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The Bulletin
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IIO reports on Cranbrook RCMP shooting Independent investigator of police suggests Cranbrook RCMP officer may have committed an offence in an October 2012 shooting Sally MacDonald Townsman Staff
B.C.’s independent investigator of police is making a report to Crown counsel over an officer-involved shooting in Cranbrook on October 2, 2012. “This occurs when the Chief Civilian Director considers that an officer may have committed an offence under any enactment (of the Police Act),” said a news release by
the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) on Wednesday, April 3. In a follow-up interview, Kellie Kilpatrick, the IIO’s executive director of public accountability, said the report by Chief Civilian Director Richard Rosenthal does not mean the RCMP officer will be charged. “Essentially, the Chief Civilian Director reviews all of the investigative material and must consider if an officer MAY have committed an offence. In this case, he did form that belief that an officer MAY have committed an offence and thus the report to Crown [emphasis Kilpatrick’s own]. “Our threshold for referral to Crown is significantly lower than Crown’s threshold for charge approval,” said Kilpatrick.
Police gather evidence after the shooting on October 2, 2012.
Townsman file photo
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A question of water use
Bylaw needs to change, business owner says Municipal water charges unfair to commercial tax payers, business man says C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
Stu Bain, owner of the Western Lodge in Kimberley, is as mad as can be about his municipal water bill, and says the City needs
to change their bylaw. Bain has approached Council more than once on this issue and been told that the City is not going to go to water meters. But that’s not the point, he says. “While the Mayor says the City is not going to install water meters (Daily Bulletin, March 18, 2013), that’s never been the issue. It’s not about water meters, it’s about fairness,” Bain said. The Western Lodge is a hotel on one side,
with the newer addition on the north side being a seniors apartment building. Bain’s issue is that although the building uses about as much water as 15 households, he is being charged for the equivalent of 50 households. “For every senior in a one bedroom apartment with no kitchen or laundry, I pay the same as a five person household, with all of them showering, cooking, doing dishes, watering lawns and gardens. For every litre
that comes in, I am paying three times more than an average residential home.” Bain knows how much water is being used because he installed a meter himself to measure it. He also did research on communities that do meter water, such as Invermere, to see how much an average household uses. “I installed the water meter to prove a point,” he said.
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