Canadians like to pretend as if mass shootings are a uniquely American innovation. But that’s hardly the only half-truth or full lie they routinely believe about mass shootings. While less frequent, Canada’sfirst mass-casualty school shootingpreceded Columbine by a decade.
This week, there was another such shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. The shooter’s mother and brother were the first victims, followed by a trip to a local school where five students aged 12 and 13 were among the next to die. Besides the fatalities, another 25 people were wounded.
Canadian police described the incident this way:
And the more we cater to the narrative, the more this will happen.pic.twitter.com/sn4e2O4Odn
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods)February 11, 2026
The deceased ‘gunperson’, he said. Even autocorrect assumed I had mistyped that, automatically replacing it with ‘unperson’. There’s a good reason for that — what that cop tried to say requires that he tortures the English language.
The cognitive dissonance of Canadian news outlets was no better.
Van Rootselaer was 18 years old at the time of the shooting.
RCMP said they “identified the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and social media,” explaining that Van Rootselaer was born biologically male.
She was a resident of Tumbler Ridge. —CTV
Source: Clash Daily
