Driver Sentenced for Humboldt Broncos Bus Collision Loses Bid to Stay in Canada

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A lawyer for a semi-truck driver convicted in the 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan says his client is a step closer to being deported from Canada.

Michael Greene told the media that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada rejected one of the last attempts to allow Jaskirat Singh Sidhu to stay in Canada. Sidhu is facing deportation over his conviction of dangerous driving offences. He has a wife and two children in Canada and was a permanent resident when he arrived in 2014.

Sidhu had been working as a new truck driver for a Calgary company for about three weeks when the crash happened near Tisdale, Sask., in April 2018, about 185 kilometres north of Regina.

He drove through a stop sign and into the path of a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team.

The bus crash killed 16 people, including 10 junior hockey team players, two coaches, and an athletic therapist, a statistician, a radio announcer, and the bus driver.

Thirteen others on the bus were injured in the collision. The team was on its way to compete in a playoff series in a nearby community. Continue…

VANCOUVER – An outspoken Iranian dissident who publicly warned Canadian authorities in 2021 about alleged Iranian regime infiltration of engineering programs at Simon Fraser University has disappeared under suspicious circumstances

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An outspoken Iranian dissident who publicly warned Canadian authorities in 2021 about alleged Iranian regime infiltration of engineering programs at Simon Fraser University has disappeared under suspicious circumstances, prompting an investigation by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.

Masood Masjoody, 45, was last seen on February 2 when concerned neighbors reported his disappearance to Burnaby RCMP. Investigators have determined the disappearance is “out of character” and believe criminality is involved, though they say there are no indications it is linked to gangs or extortion.

The case has raised concerns within the Iranian-Canadian diaspora about potential transnational repression, given Masjoody’s vocal opposition to the Iranian regime and his documented attempts to alert Canadian officials to what he characterized as regime activities on Canadian soil.

Masjoody, who obtained his doctorate in mathematics from SFU in 2019 and worked as a sessional instructor until 2020, sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2021 detailing what he described as “alarming infiltration in Canadian public bodies of the Islamist regime in Iran.”

In the letter, Masjoody claimed to have reported to SFU’s president in April 2019 about individuals he alleged had connections to Iranian regime programs and were involved in sensitive engineering and technology fields. Citing broader warnings from then-CSIS Director David Vigneault, Masjoody raised concerns about potential technology transfer and the use of Canadian university resources in ways he believed could benefit hostile state networks.

“There is no question that the most significant security threats from foreign states come out of Communist China, Putin’s Russia, and the Islamist regime in Iran,” Masjoody’s letter said.