[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[crazy canuck]

Also, this is likely going to get political

Van Rootselaar identified as a female, but was assigned male at birth. She started transitioning about six years ago. She dropped out of school around four years ago.

[Sophie Scholl]

Fuck. A tragic situation made even worse. 

[Josephus]

no words

 

My niece is a counsellor in the BC school system....think she's gonna be very busy.

[Valmy]

Also, this is likely going to get political

Van Rootselaar identified as a female, but was assigned male at birth. She started transitioning about six years ago. She dropped out of school around four years ago.

Oh shit.

[Zoupa]

Perp was posting nazi stuff online and bitching about indians. How many Indian immigrants did he really encounter in their northern BC village of 2400 people?

The internet really rots ppl's brains.

[Valmy]

Perp was posting nazi stuff online and bitching about indians. How many Indian immigrants did he really encounter in their northern BC village of 2400 people?

The internet really rots ppl's brains.

Oh. One of those people.

[crazy canuck]

Perp was posting nazi stuff online and bitching about indians. How many Indian immigrants did he really encounter in their northern BC village of 2400 people?

The internet really rots ppl's brains.

What is your source for that?

[crazy canuck]

Here is a deep dive into the background of the killer.  A tragic story, including a lot of distress over the difficulty obtaining HRT in small town BC.  No mention of what Zoupa posted.  Gifted link.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/519974dc5e28f762a87fb14c1570523f4fb873adfcfcb945043907ccc3c41650/6VKLTFS4VBCT5NMEXSF36A6DW4/

[Razgovory]

Perp was posting nazi stuff online and bitching about indians. How many Indian immigrants did he really encounter in their northern BC village of 2400 people?

The internet really rots ppl's brains.

What is your source for that?

https://www.adl.org/resources/article/tumbler-ridge-shooter-had-interest-gore-guns-and-white-supremacy

On February 10, 2026, a shooter opened fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 25 others. Two additional individuals were found dead at a nearby home. The shooter was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Preliminary research by the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) suggests the shooter, who police have identified as Jesse Van Rootselaar, followed a troubling pattern of online radicalization marked by engagement with white supremacist ideology and a self-described addiction to gore content. Unlike recent school attackers, the Tumbler Ridge shooter does not appear to have left behind a manifesto outlining their motives. However, their extensive digital footprint across platforms, including X, WatchPeopleDie (WPD), and Reddit, displays a fascination with violence and white supremacy.

On X, an account believed to belong to the shooter shared content glorifying previous mass killers, including the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooter and the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooter. The Tumbler Ridge shooter's X profile photo also featured an image of the Christchurch shooter superimposed over a Sonnenrad, a neo-Nazi symbol, and a transgender pride flag.

The account regularly shared racist and antisemitic content. In a tweet posted just two days before the attack, the alleged Tumbler Ridge shooter wrote, "I need to hate jews because the zionists want me to hate jews. This benefits them, somehow." The account also promoted neo-Nazi Harold Covington and the Northwest Territorial Imperative, an idea originally promoted by Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler in the 1970s that white people should move to the Pacific Northwest in order eventually to form a white-only nation there.

The Tumbler Ridge shooter also appears to have been active on WatchPeopleDie (WPD), an online forum dedicated to hosting gore and violent death videos where glorification of mass shooters and extremist rhetoric is rampant. COE analysts located a WPD account believed to belong to the shooter that featured numerous images of guns and several videos of them firing these weapons, though the videos have since been removed by site moderators. COE analysts also identified gun-related posts that are believed to have been posted by the alleged shooter on YouTube and Reddit.

Beyond posting weapons content, the shooter actively consumed death and violence videos on WPD. Two months before the attack, they viewed the WPD profile associated with the 2024 Abundant Life school shooter.

WPD has been linked to several school attackers, including the 2025 Evergreen, 2025 Antioch and 2024 Abundant Life shooters, among others.

In an August 2025 post on WPD, the alleged Tumbler Ridge shooter wrote that they found violent content "addictive," writing, "I've tried to stray [sic] away from watching this type of thing before cuz it really sucks me in and is a massive useless time dump."

"To say it 'doesn't effect [sic] me is likely naive," they wrote, adding that "it just doesn't feel like a big deal."

[Josephus]

Perp was posting nazi stuff online and bitching about indians. How many Indian immigrants did he really encounter in their northern BC village of 2400 people?

The internet really rots ppl's brains.

Maybe she didn't mean immigrant Indians? I don't know, I haven't read any of it—. But maybe she meant native Indians? There's a few of them in B.C

[crazy canuck]

So the source appears to be a special interest group who "believes" the person who made the posts is the killer.

I think I'll wait for something a little more concrete than that.

[Razgovory]

So the source appears to be a special interest group who "believes" the person who made the posts is the killer.

I think I'll wait for something a little more concrete than that.

Yeah, Trump supporters don't care for the ADL either.

[crazy canuck]

A broken clock and all that.

[HVC]

I see you BB

[Barrister]

The internet really rots ppl's brains.

This is one of those things which truly goes both ways.

Left can point to anti-immigrant statements.  Right can point to the shooter being trans.

Sometimes a tragedy is just a tragedy.  The shooter - Jesse Van Rootselaar aka Jesse Strang - clearly had some MH issues.

This resonates because my kids are the same age as many of the victims.  And while I don't think I was ever in Tumbler Ridge, I was in the Peace Country for a few years, which is the general area.

I await hearing more information.  You obviously can't just lock up trans people.  You obviously can't just take guns away from people.  Yet in this stupid culture war online era that's basically what people are going to be suggesting.



I will admit I think the media is being cautious about the trans angle, but is reporting it.  I very much doubt the shooter being trans is a major cause of the shooting, but given the culture war bullshit I was afraid the CBC and the like would ignore that factor entirely.