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By Bill Graveland and Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press
MELFORT, Sask. — A truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos crash has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Jaskirat Singh Sidhu of Calgary had pleaded guilty earlier this year to 29 counts of dangerous driving. He stood quietly and looked ahead at the judge as he was sentenced Friday.
A man in his 40s was killed early Friday morning after RCMP say he was hit by a vehicle on Provincial Road 391.
Police were called to the scene near the city of Thompson shortly after 1 a.m., where they found the victim lying on the roadway. He was pronounced deceased at the scene.
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press
Kevin Matechuk says he will never, never forgive the semi driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash.
Matechuk’s 19-year-old son Layne of Colonsay, Sask., is still coping with a brain injury he suffered in the collision last April. The young man’s recovery is expected to be a long one.
By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A four-year-old girl who was critically injured when she was struck by a vehicle while walking with a woman near a Winnipeg intersection earlier this week has died.
Police say the girl died Tuesday following the collision that happened around noon the previous day in the city’s north end.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A Manitoba mother says the death of her four-month old while in the custody of foster parents shows a system set up to fail Indigenous families.
The First Nations woman says she learned Monday that her daughter recently died but doesn’t know when it happened and hasn’t seen the child’s body.
By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The federal public-safety minister suggests the deadly mass shooting in New Zealand will spur parliamentarians to take a careful look at Canada’s gun laws.
Ralph Goodale says the killing of 50 people in Christchurch has sparked a global sense of concern that will prompt Canadian politicians to make some timely decisions.
Manitoba RCMP have charged four men in connection with the death of an inmate at Stony Mountain Institution last summer.
Adam Kent Monias, 25, was seriously assaulted on August 16, 2018. The Norway House man later succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
A man has died following an assault Sunday evening in at a rooming house in the 400 block of Langside Street.
Emergency crews arrived on scene at around 7 p.m. and transported the man to hospital in unstable condition, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
