Ryan Straschnitzki’s Paralympic dreams haven’t fizzled, but his path to the international stage could take him from the ice to the hardwood. The 24-year-old from Airdrie, Alta., was paralyzed from the chest down in 2018 when a semi-trailer ran a stop sign and barrelled into the path of the Humboldt Broncos’ bus in rural Saskatchewan. Sixteen […]
The Federal Court has agreed to allow the lawyer for a former truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash to argue against his possible deportation. In 2019, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was sentenced to eight years after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm in the crash that killed 16 people and […]
A lawyer for a former truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash says he’s cautiously optimistic that he will get the chance to argue against his client’s possible deportation before Federal Court. In 2019, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was sentenced to eight years after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm […]
The Saskatchewan government is seeking to reassure the families of those killed or injured in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash that it will not be loosening rules for truck driving licences. “As you noted, concerns have been raised about the shortage of drivers in the trucking industry,” Don Morgan, the cabinet minister responsible for Saskatchewan […]
Families of those killed or injured in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash are raising concerns that Saskatchewan’s rules for truck driving licenses could be loosened as the industry deals with a shortage of drivers. The crash killed 16 people and injured 13 others after a bus carrying the junior hockey team collided with a transport […]
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has set aside a temporary injunction that prevented a lawsuit filed by some grieving parents of those who died in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash from going ahead. Sixteen people were killed and thirteen were injured in 2018, when an inexperienced truck driver barreled through a stop sign and into […]
The Parole Board of Canada has granted the trucker who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash day parole for six months. But it is still to be decided if he will be deported back to India. The board says Jaskirat Singh Sidhu will get full parole after those six months if he follows conditions. Sidhu was […]
Another step has been taken to create an everlasting memory of the 2018 Humboldt Broncos. The City of Humboldt recently applied for funding through the Federal and Provincial Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP) which could cover up to 70 percent of the proposed $35 million tribute centre that the city along with the Broncos […]
Jaskirit Singh Sidhu will be deported from Canada, once he has finished serving his sentence for his role in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. In April of 2018 Sidhu was driving a semi that ran through a stop sign, and collided with the bus carrying the SJHL hockey club’s players and support staff. 16 people […]
