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Saskatoon police mourn homeless man they arrested as many as 1,000 times

Alvin Cote, a homeless alcoholic, died in April. Police who arrested him regularly considered him a friend.


SASKATOON—He was one of the most recognizable residents in Saskatoon and some people consider the Prairie city a little different now that he’s gone.

Alvin Cote wasn’t a well-known politician, businessman or hockey player, but a ragged, homeless alcoholic whose tough talk would easily melt into a hearty chuckle and a big smile short on teeth.

He spent that past couple of decades living in Saskatoon. He could be seen curled up on floor of a bank foyer, sleeping on park benches or reading worn copies of National Geographic in the drunk tank.

He died April 19, a few days shy of his 60th birthday.

Saskatoon police officers are still talking about his death, even though they considered it an inevitable fate. It’s believed Cote had been arrested more times for public drunkenness than anyone else in the city’s history.
Some officers put the tally at close to 1,000.

Although his obituary does not list an official cause of death, police say Cote was in hospital with pneumonia when he died.

Downtown beat officer Const. Derek Chesney was surprised and saddened when he heard the news.
He saw the man almost every day over the past five years.

“It’s not often that you can arrest somebody on multiple occasions and end up being friends with them. But such was the case with Alvin,” Chesney recently wrote on his official police blog, Cops and Bloggers.


www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/05/10/saskatoon_police_mourn_homeless_man_they_arrested_as_many_as_1000_times.html
 
I walked by the Great Antonio almost every day during my college days, he was always sitting at the same spot inside the Berri UQAM subway station, selling postcards and generally being fat.

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Saskatchewan highway construction season begins

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The Saskatchewan government has launched highway construction season — with more than $280 million earmarked this year for building new sections of roads.

Among the big projects is a new four-lane highway from Dewdney Avenue to Highway 1, known as the West Regina Bypass, as well as a new overpass at Highway 1.

"The whole intent is to have that traffic flow freely from No. 1 coming from the east all the way around to No. 11 going up to Saskatoon eventually," Highways Minister Don McMorris said.

Other construction season highlights include:

  • Completing the last 13 km of twinning on Highway 11 between Saskatoon and Prince Albert (at MacDowall).
  • New passing lanes between Balgonie and Fort Qu’Appelle.
  • Beginning construction on 12-km, two-lane Estevan Truck Route, which will be built from the intersection of Highway 39 and Shand Road to Highway 39 west of the city.
  • 280 km of repaving work on Highways 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 32, 33, 37, 40, 41, 46, 55 and 106.
  • 75 km of rural highway upgrades (on Highways 22, 27, 48, 55, 58, 123, 263 and 310).
  • 33 bridge and culvert replacements.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2013/05/17/sk-highway-contruction-1305.html
 
Saskatoon singer Alexis Normand botches rendition of U.S. national anthem

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Saskatoon-based jazz singer Alexis Normand stumbled to find the words for the Star-Spangled Banner before the Memorial Cup game Saturday.

“I’m embarrassed and deeply sorry. I wish I’d had more time to learn the American anthem,” Normand tweeted after the game between the Halifax Mooseheads and the Portland Winterhawks.

Normand said she was asked the morning before the game to learn the national anthem.

“I was asked (Saturday) morning and I agreed,” she said.

“I’m usually a quick study and I’ve been learning songs for a long time. I had learned all the lyrics, but nerves just got the best of me and I got really nervous and it all unwound from there,” Normand said.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/..._botches_rendition_of_us_national_anthem.html
 
Doughnut shop desperate for workers in oil patch

Saskatchewan Tim Hortons owner looks to Philippines, Mexico and India for servers


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The owner of a Tim Hortons doughnut shop in Estevan, Sask., says he is having a hard time recruiting people to the service industry because of stiff competition for workers from a thriving oil patch.

"We're in a pretty desperate situation, in Estevan, and have been for the last couple of years now," Dennis Willows, who has owned a restaurant in the city for 11 years, told CBC News Wednesday. "We're sitting at 34 people and I should have 45."

Willows is planning to open a second store in October and has been hosting job fairs and looking for workers from abroad to staff his shops.

"We just don't have the workers in Canada," Willows said. "You would think ... people would be moving out here. But we don't see a lot of them."

Willows said he is paying around $12 an hour as a starting wage for staff.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saska.../26/sk-estevan-coffee-shop-hiring-120926.html
 
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