Juno News - February 12, 2026


The TRUTH about Tumbler Ridge

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Tumblr Ridge mass shooting liberal attacks on Jamil Giovanni
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Jesse Van Rootseller Jamil Giovanni Cosman Georgia Jesse Strang Dwayne McDonald Billboard Chris John Paul Danko Unity Mitford Kylie Smith Fred DeLore Left Wing Media Ezekiel Schofield Jennifer Sterling Abel Mlansois Chris Elston David Hurley Maya Gabela Scott Reid
Canadians mourn after mass shooting in B.C. CBC pushes RADICAL gender ideology on children

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Jesse Van Rolsler was born as a biological male but began to transition to female when he was 14 years old. On February 12th, 2019, a gunman opened fire at a school in a remote community in British Columbia, Canada, killing 8 students and a teacher.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm and this is the Candice Malcolm Show News Update.
00:00:06.300 Today is Thursday, February 12, 2026 and here are your top stories of the day.
00:00:11.380 I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male who approximately,
00:00:16.260 the information that I have, approximately six years ago began to transition to female.
00:00:20.560 We bring you all the latest news on the Tumblr Ridge mass shooting,
00:00:24.860 including the unbelievable gaslighting from police and legacy media.
00:00:30.200 And for the CBC to say that their job is to wait around for the police to verify and do their job for them is outrageous.
00:00:37.740 We speak to Kosman Georgia, the managing editor of Juno News and the journalist who first broke the story about the shooter's identity
00:00:45.060 and we talked to him about how he broke this story.
00:00:48.280 When you affirm delusions in society and when you celebrate mental illness, you get more of it. 0.55
00:00:53.780 We also speak to the world's leading expert and activist on the transgender ideology and the menace it is creating in our society. 1.00
00:01:03.160 Is this the show where we're supposed to tell the truth about politics?
00:01:07.360 Is this where we're supposed to tell the truth?
00:01:09.680 He's too unattractive physically to be successful in politics.
00:01:13.180 And finally, you won't believe what a top liberal strategist has to say about up-and-coming conservative star Jamil Javani.
00:01:21.000 All that and more on today's news update.
00:01:24.100 All right, folks, we are going to bring you all the latest facts and all the confirmed details from the Tumblr Ridge mass shooting,
00:01:31.480 unbelievably horrific and despicable act of evil that happened in our country.
00:01:36.880 So yesterday, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald spoke to reporters and he confirmed a whole bunch of facts,
00:01:44.060 some of which we knew and some of which we did not.
00:01:46.700 So let's go through everything we know and the timeline so far.
00:01:49.980 So the shooter's name, legal name, I guess, is Jesse Van Rootsler.
00:01:54.040 He is 18 years old or he was 18 years old.
00:01:56.600 He went socially by Jesse Strange.
00:01:59.020 That's what his family called him.
00:02:00.440 That's what all his online profiles called him.
00:02:02.560 But police are saying that his legal name is Jesse Van Rootsler, age 18.
00:02:07.420 There are eight confirmed victims, eight people who were killed by Jesse.
00:02:11.680 Plus, Jesse killed himself as well.
00:02:13.940 So nine dead total.
00:02:15.380 We reported yesterday that it was 10.
00:02:17.060 That was based on a mistake that the RCMP had made.
00:02:20.200 They had assumed that someone who had died en route to the hospital.
00:02:23.860 But that person actually survived.
00:02:25.200 And we're going to bring you an update on her a little later in the show.
00:02:27.840 So here is how it went down.
00:02:29.540 Roughly 1 p.m. local time on Tuesday.
00:02:32.640 Jesse Strange, aka Jesse Van Rootsler, age 18, was in his home.
00:02:37.800 He murdered his mother, Jennifer Strange, age 39, killed her in cold blood, killed his 11-year-old brother.
00:02:44.540 11-year-old brother, also dead, stepbrother, sorry, killed at the residence.
00:02:48.840 Jesse then went on over to the local high school.
00:02:51.420 This is Tumblr Ridge Secondary School.
00:02:53.660 It's a school that has grade 7 through grade 12.
00:02:57.420 There were roughly 175 students enrolled at this school in the very remote community of Tumblr Ridge.
00:03:03.960 This is a town of some 2,400 people.
00:03:06.260 So you got to know everybody knows each other.
00:03:08.100 And everybody knew who this guy, Jesse Strange, was.
00:03:12.360 Well, he carried out an unbelievable, disturbing rampage at the school.
00:03:16.420 I can't imagine the horror of those poor students.
00:03:18.920 Jesse killed one female teacher.
00:03:21.000 He also killed three female students and two male students.
00:03:24.980 Police say that they were primarily between ages of 13 and 17, although two of the victims,
00:03:30.000 Juno News is independently verified, were only 12 years old.
00:03:32.840 I'm talking about Kylie Smith, age 12, and Abel Mlansois, age 12, unbelievably horrific.
00:03:39.720 I donated to the family of Kylie Smith.
00:03:42.000 If there are other crowdfunders out there, I will happily donate to all of these families.
00:03:45.600 If you are able to, please consider reaching into your wallet and giving them what they can
00:03:49.900 during this horrific time in this community.
00:03:53.020 Also, just send them your prayers.
00:03:54.860 Take some time to pray for these poor families.
00:03:57.500 Ezekiel Schofield, age 13, is also reported to have died.
00:04:02.660 12-year-old Maya Gabila, we've been giving you updates of her mother.
00:04:06.340 She's been posting on Facebook.
00:04:08.100 She was shot in the neck and in the head.
00:04:10.760 She was flown to Vancouver, remains in critical condition.
00:04:14.520 Her mom posted last night that they didn't think she was going to survive the night.
00:04:17.680 We are looking.
00:04:18.380 We haven't seen an update from her yet, but we will continue to pray.
00:04:23.180 And we'll add a link to the GoFundMe because I donated to this family,
00:04:26.600 and I urge you to as well.
00:04:29.260 So interestingly, the police say that Jesse was previously enrolled at this school.
00:04:33.760 He was a student, but he dropped out four years ago.
00:04:35.960 Guy dropped out when he was age 14.
00:04:38.100 Hasn't gone to that school.
00:04:39.240 Hasn't enrolled in school at all.
00:04:40.960 What has he been doing for the last four years before he went back and carried out this rampage?
00:04:46.900 Well, RCMP Commissioner Dwayne McDonald also confirmed that the family were gun owners.
00:04:52.020 He would not confirm which guns were used.
00:04:53.980 But let me just read from a Globe and Mail report.
00:04:56.380 It says the RCMP said the shooter once had a firearm license, but that it expired in 2024.
00:05:02.120 Just pause here for a second. 0.98
00:05:03.800 Okay, we know this person is mentally ill. 0.99
00:05:06.020 We know that this person is trans. 0.99
00:05:07.780 Why does he have a gun license?
00:05:09.740 And why does he, you know, he's not even in school.
00:05:11.780 The guy's not in school, but he has a gun license.
00:05:13.740 Had it until 2024.
00:05:15.760 Police say that no guns were registered.
00:05:18.140 This is, okay, this is just a pause here.
00:05:20.100 But it says no guns were registered to her name.
00:05:22.440 This is how the Globe and Mail, this is how Canada's newspaper of record is reporting the story, pretending that the shooter was a girl and using her pronouns, even though it was a dude.
00:05:32.160 Guys, like, we can all see through you. 1.00
00:05:34.500 You just look stupid. 1.00
00:05:35.620 It's embarrassing that you use these pronouns when we know that it was a male shooter. 1.00
00:05:39.680 So anyway, we're reading from the Globe and Mail, no guns were registered to his name.
00:05:44.400 And the Mounties said that they do not yet know who on the guns used Tuesday or how they were procured.
00:05:49.020 Police had seized firearms from the home a couple of years ago, RCMP said.
00:05:53.060 But someone in the family successfully petitioned for their return.
00:05:56.580 The guns were given back roughly a month ago, a family member said.
00:06:00.360 So the RCMP knew that there was a problem here.
00:06:02.460 They knew this person shouldn't have guns.
00:06:03.960 They took those guns away.
00:06:05.740 And then a month ago, they gave them back. 0.98
00:06:07.520 They gave them back to this family and to this deranged, sick, young man. 0.99
00:06:13.600 Unbelievable. 0.99
00:06:14.780 Unbelievable.
00:06:15.820 RCMP confirmed that Jesse was struggling with severe mental illness and that there were multiple home visits, including as recently as last spring.
00:06:25.360 Juno News has exclusively uncovered online accounts suggesting that Jesse had severe mental health issues since at least 2023.
00:06:32.680 And he even reported wanting to burn down his own house at the time.
00:06:37.520 Here is RCMP Commissioner, Dwayne MacDonald, speaking about Jesse's mental illness.
00:06:43.100 Were there any calls, concerns by anyone in the public to police about the suspect in recent days, weeks, months?
00:06:52.480 The most recent incidents I have are from spring of last year.
00:06:56.540 So we've checked our police indices or databases, et cetera.
00:07:01.520 I have not.
00:07:02.180 I don't have any information that there's been anything since then.
00:07:04.480 And could you give us the context of spring of last year?
00:07:07.700 Similar to what I said before.
00:07:09.680 Concerns regarding mental health, self-harm, those types of concerns.
00:07:14.780 And yes, RCMP also confirmed that Jesse was trans, he considered himself a woman, even though he was a man, and that he started transing at the age of 12.
00:07:23.780 12 years old.
00:07:24.840 Guy with a mental health history, now getting hormone drugs at the age of presumably as young as 12 years old. 0.95
00:07:33.420 This is really sick. 0.84
00:07:34.180 The police said they didn't want to reveal that the gunman was trans because the gunman identified as a woman. 0.96
00:07:41.900 And that's why you saw the ridiculousness of them calling that person a gun person, not a gunman, a gun person, according to RCMP.
00:07:49.680 So a reporter did ask RCMP on Wednesday why they were hiding the fact that the mass shooter was trans. 0.78
00:07:54.700 Again, here is Deputy Commissioner Dwayne MacDonald stating that he wanted to use the killer's preferred pronouns, actually, that it was really important to them not to misgender this maniacal monster who was gunning people down at the local high school.
00:08:09.260 Here's that clip.
00:08:09.880 We've heard all around the world reports coming out from different media, not local, but world.
00:08:15.000 And we've heard people from Tumblr Ridge, actually people that know the shooter.
00:08:19.260 And they are all saying that this person is transgender.
00:08:22.160 Why is the RCMP not speaking because why are we hiding this from the public?
00:08:25.960 Well, first off, thank you for your question.
00:08:27.740 We're not hiding it.
00:08:28.580 In fact, you're the first media to ask the question.
00:08:31.400 I will say this.
00:08:32.380 We identified the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and in social media.
00:08:37.180 I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male who approximately, the information that I have, approximately six years ago, began to transition to female and identified as female both socially and publicly.
00:08:51.420 Really, truly unbelievable gaslighting here by police and by the legacy media.
00:08:56.460 We're all just going to lie and pretend that the shooter was a woman.
00:08:59.900 We're just going to pretend it was a woman, even though everyone knows that it was a man. 0.80
00:09:03.440 But we wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
00:09:05.500 So we're just going to pretend it's a woman. 0.99
00:09:07.340 Now, as you know, Juno News was the first outlet to verify and report the shooter's identity on Tuesday.
00:09:12.420 We did it on Tuesday.
00:09:13.260 The CBC, we showed you the clip yesterday of them urging people not to listen to online reports and saying that it's only responsible to wait for the RCMP.
00:09:21.440 Well, eventually they came around.
00:09:23.400 They followed our lead and they reported the truth that the shooter was trans. 0.55
00:09:27.560 It took them almost 24 hours to do it after we did it here at Juno News.
00:09:32.880 So I guess they came around and did the right thing eventually because I'm sure they would have preferred that you just never knew that fact, that you never knew that it was trans and they're just going to pretend it was a female shooter. 0.61
00:09:42.480 Well, the gaslighting wasn't just by police and legacy media in Canada.
00:09:47.660 They're not the only ones doing this routine.
00:09:50.040 Sky News in England, with a straight face, said that the shooter was female.
00:09:55.060 Look at this reporter.
00:09:56.160 I'm embarrassed for him.
00:09:57.200 I don't know how he looks himself in the mirror, but imagine, not only does he point out that he says that the shooter was female, but he notes how rare it is to have a female mass shooter. 0.95
00:10:07.940 Unbelievable liars in legacy media. 0.93
00:10:10.020 Let's play that clip.
00:10:10.680 Police say the attacker was dead when they found her.
00:10:12.940 She had a self-inflicted wound and she matched the description given in an earlier police alert.
00:10:19.440 Female wearing a dress with brown hair.
00:10:22.640 That is extremely unusual.
00:10:24.620 It's rare to have a female attacker. 0.98
00:10:27.800 I know I shouldn't be surprised, but honestly, it's unbelievable the level of gaslighting and lies from the legacy media.
00:10:35.180 All right, folks, coming up, we spoke to a leading voice in the fight against the menace of transgender ideology. 1.00
00:10:41.620 Plus, a top liberal strategist goes incredibly low in a new string of attacks against conservatives.
00:10:48.020 But first, as I mentioned, Juno News was the first news outlet in the world to confirm the identity of the shooter.
00:10:53.880 Our managing editor, Cosman Georgia, spoke to a family member, confirmed the name Jesse Strange, confirmed that the guy was a shooter and that he was transgender.
00:11:02.720 He considered himself transgender.
00:11:04.580 I sat down with Cosman and he walked us through his groundbreaking reporting.
00:11:09.100 We compared it to the absolute filth and lies coming from the CBC.
00:11:13.860 And here is a little bit about what that interview looked like. 0.85
00:11:17.620 I'm going to play this ridiculous clip of the CBC being careful, letting it known, stating that they're being careful not to call this a gunman.
00:11:26.500 And we heard an RCMP commissioner as well and other reporters saying it's a gun person, which I've never heard that before.
00:11:34.340 But first, let's play this clip from the CBC.
00:11:37.840 And initially, when the active shooter alert went out, police said that they were looking for a female with brown hair wearing a dress.
00:11:46.340 But we have not heard anything more from police about a possible suspect.
00:11:50.760 Also, careful not to call the person a gunman.
00:11:53.380 Careful not to call them a gunman.
00:11:56.560 Someone's shooting children at a local school, but heaven forbid we misgender them, Cosman. 0.96
00:12:02.020 I mean, like this is this is the world we live in, I guess, where we care more about the feelings of a shooter, a maniacal maniac murdering people than we do about the truth.
00:12:11.480 But also the fact that Juno News, I mean, we're just like a handful of independent reporters.
00:12:16.440 Right. And, you know, the powers of the legacy media, they couldn't work their sources the same way you did.
00:12:22.680 Here is the CBC urging people.
00:12:24.500 This is this morning.
00:12:25.320 This is Wednesday.
00:12:26.520 Urging people not to jump to conclusions and just wait for the RCMP to confirm everything.
00:12:31.400 They were very, very late to name the shooter.
00:12:33.440 Let's play this clip.
00:12:34.140 Also, a note on our coverage of this story today.
00:12:37.820 We know at CBC News that there are people online who are talking about the possible suspect and other details surrounding this case.
00:12:45.780 But this information has not been confirmed to us by either sources or law enforcement.
00:12:51.380 And we want to stick to confirmed details only as we continue to cover this story.
00:12:56.900 And as we learn more, we will certainly bring all of the confirmed information to you.
00:13:01.420 So, scolding us, people online, how dare you report things that CBC hasn't independently verified?
00:13:07.900 How do you feel knowing that your sources are better than the entire state broadcaster's Cosman?
00:13:12.920 Well, I'd like to point out I didn't do anything special.
00:13:17.460 I did the basic job of journalism, and that's to go to primary sources, right?
00:13:22.740 And for the CBC to say that their job is to wait around for the police to verify and do their job for them is outrageous.
00:13:30.020 Juno News changed the arc of this story.
00:13:33.140 We took the narrative away from the left, away from the CBC and the RCMP, who would prefer to just respect the pronouns of this mass murderer, even in death.
00:13:42.880 Well, we refuse to cow to that narrative.
00:13:44.920 And Cosman team deserve a ton of credit in getting the truth out there, informing the public, and putting the truth first.
00:13:51.120 Catch that full interview over at junonews.com or on YouTube.
00:13:55.620 It's under the headline, Left Wing Media in Denial over trans terrorist mass shooting.
00:14:00.520 You're going to want to check out that entire interview.
00:14:02.760 I also spoke to the world's leading advocate, speaking the truth about the radical trans ideology.
00:14:08.640 I'm talking about Chris Elston, also known as Billboard Chris online.
00:14:11.820 This guy does incredible work.
00:14:13.360 He is so interesting, so smart.
00:14:15.260 He explains this so clearly better than anyone else.
00:14:18.360 Our conversation hits the root cause of this insanity, including this bizarre notion that it wasn't a gunman. 0.92
00:14:24.780 It was a gun person and dozens of other legacy media lies that are circulating, really exposing the media to just be like useless, like absolutely useless.
00:14:35.760 Anyway, here is a little preview of what that interview sounded like.
00:14:38.800 How are you processing this and what do you make of what's happened in Tumblr Ridge?
00:14:42.040 There have been so many of these trans identified school shooters in recent history, and we should be asking ourselves this question. 0.82
00:14:50.500 Why is that?
00:14:51.740 And we should be trying to fix that instead of trying to push it out of the public realm of knowledge, because there's obviously something going on.
00:15:02.120 And what's happening with these kids is they're being told that they were born wrong, that they were in the wrong body.
00:15:09.080 And this boy somehow came to believe that he was a girl. 0.99
00:15:12.660 This is a mental illness. 0.97
00:15:14.700 This is not brave and beautiful. 0.95
00:15:17.100 And we should not affirm it.
00:15:18.700 It is a delusion.
00:15:20.360 And when you affirm delusions in society, and when you celebrate mental illness, you get more of it.
00:15:26.360 And also, you don't fix it.
00:15:28.720 And I encourage you to go listen to that full interview as well.
00:15:31.420 You can find it in the same episode as the interview with Cosmin Georgia, the interview with Chris, Billboard Chris, starts at about the 20-minute mark.
00:15:38.460 All right.
00:15:39.420 Finally, folks, liberal political strategist David Hurley took aim at Jamil Javani, conservative MP, in the latest episode of Hurley's podcast known as the Curse of Politics podcast, where he's joined by fellow strategists, including Fred DeLore and Scott Reid.
00:15:56.020 Fred's a conservative.
00:15:57.280 Scott's a liberal.
00:15:58.200 This is just an unbelievable line of attack here.
00:16:00.440 Now, he went on to speculate that Javani was positioning himself for future leadership ambitions before saying, quote, he's too unattractive to be successful in politics.
00:16:11.960 For absolutely no reason, just taking a personal pot shot at Jamil Javani.
00:16:16.820 Here's what that sounded like.
00:16:18.120 Is this the show where we're supposed to tell the truth about politics?
00:16:21.380 Is this where we're supposed to tell the truth?
00:16:24.120 He's too unattractive physically to be successful in politics.
00:16:29.860 Hmm.
00:16:30.800 He's not going to be the leader of a political party.
00:16:33.760 Oh, I don't.
00:16:35.120 Look, I don't know if I'd agree with that.
00:16:37.460 I don't know if his hair.
00:16:39.080 I'm not going to weigh in on that.
00:16:40.520 Okay.
00:16:40.740 Just a couple of important facts to know about Jamil Javani.
00:16:43.360 First of all, he's black.
00:16:44.360 He's one of the only black MPs in Canada. 0.95
00:16:47.680 Number two, he is a cancer survivor.
00:16:49.880 So I'm told the reason he doesn't have hair on his head is because of his fight with cancer and the impact of chemotherapy.
00:16:56.140 Okay.
00:16:56.920 So you're attacking a person for their immutable characteristics, things that they have no control over.
00:17:02.620 And for no reason, other than the fact that Jamil is out there having an impact, doing amazing things, using his own personal connections to the White House to try to advocate for Canadians and get a better deal.
00:17:13.080 I have a ton of respect for Jamil Javani. 0.97
00:17:15.360 And the fact that these liberals are coming at him with these ridiculous, low, ridiculous, just unbelievable. 0.98
00:17:21.440 Honestly, just imagine it the other way around. 0.99
00:17:23.380 If a conservative had said that, that someone's too ugly about a black cancer survivor on the left, you know that it would be a huge story. 0.60
00:17:32.080 They'd be outraged. 0.72
00:17:32.880 They'd be talking about how racist everybody is on the conservative side.
00:17:35.480 When a liberal does it, it's like, oh, we'll just take it in stride.
00:17:38.380 No big deal. 0.95
00:17:39.200 You know, this is the second ridiculous attack against Jamil Javani this week. 0.99
00:17:43.380 So we have liberal strategists saying he's ugly. 0.95
00:17:45.060 We also had a liberal MP, John Paul Danko, call Jamil Javani a Nazi, compare him to a Nazi, said that he is just like Nazi collaborator Unity Mitford for the crime of what?
00:17:59.380 Having a friend in the White House. 0.98
00:18:01.500 So ridiculous. 0.67
00:18:02.680 The fact that they're going after Jamil like this tells me that Jamil Javani is doing an incredible job. 0.83
00:18:07.760 He's over the target, obviously. 0.85
00:18:09.980 And these ridiculous attacks will not, will not stop him. 0.94
00:18:14.080 Here's that clip earlier this week of John Paul Danko comparing Javani to a Nazi.
00:18:19.000 A U.S. is hostile government, deliberate destruction of global allegiances and the stability that our country has relied on.
00:18:27.660 We have a Conservative Party of Canada's own Unity Mitford, who is attempting to freelance negotiations with the American president right now.
00:18:36.040 There's separatist movements.
00:18:37.460 What a point of order.
00:18:38.740 All right, folks, this is all the time we have for today.
00:18:40.240 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:18:41.500 We'll be back again tomorrow with all the news.
00:18:43.280 I'm Candace Malcolm.
00:18:44.200 This is Candace Malcolm Show News Update.
00:18:46.100 Thank you and God bless.