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Roughriders to honour crash victims in pre-game ceremony · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: While the Saskatchewan rough Riders set to return to the
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  Speaker 1: field tonight for a game against the Edmonton Elks, and
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  Speaker 1: of course, weighing heavily on the minds of many people,
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  Speaker 1: is the two vehicle collision that their former rough Rider
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  Speaker 1: teammate Jaden Dalky was involved in on Saturday. The team
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  Speaker 1: will have a ceremony marking the tragedy before the game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Dalky was driving his SUV on the wrong lane of
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  Speaker 1: a divided highway. He collided with another driver, twenty two
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  Speaker 1: year old Bishma Rajaguru, killing both of them. Our CMP
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  Speaker 1: say that alcohol and cannabis were found in Dalky's vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: but toxicology reports have not.
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  Speaker 2: Been completed yet.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight's pre game ceremony will have tributes to both of
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  Speaker 1: the victims of this crash.
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  Speaker 2: Shannon Hangen joins us now.
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  Speaker 1: She's been a rough Riders fan for decades and will
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  Speaker 1: be at tonight's game. Shannon, thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: speaking to us. What are your thoughts as you get
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  Speaker 1: ready for what is going to be I'm sure an
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  Speaker 1: emotional moment at this game.
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  Speaker 3: My thoughts are deep and sad. We're hopeful that writer
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  Speaker 3: Nation will show up tonight and pay tribute to both
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  Speaker 3: the young men. We understand that football players, rough Rider
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  Speaker 3: players here in Saskatchewan are under tremendous pressure throughout the season.
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  Speaker 3: It's a small city, a small province, and we see
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  Speaker 3: them as in many ways part of our lives, part
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  Speaker 3: of our families. We see them in the grocery store,
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  Speaker 3: we you know, see them in the rough Rider merchandise
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  Speaker 3: store and speak with them. They are under that tremendous pressure,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe they handle it partly by coming together
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  Speaker 3: as a family themselves in a unique way, I mean
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  Speaker 3: for a sports team, and we also are part of
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  Speaker 3: that family. We feel we are part of that family.
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  Speaker 3: I have since I was a child, and so we
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  Speaker 3: will be. We will try to try to support them
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  Speaker 3: tonight as best we can. Jaden daal Key, for example,
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  Speaker 3: we feel he's well. He is the son of the Prairies.
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  Speaker 3: He grew up outside of Edmonton, played high school football,
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  Speaker 3: junior football, played for the University of Alberta, and then
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  Speaker 3: came here and was here for six years. So very
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  Speaker 3: much a part of culture here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the CFL has you know, their teams
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  Speaker 1: have such strong ties to most of the communities, right
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  Speaker 1: and nowhere is that stronger than in the province of Saskatchewan. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean this one's a little complicated though, right because
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  Speaker 1: of the circumstances of his death and the death of
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  Speaker 1: the driver that he ran into.
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  Speaker 2: How do you kind of reconcile all of that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, with great difficulty. I my heart is with the
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  Speaker 3: family of Vision of Rada Guru and his friends and
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  Speaker 3: his you know, apparently the young man died on his
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  Speaker 3: father's birthday, and it is it is heartbreaking and almost
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  Speaker 3: impossible to to deal with the tragedy of those two
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  Speaker 3: young men's lives, promising lives being so so sadly taken.
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  Speaker 3: And we you know, we need we just need to support.
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  Speaker 3: We need we need They need our love. The families
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  Speaker 3: and friends and teammates need our love.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think of there's so many issues
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  Speaker 1: and emotions here, and I think there was anger early
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  Speaker 1: on from some people. Yes, there were some ugly rumors
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  Speaker 1: about what might or might not have had up. And
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  Speaker 1: there's compassion, there's grief, there's support.
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  Speaker 2: What do you hope comes out of all of this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I do hope that the that the anger can
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  Speaker 3: somehow take it, you know, not take precedence over again,
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  Speaker 3: the compassion we have to feel for people who make mistakes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is a horrible, huge mistake that one
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  Speaker 3: of our our beloved football players has made, apparently, and
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  Speaker 3: we can't simply say, oh, well, it's you know, it
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  Speaker 3: was his. You know, we can't. We can't just dismiss
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  Speaker 3: it as a an issue that you know, that can't
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  Speaker 3: be dealt with. We we can, we can try to understand.
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  Speaker 3: We can try to understand. That's all we can do,
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  Speaker 3: seems to me. I'm not sure I have yet, but
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  Speaker 3: I will continue to try to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, this is such a complex issue,
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  Speaker 1: and I think I really am glad that you spoke
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  Speaker 1: to us, because I think you capture what I feel
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of people are going through, particularly in
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  Speaker 1: Saskatchewan in the last few days and just ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the game this evening. So Shannon Hagen, thank you very
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  Speaker 1: much for speaking with us.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Good night, good even good night.