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• Downtown, core districts eyed as new site for Canada Day festivities

  21-03-2022 23:34 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Organizers are hoping to secure a more central location for Saskatoon's annual Canada Day celebration. Read More
  
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• Fast-spreading Omicron sub-variant BA.2 taking hold in Sask.

  21-03-2022 23:30
  
  The Omicron sub-variant BA.2 makes up 10 per cent of all COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan and is poised to take over as the new dominant strain, according to an expert.
  
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• Saskatchewan organizations react to CP Rail work stoppage

  21-03-2022 23:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  Organizations in Saskatchewan have voiced their concerns as the CP Rail labour dispute has entered its second day.
  
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• Loaded weapon found by Saskatoon police in stolen vehicle - SaskToday.ca

  21-03-2022 22:39 via sasktoday.ca
  
  Loaded weapon found by Saskatoon police in stolen vehicle  SaskToday.ca
  
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• Three Arrested -Stolen Vehicle/Firearms - Avenue C North and Pakwa Place

  21-03-2022 22:22 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  
  Two men and a woman are facing 46 charges following an incident in which a vehicle failed to stop for police.At approximately 10:20 a.m. March 20, 2022 Patrol officers spotted a Jeep Grand Cherokee which had previously been reported stolen.  Officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop at Avenue D and 22nd Street, however the driver refused to stop, fled the scene and began driving in an erratic and dangerous manner.  The Air Support Unit was able to track the vehicle from the air
  
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• RPC guards testify on first day of inquest into inmate's death in 2019

  21-03-2022 21:53 via thestarphoenix.com
  
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• 11 senior homes, family housing facilities affected as provincial subsidy ends

  21-03-2022 21:21
  
  The end to a provincial subsidy program will affect seniors and families at 11 facilities, according to the Ministry of Social Services.
  
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• 11 Sask. senior homes affected as provincial subsidy ends

  21-03-2022 21:21
  
  The end to a provincial subsidy program will affect seniors at 11 facilities, according to the Ministry of Social Services.
  
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• CP Rail shutdown raises concerns for already constrained Canadian oil and gas industry

  21-03-2022 21:13 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada's oil and natural gas producers are closely monitoring an ongoing shutdown of railway operations that began early Sunday, voicing unease that any prolonged work stoppage could limit Canada's ability to get more oil to market.
  
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• ‘I am very concerned’: Future of Saskatchewan in Motion in doubt after funding pulled

  21-03-2022 20:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  The not-for-profit organization has been around since 2003, providing and promoting the importance of physical activity.
  
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• Saskatchewan reaches highest COVID-19 death rate among provinces: physician town hall

  21-03-2022 19:55
  
  Saskatchewan has the highest COVID-19 death rate among the provinces, according to information shared at a physician town hall last week.
  
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• Multiple Saskatchewan police agencies launch 2022 firearm amnesty program

  21-03-2022 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police across the province are participating in this year's firearm amnesty program where residents are offered an opportunity to surrender unwanted guns.
  
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• Regina police involved in province-wide gun amnesty event

  21-03-2022 18:58
  
  The Regina Police Service (RPS) is one of several municipal police services taking part in a province-wide gun amnesty event, allowing residents to surrender unwanted firearms or ammunition without the threat of facing charges.
  
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• These journalists filmed the agony in Mariupol and escaped while being hunted down by Russian forces

  21-03-2022 18:29 via cbc.ca
  
  Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov and photographer Evgeniy Maloletka arrived in Mariupol, Ukraine, in the early hours of Feb. 24. An hour later, Russia's war on its neighbour started. Chernov recounts what he and his colleague witnessed and how they escaped from the city as Russians were hunting them down.
  
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• Sask. project aims to reduce racism on the prairies

  21-03-2022 18:05
  
  A team of people in Saskatoon and Regina hope to inspire non-Indigenous readers to have honest conversations about racial issues on the prairies.
  
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• More than 100 additional continuing care assistants now working in Saskatchewan

  21-03-2022 18:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Saskatchewan government says 94 per cent of continuing care assistants hired as part of funding from the 2021-22 budget are already working in the province.
  
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• Annual firearm amnesty program underway in Saskatchewan

  21-03-2022 17:52 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  An annual gun amnesty program to address gun violence in Saskatchewan is kicking off this week. Read More
  
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• Resurgence of COVID-19 in Saskatoon, Regina worries wastewater researchers - CBC.ca

  21-03-2022 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Resurgence of COVID-19 in Saskatoon, Regina worries wastewater researchers  CBC.ca
  
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• Resurgence of COVID-19 in Saskatoon, Regina worries wastewater researchers

  21-03-2022 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A group of researchers at the University of Saskatchewan is worried about the numbers coming from the latest wastewater study.
  
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• Resurgence of COVID-19 in Saskatoon, Prince Albert worries wastewater researchers - CBC.ca

  21-03-2022 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Resurgence of COVID-19 in Saskatoon, Prince Albert worries wastewater researchers  CBC.ca
  
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• Resurgence of COVID-19 in Saskatoon, Prince Albert worries wastewater researchers

  21-03-2022 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A group of researchers at the University of Saskatchewan is worried about the latest numbers coming from the latest wastewater study.
  
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• SACP Firearm Amnesty 2022 - March 21 to April 10

  21-03-2022 15:27 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  
  Saskatchewan municipal police services, Saskatchewan RCMP and the Ministry of Environment are officially launching the 2022 Firearm Amnesty Program on March 21st.  The program, sponsored by the Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police (SACP), offers a proactive approach to the issue of gun violence in Saskatchewan.  The SACP Firearm Amnesty recognizes that our province has a long history and tradition of hunting, agricultural production and recrea
  
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• 'It's that season:' Saskatoon sisters say any day is good for a car wash, even during spring melt - CKOM News Talk Sports

  21-03-2022 13:46 via ckom.com
  
  'It's that season:' Saskatoon sisters say any day is good for a car wash, even during spring melt  CKOM News Talk Sports
  
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• Opinion: There is another, more effective way to protest

  21-03-2022 13:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Canadians are trying hard to make sense of the "freedom convoy" that disrupted the country. Read More
  
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• How the pandemic has robbed me of a full high school experience

  21-03-2022 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Andie Lawrence, a Grade 11 student, has spent her high school years under the cloud of the pandemic. Now she wonders what she's lost.
  
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• Ongoing immigration delays leave nearly a million waiting to become citizens and permanent residents

  21-03-2022 11:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada had a backlog of more than 1.8 million immigration applications as of Feb. 1, including 519,030 permanent residence and 448,000 Canadian citizenship applications, according to IRCC data. Some have been waiting for four years to get their citizenship.
  
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• Ongoing immigration delays leave more than a million waiting to become citizens and permanent residents

  21-03-2022 11:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada had a backlog of more than 1.8 million immigration applications as of Feb. 1, including 519,030 permanent residence and 448,000 Canadian citizenship applications, according to IRCC data. Some have been waiting for four years to get their citizenship.
  
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• Chinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in country's south

  21-03-2022 10:05
  
  A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country's worst air disaster in nearly a decade.
  
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• Pressure on Ottawa as CP Rail stoppage enters second day

  21-03-2022 09:40
  
  The pressure is on in Ottawa today as a CP Rail work stoppage enters its second day. Industry leaders and politicians have urged Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan to end the labour dispute after 3,000 conductors, engineers and train and yard workers were off the job over the weekend.
  
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• Ottawa under pressure as CP Rail stoppage enters second day as talks continue

  21-03-2022 09:40
  
  The pressure is on in Ottawa today as a CP Rail work stoppage enters its second day. Industry leaders and politicians have urged Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan to end the labour dispute after 3,000 conductors, engineers and train and yard workers were off the job over the weekend.
  
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• The war in Ukraine could force Canada to shed its self-image as a peacekeeper

  21-03-2022 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Over the past three decades or more, Canada has suffered from a deep identity crisis whenever it has been confronted with the messy, brutal foreign wars raging in far-flung parts of this troubled globe.
  
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• Digital currency donations for Freedom Convoy evading seizure by authorities

  21-03-2022 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Most of the roughly $1 million in known donations raised in digital currency for the Freedom Convoy appears to have evaded seizure by authorities more than a month after the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act to freeze convoy assets.
  
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• Ukraine rejects Russia's demand to surrender Mariupol in exchange for safe passage out

  21-03-2022 08:47 via cbc.ca
  
  Ukrainian officials have rejected a Russian demand that their forces in the besieged strategic port city of Mariupol lay down arms Monday and raise white flags in exchange for safe passage out.
  
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• Ukraine refuses to surrender Mariupol as scope of human toll remains unclear

  21-03-2022 08:47 via cbc.ca
  
  As Mariupol's defenders held out Monday against Russian demands that they surrender, the number of bodies in the rubble of the bombarded and encircled Ukrainian city remained shrouded in uncertainty, the full extent of the horror not yet known.
  
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• Water on the road? Just dial the City of Saskatoon. - CJWW

  21-03-2022 08:00 via cjwwradio.com
  Water on the road? Just dial the City of Saskatoon.  CJWW
  
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• Saskatoon has a lot to celebrate during Canada Water Week - Saskatoon.ca |

  21-03-2022 08:00 via saskatoon.ca
  
  Saskatoon has a lot to celebrate during Canada Water Week  Saskatoon.ca |
  
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• Pro-COVID mandate rallies held in Saskatchewan

  21-03-2022 02:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Concerned citizens across Saskatchewan with a group called Take Action Against COVID or TAAC are advocating for pro-public health COVID-19 mandates to be reinstated.
  
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• First official day of spring in Saskatoon begins with cloud and rain - CTV News Saskatoon

  21-03-2022 01:52 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
  
  First official day of spring in Saskatoon begins with cloud and rain  CTV News Saskatoon
  
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• First official day of spring in Saskatoon begins with cloud and rain

  21-03-2022 01:52
  
  After a few days of melting snow under the sun, the first day of spring in Saskatoon brought rain clouds, making for a less than ideal Sunday.
  
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• COVID-19: Businesses made some pandemic changes that are here to stay

  21-03-2022 01:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  'Our business flipped completely upside down when the pandemic hit,' Local & Fresh owner Tim Shultz said. 
  
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• University of Guelph students working with CLS to create protein-filled alternatives

  21-03-2022 00:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  There’s not many options for protein-filled vegan foods but that won’t be the case for long as the U of G students work to create vegan alternatives.
  
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• Gushue denies report he lobbied Curling Canada for change to residency rule

  21-03-2022 00:09 via cbc.ca
  
  Brad Gushue wasn't thrilled when reports about his curling team's lineup plans surfaced this week. What really set him off were comments made on a curling podcast that suggested he was trying "to convince" Curling Canada to change its residency rule for his team's benefit.
  
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