What an NCAA rule change might mean for junior hockey in Sask.
Nov 18, 2024
Previously, WHL players were declared ineligible to play NCAA hockey in the U.S.
In the 400 Block of 26th Street West, the Saskatoon Police Service responded to a call about an injured man around 2:30 a.m.
A 37-year-old man died later in hospital from his injuries. Police believe the suspect, a 45-year-old man who’s been charged with manslaughter and the victim knew each other.
This is the Bridge City’s 14th homicide of 2024. In June, the city was at 11 up 67 per cent from 2023. The homicide victims ranged in age from one year to 66.
On Nov. 15, a woman was found dead in front of the Copper Mug, making it the first homicide this year on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River.
The year’s first homicide was on Feb. 3 in the Pacific Heights neighbourhood when a 25-year-old Alberta man was found dead in a home on Lisgar Avenue. Two people have been charged.
The second was on Feb. 10 when a 48-year-old man was shot to death in Saskatoon’s Caswell Hill neighbourhood. One man was arrested.
On Feb. 17, a 48-year-old man was killed at a home on Avenue I South after being shot in the third homicide of the year. Two people have been arrested.
A man has been charged in the stabbing death of a 35-year-old Saskatoon on Feb. 19 in the city’s fourth homicide.
The fifth also happened the same day, when two boys aged 12 and 13 were charged in the weapons-related death of another 12-year-old boy in the Massey Place neighbourhood.
A 1-year-old boy was the victim in the city’s sixth homicide in the 100 block of Avenue T South on March 9. A woman has been charged.
Saskatoon’s seventh murder was on April 15 when Melissa Duquette, 24, was found dead in the basement of a house in the Dundonald neighbourhood. Two people have been charged.
The eighth homicide, also on April 15 is unsolved after a 25-year-old man was shot in the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood.
The following day, April 16, a 30-year-old man died in hospital after being injured on April 15. No one has been arrested.
On June 3, the city’s 10th homicide was recorded in the 800 block of 22nd Street West when Glen Lennie, 29, was stabbed. Two people have been charged.
The 11th murder in the city happened on June 12 when Harvey Zoerb, 66, was killed near Fairhaven Elementary School.
Two people were charged in Saskatoon’s 12th homicide of 2024 after 30-year-old Jordan Lee Morin was killed on Aug. 16 in Riversdale.
Saskatoon’s 13th murder was a 20-year-old woman who was found dead in the Copper Mug parking lot on November 15.