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• Private testing system full of holes, providers say

  27-01-2022 23:59 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Providers of private COVID-19 testing say Saskatchewan's government failed to properly vet companies offering the swabs, leaving the system ripe for exploitation. Read More
  
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• Three Saskatoon Blades games postponed this week due to COVID protocol - Ottawa Citizen

  27-01-2022 23:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Three Saskatoon Blades games postponed this week due to COVID protocol  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Three Saskatoon Blades games postponed this week due to COVID protocol - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  27-01-2022 23:46 via thestarphoenix.com
  Three Saskatoon Blades games postponed this week due to COVID protocol  Saskatoon StarPhoenix
  
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• University of Saskatchewan COVID-19 response team delivers update

  27-01-2022 23:43 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Dr. Darcy Marciniuk summed up what are likely the feelings of many pandemic-weary faculty, staff and students at the University of Saskatchewan during a report to the university's council. Read More
  
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• Three Saskatoon Blades games postponed this week due to COVID protocol

  27-01-2022 23:42 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Perhaps it was inevitable, but the timing couldn’t be much worse as far as the Saskatoon Blades are concerned. Read More
  
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• 'I will never know': Sask. ends COVID-19 case reporting in schools

  27-01-2022 23:42
  
  As of Friday, Saskatchewan parents and caregivers are no longer required to tell schools if their child has COVID-19 - a decision that isn't sitting well with a Saskatoon parent.
  
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• Sask. Roughrider Jay Dearborn preparing for Olympic debut in bobsleigh

  27-01-2022 23:39 via cbc.ca
  
  A serious injury at training camp and a season-ending pandemic might make even the most-seasoned CFL veteran throw their hands up in despair. But not Jay Dearborn.
  
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• Holocaust education needed to address denial and antisemitism, says Sask. rabbi

  27-01-2022 23:20 via cbc.ca
  
  A rabbi in Saskatchewan invites people to remember those who were affected by the Holocaust and calls for more education about the death camps.
  
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• 'Habitual' Sask. impaired driver sent to prison for third offence

  27-01-2022 22:49 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Before he was sentenced for impaired driving — for the third time — Cole Ahenakew acknowledged his actions could have hurt himself and the community. Read More
  
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• 'There is a thrill': Saskatoon second-hand store sees increase in sales - CTV News Saskatoon

  27-01-2022 22:38 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
  
  'There is a thrill': Saskatoon second-hand store sees increase in sales  CTV News Saskatoon
  
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• 'There is a thrill': Saskatoon second-hand store sees increase in sales

  27-01-2022 22:38
  
  Village Green Thrift Store is seeing more people come in searching for vintage times and other hidden treasures.
  
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• Sask. researcher first Canadian to be awarded Royal Astronomical Society honour

  27-01-2022 22:26
  
  A University of Saskatchewan professor, and her research on the aurora, is being recognized internationally.
  
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• 'The government hasn't been here to help': B.C. farm becomes hub of hope for flood victims

  27-01-2022 22:21
  
  Members of the Sumas Prairie community in Abbotsford, B.C., are still stepping up to help their neighbours, months after floods devastated the area.
  
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• COVID-19 in Sask.: 24 more residents in hospital, 2 deaths reported

  27-01-2022 22:03 via cbc.ca
  
  COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths continue to climb in Saskatchewan.
  
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• COVID-19 in Sask.: 13 more residents in hospital, 2 deaths reported

  27-01-2022 22:03 via cbc.ca
  
  COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths continue to climb in Saskatchewan.
  
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• COVID-19: Hospitalizations rise to 328 in Saskatchewan with 35 in ICU

  27-01-2022 21:27 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The number of patients in hospital in Saskatchewan with COVID-19 rose to the highest point since the middle of October and two more people died of the disease. Read More
  
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• COVID-19: Saskatchewan updates self-isolation, close contact protocols

  27-01-2022 20:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan eases up on self-isolation and close contact protocols regardless of vaccination status.
  
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• MPs warned about security risks related to convoy, O'Toole plans to meet truckers

  27-01-2022 20:25
  
  As a convoy of truckers made its way through Ontario on Thursday, hundreds of supporters gathered along roadways and overpasses in the Greater Toronto Area, with police warning of major traffic delays.
  
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• COVID-19 cases continue climb in Sask. jails — a trend seen in other provinces

  27-01-2022 18:40 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The overall number of COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan's provincial jails has continued its week-over-week ascent and has reached 313 total active cases, according to new information provided by the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety. Read More
  
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• 'The hope is we're not caught off guard' again, B.C. researcher says of discovery of 9 new coronavirus species

  27-01-2022 18:29
  
  A team of researchers led by a British Columbia university has uncovered several new species of coronavirus, some of which were found in unexpected places such as animal dung.
  
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• COVID-19: Saskatchewan’s top doctor urges residents to get booster shots

  27-01-2022 18:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan's top doctor is urging residents to get their booster shots amid the rise in COVID-19 cases.
  
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• Nathaniel Carrier pleads guilty to murdering parents, seven-year-old son in P.A.

  27-01-2022 17:37 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Family and friends of the victims in a Prince Albert triple homicide wept quietly as Nathaniel Carrier pleaded guilty to killing his parents and seven-year-old son. Read More
  
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• Canadian athletes begin to arrive in Beijing for 2022 Olympic Games

  27-01-2022 17:22 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada's first wave of athletes landed in Beijing on Thursday, just about a week before the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
  
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• Sask. reducing COVID-19 self-isolation period for unvaccinated residents

  27-01-2022 17:09
  
  The province is lowering the COVID-19 self-isolation period to five days for both fully vaccinated and unvaccinated residents, effective Friday.
  
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• Sask. health minister to provide COVID-19 update Thursday

  27-01-2022 17:09
  
  Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman is scheduled to provide a COVID-19 update at 11 a.m. Thursday morning.
  
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• City of Saskatoon supports #ActOnReconciliation campaign - SaskToday.ca

  27-01-2022 17:00 via sasktoday.ca
  
  City of Saskatoon supports #ActOnReconciliation campaign  SaskToday.ca
  
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• Saskatchewan relaxes self-isolation, close contact protocols

  27-01-2022 16:55 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatchewan is reducing the isolation period for unvaccinated residents and removing the requirement for close contacts to self-isolate regardless of vaccination status.
  
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• Saskatchewan changes self-isolation, close contact protocols

  27-01-2022 16:55 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatchewan is changing its self-isolation and close contact protocols.
  
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• Sask. health minister, top doctor to give COVID-19 update at 11 a.m. CST

  27-01-2022 16:55 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman and chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab will provide a COVID update Thursday morning.
  
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• City Joins Saskatoon Tribal Council To #ActOnReconciliation - CJWW

  27-01-2022 16:50 via cjwwradio.com
  
  City Joins Saskatoon Tribal Council To #ActOnReconciliation  CJWW
  
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• Manitoba MP facing backlash over tweet about Ukraine

  27-01-2022 16:32
  
  A Manitoba NDP MP is being asked to apologize for a tweet she made about Ukraine.
  
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• SHA relocating swaths of patients, expects system to be overrun

  27-01-2022 16:09 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Internal documents reveal Saskatchewan's plan to send swaths of patients from major city hospitals to rural and northern areas within days, as internal memos warn rising COVID-19 caseloads may push the health care systems to its limit. Read More
  
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• Gardening: Marvellous maple tree varieties that endure in Prairie climates

  27-01-2022 15:38 via thestarphoenix.com
  
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• A look at Saskatoon’s economy two years into the pandemic - Globalnews.ca

  27-01-2022 15:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  A look at Saskatoon’s economy two years into the pandemic  Globalnews.ca
  
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• Sights set high for Saskatchewan’s Pegasus at Barrett-Jackson auction

  27-01-2022 15:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  The roots of the Pegasus Project trace back to April 6, 2018, when 16 people were killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.
  
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• Prince Albert, Sask. man pleads guilty to killing parents, son

  27-01-2022 13:40 via cbc.ca
  
  A Saskatchewan man has pleaded guilty to killing his parents and his son almost two years ago in the home the couple shared with him.
  
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• Kohlman: Curried cauliflower bowl satisfies and surprises with simplicity

  27-01-2022 13:24 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Let’s have a little flashback to the early weeks of 2016, shall we? Just as the price of oil was plummeting, the price of our beloved creamy white brassica (Canada is the second largest importer of cauliflower in the world) was doing the opposite. Read More
  
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• Macros and Misadventures: Mind over munchies

  27-01-2022 13:16 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Would I call my meals delectable? Read More
  
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• Tank: Anti-vaccine folk might not learn, but Sask. can learn from them

  27-01-2022 13:06 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  One of Saskatchewan's prominent anti-vaccination activists celebrated travelling to Ottawa this week for the truck rally to protest vaccine mandates. Read More
  
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• Throwback Thursday: Home show display

  27-01-2022 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Every Thursday, we feature an image from the StarPhoenix archives. Today, we see the Toshiba Microwave Oven display, which was part of the Cosmo Club home show, from Jan. 27, 1978. (City of Saskatoon Archives StarPhoenix Collection S-SP-A10238-12, photo by Linda Holoboff) Read More
  
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• The Mountaintop comes to Persephone Theatre at the right time

  27-01-2022 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Director Dian Marie Bridge says this is a good time to present The Mountaintop, a play about Martin Luther King Jr. written by African-American playwright Katori Hall. Read More
  
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• Remai Modern's A Dying Hare presents a kitschy, pastel-toned depiction of decay

  27-01-2022 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Contemplating a slow burn is the thrust behind Regina artist Nic Wilson's latest work. Read More
  
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• Opinion: Literacy + play = foundation for early learning success

  27-01-2022 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
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• Local materials, labour would help some Sask. businesses survive supply chain crunch, says professor

  27-01-2022 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Store shelves might not be empty, but consumers should get used to seeing fewer varieties of toys, soft drinks or sports cars, says a University of Saskatchewan professor.
  
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• Letters: New approach needed to reduce COVID spread

  27-01-2022 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Premier definitely needs treatment Read More
  
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• BRIDGES: Jon Somers strengthens community through bodybuilding

  27-01-2022 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Jon Somers has always believed in the “moonshot.” Read More
  
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• Trucker convoy against vaccine mandates rolls through Ontario en route to Ottawa

  27-01-2022 11:54 via cbc.ca
  
  A convoy of truckers opposed to cross-border COVID-19 vaccine mandates is making its way through southwestern Ontario on Thursday, destined for Ottawa, where they're expected to meet up with other truckers for a demonstration Saturday.
  
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• Sask. COVID-19 patients could be transferred from hospitals in cities to rural areas

  27-01-2022 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  More COVID-19 patients from Saskatoon and Regina hospitals could be transferred to rural facilities to ease pressure, according to the province.
  
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• Mike Babcock and Huskies men’s hockey team return to roots on outdoor rink

  27-01-2022 02:54 via globalnews.ca
  
  In the midst of a bye-week the Huskies men's hockey team took a break from their regular schedule to enjoy a 3-on-3 tournament at a local outdoor rink.
  
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• Saskatoon shelters dealing with Omicron outbreaks - Globalnews.ca

  27-01-2022 01:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatoon shelters dealing with Omicron outbreaks  Globalnews.caSaskatoon economy nearing 'C+' level of pre-pandemic times: SREDA  Saskatoon StarPhoenixCity of Saskatoon confident services won't be disrupted by recent COVID-19 wave  CBC.caToxicologist predicts Saskatoon's COVID-19 case count to fall 90% in coming weeks  CTV News SaskatoonSaskatoon's economy continues to chug along amid the Omicron wave  CKOM News Talk SportsView Full coverage on
  
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