Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice was among the four people killed in a small-plane crash in British Columbia on Thursday night, CBC News has confirmed. Prentice served as Alberta premier from September 2014, when he won the leadership of Progressive Conservative Party. Before becoming premier, he served as vice-chair and senior executive vice-president with CIBC from 2010 to 2014. But long before he would hold political office, Prentice was a boy who grew up "under the bins" of a Crowsnest coal mine. Hockey-wise, Jim Prentice became a top-flight winger in his own right, but his promising junior career ended with a devastating knee-on-knee hit.

Source: CBC News October 14, 2016 16:50 UTC