My first column on Tumbler Ridge argued that Canada has a threat-detection problem, not just a violence problem. The subsequent days have only sharpened that diagnosis. As the official timeline firmed up and the reporting deepened, what emerges is not a neat “cause” story but a systems story: a rural community hit by a two-scene escalation, an emergency response that moved fast but arrived late in the only way that matters, and a national information ecosystem that struggled to stay accurate when accuracy was most needed.
Remember back in 2015 when your bourbon-chugging, conspiracy theorist “Uncle Kevin” stunned the family at Christmas dinner by stating, “A bunch of rich pedos are trying to form a one-world government. They’ll take away your steaks, cars, and dogs and blame it on ‘climate change.’ They’ll tell you men are women, and label you a ‘bigot’ if you refuse to let them control your mind. They’ll fill your kids full of SSRIs and tell them to cut off their genitals, and they’ll take your children away if you don’t play along. They’ll replace cash with digital currency and freeze your funds if they don’t like your latest tweet. And if you don’t stop saying things these lizard people don’t condone, they will arrest you. While all of this is happening, the New World Order will flood the West with third-world Muslim savages who will rape and murder with near impunity. They will live off of your tax dollars while replacing you by simple demographics. Once they outnumber us, We the People will be hunted into genocide. They want this done by 2030. Don’t give up your guns, and 