school bus safety

Saskatoon (Rajeev Sharma): A Saskatchewan judge has sentenced a charter bus driver to jail after ruling that he posed an extreme and unacceptable risk by driving while impaired with more than 50 children on board. The provincial court judge said the driver’s decision to mix alcohol with prescription pain medication while operating a bus full of schoolchildren was “breathtakingly reckless,” adding that a community-based sentence would not adequately reflect the seriousness of the offence or protect public safety. The incident occurred in March 2025, when the 71-year-old driver was transporting 52 students and two teachers back to Saskatoon from a…