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Phil Tank

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Tank: Saskatchewan Liberals' vote-splitting appeal rife with hypocrisy

yesterday 2

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Tank: Poilievre leaves Saskatchewan stop until campaign's dying days

yesterday 2

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Tank: Saskatoon council rejects even looking at campaign finance rules

21.04.2025 9

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Tank: NDP staring down historic collapse in its Saskatchewan 'birthplace'

Tank: NDP staring down historic collapse in its Saskatchewan 'birthplace'
16.04.2025 10

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Tank: Feisty Liberal, NDP supporters rally in solidly blue Saskatoon

12.04.2025 7

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Tank: Democracy dollar discrepancy deepens between Regina, Saskatoon

11.04.2025 9

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Tank: Moe misses his moment to stand up to Saskatchewan separatists

Tank: Moe misses his moment to stand up to Saskatchewan separatists
09.04.2025 10

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Tank: Block spent far less, still walloped Wyant in Saskatoon mayoral race

Tank: Block spent far less, still walloped Wyant in Saskatoon mayoral race
08.04.2025 10

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Tank: A year later, Saskatchewan solution for bear spray failing badly

Tank: A year later, Saskatchewan solution for bear spray failing badly
06.04.2025 10

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Tank: Carney Liberals could snap Conservatives' Saskatchewan sweep streak

03.04.2025 3

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Tank: Moe, Smith prove valuable assets ... for Carney and Liberals

01.04.2025 10

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Tank: Province blasted for 'fantastically' failing Saskatoon on homelessness

29.03.2025 10

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Tank: Sask. NDP's federal election priorities sound just like Moe's

26.03.2025 20

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Tank: Library closures reflect scope of desperate Saskatoon drug crisis

25.03.2025 10

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Tank: Saskatchewan budget believability enters tooth fairy territory

20.03.2025 4

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Tank: Meek Moe finally talks tough on trade — with new PM, not Trump

17.03.2025 10

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Tank: Saskatoon declares as 'safe' city for gender diversity in Sask.

15.03.2025 10

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Tank: Sask. alone in Western Canada in spurning COVID response review

12.03.2025 10

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Tank: Scary overdose scourge — 180 in 10 days — swamps Saskatoon

12.03.2025 8

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Tank: Saskatoon again tackles toxic topic of property tax burden

10.03.2025 8

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Tank: Moe must get muscular on Saskatchewan's Trump tariffs response

06.03.2025 3

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Tank: Edmonton Oilers should repatriate U.S. farm team to Saskatoon

21.02.2025 10

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Tank: Poilievre moves further away from Moe, Saskatchewan Party

14.02.2025 10

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Tank: Carney's Saskatoon stop aimed to revive Liberals in Saskatchewan

14.02.2025 10

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Tank: Sask. finally focuses on fentanyl after hundreds of deaths

11.02.2025 10

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Tank: Saskatoon police leave public puzzled on winter death alerts

08.02.2025 10

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Tank: Saskatchewan could be the strongest voice in American trade conflict

06.02.2025 10

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Tank: Massive property tax jump in Regina should surprise nobody

06.02.2025 10

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Tank: Saskatchewan's goofy property tax regime slams Saskatoon

05.02.2025 4

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Tank: Five years after Junos debacle, Saskatoon chases a similar event

01.02.2025 10

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Tank: COVID-19 pandemic still casts its long shadow over Saskatchewan

29.01.2025 3

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Tank: Never forget dire reason Saskatoon's University Bridge closed

28.01.2025 10

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Tank: The truth is still out there ... just not on social media

27.01.2025 10

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Tank: Bear spray as a weapon continues to pose threat in Saskatchewan

22.01.2025 10

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Tank: Sask. still boasting about growth, despite altered landscape

20.01.2025 10

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Tank: Survey suggests quality of life in pessimistic Saskatoon declining

18.01.2025 10

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Tank: A decade of photo radar in Sask. suggests it's no 'cash cow'

15.01.2025 10

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Tank: Saskatchewan braces for property tax assessment with higher prices

11.01.2025 10

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Tank: Saskatchewan's government wants your opinion ... on some issues

09.01.2025 10

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Tank: Despite rhetoric, crime in growing Saskatoon actually dipped in 2024

Much doubt has been cast on Saskatoon crime statistics, which show fewer crimes last year than in 2023 — and fewer than 10 years ago.

07.01.2025 4

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Tank: Studying Saskatoon arena upgrades will fail to convince skeptics

SaskTel Centre is planning to spend $200,000 to study renovations to the current arena, even as a new arena in downtown Saskatoon has been endorsed.

04.01.2025 3

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Tank: Regina, Saskatoon homeless counts show need for new strategy

Releasing the shocking homeless counts in Regina and Saskatoon played right into the Saskatchewan government's plan to avoid talking about the...

02.01.2025 7

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Tank: Judy Harwood reflects on 12 years leading largest Sask. rural municipality

Judy Harwood opted against seeking a fourth term as reeve of Corman Park, Saskatchewan's largest rural municipality. She wants more women on RM...

27.12.2024 7

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Tank: Saskatoon boasts legacy of close races, futility in council bids

Dave Whalley won a 1979 race for a Saskatoon city council seat by a single vote and one candidate ran five times without ever getting elected.

23.12.2024 6

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Tank: New owner of Saskatoon StarPhoenix building aims to preserve it

Brent Suer of Duchuck Holdings Ltd. wants to locate a long-sought downtown grocery store in the nearly 60-year-old newspaper office and add...

19.12.2024 5

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Tank: Tragic trial's end amplifies cannabis confusion in Saskatchewan

Charges were stayed in the trial of a Saskatoon woman charged with driving over the legal limit for cannabis in a collision that killed a...

18.12.2024 8

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Tank: Saskatoon's TCU Place struggles to stay viable in new landscape

Saskatoon city council heard that the convention business for cities this size has been altered in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, making it...

16.12.2024 10

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Tank: Saskatoon's homelessness crisis outpaces attempts to cope with it

Saskatoon's homeless count has reached 1,499, which was announced on the same day that an extreme cold warning was issued.

14.12.2024 10

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Tank: Saskatchewan tips balance for gratuities to appeal to workers

Saskatchewan is moving to prevent employers from keeping tips from workers, but the government struggles to explain why it's doing this.

11.12.2024 5

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Tank: Block's support in mayoral race came from throughout Saskatoon

Voters backed Saskatoon's first woman mayor in the core neighbourhoods and suburbs; she won all but 13 of 69 polls in last month's election.

09.12.2024 5

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