Moncton shooting RCMP case

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.

T.B. ‘Happy’ Fraser Award from the Atlantic Salmon Federation

The Fundy Baykeeper, a program of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick; received the T.B. ‘Happy’ Fraser Award by the Atlantic Salmon Federation.

Program leader Matt Abbott accepted the award last night at a dinner at the Algonquin Resort in St. Andrews.

That award recognizes an individual or organization that displays a long-term commitment to wild Atlantic salmon conservation on a regional or national level.