Tumbler Ridge transgender shooter ‘tried to kill his family before’

The teenager who murdered his mother and step-brother in a mass shooting in a Canadian town had tried to kill his family before, a neighbour revealed.

On Tuesday, Jesse Van Rootselaar opened fire at his home in Tumbler Ridge and then at a local school before turning the gun on himself.

Investigators have not yet established a motive for the attack that killed eight people, one of Canada’s deadliest gun incidents. A police spokesman told The Telegraph that they “might never be able to”.


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Oh Boy. Chrystia Freeland Joins Bloomberg as Contributor to TV, Weekend

NEW YORK (February 13) — Today Bloomberg News announces the appointment of Chrystia Freeland as a contributor, effective immediately.

She will regularly appear on Wall Street Week and other Bloomberg Television programming, offering analysis, insight, and reporting on the intersection of economics and geopolitics. In addition, she will contribute essays to Bloomberg Weekend.

h/t Mauser

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Palestinian activist calls for dogs to be banned as ‘indoor pets’ in NYC because they are UN-ISLAMIC

Nerdeen Kiswani filthy Islamist

A Palestinian activist has called for dogs to be banned as pets in New York City claiming they aren’t Islamic.

Nerdeen Kiswani said dogs have a ‘place in society’ but ‘not as indoor pets.’

‘Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean,’ she wrote on X.

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Asylum seekers to get Valentine’s Day cards made by children – which will be delivered by a Green Party councillor and her grandchildren

A Green Party councillor is facing a backlash after announcing she will be delivering Valentine’s Day cards to asylum seekers – and taking her grandchildren with her.

Anne Cross announced that she and her grandchildren had created cards and would take them to the controversial Crowborough Training Camp this weekend.

The East Sussex County councillor encouraged locals to participate in upcoming volunteering opportunities and hear the stories of those in the camp.

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What I Suffered Being ‘Transgender’

When I was 11, I began identifying as transgender. I had gone down a rabbit hole of websites and niche online forums. There I met a friend—an artist who was 14—whom I admired and looked up to.

We both felt different, out of place in society. Born 10 years earlier, we would have been called tomboys. Instead, we writhed under the pressure of the “female role.” The internet told us the logical conclusion of that struggle was to identify as boys.

I come from a broken home. While my mother and stepfather always loved me, my stepfather became severely disabled when I was 3, leaving me feeling as though I had to raise myself. I eventually reached out to my biological father around a decade later. When he and my stepmother saw my distress—and were told by a psychiatrist that this distress was related to my transgender identity—they began to consider the benefits of affirming me in my transition.


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Canada not on track to hit net-zero by 2050, or meet any climate targets says sketchy climate alarmist group that receives mucho government handouts

OTTAWA – A new study published Friday by the Canadian Climate Institute says Canada is not on track to meet any of its climate targets — not the 2026 interim emissions reduction target, the 2030 Paris Agreement commitment, or even the long-term goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.

The report suggests Canada has moved away from its climate goals thanks to “a slackening of policy effort over the past year, marked by the removal or weakening of climate policies across the country.”

Guess who wrote the report.

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Torontonians frustrated over pace of snow removal, $2M parking crackdown: ‘This is about money’

Frustrated Toronto residents are angry that the city is cracking down on parking in snow removal zones — even though some streets remain choked with piles of ice more than two weeks after the storm.

“This is not about snow removal — this is about money,” said Mimi Dinolfo, a store owner on College Street near Bathurst who’s received four $100 tickets since the blizzard at the end of January, when the city declared its second major snow emergency, making main roads like College illegal to park on.

“We took the snow out of in front of our stores,” said Dinolfo, who has fibromyalgia and psoriatic arthritis and has to regularly park near her store.

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The ‘Shwa’s reputation takes another hit thanks to stinky Generals fans

It’s not been a pleasant season thus far for the Oshawa Generals, either in the standings or in the stands, apparently.

But in an effort to address an unseemly smell emanating from the stands, team officials reportedly sent out an email to their season ticket-holders, asking them to shower before home games after repeated complaints about a stench coming from the stands.

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