Saskatchewan MPs with ties to Humboldt crash victims ‘stunned,’ focused on community support

Looking at the news in a hotel room in Pakistan, Conservative MP Robert Kitchen learned of the crash that killed his friend, Broncos coach Darcy Haugan.

Right, Saskatchewan Conservative MPs Randy Hoback, second from left, and Kelly Block, right, attend an April 8 community vigil in memory of the Humboldt Broncos’ 16 team members and personnel killed in an April 6 bus crash. Photographs courtesy of Kelly Block’s Facebook page

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BY SHRUTI SHEKAR

April 13, 2018

News that 15 Humboldt Broncos Saskatchewan junior hockey team members and personnel had been killed in an April 6 bus crash made it all the way to Pakistan, where Conservative MP Robert Kitchen heard what happened. “I saw it and I was stunned," said the Saskatchewan MP in an April 12 phone inte...

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