#Humboldt bus tragedy

[propicsmedia]

Humboldt Bus Tragedy A Drivers Fate - Driver Ordered Deported From Canada but there is a long road to actual enforcement and potential reversal of decision. #humboldt #humboldtbroncos #humboldtbuscrash #Humboldttragedy #immigration #deportation #truckdriver #criminal #conviction #jail #prison #citizenship #immigrationCanada #canada #tragedy #JaskiratSinghSidhu #immigrationorder #deportationorder #appeal #humnitarian #compassion #laws #legal #highwaysafety #AdeshDeolTrucking #SukhmanderSingh 

[chicago-geniza]

Everybody please clap I went to the asthma diet study and then to two pharmacies in wholly disparate areas of Chicago and went to T-Mobile and found out how to fix my phone even if they didn't have the requisite component in stock and discovered insurance needs to renew the prior approval on my T for the new year so I sent it to my doctor for review and discovered I am locked out of my state benefits online account and the email tech support was singularly unhelpful so am calling the Humboldt Park office in the morning to see if a human being can sort it out, vaguely recall I do NOT need to renew Medicaid but want to make absolutely sure so will call THAT number first thing in the morning too; also - replaced my busted headphones at the student store so I didn't have a meltdown, picked up a notebook and some Post-Its, impulsively swung by the uni library and discovered my card still worked and checked out Cayhill on Benjamin, Nietzsche on tragedy, and two Ernst Bloch books in translation, also cased their periodicals for dissertation research; nobody is there! It's so quiet and still. They have Dialog and their microfiche stores are un-fucking-believable. I'm going to start reserving a cubicle--there's a word for library cubicle that sounds like cassock, that's my middle-word, the monkish studiousness, hunched over illuminating manuscripts, it's my mnemonic, like the image the word passes through by association before I remember--carrel, that's it. (Sp?) Passel, tassel. Bundles of papers, tops of scholars' caps and trails of tapestries in halls of learning, it's the phonetic associations, it's never semantic for me, really. Diogenes in a barrel. Etc. K calls it constellation thinking, which I prefer to the pathological tone with which people cut the phrase "free association." It's fun to write like this, how I think! Freewheeling at any rate. Kept thinking of that quote about how we are dancing animals put on earth to fart around, like. Yeah. Truly my mind woke up when I spent a day with the common cold under a gray sky running stupid Kafkaesque errands and dilly-dallying about it. An old woman came up to me and complained about the parking and the traffic and her bad leg and her bad doctor and the bad weather. We commiserated, comrades in misery, each with our bad legs and our bad doctors under the weight of the sullen sky. I love the city, I love the bus driver who greeted everyone cheerfully despite the dreariness, I love that three people on the train platform were wearing the same shoes as me, these Adidas sneakers I got at the thrift store seven years ago. It is so much easier to be open and kind when I do not feel like a prey animal all the time. Did not think this post would arrive at "encomium to anxiety medication and Going Outside [which I am able to do because of anxiety medication]" but here we are lol

[atlanticcanada]

Remembering the Broncos: Moncton man has connection to Humboldt tragedy

Randolph MacLEAN proudly wore green and gold to work Thursday morning in Moncton.

It was his way of reflecting on the five-year anniversary of a tragedy that devastated the community of Humboldt, Sask., and the entire country.

The superintendent and CEO of the Anglophone East School District was the Vice-President of the Humboldt Broncos on April 6, 2018, when a transport truck went through a stop sign and struck a bus carrying the junior hockey team.

Sixteen people died and 13 more were injured. Some badly, even paralyzed.

“I knew everyone of them. I knew everyone of the kids, I knew the coaches,” said MacLEAN.

MacLEAN still vividly remembers hearing the news from another team executive.

“I walked into the gym and I could read it on his face that something was up,” he recalled. “He said, 'There's been an accident,' and I said, 'Well, it's April in Saskatchewan, the bus slid off the road and there was a broken leg and maybe a couple of kids can't make the game,' and he said, 'No, there's been an accident and there's fatalities.”

He says he can walk anyone through from the moment he found about the crash to the next four days.

“To the end of the vigil to the next two weeks after that as I attended 13 funerals in ten days,” said MacLEAN.

Originally from Halifax, MacLEAN moved from Humboldt to Moncton last year to take on a new challenge in the field of education, but it's impossible to leave the Broncos behind.

“I'm proud to know them. They came and put on the jersey and played their hearts out and were proud to be Humboldt Broncos and were great kids and they contributed to our community,” he said.

MacLEAN called Humboldt a tight-knit community that loves sports, especially hockey.

“Saturday night, Friday night, you know the Humboldt Broncos are the only show in town. Of a 7,000-sized community, you'll have 1,500 people at the rink,” he said.

His memory is impeccable.

MacLEAN goes through the entire 2018 roster and makes a comment about each player.

He knows what all the survivors are doing and is still in touch with some of the players' parents.

“We had a horrific event, a horrific tragedy. An accident that occurred that will have their names in each one of their stories ingrained into my mind for perpetuity,“ said MacLEAN.

MacLEAN spoke about the Broncos at an assembly at a Moncton high school Thursday morning.

“That fact that they’re not here provides me a huge sense of sadness and sorrow,” said MacLEAN. “I spoke in front of the whole school at Harrison Trimble today. They’re having green shirt day. In Moncton, New Brunswick. That talks about the impact and the strength of the human spirit.”

A difficult day no doubt, but MacLEAN called it an honour to talk about the Broncos.

from CTV News - Atlantic https://ift.tt/gOtrXSl

[grasshopperjay]

i just watched 7x14 of fire for the first time... the episode where brett and foster get caught in that crash with the hockey team on the bus

tbh i think i cried from the moment that bus crashed until the end of the episode. any canadian one chicago fans know what i mean? it just reminded me so much of the humboldt bronco’s bus crash. it’s been almost 3 years now. the effects of that tragedy were felt through all of canada. those boys are in our hearts forever 💚💛

[heavenlyholland]

no but fr, how many people do you think die / get injured a year in a lake hockey accident 😳

there was actually this bus crash 3 years ago and 16 players died & 13 were injured :’( one of the players was my teachers nephew :/ it wasn’t a lake accident but- yk

hate to get depressing and kill the mood, but this is the most recent tragedy

here’s a link if you wanna read

humboldt bus crash

[thepressocean-blog]

#GlobalNews: "NHLers react to Humboldt Broncos’ 1st regular season game after bus tragedy"

#GlobalNews: “NHLers react to Humboldt Broncos’ 1st regular season game after bus tragedy”

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Like the rest of the hockey world, Mike Babcock was shaken by April’s bus crash that devastated the Humboldt Broncos.

The head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs hopes the junior hockey team’s return to the ice Wednesday night will serve as another step in the healing process.

READ MORE: Humboldt Broncos unveil 29 banners to honour victims of bus crash

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Few of us will ever grasp the level of pain and trauma that the loved ones of Humboldt Broncos players and staff have experienced since Apr. 8, 2018, when a catastrophic collision between a bus and freight truck in rural Saskatchewan killed 16 people and injured another 13.

So many young lives were stolen, far too soon. Those who survived are dealing with lifelong disabilities, injuries and mental trauma. Some are still hospitalized. Such disasters impact small towns like Humboldt — population 5,869 — with disproportionate force. It will likely take decades for the community to heal.

But this calamity is not the fault of truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu alone.

Yes, Sidhu was at the wheel when the semi truck carrying peat moss ran the oversized stop sign, ignoring a series of glaring warnings ahead of the intersection. That’s clearly why the now 30-year-old pled guilty in early January to all 29 counts of dangerous driving, for which Crown prosecutors are seeking a 10-year prison sentence (the judge’s decision is expected to be released on March 22).

But the Humboldt crash was the result of much more than that catastrophic momentary lapse. Far more to blame is a combination of massive regulatory failures, infrastructure neglect, and the all-consuming capitalist imperative to maximize profits with higher speeds, longer shifts, and less training.

The public knee-jerk desire to incarcerate him — which will likely lead to his eventual deportation after he serves his sentence — does absolutely nothing to address that reality or protect youth in the future. Rather, it points to the deeply unhelpful reality of our culture’s obsession with carceral punishment of individual offenders, especially people of colour, leaving the true culprits unscathed.

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[queernuck]

The Tragedy of Humboldt and The Injustice of Tragedy

The tragedy of the Humboldt Broncos is one that is widely known in the hockey world, is a sort of moment that endures more than any other similar tragedy in part because of its magnitude, because of the way in which it is so singular, such an event beyond itself. Indeed, it appears as an event akin to Baudrillard’s concept of 9/11, one that all but excuses any sins on behalf of the Broncos and mythologizes the team, captures them eternally such that they have achieved a status unimaginable for a junior team in their position. A junior team revered by the pros, by the Hockey Hall of Fame, a hockey team out of time. There is little doubting that the story of the Broncos is tragic, but the sentencing of Jaskirat Sidhu is part of what magnifies exactly goes into the cultural baggage surrounding such a tragedy, and how it informs structures of carceral justice along with their ideological basis, along with the means by which hockey culture is structured, repeated, and spread.

The shock of the Broncos was magnified by the fact that they were travelling to a playoff game, that so many of the victims were so young, they looked like other hockey players, they had the same shade of bleach-blonde hair as part of a tradition many young hockey players follow where they bleach their hair during the playoffs. One of the most emblematic photos from the post-crash scene was a snapped DVD of Slap Shot, a movie that itself is emblematic of the culture of hockey. R-rated, with risqué and frankly dated humor, the comedic structure of the film still holds up rather well, especially when taken with the performance of actors like Paul Newman and the roughness of hockey culture more generally. When pictures of the victims began to come out, the sense of tragedy was only magnified by just how familiar they seemed, how it brought in that recognition of the hockey world as a whole, hockey families, ones who knew the experience of travelling state to state town to town province to province in order to have a shot at, one day, making the pros. The familiarity of this lead to an act of remembrance that was echoed across the hockey world, the leaving out of a hockey stick, to symbolize a stick left out in case any of the boys wanted to grab one and play some shinny.

To again refer to Baudrillard and his media analysis, as well as Deleuzian concepts of the event, this was a moment of automotive violence, of bodies colliding with one another in a new singularity, and this was one such arrangement. Sidhu recognized this as well, as part of the trial process he never asked for a plea bargain, levied no defense, and was willing to accept a maximum sentence because of his guilt over the accident, how he felt after killing 29 despite it being in no small part a fault beyond him, a fault that resulted from the situation he was in. As the editorial in the National Post that I refer to points out, he had merely five days of training and three weeks of driving, only one driving on his own, before the day of the crash. The same day, he had needed a farmer’s help to tow his rig out of soft mud he had been mired in while checking his GPS, having to rely on the farmer’s help after the trucking company he was working for ignored his calls. The tarp covering his load had come loose earlier in the day, requiring an adjustment that had come undone a second time, distracting him as he drove into the intersection where his truck crashed into the Broncos’ bus. The very same intersection has since been improved dramatically, in recognition of both this crash and a previous fatal accident at that very same intersection. A combination of lax regulations in Saskatchewan effectively combined such that an inexperienced driver could meet the Broncos’ bus in such a tragic fashion. 

The trial, which eventually gave Sidhu 8 years in prison as a punishment, was marked by 90 different victim statements, many of them scathing and directed at Sidhu on behalf of the Broncos. So much is captured by the tragedy of the Broncos, and this is yet another part of this: the ease of constructing narratives in the case of "victim impact" statements involves playing off of disparities between the prosecution and the convicted, the way in which structures of culpability and liability are conceived of, and the way in which the symbolic weight of a tragedy becomes something beyond itself, including the problems of ableism and white supremacy in the narratives of hockey as a sport. There is no accident that sled hockey is often considered lesser, is considered a secondary sport and moreover is dominated by narratives around the Team USA sled hockey team and the proliferations of veterans on the team: the way that disabled bodies are only acceptable, only considered worthwhile if they have been deployed in service of empire. Accomodations for disability are not seen as worthwhile specifically because bodies are understood as incomplete, and while that consideration is being extended in part to members of the team left disabled, the way that it is conditional, that it is in part reserving a kind of ability-to-appear, becoming-disabled being conditional on tragedy in some sense involves a pessimism that implies the very structure of hockey culture itself: the way it values keeping the appearance of an intact body, the way in which it values perseverance through injury above all else as part of dedication to the team.

In another sense, the way in which it represented an act of singular violence against not only a team, but a white team at that, lead to the impact of such an accident specifically as one interrelated with hockey. There was a sense where the sport itself suffered a loss with the Broncos, and this was in turn repeated through continuous invocation of the Broncos’ memory. The notion of the team has been used to talk about so many things directly in relation to hockey, a refusal to branch out beyond the sport, the way that hockey culture as a whole is seen as dominating certain hegemonies, Canadian identity, and how the means by which Sidhu could be understood as an “Other” rather than an unlucky indictment of a wider array of conditions placed onto a singular person. The punishment, effectively, is merely additive to what is already clear, that it must be placed on the individual in order to avoid recognizing the structure. 

The same has been more widely true in hockey culture recently, with the means by which the firing of Mike Babcock has revealed a wide range of racist, homophobic, and otherwise revolting harassment that extends down to Junior teams, that is pervasive through the sport, that shapes the ideology of teams like the Broncos and the teams that players will eventually go on to play in, at every single level. When looking to the idea of victim statements, as mentioned in the editorial, their steering of justice is fundamentally reactionary because of the way in which it is linked to “Victim Advocacy” not as a genuine framework of advocating for those most victimized by violence, but rather as a kind of enhancing of already-present violence in the legal system, as a kind extrajudicial recapture of attitudes around how victimization must be understood, and moreover how it must be punished. Carceral violence is the only means through which it can be doled out, is the only way that one can meaningfully affect a close in the disparity between the victimized and the victimizer. 

Of course, things are rarely that simple, and the means by which the judicial system uses structures of convenience in order to then decide exactly what kind of justice can be meted out by such a system. The focus of the editorial in question points to much more reckless acts receiving far less dramatic sentences, that far more intentionally violent acts have been given less violence in a judicial sense. However, the means by which this combined a specific series of evocations of certain values, certain ideological fetishes in order to create the kind of denied-individuality as well as the critical reversal into the individual necessary for the creation of the hockey player. 

The continuation of the tragedy into such an event, the way in which this tragedy is arguably continued by the heavy-handed response, the way that an entire apparatus of justice and carceral retention is symbolized (not to mention the close relationship of many hockey players to such apparatuses due to whiteness) through this tragedy makes it such that, when the lives of these players, the victims of the accident, the driver who was woefully unprepared but still pressed into driving by the demands of capital, and how these demands were enacted upon a busful of teenagers, how the dangers of travel were made clear through them, the way they were themselves victimized by a kind of cultural arrangement beyond themselves just as thousands upon thousands of hockey players are, with very few representatives ever made to answer for it, and those chosen often chosen out of convenience. 

[propicsmedia]

Humboldt Bus Tragedy A Drivers Fate from ProPics Canada Media Ltd on Vimeo.

[atlanticcanada]

Remembering the Broncos: Moncton man has connection to Humboldt tragedy

Randolph MacLEAN proudly wore green and gold to work Thursday morning in Moncton.

It was his way of reflecting on the five-year anniversary of a tragedy that devastated the community of Humboldt, Sask., and the entire country.

The superintendent and CEO of the Anglophone East School District was the Vice-President of the Humboldt Broncos on April 6, 2018, when a transport truck went through a stop sign and struck a bus carrying the junior hockey team.

Sixteen people died and 13 more were injured. Some badly, even paralyzed.

“I knew everyone of them. I knew everyone of the kids, I knew the coaches,” said MacLEAN.

MacLEAN still vividly remembers hearing the news from another team executive.

“I walked into the gym and I could read it on his face that something was up,” he recalled. “He said, 'There's been an accident,' and I said, 'Well, it's April in Saskatchewan, the bus slid off the road and there was a broken leg and maybe a couple of kids can't make the game,' and he said, 'No, there's been an accident and there's fatalities.”

He says he can walk anyone through from the moment he found about the crash to the next four days.

“To the end of the vigil to the next two weeks after that as I attended 13 funerals in ten days,” said MacLEAN.

Originally from Halifax, MacLEAN moved from Humboldt to Moncton last year to take on a new challenge in the field of education, but it's impossible to leave the Broncos behind.

“I'm proud to know them. They came and put on the jersey and played their hearts out and were proud to be Humboldt Broncos and were great kids and they contributed to our community,” he said.

MacLEAN called Humboldt a tight-knit community that loves sports, especially hockey.

“Saturday night, Friday night, you know the Humboldt Broncos are the only show in town. Of a 7,000-sized community, you'll have 1,500 people at the rink,” he said.

His memory is impeccable.

MacLEAN goes through the entire 2018 roster and makes a comment about each player.

He knows what all the survivors are doing and is still in touch with some of the players' parents.

“We had a horrific event, a horrific tragedy. An accident that occurred that will have their names in each one of their stories ingrained into my mind for perpetuity,“ said MacLEAN.

MacLEAN spoke about the Broncos at an assembly at a Moncton high school Thursday morning.

“That fact that they’re not here provides me a huge sense of sadness and sorrow,” said MacLEAN. “I spoke in front of the whole school at Harrison Trimble today. They’re having green shirt day. In Moncton, New Brunswick. That talks about the impact and the strength of the human spirit.”

A difficult day no doubt, but MacLEAN called it an honour to talk about the Broncos.

from CTV News - Atlantic https://ift.tt/usItNcH

[dangerouslyaddictivethings]

my heart’s been heavy with sorrow as i remember the 16 lives that perished and 13 others who were injured 1 year ago. humboldt broncos will always be commemorated in the hockey world, for their story resonates with many people around the world who went on long bus rides for games and school trips. we will never forget you. you will always be our hearts. the families that are affected by the tragedy, who are grieving and trying to pick the pieces and move on. humboldt strong forever. 

[mattiassamuelsson]

On Friday, April 6th, 2018, a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos jr hockey team to a playoff game in Nipawin was involved in a fatal accident involving a semi. 29 people were aboard the bus.15 have been confirmed dead, including the head coach, captain, and teammates aged 16 to 21, 14 others seriously injured. Since then the hockey community has come together in an amazing show of support and class to grieve and commemorate those whose lives have been lost. Buses have always been their own untouchable safe spaces and where families are born from teams; words cannot fully describe the tragedy the community of Humboldt is experiencing. Please donate if you can.

Rest in peace:

Head coach: Darcy Haugan, 42 Assistant Coach: Mark Cross, 27 Team captain: Logan Schatz, 20 Adam Herold, 16 Connor Lukan, 21 Evan Thomas, 18 Jacob Leicht, 19 Jaxon Joseph, 20 Logan Boulet, 21 Logan Hunter, 18 Stephen Wack, 21 Parker Tobin, 18 Staff: Brody Hinz, 18 Staff: Glen Doerksen, 49 Play by play announcer: Tyler Bieber, 29

[missinconsistent]

This makes me absolutely furious. This weekend Canada was devastated when a bus crash killed 15 people and inured 14 from the Humboldt Broncos hockey team. Young souls whose lives were taken away too quickly. Hockey fans and Canadians all came together to give their condolences to the Humboldt community. I am aware there are many things in Canada where people turn a blind eye to things that are very important and need attention. For example the disappearing and murdered aboriginals. But it's absolute bigotry to dislike all the attention these souls are getting because they are white men. People are not saddened by their deaths because they are white men. Their race and gender does not make this tragedy any less or more important than any other tragedy. To label what happened, when all those young people died, with a race and gender is absolutely disgusting. I'm not a hockey fan. I didn't know who the Broncos even were tbh, but the reason why I'm saddened by the news is because I can see a bunch of innocent, happy, young souls who have played for their community bringing some joy and light into the people around them, who may be sons, brothers, friends, lovers, who's lives were taken too soon. I'm all for equality, I'm a Vietnamese young woman. To little the deaths of hopeful souls because of their race and gender is ignorant, bigoted, and disgusting. It's fuel to fire. It's hypocrisy. It makes those who truly want equality look bad because they have to be associated with a bunch of bigots like this one. She's published at the Maclean's and the Globe. And this is how this woman uses her voice.

[chatterthatmatters]

COURAGE MATTERS to Kaleb Dahlgren

We've all heard the expression being in the right place at the right time when opportunity knocks, but what about the wrong place, at the wrong time when tragedy hits and takes away all that you know.

April 6, 2018, began as an ordinary day for Kaleb Dahlgren. He was on a bus with his Humboldt Broncos teammates heading to a must-win playoff game. A second later, and hockey outcomes no longer matters. On a clear and sunny day, a driver, commanding a semi-trailer truck at 100 km an hour, failed to yield at a flashing stop sign and smashed into their bus. Sixteen people died, and thirteen were injured.

Four days after the accident, suffering trauma to his body and brain that doctors said was devastating and permanently damaging, Kaleb woke up in the hospital. He had no recollection of the accident, and it took him several days to comprehend that he was alive while others were dead.

Kaleb Dahlgren is the story of the human spirit soaring at an unfathomable level. Kaleb must come to terms with Survivor's Guilt, defy and overcome the many sentences pronounced by medical experts, and choose what to do with his new lease on life.

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[sportsrepo]

Crossroads: My Story of Tragedy and Resilience as a Humboldt Bronco

Crossroads: My Story of Tragedy and Resilience as a Humboldt Bronco

An inspiring story of hope and resiliency  On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured after a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck in a rural intersection. The tragedy moved millions of people to leave hockey sticks by their front door to show sympathy and support for the Broncos. People from more than…