CBC News Saskatchewan
U of S Huskies successfully defend U Sports national women’s basketball title
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- U of S Huskies successfully defend U Sports national women’s basketball title
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The University of Saskatchewan Huskies women’s basketball team defeated the University of New Brunswick Reds with a 77-68 victory in Quebec City on Sunday.
#CBCNews #saskatchewan #sports #basketball #usports
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- Can you trust online health information?
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- 49:02
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- We are living in wild times, even if you think you are savvy online our guest today says the online methods of disinformation are levelling up at an alarming rate.
Timothy Caulfield, is Canada's foremost expert on health misinformation and he is coming to the University of Regina to deliver a public talk tomorrow night.
We'll dive into what he's calling the knowledge crisis and find out how we got here and what we can do about it.
What kind of health information are you seeing online?
Have you found yourself tempted to buy supplements or seen a proven cure for cancer online that seemed too good to be true?
How are you seeing health disinformation playing out in your own life and family?
Join the conversation in the comments or e-mail bluesky@cbc.ca
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #healthinformation #misinformation_buster
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- Saskatoon woman says boyfriend removed a screw from her skull after failed ER visit
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Stephanie Faure describes how a screw came loose after her craniotomy surgery, and how she didn’t get the help she wanted at Royal University Hospital’s emergency department in Saskatoon.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #saskatoon #medical #healthcare
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- Fertilizer prices are affected by the war in the Middle East. What does that mean for food supply?
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Conflict in the Middle East is rapidly driving up costs for farmers in Canada, just as spring planting begins. Fertilizer prices are spiking, as disruptions squeeze global supply.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7124948
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #farming #agriculture #fertilizer
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- CBC SK News: war in Iran driving up price for farmers, Brittany Hudak wins bronze at Paralympics
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- 22:58
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- News from across Saskatchewan for Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
Sask. woman says boyfriend removed surgical screw poking out of her head after doctor didn't believe her
'Take what President Trump says seriously, but don't take it literally': Sask. premier
War in Middle East driving up costs for Canadian farmers
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #healthcare #sarm #premierscottmoe
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- La Ronge Ice Wolves play 1st season as only on-reserve SJHL team
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- 2:31
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The Ice Wolves are the only Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League team to have their home ice on a reserve, at Lac La Ronge Indian Band's Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre. Players and community leaders say it's a move that brings pride, representation and a place young fans can see themselves.
CORRECTION: The Ice Wolves are not the first SJHL team to play on reserve land but are currently the 'only' team playing on-reserve.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7122574
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #hockey #sjhl #laronge
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- City of Regina wants you to watch what you put in your blue bin
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The city says too many people are putting the wrong things in their recycling carts. Around 1 in 5 items thrown in the city’s blue bins isn’t supposed to be there. The goal is to get contamination down to just 6%. If it stays higher than that, more money is wasted to fix the issue.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #recycling #bluebin #recyclingplant
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- Sask. woman says boyfriend pulled surgical screw from her skull after failed ER visit
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Stephanie Faure had brain surgery 14 months ago. When she felt pressure on her head and saw what appeared to be a surgical screw coming out of her head, she went to the emergency department. She says the ER doctor didn’t believe her and sent her home.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7122980
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #healthcare #medicalmishap #surgicalscrew
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- Three chiefs on what it means to be a female in charge in a male-dominated environment
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- 2:43
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Linda Innes, the first woman to be elected chief in her community, Marie Anne Daywalker-Pelletier, the longest-serving chief in Canada, and Trechelle Bunn, the youngest-ever chief in her community, discuss what it's like to be a woman in this role.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #indigenous #women #britishcolumbia #manitoba
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- Could uranium fuel Saskatchewan's next boom? | This is Saskatchewan
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- 20:40
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The province’s uranium industry is seeing a major upswing. Saskatchewan company Cameco signed a $2.6-billion trade deal with India to provide 22 million pounds of uranium to fuel its nuclear reactors over the next nine years. Meanwhile, Denison Mines Corp. and NexGen Energy Ltd. just received approvals from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to start construction on the province’s first two new uranium mines in a generation. What’s driving this boom and will it benefit the province?
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #uranium #nuclear
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- CBC SK News: hunting permits out of season to cull elk, La Ronge ski trails are back after wildfires
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- 22:58
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- News from across Saskatchewan for Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
Sask. to issue hunting permits out of season for destructive elk on farmland
Sask. government rejects NDP private member's bill to crack down on foreign farm ownership
La Ronge loppet marks triumphant return after fires destroyed 80% of ski trails
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #farming #elk #wildlife #wildfire
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- La Ronge loppet marks triumphant return after fires destroyed 80% of ski trails
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- 2:37
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The Don Allen Saskaloppet returned to La Ronge after last summer's wildfires burned the majority of the trail network and damaged several warm-up cabins. Skiers and volunteers say the event was a sign of recovering, but rebuilding the trails will take years.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7121279
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #laronge #skitrails #wildfire #crosscountryskiing
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- Sask. to issue hunting permits out of season for destructive elk on farmland
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Saskatchewan farmers have an elk problem. The animals are eating crops and grain meant for livestock. The province has a plan to help.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7123136
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #elk #farming #huntingpermit
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- Saskatchewan leads Canada in missed mortgage payments
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Equifax data shows the numbers are improving, but a survey done by Ipsos for accounting firm MNP found there are deeper financial strains gripping the province.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7117872
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #mortgage #homeownership #debt
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- Montreal Lake Cree Nation woman’s death deemed homicide
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- RCMP are investigating the death of 31-year-old Tanya Roberts on March 1. Friends and family say Roberts had travelled to Montreal Lake Cree Nation to visit her birth family.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #homicide #investigation #rcmp
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- Gas prices expected to further increase amid war in Iran
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- A petroleum analyst with GasBuddy, the gas price tracking website and app, says the surge in gas prices is due to the U.S.-Israel war in Iran that's preventing oil tankers from accessing the Strait of Hormuz, through which almost 20 per cent of the world's supply of oil is transported.
#Oil #Iran #MiddleEast #Sask #CBCNews
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- Premier Scott Moe on doctor shortage and potential of 2-tier health-care system
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- 11:32
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe joined The Morning Edition to talk about the plans for improving the health-care system and the potential of a two-tier system.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #skpoli #healthcare #premierscottmoe
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- LIVE | Premier Scott Moe speaks to reporters about 'the future of health care in Saskatchewan'
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- 1:06:20
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Premier Scott Moe is expected to make a health care announcement on Monday morning alongside other officials, including Jeremy Cockrill, the health minister, and Lori Carr, the minister of rural and remote health.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #healthcare #skpoli #premierscottmoe
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- U of S researcher studies how heat from fires affects metals found in soil
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- 6:04
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Derek Peak, a professor in the college of agriculture and bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan, is using the Canadian Light Source synchrotron to study how some metals can become toxic at certain temperatures.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #wildfire #research #usask
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- Opposition NDP calls out Saskatchewan’s new health-care plan
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- 1:59
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The Saskatchewan government has unveiled a new health-care plan with a goal to match every resident with a primary health-care provider.
The Opposition NDP says the government is rehashing old ideas from a plan announced 14 years ago that had the same goal and a similar name.
#healthcare #health #sask #skpoli #cbcnews
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- CBC SK News: future of health care, gas prices, Huskies' back-to-back champs
- Runtime
- 22:58
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- News from across Saskatchewan for Monday, March 9, 2026.
Expansion of virtual care, more nurse practitioners key parts of new Sask. health-care plan
Some Sask. drivers make tough choices as gas prices spike amidst U.S.-Israel war against Iran
Huskies women's basketball team repeats as national champions
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #healthcare #gasprices
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- Expansion of virtual care, more nurse practitioners key parts of new Sask. health-care plan
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- 2:15
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Saskatchewan's new health-care plan lays out more than 50 actions the government will take to ensure residents are "receiving the right care in the right place at the right time." Provincial affairs reporter Alexander Quon brings us the latest.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7120684
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #healthcare #politics #skpoli #virtualcare
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- Every Sask. resident to have primary care provider, province promises
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- 2:53
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Saskatchewan’s premier and health minister unveiled a new patient-first plan that promises every resident will be attached to a primary care provider, whether it’s a doctor, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant.
#healthcare #health #sask #cbcnews
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- Town of La Ronge takes on land developer role
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- 2:50
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- A lack of affordable housing is hampering people moving to La Ronge. To help the situation, the Town of La Ronge has had to get involved by developing building lots for new homes and rental accommodations.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7107513
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #northernsaskatchewan #laronge #homebuilding
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- Province will listen to municipalities seeking more tax powers
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Saskatchewan's government says it will consider requests like the one from Regina city council seeking more tax options. Saskatoon's mayor says cities need a new funding deal.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7114754
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #municipalpolitics #regina #saskatoon
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- Human trafficking in Saskatchewan: what's being done to stop it?
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- 47:59
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- We hear the words human trafficking and sex trafficking and it seems like something that happens in other places -- in other countries, big cities.
But the reality is there are people in Saskatchewan who are in very precarious situations and at risk of being trafficked. It's happening in our cities and even in our small towns.
We hear from an organization in Saskatoon that helps people who have been sexually exploited and trafficked. The efforts of the RCMP in this province to crack down on human trafficking.
And we'll learn the warning signs so you can help protect the people in your life.
If you have questions or want to join the conversation e-mail bluesky@cbc.ca
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #crime #rcmp #investigations
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- As ice floes shrink, more polar bears are encountering humans
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Researchers used to think that polar bears were coming into contact with humans more frequently because they were starving and searching for food. But new research suggests that's not the case.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7113255
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #polarbear #research
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- New survey shows Sask. people want more funding for arts and culture
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- 6:15
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The Saskatchewan Arts Alliance released a new survey showing people in the province want more financial support for arts and culture.
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- What should be the role of universities going forward?
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- 47:24
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Democracy, equity, and academic freedom. Big ideas that surround universities.
We are joined by the editors of a new book -- making the case that universities across North America are under attack.
How budget cuts and attacks from ultra-conservative pundits are forcing these educational institutions to defend their value in monetary terms.
What should be the role of universities?
Join the conversation in the comments or e-mail bluesky@cbc.ca
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #secondaryeducation #university
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- CBC SK News: Man gets 7 years in prison for carjacking, assaulting federal judge in Saskatoon
- Runtime
- 22:59
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- News from across Saskatchewan for Friday March 6, 2026.
Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say
Highway 16 down to 1 eastbound lane after semi's load damages Circle Drive overpass
Sask. parents, providers frustrated over eligibility change to $10-a-day daycare
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- Sask. parents blindsided by eligibility change to $10-a-day daycare
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Some parents are discovering that their children don’t qualify for $10-a-day daycare, despite being told that they would. It only affects kids who turned six before April 1.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7116536
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #childcare #politics #daycare
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- Man gets prison sentence for Saskatoon crime spree
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Brandon Burns pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 7 years in prison for a 2025 crime spree that started with the assault and carjacking of a federal judge in downtown Saskatoon.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7117677
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #crimespree #stolenvehicle #crime
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- Safety of Sask. library workers | Sask. Political Panel
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- 13:36
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The issue of safety in Saskatchewan libraries has been a hot topic at the provincial legislature. The Morning Edition’s political panel discusses the issue and the comments made by the minister of social services. The panel also analyzes a private member's bill, introduced by the NDP, on power and insurance rates, and the premier’s trip to India.
This week's panel features political pundit Murray Mandryk, CBC's Alexander Quon and Morning Edition host Adam Hunter.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #skpoli #politics #premierscottmoe
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- Is Saskatchewan putting more resources into nuclear a good thing?
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- 47:35
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Saskatchewan is in the midst of a uranium boom.
Premier Scott Moe and the CEO of Cameco signed a deal earlier this week in India. Cameco will provide India with 22 million pounds of uranium to fuel its nuclear reactors over the next 9 years.
Meanwhile a new uranium mine just got the go-ahead to be built in northern Saskatchewan east of Cree Lake. And another underground uranium mine is in the process of getting approved to set up 150 kilometres north of La Loche.
Plus there are plans for a Small Modular Reactor Safety, Licensing, and Testing Centre at the University of Regina — the first of its kind in Western Canada
What will this mean for Saskatchewan through a political, economic and environmental lens?
What do you make of this new uranium deal Saskatchewan has signed with India?
Is the province putting more resources into nuclear a good thing?
Join the conversation in the comments or e...
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- Polar bears aren't hunting people, they're just out of ice: Scientists
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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Researchers used to think that polar bears were coming into contact with humans more frequently because they were starving and searching for food. But new research suggests that's not the case.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #polarbear #research #wildlife
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- Iranian living in Sask. reacts to continued attacks on Iran
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- 2:13
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- It is an anxious time for Iranians living in Saskatchewan, especially for those with family still in the Middle East. CBC radio host Peter Mills spoke with Niloufar Rahimi Khameneh, an Iranian in Regina who says she has difficulty contacting loved ones back home due to an internet blackout.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #iran
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- CBC SK News: China's canola tariffs down, Vendasta cuts 20 jobs in Saskatoon
- Runtime
- 22:58
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- News from Saskatchewan for Thursday, March 5, 2026.
Rural municipalities association speaks out against proposed SaskPower rate hike
Tech company Vendasta cuts 20 jobs in Saskatoon and 50 worldwide as it switches over to AI
Sask. canola faces uncertainty even with China's tariffs down
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #canola #chinatradwar #vendasta
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- China's tariffs drop on canola, but Sask. producers still concerned
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- As tariffs relax on Canadian canola, farmers are dealing with a new issue: rising input costs from the war in Iran.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7116691
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #canola #tariffs #farming
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- Saskatoon company laying off staff as it moves toward AI
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- 3:15
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Statistics Canada estimates about 60 per cent of Canadians are working in jobs highly exposed to the threat of AI. We're already seeing those stats become a reality in Saskatchewan. A Saskatoon-based company is laying off its staff because it's moving towards AI automation.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #vendasta #layoffs #ai
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- CBC SK News: oil prices and provincial budget, deportation looming for driver in Broncos crash
- Runtime
- 23:00
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- News from across Saskatchewan for Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
Why the volatile price of oil can help, or hurt, the Saskatchewan budget
Time running out in Canada for man who caused Humboldt Broncos bus crash
Man gets 5 years for leading police on 'shocking' chase through Saskatoon
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #humboldtbroncos #policechase #oil #provincialbudget
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- Sask.company says it developed unique photo scanner
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Film Rescue International says its new multi-spectral film scanner is the fastest on the market.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7104239
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #spectralscanner #photopgraphy #archiving #preservation
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- How oil's volatile price is affecting the Saskatchewan budget
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Saskatchewan's finance minister said the best budget contingency is to 'not rely too much on natural resources,' but oil remains a key component in the province's fiscal landscape.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7114330
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #oil #provincialfinances
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- Man sentenced to 5 years for police chase through Saskatoon
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Kaz Daigneault, 33, pleaded guilty to multiple charges after the July 2025 incident, which included stealing a work truck and ramming a police vehicle.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7113556
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #crime #policechase
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- 2 students arrested after BB-style guns found in high school parking lot
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- RCMP arrested two students at Greenall High School in Balgonie after a person passing the area in their car reported seeing someone in a vehicle with a gun on a road near the school.
Police seized three BB-style long guns in the school parking lot and arrested the two male youths. They said no one was hurt and there is no risk to public safety.
#publicsafety #sask #canada #cbcnews
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- This man can’t go out in the sun; a clinical trial changed his life
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Kris Kinar lived with Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP), a rare sun-sensitivity disorder causing immediate severe pain upon sun exposure, for decades undiagnosed in sunny Saskatoon. Forced to remain indoors, he sought rare disease organizations, leading him to a clinical trial at Massachusetts General Brigham. There, he met Dr. Amy Yeung, an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School assistant professor who also has EPP. The trial drug, Bitopertin, decreased protoporphyrin in EPP patients' blood by about 50%, significantly improving light sensitivity.
#CBCNews #Health #yxe #raredisease
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- LIVE | RCMP provide update on arrests made after gun reported in vehicle near school in Balgonie, SK
- Runtime
- 18:41
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- RCMP say they continue to investigate after an incident at Greenall High School in Balgonie, Sask. on Wednesday. Police say they received a report of an individual with a gun in a vehicle near the school. Police arrested two male youths at the scene after seizing three BB-style long guns.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #rcmp #highschool #guninvestigation
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- AI data centres are coming to Sask., and there are questions | This is Saskatchewan
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- 26:47
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Bell Canada announced it plans to build an AI data centre campus south of Regina. A flurry of questions are now being asked: What kind of data centre? How will it be powered? Will it use a ton of water? Details remain scarce, but we seek as many answers as we can on this new frontier of tech in Saskatchewan.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #artificialintelligence #ai #datacenter
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- Regina woman who grew up in Tehran reacts to continued attacks on Iran
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- 8:24
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- It is an anxious time for Iranians living in Saskatchewan, especially for those with family still in the Middle East. CBC radio host Peter Mills spoke with Niloufar Rahimi Khameneh, an Iranian in Regina who says she can no longer contact her family.
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #iran
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- CBC SK News: hundreds of young people homeless in Saskatoon, tuition relief extended for Ukrainians
- Runtime
- 23:02
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- News from across Saskatchewan for Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Union urges Sask. to increase library supports after attacks on workers
Sask. extends tuition relief program for Ukrainian post-secondary students who fled war
Fiery Saskatoon semi crash slows down morning traffic on Circle Drive
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #healthcare #homelessness #streaming
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- Rare sun disorder kept this Sask. man indoors; a clinical trial changed his life
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Kris Kinar lived with Erythropoietic protoporphyria, a rare sun-sensitivity disorder causing immediate severe pain upon sun exposure, for decades undiagnosed in sunny Saskatoon. Forced to remain indoors, he sought rare disease organizations, leading him to a clinical trial at Mass General Brigham in Massachusetts
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.7109415
#cbcnews #saskatchewan #health #rarediseases #Erythropoieticprotoporphyria
