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Carney plans visit to Tumbler Ridge as Canada grieves mass shooting
Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend a vigil in Tumbler Ridge to support a community mourning nine deaths, including five students and a teacher, after a mass shooting.
- On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit Tumbler Ridge to attend a vigil, with his office working with local authorities to finalize details, the Prime Minister's Office said.
- On Tuesday, police say 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother and stepbrother before attacking Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where a 39-year-old teacher and five students aged 12–13 were among the victims, with the death toll revised to nine including the shooter.
- Several hundred mourners gathered for a vigil and left flowers at a spruce tree fewer than 100 steps from the school in Tumbler Ridge, a town of around 2,400.
- Carney cancelled an overseas trip to the Munich Security Conference, ordered flags at federal buildings flown at half-staff for seven days, and Federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree arrived to lead the response.
- The attack is the deadliest in Canada since 2020, police had multiple mental-health contacts with Jesse Van Rootselaar and seized then returned firearms after an appeal, while investigators say the motive remains unclear.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will join mourners in the western town of Tumbler Ridge today, where 18-year-old transgender Jesse Van Rootselaar killed eight people, including six at a high school, according to agencies and other media. Carney has also invited leaders of all political parties to visit the scene of the tragedy.
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