force survey says

  06-11-2021 15:55 via cbc.ca
  
  A new Statistics Canada report found Saskatchewan lost 6,500 jobs between September and October of this year.
  
  Read more

• SaskParty holds convention in Saskatoon | 980 CJME - News Talk 980 CJME

  06-11-2021 15:40 via cjme.com
  
  SaskParty holds convention in Saskatoon | 980 CJME  News Talk 980 CJME
  
  Read more

• City of Saskatoon Looking for Feedback on New Strategic Plan - CJWW

  06-11-2021 14:04 via cjwwradio.com
  
  City of Saskatoon Looking for Feedback on New Strategic Plan  CJWW
  
  Read more

• Ice on the edge of survival: Warming is changing the Arctic

  06-11-2021 13:45
  
  While conducting research in Greenland, ice scientist Twila Moon was struck this summer by what climate change has doomed Earth to lose and what could still be saved.
  
  Read more

• Quotes from the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan

  06-11-2021 13:20 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Here are some memorable quotes from the fourth wave of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan. Read More
  
  Read more

• Saskatchewan's two largest airports starting to see runway to recovery

  06-11-2021 13:15 via thestarphoenix.com
  Saskatchewan's two largest airports have sustained such a decline in traffic that the organizations' leaders are celebrating a return to half of pre-pandemic traffic. Read More
  
  Read more

• Letters: Gathering restrictions are still needed

  06-11-2021 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Lack of restrictions in Sask. Read More
  
  Read more

• Cuthand: Remember the veterans who still suffer from their experiences

  06-11-2021 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  About 10 years ago, I attended the Native American Film Festival in San Francisco. Read More
  
  Read more

• Supply chain snarls traffic as farmers market their crops

  06-11-2021 12:50 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Feeding the world starts with reaching it in the first place. Read More
  
  Read more

• Business greets Canada-U.S. border opening as glass half full due to testing rule

  06-11-2021 12:09
  
  Monday's reopening of the Canada-U.S. land border is sparking a mixed reaction among Canadian business leaders: They're excited that people and not just goods will be crossing the border again but are wary of remaining red tape.
  
  Read more

• Houston leaders seek clues for concert surge that killed 8

  06-11-2021 12:02
  
  Fans attending a Houston music festival surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, triggering panic in the crowd of tens of thousands. At least eight people were killed and many more hurt, authorities said.
  
  Read more

• Crowd surge kills at least 8 at Houston music festival

  06-11-2021 12:02
  
  Fans attending a Houston music festival surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, triggering panic in the crowd of tens of thousands. At least eight people were killed and many more hurt, authorities said.
  
  Read more

• Premier Moe asks for support of party members ahead of convention and leadership review

  06-11-2021 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Premier Scott Moe will seek the support of Saskatchewan Party members at the party's convention in Saskatoon on Saturday.
  
  Read more

• Sask. still has Canada's highest COVID-19 death rate, 5th wave a possibility: health authority

  06-11-2021 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  At a physicians' town hall on Thursday night, the Saskatchewan Health Authority shared a slide showing that the COVID-19 death rate has plateaued in the last 14 days, but remains high. 
  
  Read more

• Rethinking your relationship with work? So are a lot of people

  06-11-2021 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Experts say the broad changes sweeping through the work world pre-date the pandemic, but they're speeding up as a result of it.
  
  Read more

• COVID-19 spreads through the air. Here's what you can do about it this winter

  06-11-2021 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Canadians looking for guidance on how to reduce their risk of COVID-19 indoors this winter may be feeling left out in the cold. The Public Health Agency of Canada has stopped short of advocating for better-quality masks or saying outright that the virus is primarily airborne.
  
  Read more

• Elks' rally falls short in historic home defeat to Roughriders

  06-11-2021 06:37 via cbc.ca
  
  Despite a furious fourth-quarter rally, a 19-17 loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Friday condemned the Elks (2-9) to an 0-7 record at Commonwealth Stadium in 2021, which is an infamous achievement in a year when the team also rebranded with a new name.
  
  Read more

• Edmonton Elks make late charge but lose 19-17 to Saskatchewan Roughriders

  06-11-2021 06:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Edmonton Elks  will finish a CFL season without a win at home for the first time in the team's 72-year history.
  
  Read more

• Huskies will play for bronze in Canada West women's soccer

  06-11-2021 06:04 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  It’s second-chance time for the University of Saskatchewan women’s soccer team. Read More
  
  Read more

• Peaceful demonstration at USask after Dr. Carrie Bourassa placed on administrative leave

  06-11-2021 01:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  The university placed Dr. Carrie Bourassa on administrative leave earlier this week after she was the subject of a CBC investigation looked into her ancestry.
  
  Read more

• Investigate faculty suspected of false Indigenous ancestry claims, group says following Bourassa revelations

  06-11-2021 01:39 via cbc.ca
  
  Dozens of Indigenous faculty, students, supporters and allies gathered Friday at the University of Saskatchewan to protest Indigenous identity fraud, after a CBC investigation found there was no evidence to support U of S health researcher Carrie Bourassa's claims to Indigenous ancestry.
  
  Read more

• Inmate dies at Prince Albert, Sask. correctional centre - Global News

  06-11-2021 01:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  Inmate dies at Prince Albert, Sask. correctional centre  Global News
  
  Read more

• Inmate dies at Prince Albert, Sask. correctional centre

  06-11-2021 01:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  A 53-year-old inmate was found unresponsive in his cell at the correctional centre on Thursday. His death was not related to COVID-19 and foul play is not suspected at this time.
  
  Read more

• RM of Edenwold opening new fire hall, neighbouring town questions necessity

  06-11-2021 01:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  Construction on the Emerald Park fire hall in the R.M. of Edenwold is expected to be completed by 2022 and is budgeted at $1.8 million.
  
  Read more

• Global News at 6 Saskatoon: Nov 5

  06-11-2021 01:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, edition of Global News at 6 with Lisa Dutton on Global Saskatoon.
  
  Read more

• 19-year-old sentenced for role in home invasion where 14-year-old boy was killed

  06-11-2021 01:07 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The family of a 14-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed during a Saskatoon home invasion last December say he was a regular teen who played video games, teased his sister and had a loving family. Read More
  
  Read more

• Medical military aid a welcome sight to Saskatchewan hospitals

  06-11-2021 00:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  The team is made up of 15 members: six critical care nurses in the ICUs, four general duty nursing officers, four medical technicians and one senior nursing officer.
  
  Read more

• Witness credibility questioned at closing arguments in Yaremko trial

  06-11-2021 00:54 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The Crown prosecutor at Joseph Yaremko's trial wants the court to reject Yaremko’s evidence where it contradicts other evidence, arguing that he is “utterly incapable of belief as a witness.” Read More
  
  Read more

• Woman who endured ‘nightmare scenario’ more believable than Yaremko at sexual assault trial: Crown

  06-11-2021 00:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  The sexual assault trial's prosecutor said the complainant gave “clear, compelling evidence," while Joseph Yaremko had "two different, inconsistent versions of reality.”
  
  Read more

• Bourassa suspension reignites push for schools to check Indigenous ancestry claims

  06-11-2021 00:24 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  A University of Saskatchewan professor's suspension has reignited concerns about how Canada's universities verify claims of Indigenous ancestry. Read More
  
  Read more

• Sask. doctors air frustrations with health minister, warn of potential fifth wave of COVID-19

  06-11-2021 00:23
  
  Saskatchewan physicians are warning the provincial government of a potential fifth wave of COVID-19 if more measures are not introduced.
  
  Read more

• University of Sask. faculty, staff rally against Indigenous identity fraud

  06-11-2021 00:08
  
  More than 100 people gathered outside the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) on Friday to protest against Indigenous identity fraud.
  
  Read more

• Saskatoon Hindu community shows support for victims in Bangladesh - CTV News Saskatoon

  06-11-2021 00:00 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
  
  Saskatoon Hindu community shows support for victims in Bangladesh  CTV News Saskatoon
  
  Read more

Follow @Saskatoon_News on Twitter!