Canada's Latest School Shooting: What We Know
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Garrison and Lance from The Serfs discuss the online right’s attempt to weaponize the tragedy, misinformation about the shooter’s politics, and how the shooter's online footprint shows a growing obsession with other mass shooters.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Call Zone Media. |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome to It Could Happen here. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Garrison Davis. |
| 0:14.8 | Last Friday, I teamed up with Lance from the Canadian-based politics show The Surfs. To talk about the tragic events of last week in Tumblr Ridge, British Columbia. |
| 0:26.9 | On Tuesday, February 10th, an 18-year-old named Jesse Van Rootslar killed her mother and stepbrother in their home, |
| 0:34.4 | then took two guns, and went to Tumblr Ridge Secondary School, where she |
| 0:38.9 | killed five students, one teacher, and finally herself. Two other kids were critically injured |
| 0:44.9 | with gunshot wounds, but have survived. The shooter did attend Tumblr Ridge Secondary School |
| 0:50.7 | years ago, but dropped out. For the past three to five years, it's kind of unclear. |
| 0:56.7 | Jesse identified as a transgender girl. Tumblr Ridge is a very small town with just 2,400 |
| 1:03.7 | residents in northeastern British Columbia. This was the worst school shooting in Canada since 1989. |
| 1:13.1 | The sequence of events during this incident were very similar to the Leloush shooting in Canada 10 years ago, |
| 1:20.6 | where the gunman killed two family members at home before going to a school. |
| 1:26.2 | During our conversation, Lance and I discuss the spread of misinformation, |
| 1:31.8 | how the online writers tried to weaponize the deaths of these people for their own political agenda, |
| 1:36.2 | and how the shooter's online activity shows a growing fascination with mass shootings this past year. |
| 1:43.8 | Here's that conversation. |
| 1:49.7 | I'm sure everyone knows that right now Canada's a nation in mourning. |
| 1:54.5 | And I also did probably want to start this out by reading the names of the deceased, because |
| 2:00.1 | it's one of the things that the |
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