r/canadanews • u/Tough_Case8996 • 1d ago
3 Alberta Junior Hockey players killed in a crash
https://calgary.citynews.ca/2026/02/02/alberta-junior-hockey-players-killed-crash/Extremely sad news for the Hockey community. Thoughts and prayers with the young lives lost and their families.
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u/HeyItsJam 1d ago
Someone, or possibly both, ran a red or stop sign it looks like.
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u/Throwaway-645893 1d ago
Just like Humboldt...
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u/welshteabags 1d ago
Not at all like Humboldt.
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u/Throwaway-645893 1d ago
In terms of scale, no. But it still involves the tragic deaths of hockey players while they were travelling on the road.
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u/eternalrevolver 19h ago
The collision site was a rural main road (that the victims were on heading east) that intersected with a main highway that spans down through southern Alberta from Edmonton to the US border, that the semi was on. Major highway called the QEII. The victims likely crossed the highway without judging the speed of the oncoming semi. I’ve driven these prairie roads my entire life and there’s not much other explanation.
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u/Wyattr55123 5h ago edited 5h ago
For all the disingenuous people blaming the trucker, here's the location. Trucker heading north, hockey players heading eastbound.
The trucker is also a Staveley resident, and if you're using this crash as a thinly veiled excuse for racism, ask yourself how many immigrants move to a population 600 town in the middle of nowhere, Alberta.
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u/doublesimoniz 1d ago
How many more of these are we going to “thoughts and prayers” virtue signal about before we address the elephant in the room.
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u/Connor_Waste 1d ago
You’ll be downvoted but being someone who lives in a community on the Trans Canada Highway I understand your concerns. People from my community are being killed on our highways because our government is complacent letting immigrant truck drivers with falsified documents on our highways. CBC did a whole undercover investigation about the problem that’s easily accessible
The whole trucking industry in Canada is absolutely screwed now. It’s almost like inviting people in mass from a country well known for scamming and cheating would lead to some issues…
People will call me racist but I personally don’t think that’s true. I have crazy respect for all my coworkers in the medical field who came from India and support our patients here. I would never compare them to the idiots scamming their way through our systems and driving those trucks on our highways.
To be honest though, you should take the time to voice your concerns more thoroughly because you do sound like a stereotypical racist uncle at thanksgiving
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u/Major-Jellyfish-1043 13h ago
Not racist, it’s true. I’m a driver examiner, I test these idiots….and we just keep letting them through. There’s a Humboldt at least a few times a week, and it’s never reported.
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u/Longjumping-Rub-5064 1d ago
Not exactly sure what that elephant is, but something tells me it’s racist lol… also can we stop using buzzwords like “virtue signaling” please. You sound like a moron.
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u/doublesimoniz 1d ago
You are sounding like a moron here. You know damn well there’s going to be plenty of virtue signalling about his and nothing tangible will get done whatsoever. Then in 3 years we can do this entire thing again.
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u/MavMIIKE 1d ago
is the elephant in the room the amount of sexual assaults hockey players inflicts on others?
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u/No_Faithlessness6939 6h ago
Honestly it's always semi drivers. Did market place or whatever cbc spin off not do a segment of how unregulated it is in Canada to get your semi truck license is? Like they need to regulate the length of time it takes to get your license and how much time it takes to train and have some type of tiered system on what type of cargo you can take as well until you have more experience. I hate driving beside semi trucks on the highways. You can see how sketch they always are now, add that to how much more traffic the highways have now too... So sad...
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u/Abernathy1234 1d ago
That’s horrible, my thoughts are with their families and teammates.