Former RM councillor convicted of assaulting reeve

A “strained and acrimonious” relationship between the reeve of a rural municipality near Wynyard and a former RM councillor erupted into violence in the reeve’s farm yard in 2017.
Following a trial in provincial court earlier this year, Judge Michelle Marquette convicted the former councillor, Leonard Borowski, of assault causing bodily harm to RM of Emerald Reeve Morris Karakochuk.
Over the course of the trial, “it was apparent to the Court that the relationship between