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• In-person visits to jails cancelled again; Saskatoon jail site of largest current outbreak in provincial corrections - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  10-01-2022 23:58 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  In-person visits to jails cancelled again; Saskatoon jail site of largest current outbreak in provincial corrections  Saskatoon StarPhoenix
  
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• In-person visits to jails cancelled again; Saskatoon jail site of largest current outbreak in provincial corrections

  10-01-2022 23:56 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  In-person visits to inmates at Saskatchewan's correctional centres have again been cancelled and new measures around masking have been implemented as an Omicron variant-fuelled rise in the community is affecting the provincial jail population. Read More
  
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• Saskatoon police respond to video of fatal September 2021 traffic collision

  10-01-2022 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  
  A video that shows a fatal collision involving a 9-year-old girl in Saskatoon has surfaced on social media over the weekend.
  
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• Sask. RCMP want help with Air Ronge homicide investigation

  10-01-2022 23:51
  
  RCMP are asking the public to look at a photo and video that show a person investigators would like to speak with in relation to an Air Ronge homicide investigation.
  
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• NDP join calls to restart education COVID-19 response team

  10-01-2022 23:50 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Saskatchewan's Official Opposition has joined calls from school divisions to restart a COVID-19 planning team for schools that was previously scrapped — and launching its own request for the education minister to be removed. Read More
  
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• NDP says it’s making gains in Saskatoon and Regina: Commissioned poll - Regina Leader-Post

  10-01-2022 23:21 via leaderpost.com
  
  NDP says it’s making gains in Saskatoon and Regina: Commissioned poll  Regina Leader-Post
  
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• COVID-19 wreaks havoc with major Sask. events - again

  10-01-2022 23:10
  
  A growing number of Saskatchewan event organizers are looking at altering plans for the second year in a row due to COVID-19.
  
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• Regina-born former Rider receiver Brayden Lenius signs tryout contract with NFL's Atlanta Falcons

  10-01-2022 23:08 via cbc.ca
  
  It didn't take long for former Saskatchewan Roughrider receiver Brayden Lenius to find a prospective new home down south.
  
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• Regina-born former Rider receiver Brayden Lenius signs contract with NFL's Atlanta Falcons

  10-01-2022 23:08 via cbc.ca
  
  It didn't take long for former Saskatchewan Roughrider receiver Brayden Lenius to find a prospective new home down south.
  
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• 'I was absolutely rocked': Saskatoon comic reacts to Bob Saget's death - CKOM News Talk Sports

  10-01-2022 22:58 via ckom.com
  
  'I was absolutely rocked': Saskatoon comic reacts to Bob Saget's death  CKOM News Talk Sports
  
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• Saskatoon Tribal Council receives $65K for its Emergency Wellness Centre - Global News

  10-01-2022 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatoon Tribal Council receives $65K for its Emergency Wellness Centre  Global News
  
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• Saskatoon Tribal Council receives $65K for its Emergency Wellness Centre

  10-01-2022 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sheri Benson said access to safe and affordable housing is a growing concern in Saskatoon made worse due to COVID-19.
  
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• Incentives and signed consent: Sask. First Nation raising the bar for COVID-19 vaccinations

  10-01-2022 22:48 via cbc.ca
  
  Lac La Ronge Indian Band set vaccination targets of 85 per cent across all ages, and doses, for each of its six communities. Some of them have already exceeded the goal.
  
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• Sask. gov’t announces new school for La Loche

  10-01-2022 22:37
  
  The province says it will begin building a new elementary school in the northern village of La Loche late this year.
  
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• COVID-19 in Sask.: Test positivity at 29%, no new deaths

  10-01-2022 21:50 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatchewan's test positivity rate remains high at 29 per cent on Monday. That means 29 per cent of everyone getting a PCR test in the province is testing positive. 
  
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• MPs call for Commons committee probe of health agency's use of mobile data

  10-01-2022 21:44 via cbc.ca
  
  Opposition MPs want the House of Commons ethics committee to investigate the Public Health Agency of Canada's decision to collect data from millions of mobile phones to understand travel patterns during the COVID-pandemic.
  
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• Saskatchewan wastewater data affirms spiking COVID counts: USask scientist

  10-01-2022 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  As COVID-19 numbers spike in Saskatchewan, an ecotoxicologist believes actual cases are being underreported due to testing and contact tracing changes.
  
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• Former CFL running back pleads guilty to voyeurism

  10-01-2022 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  The former CFL running back had his contract with the Saskatchewan Roughriders terminated after he was charged following an incident in November 2016.
  
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• SPS Response to Collision Video

  10-01-2022 21:04 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  
  Over the weekend, the SPS became aware of a video that was posted to social media of a fatal traffic collision from September 9, 2021.In response to a number of inquiries, the SPS can confirm the investigation remains active and ongoing. Specialized investigators with the Collision Analyst Unit are currently waiting on the results of toxicology, which were submitted to an RCMP forensics lab. While investigators are still waiting for results from the scientific analysis, the majority of the techn
  
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• Traffic Restrictions - Ongoing Incident - 200 Block Avenue L North

  10-01-2022 20:57 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  
  The Saskatoon Police Service Patrol and Tactical Support Units are responding to an ongoing incident. Vehicle and pedestrian traffic is restricted in the 200 block of Avenue L North as well as the east back alley (between Avenue K and Avenue L). Further updates will be provided when available. (Occurrence Number: 22-3720)
  
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• Canada sees more COVID-19 cases in 40 days of Omicron than all of 2020

  10-01-2022 20:55
  
  Canadian officials have documented more cases of COVID-19 in the 40 days since the first case of Omicron was detected here than they did during the entire first year of the pandemic, and experts say there are even more cases going undetected.
  
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• Saskatoon woman reunited with lost wedding necklace 6 months later - CBC.ca

  10-01-2022 20:47 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatoon woman reunited with lost wedding necklace 6 months later  CBC.ca
  
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• Saskatoon woman reunited with lost wedding necklace 6 months later

  10-01-2022 20:47 via cbc.ca
  
  After six months of searching for her beloved thaali — a gold wedding necklace gifted to a bride from her groom’s family — Leeanne Benjamin had accepted she’d never see it again. But then she unwrapped a Christmas present that revealed not all hope should be lost.
  
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• Location chosen for new elementary school in La Loche, Sask.

  10-01-2022 20:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Education Minister Dustin Duncan said the government is now looking forward to the next step in the La Loche elementary school project.
  
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• Sask. jury trials postponed due to 'risk posed by COVID-19 and its variants'

  10-01-2022 20:35 via thestarphoenix.com
  The Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan has postponed all jury trials scheduled between Jan. 10 and Feb. 25 "in response to the most recent information available concerning the public health risks posed by COVID-19 and its variants." Read More
  
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• New details but no set start date for curbside organics program, Saskatoon city committee hears - Global News

  10-01-2022 20:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  New details but no set start date for curbside organics program, Saskatoon city committee hears  Global News
  
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• New details but no set start date for curbside organics program, Saskatoon city committee hears

  10-01-2022 20:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  City of Saskatoon councillors learned city staff are recommending larger green bins for the curbside organics program, which is set to start next year.
  
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• Warmer days: Jan. 10 Saskatchewan weather outlook

  10-01-2022 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Much warmer days ahead than the frigid cold experienced last week — Meteorologist Peter Quinlan takes a look at what to expect in your SkyTracker weather outlook for Monday, Jan. 10.
  
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• COVID-19 hospitalizations in Manitoba increase 51.1 per cent over the previous week; 19 new COVID-19 deaths since Friday

  10-01-2022 19:39
  
  More than 80 Manitobans were hospitalized with COVID-19 over the weekend.
  
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• NDP calls for replacement of Sask. education minister

  10-01-2022 19:13
  
  The Saskatchewan NDP Opposition is calling on Premier Scott Moe to replace the minister of education.
  
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• Sask. RCMP lay charges in 2020 homicide

  10-01-2022 18:57
  
  RCMP say they have charged two men in relation to the Nov. 17, 2020 homicide of Troy Watson from Mistawasis First Nation.
  
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• Man charged with attempted murder after shooting in Saskatoon home - CTV News Saskatoon

  10-01-2022 18:55 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
  
  Man charged with attempted murder after shooting in Saskatoon home  CTV News Saskatoon
  
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• Man charged with attempted murder after shooting in Saskatoon home

  10-01-2022 18:55
  
  Saskatoon Police have arrested and charged a man in connection to a shooting on Bushe Place on Jan. 7.
  
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• Saskatoon Airport Impacted by COVID and Weather - CJWW

  10-01-2022 18:30 via cjwwradio.com
  
  Saskatoon Airport Impacted by COVID and Weather  CJWW
  
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• Sask. government starting part two of interpersonal violence and abuse awareness campaign

  10-01-2022 18:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Face the Issue, which is the campaign's theme, will centre on addressing underlying attitudes, behaviours and beliefs which contribute to interpersonal violence.
  
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• RCMP lay charges in 2020 homicide on Sask. First Nation

  10-01-2022 18:09 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  RCMP have charged two men in connection with a homicide on the Mistawasis First Nation in November of 2020. Read More
  
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• The last 7 years have been the warmest on record as planet approaches critical threshold

  10-01-2022 18:06
  
  The last seven years have been the seven warmest on record for the planet, new data shows, as Earth's temperature continues its precarious climb due to heat-trapping fossil fuel emissions.
  
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• 2021 was Earth's 5th-hottest year on record, according to European Union scientists

  10-01-2022 18:04 via cbc.ca
  
  Last year was the world's fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit new highs in 2021, European Union scientists said.
  
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• Murder charges laid in 2020 death on Mistawasis First Nation

  10-01-2022 17:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  Murder charges have been laid after a lengthy investigation into the November 2020 death of Troy Watson on the Mistawasis First Nation.
  
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• Clubroot identified in more Saskatchewan fields during 2021

  10-01-2022 17:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  Clubroot is a declared pest in Saskatchewan and was first detected in the province in 2008.
  
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• Western Canadian Crop Production Show in Saskatoon sees some changes - 620 CKRM.com

  10-01-2022 17:17 via 620ckrm.com
  
  Western Canadian Crop Production Show in Saskatoon sees some changes  620 CKRM.com
  
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• Why does Saskatchewan have fewer restrictions? It’s about the surges: Manitoba epidemiologist

  10-01-2022 17:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  Province's extension of the public health orders for an added three weeks reflects 14-fold case increase.
  
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• Man charged with attempted murder after shooting in Fairhaven neighbourhood

  10-01-2022 16:53 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  A 37-year-old man is facing an attempted murder charge after a shooting Jan. 7 at the 10 block of Bushe Place in the city's Fairhaven neighbourhood. Read More
  
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• A.C. Leonard signs contract extension with the Saskatchewan Roughriders

  10-01-2022 16:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  A.C. Leonard has signed a two-year contract extension with the Saskatchewan Roughriders after leading the CFL in sacks for the 2021 season.
  
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• Parks Canada summer camping bookings opening soon

  10-01-2022 15:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  After the cold snap we had recently, summer camping could be a welcome thought. Parks Canada’s Arron Bahry joins Global News Morning as booking for summer camping opens soon.
  
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• Update - Police Presence - 10 Block of Bushe Place

  10-01-2022 15:50 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  
  Saskatoon Police have arrested and charged a man in connection to a shooting on Bushe Place on Friday morning.At approximately 9:00 a.m., January 7, 2022, Police responded to an unknown problem at a residence in the 10 block of Bushe Place. Upon arrival, they located a 37-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim was transported, and remains in hospital, for treatment of life-threatening injuries.Following an investigation by Patrol and the Serious Assault Unit, a 37-year-old man w
  
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• BROLL Camping Stox 2

  10-01-2022 15:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Canadian Mental Health Association Saskatoon Branch’s Faith Bodnar joins Global News Morning with tips for coping with the fourth wave of COVID-19 – and where you can reach out if you need help.
  
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• Residents along Highway 11 asked to check properties for missing man: RCMP

  10-01-2022 14:52 via cbc.ca
  
  Leslie Peesker, 48, hasn’t been physically seen since mid-October. Now, RCMP in central Saskatchewan are asking residents along Highway 11 — where he was last spotted — to check their outbuildings for signs of him.
  
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• Saskatoon city council decides not to add any new restrictions to civic facilities

  10-01-2022 14:47 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatoon city councillors held a special meeting on Monday afternoon to get an update on the COVID-19 situation in the city and decided not to bring in any new restrictions at civic facilities.
  
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• Saskatoon city council calls special meeting on COVID-19 risk

  10-01-2022 14:47 via cbc.ca
  
  City councillors will be talking about whether to bring in special COVID-19 restrictions at a special meeting on Monday afternoon.
  
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