By Sara Miller Llana, Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, February 7, 2023
Because of Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, Christina Haugan’s husband is dead.
But every April 6, she feels tugged toward the inexperienced semi driver who, on that day in 2018, barreled across the Canadian prairie through a blinking rural crossroad stop sign, and collided with the bus of the beloved Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team that her husband coached.
Mr. Sidhu’s moment of dangerous inattention killed 16 people. From the start, the tragedy was experienced as Canada’s – as if it happened to everyone who heads onto the ice, everyone who sends their kids on a bus, anyone who knows what it means to feel Canadian.
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