EXCLUSIVE： The inside story on the Tumbler Ridge Shooting
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Summary
A mass shooting in a small town near Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada has left at least 9 dead, 25 injured, and the police have yet to identify the shooter. The Western Standard's Derek Fildebrandt talks about what we know, how we know it, and why the media won't report it.
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Good morning, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.
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um it's uh almost 9 40 a.m mountain standard time uh 8 40 a.m pacific time in tumbler ridge bc
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um you're watching right now because uh you've all heard the news uh some of you woke up to it
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um some of you saw it developing in the evening uh yesterday
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today uh it's uh not often we have things like this happen in our country but uh it's it's
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shattering news and it's it's getting attention around the world right now um so i want to talk
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with uh everyone about what we know how we know it and very importantly what we know
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We know that there are nine people confirmed dead, 25 people confirmed injured.
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The mother of the shooter is dead, and the little brother of the shooter is dead.
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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.
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My best guess would be that they're also from the school.
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The crime was committed, as far as we know, with a shotgun.
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but these things are normally a 12 gauge, maybe a 14.
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This is live, so maybe I'll say something insensitive.
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I'm going to try to stick to sober, cold analysis.
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But the story is of just such immense, tragic proportions.
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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.
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and we've got to be tough about it. So, um, an alert went, I don't know if we have the alert
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to bring up here, um, studio, but, uh, an alert went out, an emergency alert went out on people's
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phones. You know, you've all gotten these things. It's, you know, weather warning could be an Amber
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alert, uh, but alert went out to people in the Tumblr Ridge area, uh, and said that there was
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a woman in a dress, uh, on the loose shooting people and people should shelter in place. A
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woman and a dress okay that's that's interesting um but let's let's we have this we have a clip
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from the rcp it's a very very short clip where they're explaining what happened and the rcmp
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use a word i've never heard in my life okay so here's the emergency alert that went around
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uh tumblr ridge alert and surrounding area active shooter alert issued by tumblr ridge rcmp
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People are asked to stay inside and shelter in place, lock your doors, don't leave.
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Suspect is described as a female in a dress with brown hair.
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Okay, so people in Tumblr Ridge are looking for a woman.
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Now, maybe that is just, as the crisis is going on,
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maybe that's just the information the police have at the time, in the crisis.
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So we can maybe write that off as just, this is what they know.
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And it was panicked, information's scant, coming in fast and furious.
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But in the press conference, soon after the shooting, an RCMP officer, let's just play that quick.
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We're still trying to determine a lot about the shooter at this stage right now.
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we believe we've been able to identify the shooter but for privacy reasons and obviously
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for the conduct of the investigation we're not releasing that information at that time
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until we're assured that we've connected with the appropriate people and identified things
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oh there's another one i'm looking for the rcmp identify the shooter as a quote gun person
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do we have that video gun person okay let's play that one
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yeah the gun person okay and then separately do you know the gun person's relationship to
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that includes the deceased gun person okay and then separately do you know the gun person's
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relationship to that includes the deceased gun person okay and then separately do you know the
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gun person's relationship to okay that includes the deceased gun person
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okay gun person now that's a language uh so that is a uh that is a term that i did not know existed
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in the english language until yesterday evening gun person i've heard of uh you know the lone
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gunman or there were several gunmen uh we don't even really say the word gun woman
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uh maybe a large measure because women don't tend to do this kind of thing in very significant
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numbers uh credit to the to the female half of the species that women just don't seem to do
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crazy mass murderous things like this but i've never heard the term gun person
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um so described in the emergency alert also as a female in a dress with brown hair and the police
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also said uh they have no motive and they're and they're they have no idea where to start looking
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for a motive okay so uh as this is developing yesterday i got on the phone with uh some of our
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core leadership in the newsroom here and some of our reporters uh you know we had dave nailer who
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leaves our newsroom behind me here uh our our main bc reporter jared yager we brought in uh some
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extra hands, like our Saskatchewan reporter, Chris Oldcorn. Very, very quickly, we realized
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this doesn't add up very quickly, at least it likely doesn't add up. For a simple reason,
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women don't do mass shootings. They don't. There are going to be some exceptions, but it is a
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very, very small number. Based on the research I've done, only around 2% of mass school shootings
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are regular women, 2%. So they happen, but they are exceedingly rare. No one would place a bet
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that, okay, you hear a school shooting happens, make a quick, maybe prejudicial guess on who it
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is. No one says it was probably a woman. No one would bet on that. That is a bad, bad bet. Women,
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to their credit don't or females if we're talking schools you know so girls young women they don't
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do this and the rcmp are saying it's a woman well that that raises a big question and then
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they start using weasel words like gun person or inventing weasel words like gun person so
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this obviously raises the pretty obvious question you know where i'm going with this and
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I don't want to make this something it's not, but this is an obvious question.
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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.
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It's hardly even statistically relevant, the number of mass school shootings committed by regular females.
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Let's bring up the screenshot of what I asked Grok.
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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?
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Grok said near 100% effectively certain official police emergency alert and multiple reports like The Guardian, CBC, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera,
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describe the shooter as female woman in dress with brown hair.
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No credible sources indicate transgender status or that the person is biologically male.
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Claims otherwise appear to be unsubstantiated speculation or misinformation on social media.
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Someone's obviously tampered with Grok's computing power or however it is.
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2% of mass school shootings are committed by women.
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it's fear it's possible but i'm not gonna bet on it so we had to answer an obvious question
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and we did uh the western standard has um like well we're the western standard we have a lot
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of contacts in western canada that's our beat uh so we quickly reached out to just people we know
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in the area, particularly around Grand Prairie, and were able to quickly develop some on-the-ground
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sources. There was a lot coming out on social media. Some of it turned out to be credible.
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Some of it turned out to be bullshit. There was one poor person, a transgendered person,
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who was misidentified. Their picture put all over X and other social media platforms last night,
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identifying that person as the shooter because everybody kind of jumped to the conclusion and
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it turns out correctly that this was uh this was probably a trans person and and and they a lot of
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people misidentified the person i'm not gonna put the picture up this is a young person who's
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obviously already having a hard time with life and now having probably a much harder time now
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that a ton of people have seen their face incorrectly identified as the shooter i can't
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imagine what that person's going through um but we did fall for it uh we saw a lot of stuff going
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around on social media some of that provided leads but that's not substantiated information
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it was our job as a news company as a publication to get confirmation and so we worked with sources
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on the ground and we did confirm who it was we could put up the correct picture here uh we the
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western standard confirmed the identity of the shooter as jesse strang confirmed by uh let's get
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the let's get the picture of jesse strang up uh jesse strang confirmed by multiple sources
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um a biological male um teenager uh began transitioning from a male to a female 15 to
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17 years old best we can tell and as best we can tell jesse is the shooter's real name i guess
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jesse could be both a man a male and female name so did not change the name so that's as best as
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we can tell that's not 100 but that's as best as we can tell we've identified the shooter
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You're not going to get it really anywhere else.
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You're going to see some of this on social media.
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But social media, I mean, it's often the first source of things.
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One other independent media, Juno News, did get it.
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Western Center was the first to have it with multiple confirmed sources.
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that this was the individual. One of those sources is not the RCMP. The RCMP is not
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confirming who the shooter was. They are saying it's because they have to notify next of kin.
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Well, guess what? The shooter shot his next of kin. The shooter shot his mother
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and little brother. He shot his next of kin. The RCMP says they're waiting on notifying next of
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kin the next of kin is murdered the rcb is just not really wanting to say why that's what's happening
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here um the legacy media as of when i checked right before coming on the air as of 9 30 a.m
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mountain standard time 8 30 a.m local time in british columbia not a single legacy media outlet
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in canada or on the planet have reported on the identity of the shooter they're still just going
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Gun person, that new word that the RCMP invented yesterday.
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You know, I got to feel a little bit bad for the RCMP communications officer
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I mean, there's like all sorts of federal law and guidelines
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on how you're supposed to identify people, not misgendering them, etc.
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The poor RCMP comms officer, I don't want to beat up on him,
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he's probably just following the rules, the dumb rules that are written for him.
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He's probably given this situation, it comes on his lap,
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and they're like, alright, you have to write a press release.
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They know it's bullshit, and they have to say it anyway.
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The RCMP are not telling the truth here, they're intentionally obfuscating,
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but obfuscating is official government federal government policy here to not misgender anyone
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but the legacy media is under no obligation to report only what the government says the
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government's official line they're under no obligation um
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they know they've seen what we've written i know tons of people in the legacy media
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they they see that the western standards out there they see all the stuff on social media
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some of it confirmed some of it not confirmed some of it incorrect but we've done our work
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we've verified we have sources on the ground right now in tumblr ridge we have a freelancer
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we're probably one of the only media on the planet with someone we've hired on the ground
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in Tumblr Ridge. We have reporters driving through the bush right now to Tumblr Ridge.
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We've done our homework. We know who this person is. We know what's going on. Everybody in Tumblr
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Ridge, everybody in Tumblr Ridge knows what's going on. I didn't get a single call. None of
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my reporters in the newsroom behind me or our guys in BC or Edmonton, none of them, best I know,
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got any calls or texts or DMs from anyone in the legacy media saying, hey, can you give me more
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information about these sources or could I possibly talk to them anonymously to confirm what you know?
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We haven't gotten a single call. It's like they're not even interested. They don't want to know
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because if they know, they ostensibly have to update their stories. They have to report on it.
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they haven't even called us asking hey uh how credible is this source could we talk to them
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could we we we don't want to take your word for it western standard but can we uh can we talk to
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your sources could you talk to your sources ask if they're willing to talk to us so we can
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independently verify it we haven't gotten a single phone call not a single text not a single dm
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the the main the main the mainstream media here is utterly uninterested in this critical part of
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the story. Who is the shooter? When this kind of thing happens, what do you want to know?
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Who are the victims? Who is the suspect? The suspect's dead, I guess, but we use the term
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suspect. Who are the victims? Who is the suspect? Why? How? Who, what, why, where, how? Basic parts
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of any story. This is the big who. This is the big who. And they're not interested.
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CBC, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, CTV, Global, any of you, give me a call.
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Or if you're a reporter watching right now, drop it in the DMs.
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I'll ask our sources there if they're willing to talk to you.
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You don't have to cite the Western Standard as your source if you don't want to.
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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.
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So we ought to have an instant suspicion that this might not be all it's choked out to be.
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So the percentage of, this is rough math, I'm going to update it a bit more, but my rough math here.
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percentage of mass school shootings in north america committed by transgendered people over
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the last decade so 2016 2026 of the shooters approximately 20 to 25 percent have been
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transgendered two percent are just women two percent 20 to 25 percent are transgendered
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uh so north american school shootings over the last decade so based on percentage of the
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population, here is how much more likely or less likely each of these four groups, male, female,
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trans male, trans female, are, here's how likely or less likely they are to commit a mass school
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shooting. Rough math. I'm going to update this as we go. I'm going to get harder numbers.
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There's different ways to measure things, but here's what I got. Males, regular males, males
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who think they're males, or males who know they're males, are 1.4 times more likely than
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the average person to commit a mass school shooting. Males, 1.4 times more likely than
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the average person. Females, 0.1 times more likely or less likely. Females are way less likely to
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commit a mass school shooting. It pretty much doesn't happen. Again, a credit to the female
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side of our species. Males, 1.4 times more likely, so a bit more likely than the average person.
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And that's because females are so much less likely to do it. 0.1 times.
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Biological females identifying as males, so biological females, people born a female who identify as a male, are 18 times more likely.
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18 times more likely to commit a mass school shooting over the last decade in North America.
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Biological males who identify as females are 52 times more likely to commit a mass school shooting in North America over the last decade.
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So just so you understand, if it says one times as likely means purely average.
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Females are way less likely to commit a mass school shooting.
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Males are 1.4 times more likely to commit a mass school shooting.
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Biological females who identify as males are 18 times, 18 times more likely to commit a mass school shooting.
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and biological males who identify as a female are 52 times more likely to commit a masculine shooting.
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So, the RCMP, the legacy media, they would have us believe that a regular female
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who's 0.1 times more likely to commit a masculine shooting did this.
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Then what we know, which is, and the actual shooter, a biological male identifying as a female, who is 52 times more likely.
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But just based on the math, and then quickly the weasel words used by the IRCMP and the media, gun person.
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We were going to have to not take their word for it.
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We were going to have to dig into this a little bit.
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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.
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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.
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um but it it is a statistically relevant number females are 0.1 times more likely
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biological females identifying as biological males identifying as females are 52 times
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more likely that is a statistically relevant figure it is extremely statistically relevant
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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.
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Everyone says, ooh, I hope that wasn't my group.
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I hope that wasn't my group because I'm going to kind of residually get blamed for it.
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People are like, oh, I hope it wasn't like a white right wing guy because it's going to blow back on us.
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number of trans people who i i can't imagine would ever do anything like this uh you know
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they're good people and they got to be feeling they got to be feeling that right now you know
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they got to be feeling oh i'm going to take blowback as a group because of what this monster
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did so we should we should have some empathy for that right now and i don't mean to be adding to
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it here. What I'm saying is probably not entirely helpful to that, but I'm more concerned with the
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facts and the real story here than I am with sensitivities. I am sensitive to what's happening
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and I don't want to hurt that, but I'm more concerned with the facts right now than those
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sensitivities. So this is clearly a real issue. Let me just list off just from the last few years
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some similar shootings february 14th 2018 marjorie stoneman douglas high school in florida
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17 killed 17 injured these are these are trans trans shooters 17 killed 17 injured
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may 18th uh 2028 santa fe high school texas 10 killed 13 injured may 18th 2019 stem high school
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highlands ranch in colorado one killed eight eight injured uh november 30th 2021 oxford high school
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michigan four killed seven injured may 24th 2022 rob elementary school uvalde texas 21 killed
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17 injured covenant high school march 27 2023 covenant high school nashville tennessee
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September 4th, 2024, Appalachee High School, Georgia.
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August 27th, 2025, Annunciation Catholic School, Minneapolis.
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Three killed, 30 injured during a mass at the school.
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january 22nd 2019 saugus high school two killed three injured november 30th 2021 perry high
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school iowa two killed six injured december 16 2024 abundant life christian school wisconsin
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and three killed six injured and now yesterday february 10th 2026 tumbler ridge british columbia
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nine confirmed dead at least 25 confirmed injured
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at least two of those are family members the shooter's mother a little brother
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probably mostly around the school, if not entirely.
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No group is responsible for the actions of an individual.
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every man and woman is created by god as an individual and only an individual is responsible
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for that person's crimes not other people in their family in their tribe and their nation
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in whatever group attribute they have no one else is responsible period
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they're responsible but we have to look for warning signs where there might be something
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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.
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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.
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You don't try to de-radicalize someone from radical Islam if they're not in Islam, if they're not a Muslim.
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perfectly fine no problem with it not my beef but there's a group attribute there
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that we usefully identify to try and solve a problem and there is a problem here
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it's a problem when biological males who identify as female are 52 times
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more likely than the average student to commit a mass shooting there's a problem
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when biological females who identify as male are 18 times more likely to commit a masculine shooting,
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it's it's very statistically relevant and we got to stop pretending that it's not
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um as i said you know everybody always i do kind of hate the cop out like well i i've got friends
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in x group therefore i can't be prejudiced against that group that's a cop out you know i mean i kind
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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
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phobic because i got gay friends that's a cop-out that's a cop-out um but uh i do
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know a reason not a ton but i i know a reasonable number of of trans folks and
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you know they're not my friends but they're perfectly decent folks and that doesn't mean
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I don't I don't pretend you know that these trans people are actually women I don't pretend that
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they are I show them courtesy I show them respect you know if they're I'll even call them she as a
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courtesy because I think I'm most of the time at least a fairly nice guy I think um that's just
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the human decent thing to do but I don't pretend that they're actually a woman capable of birth
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children, that kind of thing. Because I would be furthering a delusion that is just not true,
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not reality. And we have laws in Canada, under the Human Rights Act, that make it illegal,
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punishable, by law, to, even for a psychologist to say to someone, maybe you're not a woman.
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Maybe you've just got this well-known condition we've identified for a very long time called gender dysphoria.
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That you're just uncomfortable in your natural-born body.
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For most of human history, we didn't engage in the delusion.
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We didn't engage in confirming people's gender dysphoria.
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It's like, oh, this is weird, but maybe they'll grow out of it.
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They'll have their license revoked, and they'll face serious penalties under the law, under federal law, and in some cases, provincial law.
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They'll face serious penalties for saying, no, you're deluding yourself.
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Instead, they are expected to simply confirm the delusion.
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And this exacerbates one of many mental health crises that we have in Western society.
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We can only speculate on the motive of this shooter.
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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.
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um so maybe maybe there's a risk here and maybe and confirming people's delusions uh mental
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illnesses maybe maybe this is not innocent maybe this is not just all good fun and innocent and
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compassionate. This is suicidal compassion, suicidal empathy. We are taking someone who is
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not well and needs compassion, who needs help, who needs to be maybe brought back into reality a bit.
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And we are smothering them. We are hugging them to smother them with a faux empathy
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that makes it worse and we're hurting them and in some cases by confirming this delusion
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we're pushing them further down the path of mental illness and sometimes in the most extreme
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circumstances we get this um i don't know was this person being bullied on picked on in school
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i don't know speculation but there's always been bullies in school as long as there's been
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children there have been bullies most of the time we didn't do this and to be fair school
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shootings did not start with uh the trans fad like i i was in high school when columbine happened
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well remember that and people are still trying to piece together what the hell happened there you
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You know, was it listening to too much Marilyn Manson, or was it bullying?
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I've never made good sense of what happened there.
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These things have happened long, long before it became fashionable to start transitioning children.
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So, you know, put that canard to rest, that this is all a trans thing.
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but trans trans people are between biological males and females 52 times and 18 times respectively
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more likely to do it that is extremely statistically relevant and we're just
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closing our eyes to to all of it we're just closing our eyes pretending this is not happening
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um so we have to learn more about the circumstances of what happened um
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but it seems like more than just there was a bully at school they shot up the whole damn school
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the the shooter murdered his own mother murdered his own little brother
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um let's uh you know what uh i i'm gonna pull something up this is the dumbest
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I'm going to send it to the studio here to pull up on the screen.
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freaking piece of work. I'm going to send a
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This guy portrays himself as some kind of conservative.
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And get it up on the screen as soon as you can.
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Describe himself as a Canadian journalist providing news and analysis on federal politics.
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regularly says the most influential guy in canada like one of the most influential conservatives
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of all time um his his big thing is he he tries to portray himself as some kind of highbrow
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conservative uh he dislikes populists anti-establishment western nationalism
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whatever i mean that's all but let me know are we uh able to get up on the screen here
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Okay, he's going to try and get him on the screen, but here's his hot take.
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If the shooter of today's mass shooting in Canada turns out to be trans, I blame Maple Mega.
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These people have promoted hatred against this tiny minority of people, pushing them to their breaking point.
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if the shooter of today's mass shooting in canada turns out to be trans i blame maple mega
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these people have promoted hatred against this tiny minority of people pushing them
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um i just said trans people are not responsible for the actions of one trans shooter
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that is not the way we do things in a civilized country groups are not responsible for what
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someone from their group does if some right-wing uh white you know hard you know alberta nationalist
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goes out and shoots someone for whatever warped purpose they have in their mind, I shouldn't wear
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that. No one else who shares these group characteristics should share any responsibility
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for that. Now, if people who share these group characteristics are regularly doing it in numbers
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far out of proportion to themselves, then it's fair to ask questions about why, what's behind it,
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like what's what's causing these white right-wing alberta nationalists to go out and start killing
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people it'd be fair to ask why and what we should do about that because that's not a good thing
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perhaps perhaps there's some reason we need to get to the bottom of it but not no one who shares
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these group characteristics is in any way ever responsible that goes for people who share my
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group characteristics and it goes for trans people no other trans person in the world no person
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period, is responsible for this shooting, except for Jesse Strang. Jesse Strang is responsible for
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Jesse Strang, for his actions. Now, perhaps we bear some, overall as a society, we bear some
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collective responsibility for enabling this kind of thing, perhaps. That doesn't mean anybody
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is guilty of anything. No one's done anything wrong. You know, most people who would enable
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this, I mean, in their hearts, they think they're doing a good thing. You know, we have to try and
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remember that about people we disagree with. No one, extremely few people, like, if you're not
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a sociopath, you don't intentionally do the wrong thing. You think what you're doing is the right
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thing. That's human nature, except for sociopaths. So no one's responsible. No one's responsible for
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Jesse Strang except for Jesse Strang. But here's this hot take. Let's put this scumbag back up on
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the screen. Let's put this scumbag back up. Mark Slopinski. If the shooter of today's mass shooting
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in Canada turns out to be trans, I blame Maple Mega. These people have promoted hatred against
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this tiny minority of people, pushing them to their breaking point. So Jesse Strang is not
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responsible. Trans people are not responsible. I would agree with that. Trans people are not
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responsible as a group. That's a total misreading of the situation. I think it goes against our
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values as a civilization. We don't blame groups for individuals. But this guy not only doesn't
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blame the group from which the shooter's from. He blames the group that he identifies as not liking
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him. So trans people are not responsible. The shooter himself is not responsible. You know who's
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responsible? People who are against trans ideology, gender ideology. They're responsible. Probably
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most of you watching, normal people who understand this madness, you are responsible. You made this
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guys shoot these people. And this Mark Slipinski isn't passing himself off as some, you know,
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some idiot professor on a campus somewhere. He's not passing himself off as some purple-haired
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Antifa nutter. He passes himself off as a conservative influencer. He mostly just repeats
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this is blaming a group for the actions of an individual.
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He's not even blaming the group from which the shooter came from,
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He blames people who don't share in this person's delusion.
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I've never given this guy any attention because he's a chode.
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He's just got like the most boring, milquetoast takes you can imagine.
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It's like a shittier version of a conservative party press release.
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This is the first interesting thing I've ever seen this guy say.
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And it is the dumbest thing I've seen on the internet all day.
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I'm sure there are even dumber takes out there.
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But this guy passes himself off as the most influential, one of the most influential conservatives in Canada.
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Anyway, just as you should not blame every trans person for the actions of Jesse...
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Just so you don't blame every trans person for the actions of Jesse Strang.
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Don't blame every conservative for the moronic take of Mark Slapinski.
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He'll slunk back into his parents' basement soon, I'm sure.
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there's a lot of stuff flowing around on x on reddit facebook there's a lot of stuff flowing
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around and we've you know my team of journalists have been using a lot of this as leads to try and
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where can we follow here um you know they provide leads starting places um and we've got
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real professional journalists doing this so just be cautious what you see out there a lot of it has
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turned out to be correct leads that have led us to be able to confirm things independently
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but a lot of it's a lot of it's bullshit too a lot of it is just um
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you know and a lot of these things a lot of people have been out there
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and i'm not going to name names because i like some of the people but i mean kind of shame on
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them for this. Some people have been out saying, I confirmed the shooter was trans. They did not
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confirm it. They just saw stuff on social media and it was not confirmed. They just wanted to be
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the first one to say it. And it was kind of, I don't know how to say this without getting in
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trouble, but I'll say it. Based on the math, you know, the RCMP say it's a woman. That is
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statistically highly improbable. Two percent chance that it's an actual woman. So they took
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they took a calculated bet said okay so it's 98 likely actually a guy in a dress so they took a
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pretty good bet you know if you're at the casino 98 is pretty damn good they took the bet so they
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so they get to look smart like hey i have some insight i was able to do this journalism faster
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than anyone else so people are just kind of taking a calculated bet and you know they're
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not professional journalists so if they're wrong they delete the tweet no one really remembers it
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People who say, I confirmed it and were ultimately correct, they didn't actually confirm it.
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They just took a bet that they were pretty confident and ultimately correct would turn out well for them.
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And I'm not in the business saying this guy's a journalist, this guy's not.
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them. So I don't want to be snooty, you know, like a CBC reporter snooty about it, like,
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you don't have my credentials. You don't have my badge. You're not a part of our journalist club.
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I'm not in the business of doing that. I think everybody should try to be a journalist in their
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own way. But just be cautious of those who came out and said, oh, it's a trans shooter. I've got
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it confirmed. And they don't provide any actual evidence. They didn't confirm it. They took a
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calculated bet that was high risk, low risk, high reward, and they were correct. We obviously
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saw that. We understand the basic statistics of this. And so we investigated because we wanted
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to actually confirm it. That's what we did. We had journalists working on this late into the
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early, into the wee hours of the morning here, trying to confirm this. And we did. And we were
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the first to do it um but that was actual journalism confirming it and so there's a lot
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of bullshit out there especially including be cautious of the pictures you share i'm not going
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to put the picture up here uh but there is a picture of a trans kid i believe from ontario
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i mean kind of a kind of a pudgy kid not very convincing as a female and people have shared
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this on x shared it on reddit that person is not the shooter and that person's life was probably
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already difficult enough as it is as as a kid with gender dysphoria like that's that's a tough
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hand to be dealt in life that's tough and this person's life has just been made all the tougher
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with you know they're probably getting messages from their friends like did you shoot up the
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school in bc like i can't imagine the hell that that kid's going through so just be cautious of
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what you share there's a lot of there's a lot of i'm not sure it's intentional disinformation i
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think it's for the most part probably innocent people just found this and they heard it's true
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and then they're sharing it someone sees them and they're sharing it it's all innocent enough but
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like this incorrect information like that can really hurt real people so don't be a part of
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problem uh don't do something that discredits the real journalism that we're that we're trying
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to do here if you see something ask questions send it if anyone uh on here um thinks they have
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new information on this that we haven't already confirmed please send it to us send it uh news
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at westernstandard.news that's our news tip line uh news at westernstandard.news send it to us
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drop it in the comments uh we'll you know i'll take a look um but don't push something that we
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haven't verified yet because real people get hurt when when people get this wrong and and
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you know there's a race in media to get this right except with the legacy media they're not racing
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at all to get this they don't want this story it's they're uncomfortable with it gives them
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the heebie-jeebies but at least among the independent media there's a race to get this
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story first but you got to get it right you got to have credible multiple sources on something like
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that and that's what we're doing um yeah we're gonna throw the email up right here send your
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news tips on this you got any news tips don't send us stuff we already got but if you've got
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anything new to add to it news at westernstandard.news send us an email we got staff we're
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going to go through it. You know, that's a good way to do this. And feel free to do
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investigation yourself. Citizen journalism. As I said, I don't like to draw the line to
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who's a journalist and who's not. Not my job. At some point, people are not a journalist
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and at some point they are, but it's no magic. There's no magic point of conception. When
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did journalism begin? I don't know. Was it at conception? I don't know. I don't know.
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I don't know when journalism begins. I might know where it ends, but I don't know where
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begins. So, you know, research, you know, investigate this yourself. You can contribute
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to this. That's what's happening with the Epstein files. It's citizen journalists. The legacy media
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is not actually doing that much. It's regular guys, regular girls going through this shit.
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That's how we're getting to the bottom of the biggest story of the last possibly hundred years,
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the Epstein files. One of the biggest stories of all time. We're just scratching the surface
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stuff about a citizen journalist doing this so i i encourage you guys to go out investigate this
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and share it with us because then we can help verify it and we can bring it together with
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other information that we have that we maybe most of the time we don't publish most of the stuff we
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have because it might not be yet be sufficiently corroborated and proven and verified we've got a
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process for this stuff and most do most media do even the ones we don't like they they've they've
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got some standards too so so share it with us we can work together but just be cautious about
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sharing things that are not yet verified because you could you could really ruin an innocent
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person's life like this this poor trans kid in ontario uh everybody thinking they're a mass
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murderer now could you imagine the hell imagine the hell of that high school seems tough enough
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at the time, even if you're just a, you know, lack of a better term, a normal kid. Imagine this.
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I pray for this kid. Seriously. This kid is going to need people's support and prayers right now,
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because that's tough. And that's what happens when people share things without verifying things.
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But just on the other side, then there's legacy media that know something is true and still don't
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share it that's the flip side you got some irresponsible people on social media who see
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something it fits the narrative that kind of makes sense in their heads because it does make sense
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but they don't verify it and they end up sharing a picture of some kid who is not actually
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responsible so that's overzealously sharing on the other side and then on the other side
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you've got the cbc you got ctv you got global you got post media so in there you got national post
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the calgary herald the calgary uh sun edmonton journal edmonton sun vancouver sun
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times colonists autobus citizen all these papers
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they know it they see what we're seeing we've confirmed it at this point it's pretty easy for
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them to confirm it it's not a wild goose chase it's not the wild goose chase that we started
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off last night working into the wee hours of the morning to do this it's confirmed and they could
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call us be like hey we want to independently confirm this could you put us in touch with
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your sources and then we would go to our source and say we won't disclose who you are because
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you know we're protecting your identity but would you be willing to talk to them
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and we'd be i'd be willing to do that this is a public interest journalism story
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but they haven't none of these media have asked us to do that they haven't even hedged their
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bets and says well according to the western standard this is the shooter and this is what
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we know about this shooter they haven't even done that nothing so they're they're overzealous in the
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other way. They know something to be true, and they don't report it. And it's intentional at
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this point. Oh, we're just waiting. The police say they can't tell us yet because they're
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notifying next of kin. The shooter murdered his next of kin. And everyone in the town knows.
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Everyone in the town knows who this person is. Everyone in, everyone in Tumblr Ridge knows.
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they intentionally don't want to do this they don't want to report this eventually
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the rcp will grudgingly omit the identity of the shooter and the media will report it they'll
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probably downplay certain statistically relevant facts in that most of them will really really
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downplay it some of them will downplay it mostly but not as much it'll be there'll be a spectrum
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here you know that the mainstream media isn't a hive mind it kind of is a hive mind but it's
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you know they're it's not centralized the way some people think it's more centralized than
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others think but they're different companies even if they're all kind of operating in a bit of a
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hive mind um they're gonna downplay it but it will eventually they will eventually report it
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when everyone's moved on from this story i mean these things have huge shock effect right now
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We're all shocked. We're all saddened by what's happened.
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But, I mean, we live in such a fucked up world that we're going to move on from this faster than we should.
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You know, tragedies happen every day and they're flashing the pen in the news for a little bit.
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Most of the time we move on faster than we should.
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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?
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If they're no longer interested in something, there's not much incentive to continue covering it.
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That's that's one of the that's one of the really sad realities of this business.
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And sometimes I'm like a dog with a bone. I'm like, no, this is important.
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We're going to really try to make people care about it again.
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And sometimes we succeed in that. Most of the time we don't.
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people don't care about something they don't care about something and we're desensitized
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to murder because there's just so much of it so people are going to move on
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and more details to come out on this story but people have moved on
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and so you know i know our our audience is much more engaged than the average person but you know
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the normies out there they're probably not going to be reading about this story when we get more
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details about it in a few weeks. So, um, yeah, there's, there's so much of this story that's
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just not being covered and they know, they know what it is. They know what it is. So,
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all right. I'm going to put a pin in it there. Thank all of you for, uh, for watching with
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us today uh we've got um uh the cory morgan show is going to come on later the pipeline after that
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we'll be talking more about it and yeah we're going to try and talk about some of the other
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news happening in the world as less important as that will probably seem today but um uh follow
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continue to follow us for this story on our social media channels at western center.news
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we've got a big team of journalists in our calgary headquarters here we've got guys in
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Edmonton. We've got journalists driving into Tumblr Ridge right now. Our BC reporter Jared
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Yager is working on this story. It's all hands on deck, and we're going to continue to dig into this
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and provide information that is much more credible than what you're going to get on a lot of the
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social platforms, but is actually telling the story that is ignored by our legacy mainstream
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media outlets in Canada. That's it for me. Thank you very much for joining us today, and