A sentencing hearing is to begin today for a truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash.
The collision last April at a rural intersection in Saskatchewan killed 16 people and injured 13 others on the junior hockey team's bus.
Jaskirat Singh Sidhu of Calgary pleaded guilty earlier this month to all 29 counts of dangerous driving laid against him.
He had been hauling a load of peat moss when his rig and the Broncos bus collided.
Sidhu, who is 30, faces a maximum sentence of 14 years for each charge of dangerous driving causing death and 10 years for dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
Five days have been set aside for the hearing, which is taking place in an event centre in Melfort, Sask., to accommodate all the families, survivors and media.