Thursday, February 12, 2026
It's Like There Is A Pattern
The plot, it does thicken:
CTV News initially reported that the shooter was identified as Jesse Strang. The RCMP later confirmed that the 18-year-old goes by the name Jesse Van Rootselaar and was “born as a biological male” and “identified as female, both socially and publicly.”
So, an actual gunman, then?
Good to know.
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He has a knife over his left-hand wrist. Jesus wept. @fancypants_s https://t.co/M9w3gr4wOQ
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) February 12, 2026
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They are already sanitizing him.
Within hours of the massacre at Tumbler Ridge Secondary, the usual machinery kicked into gear. Politicians offered “thoughts and prayers.” Flags lowered. Prime Minister Mark Carney “suspended” his schedule. Pierre Poilievre tweeted his condolences, and meant them, because that is what decent people do when a community is gutted.
But nobody said what Jesse Strang actually was, transgender.
Locals identified him. Eighteen years old. Quiet kid. Sat alone in the corner.
Allegedly murdered his mother and younger brother before heading to the school. And according to his own family, Strang identified as transgender.
A YouTube account believed to be his displayed the transgender pride flag and used “she/her” pronouns. Reports say he wore a dress during the mass shooting.
This is now a pattern.
In Nashville, in 2023, transgender Audrey Hale murdered three children and three adults at Covenant School. Police found more than 200 pages of writings, years of planning, and a shooter who rated mass murderers based on body counts.
In Minneapolis, in 2025, transgender Robin Westman shot two children at a Catholic school and fantasized about being “that scary, horrible monster standing over those powerless kids.”
And now Tumbler Ridge.
How many dead children before we say what everyone in that community already knows?
Transgenderism, in its clinical reality, is gender dysphoria. The American Psychological Association classifies it as a condition marked by persistent distress over one’s biological sex.
It is a mental health diagnosis. While the Left insists we celebrate every self-declared identity, the evidence piles up like bodies in a school hallway.
A 2024 study in Acta Paediatrica examined 14 longitudinal studies on hormonal interventions for gender-dysphoric youth. It found no consistent improvement in depression or suicidality. The largest study showed negative outcomes.
Translation: We are affirming young people into deeper psychological turmoil, and calling it compassion.
The standard Leftist response to shootings like these is twofold. First, they blame the gun. Second, they blame the bigots who “forced” the shooter into despair.
Neither holds up to scrutiny.
The federal Liberals’ Bill C-21, passed in 2023, created a national handgun freeze, expanded “red flag” confiscation orders, and banned future assault-style firearms through a convoluted technical definition.
It accomplished nothing that would have stopped Jesse Strang. Handgun freezes don’t matter when the shooter was 18 and allegedly used his mother’s firearms.
Red flag laws are useless against a quiet kid who hid his intentions from everyone.
No law, no gun registry, no confiscation order can prevent that. Only an honest diagnosis and early intervention.
Then there is the discrimination excuse.
The Left will tell you shooters like Strang, Hale, and Westman snapped because society refused to accept them. They will point to minority stress theory and cite statistics about transgender suicide rates.
But Hale targeted a Christian school specifically because he believed Christians would be “meek and afraid.” Westman posted long diatribes admiring the Sandy Hook killer and scrawled “Free Palestine” on his magazines.
These were not confused victims of social exclusion. They were deeply disturbed individuals whose disorders were not merely untreated. They were celebrated by the Left.
Every teacher who affirmed a confused child’s gender identity without questioning the underlying distress has blood on their hands.
Every politician who fast-tracked “gender-affirming care” without demanding rigorous, long-term healthcare study has blood on their hands.
Every journalist who refuses to state the obvious, that another mass shooter was transgender, shares in this complicity.
You do not cure a patient by validating his delusion. You do not heal the mind by mutilating the body and calling it liberation.
You do not prevent the next mass shooting massacre by pretending these three shootings did not share the same pathology.
Tumbler Ridge will hold its funerals. The victims will be named, mourned, and eventually reduced to statistics in another gun-control advocacy pamphlet.
Strang’s gender identity will be footnoted, if mentioned at all, followed by the obligatory reminder that most transgender people are not violent.
That is true. Most are not. Most are themselves trapped in a system that refuses to give them the actual psychiatric help they need.
But some are violent. Some, like Strang, like Hale, like Westman, descend so far into the fog of their own disordered minds that murder and suicide become the only remaining acts of meaning.
The next one is out there right now. Quiet. Alone. Being told he was born in the wrong body. Being told his discomfort is everyone else’s fault. Being armed with ideology instead of being helped by doctors and therapists.
We can keep pretending this is about firearms. We can keep pretending this is about bigotry.
Or we can finally speak the truth the therapists are afraid to say: gender dysphoria is a mental illness, and until we treat it like one (again), the bodies will keep piling up.
Jesse Strang killed 10 people. He was not failed by gun laws. He was failed by everyone who looked at a suffering child and called him brave for being transgender.
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🚨BREAKING
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) February 11, 2026
Canadian journalist misgenders transgender mass-killer Jesse Van Rootselaar as a "him"
and RCMP inspector corrects her live on the air.
says the police had attended the home for "mental health issues" in the past. pic.twitter.com/DyPCxLzoos
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The mother who was murdered by her school shooting transgender son in Canada defended trans rights and urged her followers to stop “spewing bulls–t” online in a resurfaced Instagram post.
Jennifer Strang, mom of 18-year-old Jesse Van Rotselaar and a self-described “conservative leaning libertarian,” unleashed a profanity-fueled rant in a July 2024 Instagram post – less than two years before the teen launched the Tuesday rampage that left 8 dead.
Strang blasted online critics and warned that hatred is pushing transgender kids toward suicide — adding that such rhetoric makes them look “dumb.”
“As a conservative leaning libertarian who lives in the north and loves living in a small town. I really hope the hate I see online is just bored old people and not true hatred,” Strang raged, urging people to “evolve” and “do better and educate yourself before spewing bull—t online.
“I normally don’t say anything and I normally don’t go on s–tbook to see the keyboard warriors and I know I can’t control everything or shield my kids from everything but please for the love of f–k can you get your sh–t together so we don’t have to bring our kids up in a world full of hatred.
“Do you have any idea how many kids are killing themselves over this kind of hate. Please STOP the bulls–!”
Oh, are they, the late Mrs. Strang?
Are they really?
And for those who willing to die on this particular hill, let's clear a few things up:
People deny their obvious biological nature are delusional.
You can only pretend that gravity isn't real for so long.
Some delusion was fed in one or another and now they believe something that is not so.
If they can't accept themselves, why should I?
But my willingness or coercion to accept their fantasy isn't what made the long string of trans mass killers shoot unarmed children.
They wanted to do this.
What purpose would that serve? Why innocent third-parties?
Because evil is never practical nor logical.
It's not enough that one or two people accept ugliness. The entire world must do so, as well, and thus be corrupted.
By wasting your precious breath on fictious bogey-men who state the bleeding obvious (or even sending them to prison), you only set the stage for future mass killings we're going to have to ignore at some point.
You are part of the problem.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Quelle Surprise
On the heels of a tragedy that didn't have to happen:
The suspect, who was also found dead with what appeared to be "self-inflicted" wounds, has been identified by residents as 18-year-old Jesse Strang.
Among those who confirmed to the Western Standard that Strang was the shooter were Liam Irving and Juan van Heerden, both of whom grew up seeing him at school. They'd spoken with eight different people who were at Tumbler Ridge Secondary when the massacre took place.
"He was a couple of years younger than us grades wise," Irving explained. "He was a chill kid, he was alright, but he definitely gave off that, you know, quiet one out kind of kid ... Like, he wasn't, you know, destructive or obnoxious."
Van Heerden echoed his sentiments, labelling Strang "a quiet kid."
"We always seen him by himself," he said, "sitting by himself in the corner, always quiet."
The pair confirmed that Strang identified as transgender.
Before heading to the school, Strang allegedly murdered his mother and younger brother, both of whom were well known in the community.
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**He was taking SSRIs, anti-psychotics, mushrooms (which caused psychosis), DMT, and smoking weed.
— Billboard Chris 🌎 (@BillboardChris) February 11, 2026
Was he also taking estrogen?
A deeply troubled young man, and to make things worse, people affirmed he was a girl.
Our medical authorities are forced to affirm this delusion or… https://t.co/v5W3dV01L1
**3 years ago, Redditors on r/VaushV lost their minds over Matt Walsh quoting Males of Reddit's screenshot of jesseboy347.
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) February 11, 2026
u/jesseboy347 just shot up a school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada yesterday. pic.twitter.com/Sv9LE6WrRV
Trent Ernst, publisher and reporter at the local news outlet Tumbler Ridge Lines, told The Epoch Times in an interview that community members received alerts on their phones in the afternoon.
The alerts seen by The Epoch Times described the suspect as “a female in a dress with brown hair.”
Ernst, who formerly taught at the town’s high school about six years ago, said people in the small community likely know who the shooter was but can’t publicly report it. The RCMP have said they are not releasing further details at this time due to privacy concerns and because the matter remains under investigation.
Bull. Sh--.
This gets shoved down the memory-hole before one can say: "It's not a good idea to cater to delusions."
Suckers!
Canadians really do believe that they live in some mirror universe where they have the same rights as Americans but can still be socially liberal.
Nope:
Why do governments exist? There must be a better reason than simply providing well-paid jobs for people who enjoy bossing others around.
Philosopher John Locke offered one of the clearest answers when he wrote in 1690 that the “great and chief end” of government is “the preservation of … property.”
And by this most basic standard, Canadian governments are failing badly. Nowhere is this failure more obvious than in Richmond, B.C. The recent Cowichan Tribes v. Canada case has shaken the very foundation of home ownership in Canada. The finding that aboriginal title can exist on the same piece of property as fee simple ownership, and that this native claim is a “senior and prior interest,” has created property rights chaos.
Local homeowners have been warned they cannot sell, renovate, or alter their properties without indigenous approval. A major commercial development collapsed as lenders fled the legal uncertainty. The case has even attracted international attention, with The Wall Street Journal recently asking, “Do Property Rights Still Exist in British Columbia?” No one has yet provided a convincing answer to this troubling question.
It’s not as if Canadian governments were following Locke’s prime directive before the latest court ruling. “Cowichan is not a break from the past,” said Queen’s University law professor Bruce Pardy in an interview. Rather, it is the latest evidence of a much bigger problem in Canada regarding the ongoing diminution of property rights.
Across the country, governments routinely treat private property as a tool for improving their own finances or to carry out political agendas. Eight provinces, for example, permit civil forfeiture, allowing the state to seize property without a criminal conviction. This vast power is open to abuse. In Quebec, recent changes to forfeiture law mean any cash sum over $2,000 is automatically considered evidence of illegal activity unless proven otherwise.
Housing policy in Canada is almost entirely an exercise in depriving owners of their rights. Rent control removes the ability of landlords to charge market rates. “Renoviction” bylaws prohibit landlords from removing tenants in order to renovate apartments they own. Vacant homes taxes deliberately punish anyone who wants to own more than one home for whatever reason. Inclusionary zoning requirements force developers to build below-market apartments against their wishes.
“We are doubling down on a dumb idea: that restricting property rights is the best way to get more housing built,” said Pardy of Canadian housing policy. “As soon as you start interfering with those rights, you no longer have a real market.”
During the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests, the federal government froze bank accounts and financial assets of protesters and their family members. As University of New Brunswick law professor Paul Warchuk observed in a recent report for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, this was “a complete deprivation of property based on suspicion alone.”
What makes all these policies and government actions possible is the fact that Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms is silent on property ownership as a fundamental right. Most other Western liberal countries have constitutions that protect both the right to own property and defend against its unjust seizure by government. Among OECD nations, only Canada and New Zealand lack this sort of explicit constitutional protection.
The reason for this omission is political. When Canada’s Charter was created in 1982, liberty and individual rights were not top-of-mind topics. Further, some provinces worried that the inclusion of property rights would interfere with their interventionist policies, such as the Saskatchewan NDP government’s plans for nationalizing the resource sector. As a result, property rights were not included in the final version of the Charter.
Section 33 of the Charter, now referred to as the notwithstanding clause, would have addressed these provincial concerns. But in a case of unfortunate timing, Section 33 was added after property rights had already been removed.
Placing property rights alongside all the other rights currently protected by the Charter—including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of assembly—could have a big impact on the lives of Canadians.
As University of Saskatchewan constitutional scholar Dwight Newman noted in an interview, a Charter that includes property rights would be “a very different thing” from our current version. Governments would likely have to go to greater lengths to justify policies that infringe on private ownership rights; judges would also be required to balance these competing rights more transparently.
While the process to amend Canada’s Constitution is complicated and time-consuming, adding property rights would rectify a long-standing problem and provide Canadians with much greater security for their property and possessions.
For decades, Canadians have thought their property was secure by default. The Cowichan ruling has shattered that illusion. If Canadians want to ensure what they own is truly theirs, now is the time to speak out.
That won't happen.
Ever.
But Wait! There's More!
Naturally:
Cabinet’s current $78.3 billion deficit, the highest in Canadian history outside of pandemic overspending, will likely rise even higher before the budget year expires March 31, the Senate national finance committee was told yesterday. No new figure was mentioned: ‘It may now run a bit higher.’
Don't worry, though.
Carney is well taken care of:
While Canadians continue to struggle with rising grocery bills and as lineups for food banks get longer, Prime Minister Mark Carney flies in style, even racking up a $94,000 in-flight catering bill for a short flight.
Records recently released by National Defence show Carney’s flights drew sky-high expenses, with the priciest being a four-day Rome trip in May that cost the Canadian taxpayer $93,780.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney spent at least $300,000 on in-flight catering during his travels since taking office last March, plus at least another $472,000 when he got where he was going, records from Global Affairs Canada show.
The data comes in response to a question posed in October by Philip Lawrence, the Conservative member of Parliament from the Northumberland—Clarke riding in Ontario, east of Toronto. National Post has reached out to him for comment.
Lawrence asked: “With regard to the Prime Minister’s international travel from March 14, 2025, to the present: (a) what is the total expenditure on hotel accommodations for the Prime Minister and his entourage, broken down by trip and fiscal year; (b) what is the total cost of in-flight catering for the Prime Minister’s flights, broken down by trip and fiscal year; and (c) what are the names and addresses of the hotels where the Prime Minister has stayed, broken down by trip?”
Global Affairs listed accommodation costs for a half dozen trips between March and June last year. They included $39,415.12 in Paris, $36,288.10 in London, $48,358.50 in Washington DC, $133,372.60 in Rome/Vatican City, $141,069.33 in The Hague, and $73,789.64 in Brussels, for a total of $472,293.29.
It added that the names and addresses of the hotels where the prime minister stayed cannot be disclosed, for security reasons. In also noted that it could not disclose specific details as to the size of his entourage, which might reveal how many security personnel were assigned to protect him.
Since June, Carney has made an additional 15 international trips through the end of 2025, and four more this year to date, to Paris, Beijing, Doha, and Davos …
Well, thank God that he's eating well.
It must be Trump's fault.
REEEE!
Being a Liberal means never having to say you're sorry.
Ever:
A Liberal MP called Conservative MP Jamil Jivani a Nazi sympathizer and implied Donald Trump was Hitler in the House of Commons last week. So much for the Team Canada approach where we all work together to solve the problems emanating out of Washington.
John-Paul Danko, who represents Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, was speaking on proposed changes to the operations of the House when he went off on Jivani.
“We have the Conservative Party of Canada’s own Unity Mitford, who is attempting to freelance negotiations with the American president right now,” Danko said.
Unity Milford was a British socialite who became close to Adolf Hitler, even moving to Germany and living there at the start of the Second World War. In calling Jivani Unity Milford, Danko is calling his fellow MP a Nazi sympathizer and by extension saying Trump is Hitler.
It’s a thoughtless, idiotic comment from anyone, let alone a Member of Parliament.
Canadians from across the country blasted the Liberal government and federal leaders for honouring in the House of Commons a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi SS division.
The more than 1,000 pages of documents released under the Access to Information law provide a glimpse at the intense anger sparked last year by the decision by all members in the Commons to give two standing ovations for Waffen SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka.
Holocaust survivors wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about friends killed by Hunka’s division, the 14th SS Galician, while families of Canadian soldiers killed fighting the Nazis during the Second World War peppered MPs with questions about why they honoured a soldier who had sworn allegiance to Adolf Hitler.
Hunka, a resident of North Bay, Ont., has not commented on the Sept. 22, 2023, event in which he was introduced to the Commons as a Ukrainian-Canadian war veteran and a hero. House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota thanked Hunka for “his service.”
But news quickly emerged that Hunka had served in a Ukrainian SS unit.
The incident became an international embarrassment for Canada as Holocaust historians, Jewish groups and the Polish government pointed out that Hunka’s unit had been involved in war crimes, including massacres of women and children. The division was also used by the Nazis to crush a national uprising in Slovakia, again prompting allegations of war crimes.
What does it take to sell out your country to China, Liberals?:
In a threat environment where Chinese-language media ecosystems have been tied to intimidation, narrative control, and election interference — and where Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai has been imprisoned for challenging Party rule — I argue this is the wrong lesson at the worst time: Ottawa is treating propaganda infrastructure like normal journalism. I point to intelligence reporting that, as The Bureau has reported, describes clandestine operations on Canadian soil, including Chinese police paying Chinese-language journalists to track dissidents and coercing targets not to cooperate with Canadian law enforcement.
And that’s why I frame the judgment as reckless: Carney widened access for a Party-state media apparatus — and expanded information-sharing with Chinese police and the RCMP — without publicly detailing safeguards, enforcement, or even acknowledging the documented threat, effectively expanding the very channels through which intimidation, manipulation, and Chinese clandestine police operations already manifest in Canada.
The draconian 20 year imprisonment of Hong Kong dissident and newspaper-owner Jimmy Lai, effectively a death sentence, is a reminder that if we are going to get into bed with China we should be aware that we are soiled by association.
That is not to say that Canada will overnight become an authoritarian regime bent on jailing its dissidents (Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber would rightly give a valid, potent and alternative argument on this point.)
(Sidebar: oh, don't offer to hold their beer for them on this.)
But if we are going to trade with China, and Prime Minister Mark Carney seems most insistent that we do, then we had better be conscious of the danger of having to disregard some of our more onerous scruples — fighting on behalf of brave rebels who are willing to speak out against the corrupt despots of the world, for instance.
Clearly, Carney is in no hurry to start lecturing the Chinese on their appalling human rights abuses, not with business at stake.
When he returned from his trade mission to Beijing last month, Carney was insistent on telling Canadians that Canada “can thrive in a new system” and that if we were ambitious we could secure enormous investment from new partners.
“And we must be pragmatic,” he said, code for there will be times when we need to hold our noses from the noisome behaviour of our new partners.
Canada’s approach to China had to be “recalibrated,” he said, it had to be narrow, specific and within guardrails as well as rooted in “value-based realism.” Human rights had to be part of broader discussions, preferably with coalition partners, he added.
Whatever all this meant, Carney summed it up perfectly when he said, “We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.”
Four days later, Carney was preaching a different story at Davos. In a speech widely interpreted as aimed at U.S. President Donald Trump, the prime minister was demanding the creation of a new world order “that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights.”
Carney’s approach to China is thus a laissez faire, hands off, “no megaphone” policy. However, to the U.S., once considered an indispensable ally, Carney’s response is to shout very loudly at a world forum for middle powers to band together against the American oppressor.
The danger in such a foreign policy should be obvious. We have decided to implicitly trust a dangerous power that until a few months ago was considered the greatest threat to our democracy and way of life, while abandoning an ally because the current president cannot control his mouth or his temper. …
China’s treatment of Jimmy Lai is a testament to its cruelty and its treatment of human rights.
Three judges, handpicked by Beijing, sentenced Lai, a pro-democracy advocate who has been outspoken against Chinese oppression, to 20 years in prison on Monday.
The court in Hong Kong, once a thriving colony under British rule but now living under the repressive regime of China, found him guilty under a controversial “national security law” aimed at curbing protests.
Lai, 78, founded the Apple Daily newspaper which was a constant thorn in Beijing’s side with its repeated calls for free speech and the rule of law to be respected in Hong Kong.
The government of Canada also notes that “human rights violations committed in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are well-documented and continue to raise significant concerns” citing action against Uyghurs, Muslims, Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners.
(Sidebar: Canada no longer has any moral or political standing in the world and, outside of its borders, no one cares what we think. Thanks, Liberals and their voters.)
And it was less than a year ago that Carney, when asked for the biggest threat facing Canada, replied with one word: China.
So how does Canada respond to something like the jailing of Jimmy Lai now that we have a new pragmatic relationship with China?
On X, Anita Anand, the foreign affairs minister, said she was “disappointed” with the sentencing and called for his release.
Disappointed? It’s disappointing when your elderly mother can’t meet you for lunch, but it’s an absolute tragedy when an elderly man is imprisoned for believing in democracy.
Consider that in December, a month before Carney’s love-in with China, Anand wrote about Lai’s trial saying, “Canada condemns the politically motivated prosecution of Jimmy Lai under the National Security Law in Hong Kong and calls for his immediate release. We continue to express our concerns about deteriorating rights, freedoms and autonomy which are enshrined in Hong Kong’s Basic Law.”
If we must trade with China, we should be under no illusions that there will be a cost — not just abandoning the megaphone but abandoning people such as Jimmy Lai.
In less than two months we have gone from strongly condemning his trial to merely being disappointed at his two decade sentence.
At Davos, Carney said Canada was not “powerless” — “The power of the less powerful starts with honesty.”
Fine, let’s start with honesty: What values is the prime minister willing to sacrifice as part of his devil’s bargain with China?
One's mistake is thinking that Carney has values.
He doesn't.
Nor do his voters.
Truly awful, but truly Canadian:
Two children, a 10-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, were shot by their father, who then took his own life, Kitigan Zibi police director Paul McDougall said.
Local police received a call from a relative at 2:04 a.m. Wednesday alerting them to the incident, he said.
Police found the father dead at the scene, McDougall said. The two children were taken to hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
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“It is deeply concerning to continue seeing individuals charged with serious and heinous crimes released into the public,” Bowmanville-Oshawa North MP Jamil Jivani said Tuesday in a written statement.
“Canadians expect a justice system that prioritizes public safety, and this case once again highlights the urgent need for serious bail reform in Canada.”
It won't happen.
Ever.
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