— Few Canadian towns can better understand what the people of Humboldt, Sask., are going through than Bathurst, N.B. The East Coast town recently marked the 10th anniversary of a van crash that killed seven members of a high school basketball team and the wife of its coach. Frenette, now 27, said he had been ill and was resting up for another game when his team’s crash happened. The deaths inspired a 2012 CBC TV movie — not on the tragedy, but on the events that followed: a year later, the reconstituted Bathurst High School Phantoms won the provincial title. The Saskatchewan deaths also brought up painful memories for Isabelle Hains, whose son Daniel died in the Bathurst Phantoms crash.

Source: National Post April 08, 2018 09:56 UTC