I know that I seem to crack on our neighbors to the north quite a bit sometimes, but I can't help it. I'm only human, and they can be so self-righteous and incredibly pathetic at the same time that it's impossible not to say something.
Which is where I am right now about the ghastly situation that unfolded in the remote northern British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge.
A domestic double homicide that spilled into a school shooting, which, by the time the heinous event was over, left the gunman dead of a self-inflicted wound, along with eight* other human beings (*revised, one death having been erroneously reported) and over two dozen wounded, some most grievously.
In a small, tight-knit community of 2400, where it's too small to keep a doctor. The high school has six grades, but at most 175 kids attend at any given time, everyone knows everyone, and most of their business.
Police had been to the shooter's home multiple times - multiple times - for serious mental health-related incidents. So serious, the weapons in the home had been removed once, but were inexplicably returned, even as the pattern of disturbance continued.
The child began 'transitioning' at twelve years old.
Less than three years before Jesse Van Rootselaar took deadly aim at students and relatives in northeastern British Columbia, the teenager set fire to a bed inside the family’s home after ingesting psychedelic mushrooms.
That event, described by people who know the family, came in the midst of turbulent years in which the shooter was taken away for psychiatric treatment before being returned to a Tumbler Ridge home. In that home were guns, which had earlier been seized by police but then returned.
Police have not described a motive for the 18-year-old shooter, who was born a biological male but began a gender transition roughly a half-decade ago.
But accounts from people who knew the family, alongside police statements, court documents and social media posts, describe a family that had for years been buffeted by romantic failure, workplace injury and mental illness.
The deeply troubled young man was a powder keg, and it seems as if his family situation was a huge part of the fuse.
And police gave the guns back to the family, even as the outbursts and incidents continued.
This article, which perpetuates the delusional transgender ideological capture of progressive culture by using female pronouns for the male shooter, is a nightmare telling of a sanity death spiral.
A 'nomadic' mother, a father who was blocked at every turn from his son.
...In the summer of 2015, Ms. Strang, who also went by the name Jennifer Jacobs, decided to move with her children back to Newfoundland from Powell River, B.C., so that her family could help her with a child she was due to give birth to early the next year, according to a B.C. Supreme Court judgment from that era.
The father of the shooter, who had separated from Ms. Strang in 2009, fought that move in court because he wasn’t given the legal amount of notice.
The judge described Ms. Strang’s itinerant past as “an almost nomadic life.”
He noted the shooter’s father had difficulty rebuilding his relationship with the children when they were untethered from a stable life. In a December 2015 ruling, Justice Anthony Saunders ordered Ms. Strang to return to B.C., even though the children were already enrolled in school on the other side of the country.
No adult guidance with a mother who thought psychedelics were an answer, among other things, for a fourteen-year-old who was already on hormone replacement therapy...
...It was about four years ago that “things started taking a turn for the worst” with the shooter, the friend said.
The shooter stopped going to school several years ago, a relative added.
She was “very, very mixed-up,” the relative said. “A lot of mental health issues.”
On Reddit, JesseBoy347 described mental health problems, drug use and difficulties in accessing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to transition from male to female.
...on top of much worse, much more powerful drugs.
...A month later, the Reddit user asked whether it was safe to use the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT and mentioned she was on anti-depressants and had previously been prescribed an anti-psychotic.
My God - what a disaster for anyone who cared to look.
This is what the Canadian government is perpetuating with its pronoun performance theater.
Guy shoots his 11 year old brother in the head (and dozens others) for nothing and the Canadian Police are determined to make sure his "pronouns" are respected. Open air asylum. https://t.co/S3yNQ6e2sd
— captive dreamer (@captive_dreamer) February 11, 2026
This is the sickness that the Canadian media - and make no mistake, ours as well - promotes, softening the edges of the horribly abused man-child who went on to murder so many neighbors.
Softening the edges of the ideology that helped turn him into a murderer.
Trans worship means more than the lives of children in Canada.
— Chris Tomlinson (@TomlinsonCJ) February 12, 2026
A reporter asks, '...with this female suspect' as she, too, plays the game.
An RCMP spokesman confirms police had attended the home of the perpetrator in Tuesday's massacre in Tumbler Ridge "on multiple occasions over the past several years" due to "mental health" concerns. pic.twitter.com/e5HqGv1mKc
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) February 11, 2026
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police can be so meticulous about a murderous, demented fiend's pronouns, but they couldn't let this heartbroken father know his daughter was one of the victims?
This poor man went nine hours before finding out from the girl who had done CPR for 45 minutes on his precious little girl that she had died.
Heartbreaking from parents that lost their 12 year old daughter yesterday in #TumblerRidge STOP talking about the shooters identity/ideology. pic.twitter.com/bQHHLCPubZ
— 🇨🇦🍁SillyRabbitFaFo🍁🇨🇦 (@sillyrabbitfafo) February 12, 2026
His beautiful little girl.
The father of a 12 year old shooting victim wants the children - not the shooter remembered. Twelve-year-old Kylie Smith, who was the “light of her family,” is being identified by her grieving father as one of the students of Tumbler Ridge, B.C. https://t.co/8Ra55QFrOH
— Fantaesia (@IAmFantaesia) February 12, 2026
There is another little girl fighting for her life in the hospital.
A 12-year-old girl is clinging onto her life after one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history in the small British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge.
“We were warned that the damage to her brain was too much for her to endure, and she wouldn't make the night,” her mother wrote in a post on Facebook. “Our baby needs a miracle.”
The girl was reportedly trying to lock the door when she was shot by 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, who police say killed six people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, after killing her 39-year-old mother and 11-year-old stepbrother at a nearby home.
Pray for 12-year-old Maya Edmonds. She is one of the 34 victims of the trans shooter in Tumbler Bridge, Canada. pic.twitter.com/jZjScrDDpX
— Chris J (@Simbastinks) February 12, 2026
OUR BABY NEEDS A MIRACLE
I admire these parents for speaking out. The protocol is to muzzle families. The school board, RCMP and gov’t know naming the victims will expose institutional failings resulting in this tragedy. Shame on those who honor the shooters pronouns before identifying the victims names. https://t.co/lWpxd4czL6
— McJesus (@McJesusCanada) February 12, 2026
What an utter betrayal of the innocent to show such courtesy and respect to the fantasies and delusions of the evil dead.
I don't know how they sleep at night.
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