Category Archives: CP Canada
House of Commons holds moment of silence for victims of B.C. shooting
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament held a moment of silence on Wednesday, and party leaders delivered statements in the House of Commons urging unity and kindness, in honour of the victims of the mass sho...
Feb 11, 2026
Police identify B.C. mass shooter as 18-year-old, say five students and teacher dead
TUMBLER RIDGE - The person behind one of British Columbia's worst mass killings has been identified as an 18-year-old who killed family members at home, then gunned down students randomly at a school ...
Feb 11, 2026
A list of Canadian school shootings
Eight people, including a suspect, are dead after a shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in B.C.'s Peace region on Tuesday afternoon. Police say two other people were found dead at a home in the...
Feb 11, 2026
'A nation mourns with you': Reaction to the mass shooting in B.C.
RCMP say officers had a history of visiting the home of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old responsible for Tuesday's mass shooting at a high school and a residence in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. They say t...
Feb 11, 2026
Auto thefts down 18% year-over-year while recovery remains low: report
OTTAWA - The number of vehicles stolen in Canada fell sharply last year but there were still almost 47,000 such thefts reported and more than a third of those were never recovered, says a new report r...
Feb 11, 2026
Here's the latest following the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
TUMBLER RIDGE - RCMP say nine people were killed in shootings Tuesday in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., including the lone suspect who died by suicide. Five of the victims were under 13 years old. Mounties also...
Feb 11, 2026
In the news: B.C. town rocked by shooting, P.M. puts off Munich security conference
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... 10 dead in shootings at B.C. school and home RCMP Supt. Ken Floyd says police are "not in a place" to underst...
Feb 11, 2026
Loss of government funding, secularism putting many Quebec churches 'on the brink'
MONTREAL - In 2023, the Ste-Marie-de-l'Isle Maligne church in Alma, Que., completed its transformation into the St-Crme - a combination hotel, ice cream shop and event space. It's one of dozens of chu...
Feb 11, 2026
'Directly above her': Saskatchewan man recalls fight with moose to save mother
BIENFAIT - Shawn Tuffnell says he punched a moose multiple times, gripping its neck, before shooting it to death to save his 70-year-old mother. The 37-year-old Saskatchewan man says his fight with th...
Feb 11, 2026
A mother recounts her dangerous journey across the border to escape Trump's America
MONTREAL - At times, a 25-year old woman said the snow reached her knees as she trudged through a dark, icy forest near the Quebec border in mid-January. With temperatures hovering around -11 C, her l...
Feb 11, 2026