Op-ed: Sanctuary of the team bus needs rebuilding after Humboldt tragedy
NANAIMO — The image of a passenger bus laid on its side, its front end disintegrated and roof peeled back like the top of a tin can, implanted an indelible image of a real life nightmare.
Millions of Canadians wept and mourned 15 lives lost and 14 others forever altered after a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos hockey team collided with a semi truck south of Nipawin on Friday evening.
People found ways to show empathy and sympathy and ways to cope with the grief.
But within those millions coping is a population left staring at that picture, dissecting the hockey bags strewn among a trailer load of peat moss on the side of a northeastern Saskatchewan highway.