CALGARY—The owner of the transport truck involved in the deadly Humboldt Broncos' bus crash has admitted he did not follow provincial and federal safety rules in the months leading up to the collision.
Sukhmander Singh of Adesh Deol Trucking was not in court yesterday when his lawyer pleaded guilty on his behalf to five charges.
CALGARY—A narrow, snow-covered gravel road winds its way to a hidden gate that opens to a parcel of land on the southern tip of Calgary.
But it's not a typical ranch property. Behind large, wire fences live a Przewalski wild horse native to Mongolia, Vancouver Island marmots, burrowing owls, greater sage grouse, and whooping cranes.
MELFORT, Sask.—A Crown prosecutor says a truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos' bus crash should serve 10 years in prison.
Thomas Healey has told a sentencing hearing in Melfort, Sask. that the horrific and unprecedented collision calls for a lengthy sentence.
MELFORT, Sask.—The wife of the Humboldt Broncos' head coach says she forgives the truck driver who caused a crash that killed her husband and 15 others.
Darcy Haugan's wife, Christina, told court that while she's angry the crash claimed the life of the father of her two young children, she doesn't have ill will toward Jaskirat Singh Sidhu.
CALGARY—Six years after it all began, Filipe Masetti Leite still is in the saddle and planning a new adventure.
Leite, 31, who immigrated to Canada from Brazil when he was a teenager, began his original journey in July, 2012 and spent two years riding his two horses through 10 countries in North, Central, and South America.
HUMBOLDT, Sask.—A tragic bus crash that has sunk a Saskatchewan community into deep sorrow also has released an incredible display of human kindness as residents struggle to deal with their grief.
CALGARY—Apparently lightning can strike the same place twice after all.
A study by researchers at the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering suggests it's possible to predict where lightning will strike and how often.
They say satellite data and artificial intelligence can help foresee where lightning poses a greater risk to spark wildfires.
BATTLEFORD, Sask.—The fate of a Saskatchewan farmer charged in the shooting death of an indigenous man soon will be in the hands of a jury.
Gerald Stanley, 56, was charged with second degree murder in August, 2016.
BATTLEFORD, Sask.—A Saskatchewan farmer on trial for the shooting of an indigenous man says he was filled with terror in the moments before his gun “just went off.”
Gerald Stanley told the jury in his second-degree murder trial yesterday that he and his son heard an SUV with a flat tire drive into his farmyard near Biggar, Sask. in August, 2016.
BATTLEFORD, Sask.—The son of a Saskatchewan farmer on trial for killing an indigenous man says his father looked like he was going to be sick after the shooting and told him the gun “just went off.”
Sheldon Stanley told a jury at Gerald Stanley's murder trial yesterday that an SUV drove into the family's farmyard near Biggar, Sask. in August, 2016.
