Western Standard - EXCLUSIVE： The inside story on the Tumbler Ridge Shooting

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00:09:00.000 Good morning, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:09:24.000 um it's uh almost 9 40 a.m mountain standard time uh 8 40 a.m pacific time in tumbler ridge bc

00:09:35.700 um you're watching right now because uh you've all heard the news uh some of you woke up to it

00:09:44.300 um some of you saw it developing in the evening uh yesterday

00:09:50.380 today uh it's uh not often we have things like this happen in our country but uh it's it's

00:10:01.840 shattering news and it's it's getting attention around the world right now um so i want to talk

00:10:10.280 with uh everyone about what we know how we know it and very importantly what we know

00:10:18.700 that most of the media will not report

00:10:21.580 and why they will not report it.

00:10:25.760 So I won't spend too much information

00:10:28.620 on what you all know.

00:10:30.020 Tumblr Ridge, BC, small community,

00:10:32.560 around 2,500 people.

00:10:36.540 North, northeast BC,

00:10:38.160 it's about just a little over two hours

00:10:39.900 west of Grand Prairie in Alberta.

00:10:45.540 Small little town.

00:10:46.500 and they've been rocked by a mass shooting.

00:10:51.720 We know that there are nine people confirmed dead, 25 people confirmed injured.

00:10:58.640 The mother of the shooter is dead, and the little brother of the shooter is dead.

00:11:06.240 But presumably, although I can't confirm, the other seven confirmed dead are teachers or students at the local high school and another 25 injured.

00:11:22.500 My best guess would be that they're also from the school.

00:11:26.820 The crime was committed, as far as we know, with a shotgun.

00:11:30.840 Standard shotgun, I can't tell you what gauge,

00:11:33.660 but these things are normally a 12 gauge, maybe a 14.

00:11:38.900 But standard shotgun, as far as we know.

00:11:47.080 So, I'll just preface this off the start.

00:11:54.080 This is live, so maybe I'll say something insensitive.

00:11:57.280 I'm going to try to stick to the facts.

00:11:59.040 I'm going to try to stick to sober, cold analysis.

00:12:04.640 But yeah, it's live.

00:12:06.180 So maybe I say something insensitive.

00:12:08.000 So forgive me if I do.

00:12:09.820 But the story is of just such immense, tragic proportions.

00:12:17.880 And I'm extremely disturbed by some of the actions of the police and the mainstream legacy media right now in covering this that we've just got to get into it.

00:12:27.780 and we've got to be tough about it. So, um, an alert went, I don't know if we have the alert

00:12:34.260 to bring up here, um, studio, but, uh, an alert went out, an emergency alert went out on people's

00:12:40.940 phones. You know, you've all gotten these things. It's, you know, weather warning could be an Amber

00:12:44.920 alert, uh, but alert went out to people in the Tumblr Ridge area, uh, and said that there was

00:12:51.640 a woman in a dress, uh, on the loose shooting people and people should shelter in place. A 1.00

00:12:57.080 woman and a dress okay that's that's interesting um but let's let's we have this we have a clip 1.00

00:13:05.740 from the rcp it's a very very short clip where they're explaining what happened and the rcmp

00:13:11.100 use a word i've never heard in my life okay so here's the emergency alert that went around

00:13:16.680 uh tumblr ridge alert and surrounding area active shooter alert issued by tumblr ridge rcmp

00:13:23.360 People are asked to stay inside and shelter in place, lock your doors, don't leave.

00:13:27.900 Suspect is described as a female in a dress with brown hair.

00:13:32.520 Shelter in place.

00:13:34.040 Okay, so people in Tumblr Ridge are looking for a woman.

00:13:38.340 Now, maybe that is just, as the crisis is going on,

00:13:42.240 maybe that's just the information the police have at the time, in the crisis.

00:13:46.440 So we can maybe write that off as just, this is what they know.

00:13:50.780 And it was panicked, information's scant, coming in fast and furious.

00:13:55.860 So, you know, we can be a bit forgiving there.

00:13:59.680 But in the press conference, soon after the shooting, an RCMP officer, let's just play that quick.

00:14:08.100 All right, let's get it up on screen here.

00:14:10.120 This is the RCMP quickly after the shooting.

00:14:12.940 Let's play it.

00:14:16.340 We're still trying to determine a lot about the shooter at this stage right now.

00:14:19.840 we believe we've been able to identify the shooter but for privacy reasons and obviously

00:14:24.800 for the conduct of the investigation we're not releasing that information at that time

00:14:28.320 until we're assured that we've connected with the appropriate people and identified things

00:14:34.880 oh there's another one i'm looking for the rcmp identify the shooter as a quote gun person

00:14:41.200 do we have that video gun person okay let's play that one

00:14:43.840 play gun person video

00:14:49.280 yeah the gun person okay and then separately do you know the gun person's relationship to

00:15:00.440 that includes the deceased gun person okay and then separately do you know the gun person's

00:15:05.820 relationship to that includes the deceased gun person okay and then separately do you know the

00:15:12.720 gun person's relationship to okay that includes the deceased gun person

00:15:17.720 okay gun person now that's a language uh so that is a uh that is a term that i did not know existed

00:15:27.680 in the english language until yesterday evening gun person i've heard of uh you know the lone

00:15:35.100 gunman or there were several gunmen uh we don't even really say the word gun woman

00:15:40.960 uh maybe a large measure because women don't tend to do this kind of thing in very significant 1.00

00:15:48.880 numbers uh credit to the to the female half of the species that women just don't seem to do 1.00

00:15:55.520 crazy mass murderous things like this but i've never heard the term gun person

00:16:02.140 um so described in the emergency alert also as a female in a dress with brown hair and the police

00:16:10.660 also said uh they have no motive and they're and they're they have no idea where to start looking

00:16:15.880 for a motive okay so uh as this is developing yesterday i got on the phone with uh some of our

00:16:23.440 core leadership in the newsroom here and some of our reporters uh you know we had dave nailer who

00:16:28.960 leaves our newsroom behind me here uh our our main bc reporter jared yager we brought in uh some

00:16:35.280 extra hands, like our Saskatchewan reporter, Chris Oldcorn. Very, very quickly, we realized

00:16:42.620 this doesn't add up very quickly, at least it likely doesn't add up. For a simple reason,

00:16:48.700 women don't do mass shootings. They don't. There are going to be some exceptions, but it is a 1.00

00:16:55.220 very, very small number. Based on the research I've done, only around 2% of mass school shootings

00:17:03.460 are regular women, 2%. So they happen, but they are exceedingly rare. No one would place a bet 0.99

00:17:14.380 that, okay, you hear a school shooting happens, make a quick, maybe prejudicial guess on who it

00:17:20.680 is. No one says it was probably a woman. No one would bet on that. That is a bad, bad bet. Women, 1.00

00:17:28.180 to their credit don't or females if we're talking schools you know so girls young women they don't 0.96

00:17:33.980 do this and the rcmp are saying it's a woman well that that raises a big question and then

00:17:40.040 they start using weasel words like gun person or inventing weasel words like gun person so

00:17:47.080 this obviously raises the pretty obvious question you know where i'm going with this and

00:17:52.000 I don't want to make this something it's not, but this is an obvious question.

00:17:59.340 So, mass school shootings are conducted mostly by males, males identifying as females, or sometimes females identifying as males, like happened not very long ago in Nashville, where a Christian school was shot up.

00:18:13.400 We just, it's not a very big percentage.

00:18:17.680 It's hardly even statistically relevant, the number of mass school shootings committed by regular females.

00:18:26.380 They just don't do it generally.

00:18:29.680 So just 2% are regular females. 0.99

00:18:32.640 So this is fun.

00:18:34.000 I asked Grok.

00:18:36.840 We've got to be careful how much we trust AI.

00:18:39.500 And I use AI.

00:18:40.680 It's good shorthand for things.

00:18:42.540 But this is an example.

00:18:44.040 Let's bring up the screenshot of what I asked Grok.

00:18:47.680 I said, I asked, short answer only, what is the probability that the mass shooter in Tumblr Ridge, B.C. is an actual biological woman?

00:18:56.460 Grok said near 100% effectively certain official police emergency alert and multiple reports like The Guardian, CBC, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera,

00:19:05.600 describe the shooter as female woman in dress with brown hair.

00:19:08.540 No credible sources indicate transgender status or that the person is biologically male.

00:19:12.680 Claims otherwise appear to be unsubstantiated speculation or misinformation on social media.

00:19:17.680 I remember when Grok used to be cool. 0.99

00:19:21.560 Grok used to not give a shit. 0.98

00:19:24.140 Someone's obviously tampered with Grok's computing power or however it is. 0.99

00:19:33.220 So Grok says, 100%.

00:19:34.920 It is effectively certain. 1.00

00:19:38.260 I said, bullshit. 1.00

00:19:40.580 It just doesn't match up. 1.00

00:19:42.400 2% of mass school shootings are committed by women.

00:19:45.740 And this is going to be in the 2%.

00:19:47.240 it's fear it's possible but i'm not gonna bet on it so we had to answer an obvious question

00:19:54.260 and we did uh the western standard has um like well we're the western standard we have a lot

00:20:03.000 of contacts in western canada that's our beat uh so we quickly reached out to just people we know

00:20:10.940 in the area, particularly around Grand Prairie, and were able to quickly develop some on-the-ground

00:20:18.020 sources. There was a lot coming out on social media. Some of it turned out to be credible.

00:20:21.980 Some of it turned out to be bullshit. There was one poor person, a transgendered person, 1.00

00:20:29.100 who was misidentified. Their picture put all over X and other social media platforms last night,

00:20:36.640 identifying that person as the shooter because everybody kind of jumped to the conclusion and

00:20:42.320 it turns out correctly that this was uh this was probably a trans person and and and they a lot of

00:20:49.180 people misidentified the person i'm not gonna put the picture up this is a young person who's

00:20:54.340 obviously already having a hard time with life and now having probably a much harder time now

00:21:00.460 that a ton of people have seen their face incorrectly identified as the shooter i can't

00:21:06.460 imagine what that person's going through um but we did fall for it uh we saw a lot of stuff going

00:21:12.020 around on social media some of that provided leads but that's not substantiated information

00:21:17.840 it was our job as a news company as a publication to get confirmation and so we worked with sources

00:21:25.320 on the ground and we did confirm who it was we could put up the correct picture here uh we the

00:21:30.600 western standard confirmed the identity of the shooter as jesse strang confirmed by uh let's get

00:21:37.060 the let's get the picture of jesse strang up uh jesse strang confirmed by multiple sources

00:21:42.500 um a biological male um teenager uh began transitioning from a male to a female 15 to

00:21:54.640 17 years old best we can tell and as best we can tell jesse is the shooter's real name i guess

00:21:59.740 jesse could be both a man a male and female name so did not change the name so that's as best as

00:22:06.600 we can tell that's not 100 but that's as best as we can tell we've identified the shooter

00:22:12.420 This is the shooter right here.

00:22:16.900 You're not going to get it really anywhere else.

00:22:19.600 You're going to see some of this on social media.

00:22:22.360 But social media, I mean, it's often the first source of things.

00:22:25.260 And social media has helped to identify.

00:22:27.860 But they often get it wrong as well.

00:22:32.420 One other independent media, Juno News, did get it.

00:22:36.940 Western Center was the first to have it with multiple confirmed sources.

00:22:41.780 that this was the individual. One of those sources is not the RCMP. The RCMP is not

00:22:48.080 confirming who the shooter was. They are saying it's because they have to notify next of kin.

00:22:55.080 Well, guess what? The shooter shot his next of kin. The shooter shot his mother

00:23:01.240 and little brother. He shot his next of kin. The RCMP says they're waiting on notifying next of

00:23:10.240 kin the next of kin is murdered the rcb is just not really wanting to say why that's what's happening

00:23:18.020 here um the legacy media as of when i checked right before coming on the air as of 9 30 a.m

00:23:26.560 mountain standard time 8 30 a.m local time in british columbia not a single legacy media outlet

00:23:34.160 in canada or on the planet have reported on the identity of the shooter they're still just going

00:23:40.220 with the official story from the RCMP.

00:23:43.940 A woman in a dress with brown hair.

00:23:49.140 That's it.

00:23:49.800 Woman in a dress with brown hair.

00:23:51.800 Or gun person.

00:23:53.640 Gun person, that new word that the RCMP invented yesterday.

00:23:57.780 You know, I got to feel a little bit bad for the RCMP communications officer

00:24:02.200 who had to do this.

00:24:04.360 I mean, there's like all sorts of federal law and guidelines

00:24:07.200 on how you're supposed to identify people, not misgendering them, etc.

00:24:11.360 The poor RCMP comms officer, I don't want to beat up on him, 0.97

00:24:14.780 he's probably just following the rules, the dumb rules that are written for him. 0.97

00:24:18.740 He's probably given this situation, it comes on his lap, 0.93

00:24:21.420 and they're like, alright, you have to write a press release. 1.00

00:24:23.160 He's just, shit. 1.00

00:24:27.880 They know it's bullshit, and they have to say it anyway. 1.00

00:24:30.460 The RCMP are not telling the truth here, they're intentionally obfuscating, 0.98

00:24:36.320 but obfuscating is official government federal government policy here to not misgender anyone

00:24:44.080 so it's not all his fault

00:24:48.400 but the legacy media is under no obligation to report only what the government says the

00:24:54.240 government's official line they're under no obligation um

00:25:00.880 they know they've seen what we've written i know tons of people in the legacy media

00:25:10.840 they they see that the western standards out there they see all the stuff on social media

00:25:15.320 some of it confirmed some of it not confirmed some of it incorrect but we've done our work

00:25:21.260 we've verified we have sources on the ground right now in tumblr ridge we have a freelancer

00:25:25.900 we're probably one of the only media on the planet with someone we've hired on the ground

00:25:31.720 in Tumblr Ridge. We have reporters driving through the bush right now to Tumblr Ridge.

00:25:38.960 We've done our homework. We know who this person is. We know what's going on. Everybody in Tumblr

00:25:44.140 Ridge, everybody in Tumblr Ridge knows what's going on. I didn't get a single call. None of

00:25:49.920 my reporters in the newsroom behind me or our guys in BC or Edmonton, none of them, best I know,

00:25:56.260 got any calls or texts or DMs from anyone in the legacy media saying, hey, can you give me more

00:26:01.540 information about these sources or could I possibly talk to them anonymously to confirm what you know?

00:26:07.400 We haven't gotten a single call. It's like they're not even interested. They don't want to know

00:26:12.800 because if they know, they ostensibly have to update their stories. They have to report on it.

00:26:18.460 they haven't even called us asking hey uh how credible is this source could we talk to them

00:26:23.800 could we we we don't want to take your word for it western standard but can we uh can we talk to

00:26:30.420 your sources could you talk to your sources ask if they're willing to talk to us so we can

00:26:34.360 independently verify it we haven't gotten a single phone call not a single text not a single dm

00:26:40.040 the the main the main the mainstream media here is utterly uninterested in this critical part of

00:26:46.840 the story. Who is the shooter? When this kind of thing happens, what do you want to know?

00:26:52.680 Who are the victims? Who is the suspect? The suspect's dead, I guess, but we use the term

00:26:59.860 suspect. Who are the victims? Who is the suspect? Why? How? Who, what, why, where, how? Basic parts

00:27:09.720 of any story. This is the big who. This is the big who. And they're not interested.

00:27:16.020 They're just not interested.

00:27:19.380 CBC, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, CTV, Global, any of you, give me a call.

00:27:29.200 Or if you're a reporter watching right now, drop it in the DMs.

00:27:32.280 I'll take or drop it in the comments.

00:27:35.100 I'll get back to you.

00:27:36.360 I'll ask our sources there if they're willing to talk to you.

00:27:38.500 You don't have to cite the Western Standard as your source if you don't want to.

00:27:42.240 Maybe you're a little embarrassed.

00:27:44.020 But you can go confirm it for yourselves.

00:27:45.380 I'll put you in touch with some sources.

00:27:47.900 Right now.

00:27:48.960 I'll do it.

00:27:49.860 As soon as I'm off the air here.

00:27:51.060 I'll put you in touch.

00:27:53.520 Uninterested.

00:27:55.000 Nothing.

00:27:59.640 It was very obvious.

00:28:04.600 This is not a woman. 1.00

00:28:06.140 This was obviously not a woman. 1.00

00:28:08.100 Based on probability.

00:28:09.200 As I said, there's a roughly 2% chance.

00:28:11.600 Based on history, over the last decade, this could have been a woman, an actual regular old-fashioned woman or girl, because it's a school.

00:28:22.900 Two percent chance.

00:28:23.840 So we ought to have an instant suspicion that this might not be all it's choked out to be.

00:28:28.260 So the percentage of, this is rough math, I'm going to update it a bit more, but my rough math here.

00:28:35.660 percentage of mass school shootings in north america committed by transgendered people over

00:28:42.460 the last decade so 2016 2026 of the shooters approximately 20 to 25 percent have been

00:28:51.900 transgendered two percent are just women two percent 20 to 25 percent are transgendered

00:29:00.300 uh so north american school shootings over the last decade so based on percentage of the

00:29:05.240 population, here is how much more likely or less likely each of these four groups, male, female,

00:29:12.520 trans male, trans female, are, here's how likely or less likely they are to commit a mass school

00:29:18.580 shooting. Rough math. I'm going to update this as we go. I'm going to get harder numbers. 0.96

00:29:24.720 There's different ways to measure things, but here's what I got. Males, regular males, males

00:29:29.440 who think they're males, or males who know they're males, are 1.4 times more likely than

00:29:36.200 the average person to commit a mass school shooting. Males, 1.4 times more likely than

00:29:45.040 the average person. Females, 0.1 times more likely or less likely. Females are way less likely to

00:30:01.620 commit a mass school shooting. It pretty much doesn't happen. Again, a credit to the female 1.00

00:30:09.120 side of our species. Males, 1.4 times more likely, so a bit more likely than the average person.

00:30:15.040 And that's because females are so much less likely to do it. 0.1 times. 1.00

00:30:24.680 Biological females identifying as males, so biological females, people born a female who identify as a male, are 18 times more likely.

00:30:37.420 18 times more likely to commit a mass school shooting over the last decade in North America.

00:30:45.040 You thought that was bad.

00:30:47.340 Biological males who identify as females are 52 times more likely to commit a mass school shooting in North America over the last decade.

00:31:03.200 52 times.

00:31:06.940 Again, so regular male. 0.61

00:31:08.260 Let's start at the good end.

00:31:10.480 Regular female, 0.1 times more likely. 0.95

00:31:13.340 So they're way, way less likely.

00:31:14.840 So just so you understand, if it says one times as likely means purely average.

00:31:20.620 So 0.1 times is way less likely.

00:31:24.240 Females are way less likely to commit a mass school shooting. 1.00

00:31:27.980 Males are 1.4 times more likely to commit a mass school shooting.

00:31:34.120 Biological females who identify as males are 18 times, 18 times more likely to commit a mass school shooting. 0.96

00:31:42.520 and biological males who identify as a female are 52 times more likely to commit a masculine shooting.

00:31:53.720 52 times.

00:31:58.180 So, the RCMP, the legacy media, they would have us believe that a regular female 1.00

00:32:05.840 who's 0.1 times more likely to commit a masculine shooting did this. 0.95

00:32:12.520 Then what we know, which is, and the actual shooter, a biological male identifying as a female, who is 52 times more likely.

00:32:21.760 Now, every situation's unique.

00:32:25.120 They're individuals.

00:32:25.760 But just based on the math, and then quickly the weasel words used by the IRCMP and the media, gun person.

00:32:34.940 Well, it was pretty quick.

00:32:36.580 We were going to have to not take their word for it.

00:32:39.820 We were going to have to dig into this a little bit.

00:32:42.520 So, now this does not mean that biological males identifying as females, or biological females identifying as males, are all shooters. Far from the truth. Far from the case.

00:32:57.380 Also doesn't mean males are all likely to be school shooters. They're more likely than females. That doesn't mean we should treat these people with disrespect, treat them as anything less than dignified fellow men and women. Not meaning the pun.

00:33:12.740 um but it it is a statistically relevant number females are 0.1 times more likely 0.99

00:33:23.900 biological females identifying as biological males identifying as females are 52 times

00:33:29.720 more likely that is a statistically relevant figure it is extremely statistically relevant

00:33:37.940 So we have to, you know, I do, when this kind of thing happens, whenever there's a tragedy, everybody kind of quietly, in a very dark voice, I'm going to admit this out loud.

00:33:50.600 Everyone says, ooh, I hope that wasn't my group.

00:33:54.100 I hope that wasn't my group because I'm going to kind of residually get blamed for it.

00:33:58.880 You know, some bad hate attack happens.

00:34:00.720 People are like, oh, I hope it wasn't like a white right wing guy because it's going to blow back on us. 1.00

00:34:06.380 we're going to get shit for it. 1.00

00:34:09.440 People feel that. 0.99

00:34:10.800 Everyone, you know, in the comments

00:34:12.600 who's like, ah, racist, 1.00

00:34:14.560 blah, blah, blah, blah, fuck off. 1.00

00:34:17.120 You feel that. 1.00

00:34:18.580 You don't want it to be someone

00:34:20.300 who, when this kind of tragedy happens,

00:34:22.320 you don't want it to be your group.

00:34:25.200 Because it's going to,

00:34:26.660 it blows back on you,

00:34:28.100 and you kind of, residually as a group, 1.00

00:34:30.220 take shit for it. 0.99

00:34:31.640 And I think, 1.00

00:34:34.300 you know, I know a reasonable

00:34:36.100 number of trans people who i i can't imagine would ever do anything like this uh you know 1.00

00:34:42.740 they're good people and they got to be feeling they got to be feeling that right now you know

00:34:48.000 they got to be feeling oh i'm going to take blowback as a group because of what this monster

00:34:55.200 did so we should we should have some empathy for that right now and i don't mean to be adding to

00:35:02.020 it here. What I'm saying is probably not entirely helpful to that, but I'm more concerned with the

00:35:08.840 facts and the real story here than I am with sensitivities. I am sensitive to what's happening

00:35:15.660 and I don't want to hurt that, but I'm more concerned with the facts right now than those

00:35:20.460 sensitivities. So this is clearly a real issue. Let me just list off just from the last few years

00:35:30.500 some similar shootings february 14th 2018 marjorie stoneman douglas high school in florida

00:35:38.800 17 killed 17 injured these are these are trans trans shooters 17 killed 17 injured

00:35:44.900 may 18th uh 2028 santa fe high school texas 10 killed 13 injured may 18th 2019 stem high school

00:35:54.220 highlands ranch in colorado one killed eight eight injured uh november 30th 2021 oxford high school

00:36:03.240 michigan four killed seven injured may 24th 2022 rob elementary school uvalde texas 21 killed

00:36:12.000 17 injured covenant high school march 27 2023 covenant high school nashville tennessee

00:36:19.060 Sixth killed, one injured.

00:36:21.720 September 4th, 2024, Appalachee High School, Georgia.

00:36:27.060 Four killed, nine injured.

00:36:29.320 August 27th, 2025, Annunciation Catholic School, Minneapolis.

00:36:34.480 Three killed, 30 injured during a mass at the school.

00:36:39.600 january 22nd 2019 saugus high school two killed three injured november 30th 2021 perry high

00:36:56.080 school iowa two killed six injured december 16 2024 abundant life christian school wisconsin

00:37:04.740 and three killed six injured and now yesterday february 10th 2026 tumbler ridge british columbia

00:37:16.340 nine confirmed dead at least 25 confirmed injured

00:37:25.300 at least two of those are family members the shooter's mother a little brother

00:37:29.620 and then presumably people at the school,

00:37:34.100 students or teachers we don't yet know.

00:37:38.660 And then similar among the injured,

00:37:40.820 probably mostly around the school, if not entirely.

00:37:42.960 We don't know that yet.

00:37:46.520 We need to talk about this.

00:37:50.160 No group is responsible for the actions of an individual.

00:37:54.680 Ever.

00:37:55.760 Doesn't work like that.

00:37:56.860 every man and woman is created by god as an individual and only an individual is responsible

00:38:04.540 for that person's crimes not other people in their family in their tribe and their nation

00:38:09.260 in whatever group attribute they have no one else is responsible period

00:38:16.020 they're responsible but we have to look for warning signs where there might be something

00:38:26.800 You know, if you're concerned about terrorism from a certain ideology, that ideology is going to have people with some group characteristics in common.

00:38:38.140 So you look into that group.

00:38:40.840 You don't persecute people.

00:38:43.140 You don't hurt people.

00:38:44.600 You don't harm them in any way as a group.

00:38:47.980 But you look at it.

00:38:49.080 You try to identify problems.

00:38:50.400 When we're talking about radical Islamic terrorism, we try to work with people in the Muslim community to try and identify people who are potentially going to be radicalized or who are radicalized, and we try to de-radicalize them.

00:39:05.000 You don't try to de-radicalize someone from radical Islam if they're not in Islam, if they're not a Muslim.

00:39:13.820 That's obvious.

00:39:18.120 And that means it's fine to be a Muslim.

00:39:20.400 perfectly fine no problem with it not my beef but there's a group attribute there

00:39:27.680 that we usefully identify to try and solve a problem and there is a problem here

00:39:35.520 second pretending that there isn't anymore

00:39:38.960 it's a problem when biological males who identify as female are 52 times

00:39:44.880 more likely than the average student to commit a mass shooting there's a problem

00:39:50.400 when biological females who identify as male are 18 times more likely to commit a masculine shooting, 0.92

00:39:56.020 that's the average student, there's a problem.

00:40:04.200 And I'm sick of pretending that there's not.

00:40:08.540 You know, this is all just random.

00:40:11.600 It's just random.

00:40:12.960 No.

00:40:15.700 It's not random.

00:40:16.640 it's it's very statistically relevant and we got to stop pretending that it's not

00:40:25.320 um as i said you know everybody always i do kind of hate the cop out like well i i've got friends

00:40:34.480 in x group therefore i can't be prejudiced against that group that's a cop out you know i mean i kind

00:40:39.040 of hate saying that i don't mean it as a cop out to hedge my bets that like hey i i can't be home

00:40:45.120 phobic because i got gay friends that's a cop-out that's a cop-out um but uh i do

00:40:55.360 know a reason not a ton but i i know a reasonable number of of trans folks and

00:41:02.200 you know they're not my friends but they're perfectly decent folks and that doesn't mean

00:41:11.680 I don't I don't pretend you know that these trans people are actually women I don't pretend that

00:41:19.680 they are I show them courtesy I show them respect you know if they're I'll even call them she as a

00:41:28.460 courtesy because I think I'm most of the time at least a fairly nice guy I think um that's just

00:41:36.200 the human decent thing to do but I don't pretend that they're actually a woman capable of birth 0.57

00:41:41.660 children, that kind of thing. Because I would be furthering a delusion that is just not true,

00:41:49.800 not reality. And we have laws in Canada, under the Human Rights Act, that make it illegal,

00:41:58.520 punishable, by law, to, even for a psychologist to say to someone, maybe you're not a woman.

00:42:08.340 You know, you were born a man.

00:42:09.980 Maybe you're just a man.

00:42:10.960 Maybe this is just kind of in your head.

00:42:13.700 Maybe this is a phase.

00:42:15.440 Maybe you've just got this well-known condition we've identified for a very long time called gender dysphoria.

00:42:21.340 That you're just uncomfortable in your natural-born body.

00:42:26.740 We've always had that.

00:42:29.720 For most of human history, we didn't engage in the delusion.

00:42:34.320 We didn't engage in confirming people's gender dysphoria.

00:42:40.580 You know, we might tolerate them.

00:42:42.820 It's like, oh, this is weird, but maybe they'll grow out of it.

00:42:44.640 And most people do.

00:42:46.000 Most people do.

00:42:48.060 But it's illegal for even a psychologist.

00:42:52.420 They'll have their license revoked, and they'll face serious penalties under the law, under federal law, and in some cases, provincial law.

00:42:59.600 They'll face serious penalties for saying, no, you're deluding yourself.

00:43:05.040 Instead, they are expected to simply confirm the delusion.

00:43:09.820 And this exacerbates one of many mental health crises that we have in Western society.

00:43:17.960 We're making it worse.

00:43:22.620 We can only speculate on the motive of this shooter.

00:43:26.420 So I won't.

00:43:28.820 We don't know enough yet.

00:43:30.540 But we know that males who identify as females, trans females, are 52 times, 52 times, not 52%, 52 times more likely to commit mass school shootings than the average student.

00:43:50.540 um so maybe maybe there's a risk here and maybe and confirming people's delusions uh mental

00:44:04.940 illnesses maybe maybe this is not innocent maybe this is not just all good fun and innocent and

00:44:12.400 compassionate. This is suicidal compassion, suicidal empathy. We are taking someone who is

00:44:20.040 not well and needs compassion, who needs help, who needs to be maybe brought back into reality a bit.

00:44:29.180 And we are smothering them. We are hugging them to smother them with a faux empathy

00:44:35.900 that makes it worse and we're hurting them and in some cases by confirming this delusion

00:44:45.060 we're pushing them further down the path of mental illness and sometimes in the most extreme

00:44:52.980 circumstances we get this um i don't know was this person being bullied on picked on in school

00:45:03.540 i don't know speculation but there's always been bullies in school as long as there's been

00:45:11.920 children there have been bullies most of the time we didn't do this and to be fair school

00:45:18.440 shootings did not start with uh the trans fad like i i was in high school when columbine happened

00:45:25.600 well remember that and people are still trying to piece together what the hell happened there you

00:45:31.080 You know, was it listening to too much Marilyn Manson, or was it bullying?

00:45:36.860 I don't know.

00:45:38.520 I've never made good sense of what happened there.

00:45:40.480 These things have happened long, long before it became fashionable to start transitioning children.

00:45:50.020 So, you know, put that canard to rest, that this is all a trans thing. 1.00

00:45:56.520 It's not.

00:45:56.840 but trans trans people are between biological males and females 52 times and 18 times respectively

00:46:04.880 more likely to do it that is extremely statistically relevant and we're just

00:46:10.580 closing our eyes to to all of it we're just closing our eyes pretending this is not happening

00:46:14.820 um so we have to learn more about the circumstances of what happened um 0.98

00:46:22.640 but it seems like more than just there was a bully at school they shot up the whole damn school 0.99

00:46:29.260 the the shooter murdered his own mother murdered his own little brother 1.00

00:46:35.800 um let's uh you know what uh i i'm gonna pull something up this is the dumbest 0.99

00:46:48.600 take I have seen on the internet here.

00:46:52.740 I'm going to send it to the studio here to pull up on the screen.

00:46:58.500 You got to see this. This is a real

00:47:00.880 freaking piece of work. I'm going to send a 0.91

00:47:04.780 screenshot to the studio, pull it up.

00:47:11.740 This guy should not be

00:47:12.800 allowed to vote. He's that dumb. 1.00

00:47:16.340 This guy portrays himself as some kind of conservative. 1.00

00:47:21.820 I'm going to send it by text to studio here.

00:47:28.580 And get it up on the screen as soon as you can.

00:47:34.120 Mark Slapinski.

00:47:36.600 This guy, let's see.

00:47:40.360 Mark Slapinski.

00:47:41.040 Describe himself as a Canadian journalist providing news and analysis on federal politics.

00:47:44.080 regularly says the most influential guy in canada like one of the most influential conservatives

00:47:50.480 of all time um his his big thing is he he tries to portray himself as some kind of highbrow

00:47:57.120 conservative uh he dislikes populists anti-establishment western nationalism

00:48:05.480 whatever i mean that's all but let me know are we uh able to get up on the screen here

00:48:10.900 Okay, he's going to try and get him on the screen, but here's his hot take.

00:48:16.020 If the shooter of today's mass shooting in Canada turns out to be trans, I blame Maple Mega. 1.00

00:48:24.440 These people have promoted hatred against this tiny minority of people, pushing them to their breaking point.

00:48:36.520 Let me read that again.

00:48:37.600 if the shooter of today's mass shooting in canada turns out to be trans i blame maple mega 0.95

00:48:47.260 these people have promoted hatred against this tiny minority of people pushing them

00:48:53.800 to their breaking point so

00:48:57.100 and i i just said here here he is here he is

00:49:04.700 um i just said trans people are not responsible for the actions of one trans shooter

00:49:14.180 that is not the way we do things in a civilized country groups are not responsible for what

00:49:22.240 someone from their group does if some right-wing uh white you know hard you know alberta nationalist

00:49:33.620 goes out and shoots someone for whatever warped purpose they have in their mind, I shouldn't wear

00:49:41.000 that. No one else who shares these group characteristics should share any responsibility

00:49:46.920 for that. Now, if people who share these group characteristics are regularly doing it in numbers

00:49:52.500 far out of proportion to themselves, then it's fair to ask questions about why, what's behind it,

00:49:58.400 like what's what's causing these white right-wing alberta nationalists to go out and start killing

00:50:04.200 people it'd be fair to ask why and what we should do about that because that's not a good thing

00:50:08.820 perhaps perhaps there's some reason we need to get to the bottom of it but not no one who shares

00:50:14.320 these group characteristics is in any way ever responsible that goes for people who share my

00:50:20.140 group characteristics and it goes for trans people no other trans person in the world no person 0.88

00:50:27.380 period, is responsible for this shooting, except for Jesse Strang. Jesse Strang is responsible for

00:50:38.840 Jesse Strang, for his actions. Now, perhaps we bear some, overall as a society, we bear some

00:50:48.580 collective responsibility for enabling this kind of thing, perhaps. That doesn't mean anybody

00:50:55.100 is guilty of anything. No one's done anything wrong. You know, most people who would enable

00:51:00.300 this, I mean, in their hearts, they think they're doing a good thing. You know, we have to try and

00:51:05.920 remember that about people we disagree with. No one, extremely few people, like, if you're not

00:51:11.860 a sociopath, you don't intentionally do the wrong thing. You think what you're doing is the right

00:51:16.000 thing. That's human nature, except for sociopaths. So no one's responsible. No one's responsible for 0.87

00:51:26.380 Jesse Strang except for Jesse Strang. But here's this hot take. Let's put this scumbag back up on

00:51:32.220 the screen. Let's put this scumbag back up. Mark Slopinski. If the shooter of today's mass shooting 1.00

00:51:40.020 in Canada turns out to be trans, I blame Maple Mega. These people have promoted hatred against 1.00

00:51:45.700 this tiny minority of people, pushing them to their breaking point. So Jesse Strang is not

00:51:50.140 responsible. Trans people are not responsible. I would agree with that. Trans people are not 0.99

00:51:56.440 responsible as a group. That's a total misreading of the situation. I think it goes against our

00:52:04.860 values as a civilization. We don't blame groups for individuals. But this guy not only doesn't

00:52:11.140 blame the group from which the shooter's from. He blames the group that he identifies as not liking

00:52:16.460 him. So trans people are not responsible. The shooter himself is not responsible. You know who's

00:52:22.380 responsible? People who are against trans ideology, gender ideology. They're responsible. Probably 0.63

00:52:28.680 most of you watching, normal people who understand this madness, you are responsible. You made this

00:52:36.620 guys shoot these people. And this Mark Slipinski isn't passing himself off as some, you know,

00:52:44.020 some idiot professor on a campus somewhere. He's not passing himself off as some purple-haired 1.00

00:52:51.820 Antifa nutter. He passes himself off as a conservative influencer. He mostly just repeats

00:53:01.620 bland, you know,

00:53:04.420 mealy-mouthed talking points

00:53:05.720 of the Conservative Party of Canada.

00:53:08.780 Oh, you know,

00:53:10.260 here's the greatest ever.

00:53:11.160 The Conservatives are awesome.

00:53:12.860 And if it's ever any criticism,

00:53:14.340 it's like, oh,

00:53:15.400 they better not get too populist.

00:53:17.920 They better not get too

00:53:18.860 anti-establishment here,

00:53:20.280 too maple mega.

00:53:22.420 Okay, whatever.

00:53:23.600 I mean, there's Conservatives like that.

00:53:25.300 That's fine.

00:53:26.420 That's a reasonable take.

00:53:27.780 This is not. 0.99

00:53:29.240 This is horseshit. 0.97

00:53:31.620 this is blaming a group for the actions of an individual. 0.99

00:53:37.300 And he doesn't even get it in the ballpark.

00:53:40.840 He's not even blaming the group from which the shooter came from,

00:53:44.140 which would be wrong in and of itself.

00:53:46.660 He blames people who don't share in this person's delusion.

00:53:56.740 I've never given this guy any attention because he's a chode. 1.00

00:53:59.620 This guy is a total, total D-bag. 0.89

00:54:02.960 I ignore him. 0.98

00:54:04.440 He's just got like the most boring, milquetoast takes you can imagine.

00:54:09.520 He has nothing interesting to say.

00:54:12.740 It's like a shittier version of a conservative party press release.

00:54:19.660 This is the first interesting thing I've ever seen this guy say. 0.99

00:54:23.120 And it is the dumbest thing I've seen on the internet all day. 0.99

00:54:26.520 I'm sure there are even dumber takes out there. 0.99

00:54:29.040 But this guy passes himself off as the most influential, one of the most influential conservatives in Canada. 0.96

00:54:35.620 I'm influential.

00:54:37.820 Everybody listens to me.

00:54:39.880 I'm important.

00:54:42.400 Oh, you heard it there.

00:54:45.660 Anyway, just as you should not blame every trans person for the actions of Jesse...

00:54:55.880 Sorry, I'm missing the name here.

00:54:58.940 Jesse Strang.

00:55:01.760 Just so you don't blame every trans person for the actions of Jesse Strang. 0.99

00:55:05.240 Don't blame every conservative for the moronic take of Mark Slapinski. 1.00

00:55:13.860 He'll slunk back into his parents' basement soon, I'm sure. 1.00

00:55:18.240 So enough of him.

00:55:22.820 So anyway, look, I want to caution people.

00:55:25.280 there's a lot of stuff flowing around on x on reddit facebook there's a lot of stuff flowing

00:55:31.760 around and we've you know my team of journalists have been using a lot of this as leads to try and

00:55:40.960 where can we follow here um you know they provide leads starting places um and we've got

00:55:48.880 real professional journalists doing this so just be cautious what you see out there a lot of it has

00:55:56.060 turned out to be correct leads that have led us to be able to confirm things independently 0.90

00:56:01.300 but a lot of it's a lot of it's bullshit too a lot of it is just um 0.54

00:56:07.040 you know and a lot of these things a lot of people have been out there 0.72

00:56:11.620 and i'm not going to name names because i like some of the people but i mean kind of shame on

00:56:15.600 them for this. Some people have been out saying, I confirmed the shooter was trans. They did not

00:56:20.220 confirm it. They just saw stuff on social media and it was not confirmed. They just wanted to be

00:56:24.400 the first one to say it. And it was kind of, I don't know how to say this without getting in

00:56:28.600 trouble, but I'll say it. Based on the math, you know, the RCMP say it's a woman. That is

00:56:34.560 statistically highly improbable. Two percent chance that it's an actual woman. So they took

00:56:39.620 they took a calculated bet said okay so it's 98 likely actually a guy in a dress so they took a

00:56:47.380 pretty good bet you know if you're at the casino 98 is pretty damn good they took the bet so they

00:56:52.840 so they get to look smart like hey i have some insight i was able to do this journalism faster

00:56:57.460 than anyone else so people are just kind of taking a calculated bet and you know they're

00:57:01.880 not professional journalists so if they're wrong they delete the tweet no one really remembers it

00:57:05.740 It's low risk for them, high reward.

00:57:09.680 So just be cautious of that.

00:57:11.160 There's a lot out there.

00:57:12.660 People who say, I confirmed it and were ultimately correct, they didn't actually confirm it.

00:57:18.100 They just took a bet that they were pretty confident and ultimately correct would turn out well for them.

00:57:24.600 That's not journalism.

00:57:25.780 And I'm not in the business saying this guy's a journalist, this guy's not.

00:57:29.120 It's a gray area.

00:57:30.120 It's a spectrum of what is journalism.

00:57:31.880 them. So I don't want to be snooty, you know, like a CBC reporter snooty about it, like,

00:57:37.940 you don't have my credentials. You don't have my badge. You're not a part of our journalist club.

00:57:44.420 I'm not in the business of doing that. I think everybody should try to be a journalist in their

00:57:47.760 own way. But just be cautious of those who came out and said, oh, it's a trans shooter. I've got 0.93

00:57:53.820 it confirmed. And they don't provide any actual evidence. They didn't confirm it. They took a

00:57:58.060 calculated bet that was high risk, low risk, high reward, and they were correct. We obviously

00:58:05.280 saw that. We understand the basic statistics of this. And so we investigated because we wanted

00:58:14.520 to actually confirm it. That's what we did. We had journalists working on this late into the

00:58:20.200 early, into the wee hours of the morning here, trying to confirm this. And we did. And we were

00:58:24.820 the first to do it um but that was actual journalism confirming it and so there's a lot 0.92

00:58:29.660 of bullshit out there especially including be cautious of the pictures you share i'm not going 0.96

00:58:34.140 to put the picture up here uh but there is a picture of a trans kid i believe from ontario 0.99

00:58:40.020 i mean kind of a kind of a pudgy kid not very convincing as a female and people have shared

00:58:48.400 this on x shared it on reddit that person is not the shooter and that person's life was probably

00:58:56.240 already difficult enough as it is as as a kid with gender dysphoria like that's that's a tough

00:59:02.740 hand to be dealt in life that's tough and this person's life has just been made all the tougher

00:59:10.780 with you know they're probably getting messages from their friends like did you shoot up the

00:59:15.640 school in bc like i can't imagine the hell that that kid's going through so just be cautious of

00:59:24.380 what you share there's a lot of there's a lot of i'm not sure it's intentional disinformation i

00:59:29.520 think it's for the most part probably innocent people just found this and they heard it's true 1.00

00:59:33.140 and then they're sharing it someone sees them and they're sharing it it's all innocent enough but

00:59:38.720 like this incorrect information like that can really hurt real people so don't be a part of

00:59:44.560 problem uh don't do something that discredits the real journalism that we're that we're trying

00:59:51.360 to do here if you see something ask questions send it if anyone uh on here um thinks they have

01:00:01.040 new information on this that we haven't already confirmed please send it to us send it uh news

01:00:05.760 at westernstandard.news that's our news tip line uh news at westernstandard.news send it to us

01:00:13.040 drop it in the comments uh we'll you know i'll take a look um but don't push something that we

01:00:20.560 haven't verified yet because real people get hurt when when people get this wrong and and

01:00:25.760 you know there's a race in media to get this right except with the legacy media they're not racing

01:00:29.840 at all to get this they don't want this story it's they're uncomfortable with it gives them

01:00:35.760 the heebie-jeebies but at least among the independent media there's a race to get this

01:00:41.120 story first but you got to get it right you got to have credible multiple sources on something like

01:00:48.320 that and that's what we're doing um yeah we're gonna throw the email up right here send your

01:00:54.060 news tips on this you got any news tips don't send us stuff we already got but if you've got

01:00:58.800 anything new to add to it news at westernstandard.news send us an email we got staff we're

01:01:06.320 going to go through it. You know, that's a good way to do this. And feel free to do

01:01:12.360 investigation yourself. Citizen journalism. As I said, I don't like to draw the line to

01:01:15.700 who's a journalist and who's not. Not my job. At some point, people are not a journalist

01:01:20.200 and at some point they are, but it's no magic. There's no magic point of conception. When

01:01:25.620 did journalism begin? I don't know. Was it at conception? I don't know. I don't know.

01:01:30.520 I don't know when journalism begins. I might know where it ends, but I don't know where

01:01:35.300 begins. So, you know, research, you know, investigate this yourself. You can contribute

01:01:43.000 to this. That's what's happening with the Epstein files. It's citizen journalists. The legacy media

01:01:47.560 is not actually doing that much. It's regular guys, regular girls going through this shit. 1.00

01:01:55.520 That's how we're getting to the bottom of the biggest story of the last possibly hundred years, 0.99

01:02:00.220 the Epstein files. One of the biggest stories of all time. We're just scratching the surface

01:02:05.160 stuff about a citizen journalist doing this so i i encourage you guys to go out investigate this

01:02:10.520 and share it with us because then we can help verify it and we can bring it together with

01:02:14.440 other information that we have that we maybe most of the time we don't publish most of the stuff we

01:02:18.600 have because it might not be yet be sufficiently corroborated and proven and verified we've got a

01:02:25.800 process for this stuff and most do most media do even the ones we don't like they they've they've

01:02:31.480 got some standards too so so share it with us we can work together but just be cautious about

01:02:36.600 sharing things that are not yet verified because you could you could really ruin an innocent

01:02:43.880 person's life like this this poor trans kid in ontario uh everybody thinking they're a mass 0.55

01:02:50.760 murderer now could you imagine the hell imagine the hell of that high school seems tough enough

01:02:58.840 at the time, even if you're just a, you know, lack of a better term, a normal kid. Imagine this.

01:03:05.000 I pray for this kid. Seriously. This kid is going to need people's support and prayers right now,

01:03:13.820 because that's tough. And that's what happens when people share things without verifying things.

01:03:19.100 But just on the other side, then there's legacy media that know something is true and still don't

01:03:25.920 share it that's the flip side you got some irresponsible people on social media who see

01:03:30.300 something it fits the narrative that kind of makes sense in their heads because it does make sense

01:03:34.760 but they don't verify it and they end up sharing a picture of some kid who is not actually

01:03:39.000 responsible so that's overzealously sharing on the other side and then on the other side

01:03:43.400 you've got the cbc you got ctv you got global you got post media so in there you got national post

01:03:49.840 the calgary herald the calgary uh sun edmonton journal edmonton sun vancouver sun

01:03:55.780 times colonists autobus citizen all these papers

01:03:58.880 they know it they see what we're seeing we've confirmed it at this point it's pretty easy for

01:04:07.460 them to confirm it it's not a wild goose chase it's not the wild goose chase that we started

01:04:11.260 off last night working into the wee hours of the morning to do this it's confirmed and they could

01:04:16.540 call us be like hey we want to independently confirm this could you put us in touch with

01:04:19.820 your sources and then we would go to our source and say we won't disclose who you are because

01:04:24.380 you know we're protecting your identity but would you be willing to talk to them

01:04:27.900 and we'd be i'd be willing to do that this is a public interest journalism story

01:04:33.080 but they haven't none of these media have asked us to do that they haven't even hedged their

01:04:38.020 bets and says well according to the western standard this is the shooter and this is what

01:04:43.180 we know about this shooter they haven't even done that nothing so they're they're overzealous in the

01:04:50.420 other way. They know something to be true, and they don't report it. And it's intentional at

01:04:58.980 this point. Oh, we're just waiting. The police say they can't tell us yet because they're

01:05:03.280 notifying next of kin. The shooter murdered his next of kin. And everyone in the town knows.

01:05:10.500 Everyone in the town knows who this person is. Everyone in, everyone in Tumblr Ridge knows.

01:05:15.320 they intentionally don't want to do this they don't want to report this eventually

01:05:23.520 the rcp will grudgingly omit the identity of the shooter and the media will report it they'll

01:05:30.780 probably downplay certain statistically relevant facts in that most of them will really really

01:05:38.300 downplay it some of them will downplay it mostly but not as much it'll be there'll be a spectrum

01:05:43.080 here you know that the mainstream media isn't a hive mind it kind of is a hive mind but it's

01:05:49.140 you know they're it's not centralized the way some people think it's more centralized than

01:05:53.700 others think but they're different companies even if they're all kind of operating in a bit of a

01:05:57.960 hive mind um they're gonna downplay it but it will eventually they will eventually report it

01:06:04.980 when everyone's moved on from this story i mean these things have huge shock effect right now

01:06:09.540 We're all shocked. We're all saddened by what's happened.

01:06:13.800 But, I mean, we live in such a fucked up world that we're going to move on from this faster than we should. 0.98

01:06:25.240 We're desensitized to it. 0.99

01:06:28.000 That's what's going to happen.

01:06:29.300 We're desensitized to this kind of thing.

01:06:33.260 You know, tragedies happen every day and they're flashing the pen in the news for a little bit.

01:06:39.540 Most of the time we move on faster than we should.

01:06:43.940 And, you know, maybe I contribute to the problem, the standard, like we're in the news business, staying on what are people interested in?

01:06:50.620 If they're no longer interested in something, there's not much incentive to continue covering it.

01:06:56.220 That's that's one of the that's one of the really sad realities of this business.

01:07:00.120 And sometimes I'm like a dog with a bone. I'm like, no, this is important.

01:07:03.100 We're going to really try to make people care about it again.

01:07:05.560 And sometimes we succeed in that. Most of the time we don't.

01:07:08.560 people don't care about something they don't care about something and we're desensitized

01:07:13.680 to murder because there's just so much of it so people are going to move on

01:07:19.360 and more details to come out on this story but people have moved on

01:07:23.440 and so you know i know our our audience is much more engaged than the average person but you know

01:07:28.000 the normies out there they're probably not going to be reading about this story when we get more

01:07:33.600 details about it in a few weeks. So, um, yeah, there's, there's so much of this story that's

01:07:45.800 just not being covered and they know, they know what it is. They know what it is. So,

01:07:53.680 all right. I'm going to put a pin in it there. Thank all of you for, uh, for watching with

01:07:59.600 us today uh we've got um uh the cory morgan show is going to come on later the pipeline after that

01:08:06.340 we'll be talking more about it and yeah we're going to try and talk about some of the other

01:08:11.560 news happening in the world as less important as that will probably seem today but um uh follow

01:08:18.820 continue to follow us for this story on our social media channels at western center.news

01:08:22.360 we've got a big team of journalists in our calgary headquarters here we've got guys in

01:08:26.720 Edmonton. We've got journalists driving into Tumblr Ridge right now. Our BC reporter Jared

01:08:32.120 Yager is working on this story. It's all hands on deck, and we're going to continue to dig into this

01:08:37.680 and provide information that is much more credible than what you're going to get on a lot of the

01:08:42.560 social platforms, but is actually telling the story that is ignored by our legacy mainstream

01:08:50.760 media outlets in Canada. That's it for me. Thank you very much for joining us today, and

01:08:56.400 God bless you.

Western Standard - February 11, 2026

EXCLUSIVE： The inside story on the Tumbler Ridge Shooting

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