A Moncton, N.B. judge has found the RCMP guilty on one of four charges under the Canada Labour Code related to the shooting of five Mounties, three of whom died, by Justin Bourque on June 4, 2014.

In a 64-page written decision, Judge Leslie Jackson deemed the federal police force guilty of failing to provide adequate use-of-force equipment and training for the situation, according to CBC News reporter Tori Weldon, who announced the verdicts in the Sept. 29 court proceedings live on her Twitter account.

But Judge Jackson found the RCMP not guilty of two other charges of providing sufficient information, instruction or training when responding to an active shooter in an open environment. He stayed another charge of failure to protect the health and safety of all workers, which he deemed to be similar to the guilty charge.

The case has been adjourned until Nov. 23, the sentencing date, Weldon tweeted.

Bourque was charged with three counts of first-degree murder after a lengthy manhunt located him two days after the shooting. He had killed Constables Fabrice Gevaudan, 45, Dave Ross, 32, and Douglas Larche, 40, in the incident; two other officers had been sent to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries (COHSN, June 16, 2014).

Bourque was sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 75 years in Oct. 2014.

RCMP management reportedly did not attend court, but the force did issue a statement from its Ottawa headquarters shortly after the verdict was announced.

“The RCMP respects the judicial process, and will review the decision and consider next steps,” the statement read.

The force added that it would continue to implement the Dec. 2014 recommendations by now-retired Assistant Commissioner Alphonse MacNeil on responding to incidents like the Moncton tragedy.

“The health and safety of our employees continues to be the top priority of the RCMP,” the statement said. “Today’s verdict will not change the tragic reality that on June 4, 2014, we lost three friends and colleagues – and nearly lost more – to the actions of one man.

“The murders… continue to affect us all, none more than the friends, family and colleagues of our fallen and injured members. Our thoughts remain with them.”

A previous RCMP statement claimed that the force had made “significant improvements in supervision, training, equipment, communications and aftercare” in response to MacNeil’s review of the incident.

Weldon quoted Crown prosecutor Paul Adams on Twitter following the verdicts. Adams declined to discuss possible fines that the RCMP may face, but acknowledged “some new ground in respect to how the Canada Labour Code is applied.”

BRAMPTON, Ont. – An automaker has been fined $140,000, plus a standard victim fine surcharge, for its role in a workplace accident that left an employee unconscious and injured at its Brampton assembly plant on July 26, 2015. That day, three workers with FCA Canada Inc. were performing annual preventative maintenance on the clutch of a D-Line Press, a machine that helps build vehicle panels, according to a court bulletin from the Ontario Ministry of Labour (MOL). While the employees were removing bolts from the clutch, two bolts sprung out at a high speed, and the clutch spring assembly struck one worker in the head. The MOL investigated the incident and determined that the bolts were deteriorating and fracturing from the force applied to the clutch spring assemblies during every press cycle. FCA later pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton to failing to take every precaution reasonable to protect its employees, and Justice of the Peace Samantha Burton passed sentence on Sept. 27 of this year.

Police officers in Calgary shot and seriously injured a man during a domestic-violence call on the evening of Sept. 20, after the man allegedly threatened the officers with undisclosed weapons.

A lengthy press statement from Ray Robitaille, acting chief of the Calgary Police Service (CPS), said that the officers had been called to a residence in the northeast section of the city at about 4:15 p.m. that day, following a report that a man had assaulted several people at the home before fleeing. Police soon located the suspect barricaded in a garage in another neighbourhood, and family and friends deduced from text messages that he was in distress.

“Officers contained the scene and attempted verbal communications with the man for approximately an hour and a half, in an effort to have him surrender peacefully,” Acting Chief Robitaille explained in the statement. “Officers believed the man was armed with a weapon.”

The suspect exited the garage at about 8 p.m. and confronted the officers with “weapons,” Robitaille added. Police deployed a Taser and firearms on the man, who was taken to a hospital in serious condition.

Robitaille said that the suspect is “known to police,” but did not release his name or age. Local media reports have identified him as Damon Parisian, stating that he is believed to be in his 30s.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is investigating the incident. Robitaille noted that the CPS is cooperating fully with the investigation, which is focusing on three of the officers involved.

“They… responded to this call in a timely manner, taking all the necessary steps to ensure public safety and the safety of our officers,” he said about the three CPS members. “Their patience and due diligence was exceptional. Significant attempts were made to peacefully resolve the situation, but their duty to protect both the community and their fellow officers led to actions that stopped the threat.”

Charges are pending in the domestic-violence case, which police are investigating.

Robitaille’s statement stressed that the CPS’ priority is to protect both the community and fellow officers. “Every single day, our officers are faced with dynamic situations in which the preservation of life is always paramount,” he said. “Our members do everything possible to resolve a situation before ever drawing and discharging a firearm.”

Out of almost 220,000 service calls so far this year, the CPS has pointed firearms at a citizen in only 15, said Robitaille.

He added that the CPS’ Domestic Conflict Unit had received almost 1,500 calls over domestic incidents over the previous month, nearly 340 of which had involved violence.