Category: Campbellton

The man who conducted an independent review of the Moncton shooting rampage for the R-C-M-P says officers had to make their own decisions because no one took charge.

The Canadian Press says that retired assistant R-C-M-P commissioner Alphonse MacNeil says the lack of co-ordination continued beyond the 20-minute window of the shootings in June 2014 — with members from other detachments not knowing where to go when they arrived.

MacNeil has also told the R-C-M-P’s Labour Code trial that few front-line supervisors were trained to take control of such situations at the time.

Three Mounties were killed and two others wounded before the gunman was apprehended.

Ottawa is going to crack down on countries with terrible human rights records.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced legislation last night to expand international sanctions against gross human rights violators.  The bill is similiar to laws passed in other countries in honour of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, who died in prison after accussing Russian officials of a $230 million tax fraud.