Foot: In Humboldt, as in Bathurst, status quo on road safety must be challenged

“There are no accidents. I don’t even know what the word means. And I never trust anyone who says he does.”
So says Mitchell Stephens, the lawyer in The Sweet Hereafter, the haunting novel about a small town that loses its children in a deadly school bus crash. Stephens is a provocative character in the book, but the uncomfortable truth he proclaims is an important one — especially this week in Saskatchewan.
As Canadians mourn in solidarity with the shattered hockey famil