Mass Shooting in Tumbler Ridge Canada

I think American women were often very much more assertive and demanding of rights than European women. If they survived at all as pioneers they were holding their own very often. They also were not expected to have dowries ( even in the U.K. middle class men often looked for money or titles).

What have you based that on?

In Canada legislation has been added such that female means "some women and some men".

The Canadian police used female words to detail his crimes.

If he had lived he would have been (likely) placed in a Womans Prison as his gender identy placed over recognising his sex.

Why do you think the State would not recorded him under their label "female - some women and some men"?

Canada has self id. According to Canada's laws, it is a female crime. "Female" in Canada means something other than body sex now.

So why would they record it as a male crime when neither their law nor their society would officially consider this person as male? From the Canadian perspective (not that of the people necessarily but of the officialdom) he is no more a male than he is a teapot or an orange. It's simply not a word that applies to him.

I think their ‘contribution’ to reproductive rights would be to create an environment in which women are paid or emotionally pressured to be surrogates and to give up their anatomy for experiments to further the ‘female reproductive abilities’ of biological men etc - plus a heavy emphasis on egg donation to make the dreams of gay couples come true and so on.

Basically, dressing up the Handmaid’s Tale in a pride flag.

I'm pretty sure it will - by law - be recorded as a female crime in Canada. Any man who says he's a woman is literally a woman over there. In law. Even the male teacher who wore size Z prosthetic breasts to work in a school, then reverted to bloke once he was at home.

It would probably be a crime to record it accurately. (I note they seem to have no problem recording the victims by their sex not gender though).

I worry that leftwing misogynists would come for abortion rights if they thought it would help them. They don't believe in abortion rights for women from an ethical standpoint. They only believe in them so far as they can use them as leverage.

This is obvious because left wing misogynists tend to mention abortion only as a threat eg "look what rights you'll lose if you don't acquiesce to us".

If it seems inconceivable, just consider how "free speech" is now often framed as a right wing concern. Consider how leftwing misogynists can campaign for single sex toilets in India whilst campaigning to abolish them in the West. Or consider the chilling push to reframe fgm because condemning it upsets some men.

When it comes down to it, misogynists both right and left are going to always put men first. Whatever that takes.

Absolutely, but I don’t believe an erroneous early report in a news report will stop accurate statistic-gathering by the Canadian authorities. It wouldn’t be marked as a female crime.

Well put.

I'm perfectly happy to condemn bad treatment of women, whoever does it. However we were talking about trump and you don't seem to want to accept that he's a nightmare for women.

Agree with this. There are some very powerful Republican women politicians and - unlike Democratic women politicians - they don't pretend men can become women. So they're freer and more powerful for that.

Trump's chief of staff is the first woman to hold that position. Bit of a lack of fanfare about that historical first - but it's important I think.

You can't really stand up for women's rights if men can be women. Abortion then becomes an issue that only affects some women (and not the important ones).

I cannot disagree with that. I didn't vote in the 2024 general election, because I found myself politically homeless. As the dying Mercutio said "A plague on both your houses".

My view is that women don't need to take crumbs from either side.

My view is, that you don't want to flip the coin and see what the other half are doing

chronically online Redditer?

He had mental health problems going back years and was most likely brainwashed by the trans activists on Reddit.

Sexism 2.0 is like living in a totalitarian regime. Something the women of the UK have less experience of. I'm told, by friends who grew up in actual totalitarianism, that in some ways this is worse, because at least they had free speech within the home. Sexism 2.0 grooms your daughters that your free speech means you wish them dead. Neither old school or new school sexism can conceive of the actual emancipation of women.

The particularly evil aspect was weaponising children and young people. Hiding sexual gratification behind ‘but children’ (and cementing sexist stereotypes) whilst simultaneously encouraging division/conflict between parents and children making it easier to exploit them.

There is an edited book here with chapters written by various experts on different aspects of gender ideology. For example a chapter on the medical impacts of PBs, CSHs, surgery. One on the psychosocial impacts. One on AGP. Another tracking the backgrounds of men pushing the ideology. Another analysing the Denton report. Another on the impact of force teaming the LGB with the T. One by Sharron Davies on the impact on women’s sports. Pretty much all the evidence collected on the pages of FWR.

What else could be included?

And neither side knows what to do with women who don't care if men think they are 'fuckable'.

But Canada will record it as 1 in 11 mass shootings in Canada are carried out by women.

According to this article (the headline is total speculation imo) he seems to have been a recluse

https://archive.ph/UpQYg

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/02/13/police-called-home-canada-school-shooter/

Almost every resident The Telegraph spoke to described how “everyone knows everyone here”. Yet, very few appear to have known or met the shooter, describing him as a recluse.

Several of Van Rootselaar’s neighbours said they had hardly seen him.

'Neither old school or new school sexism can conceive of the actual emancipation of women. See how each side threatens women with the worst of the other side. Their only world views consist of women being owned by either one set of men, or the other. Like two grossly entitled children arguing over a toy.'

And consider how girls and women are encouraged to see.themselves as that toy and nothing more, all the ways women are denigrated by both sides remain tellingly similar.

'Unfuckable' remains the worst accusation either the left or the right can come up with about women, and the solutions posed by both sides fail to break free of that value system.

This is a good explanation.

I think quiet pushback against the old sexism is in our bones. It's not right, but women have had to do this forever. We passed it down to our daughters.

Sexism 2.0 is like living in a totalitarian regime. Something the women of the UK have less experience of. I'm told, by friends who grew up in actual totalitarianism, that in some ways this is worse, because at least they had free speech within the home. Sexism 2.0 grooms your daughters that your free speech means you wish them dead.

Neither old school or new school sexism can conceive of the actual emancipation of women. See how each side threatens women with the worst of the other side. Their only world views consist of women being owned by either one set of men, or the other. Like two grossly entitled children arguing over a toy.

My view is that you've descended to whataboutery.

Is there any evidence of a backlash in Canada since the shooting. This was a small town with a few thousand residents so everyone must know him and his history. Any chance of it breaking the silence/forcing a debate.

It will.also follow what I would guess is a silence in Canadian media reports as they process and try to work out how to report without damage to current political orthodoxy.