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There is a shelter-in-place active shooter situation in Tumbler Ridge, in Northeastern BC.
Hanomansing Tonight was covering it, and of course there is no video, etc., available.
Ian Hanomansing has now joined the radio coverage with Gloria Macarenko and a reporter-anchor.
As a former TV and radio news producer, including some time at the CBC, I applaud the ingenuity of the people who have pulled this together.
At the same time, my fingers are crossed for the people of Tumbler Ridge.
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Saw this and thought this is exactly how something like this should be covered. Kudos to CBC for being able to transition so quickly.
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They've since gone to the national radio network.
I must admit, though, to wondering why they didn't go to the National at 9pm. By then, the stay in place order had been lifted.
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Yes CBC News Network has been way ahead of CTV News Channel on this sad story.
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This is sad. I hate guns. This being Canada, it will take five years to id the suspect.
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cash wrote:
This is sad. I hate guns. This being Canada, it will take five years to id the suspect.
It's in a remote northern community built around coal mines of fewer than 3,000 people, so there are lots of firearms and no doubt they'll ID the suspect quickly assuming that person is a local. This is horrible.
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The Canadian Press says authorities have tentatively ID'd the now deceased suspect as a female, possibly transgender. If that's true, it makes this very unusual. Women rarely commit these kinds of spree shootings and I can't think of an incident like this that involved a transgender person - if that report is accurate.
Hopefully, they'll find a motive.
I'm sure all the major networks in Canada will be sending crews to the remote area. This story is making headlines worldwide. Will American news travel there or rely on Canadian feeds? I guess we'll see.
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I watched NBC at 6:30. Not a word about Tumbler Ridge.
See? It's so routine for such things to happen in the Excited States, it doesn't warrant 20 seconds on this American network, at least.
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I watched NBC at 6:30. Not a word about Tumbler Ridge.
See? It's so routine for such things to happen in the Excited States, it doesn't warrant 20 seconds on this American network, at least.
David Muir on ABC gave the story about 20 seconds with a voiceover and video of the students leaving the school with hands up, and a shot of the school with police vehicles. Then into commercials. So not a big story in the US for evening news. US nets are all Epstein, Guthrie and Trump with NBC adding in some Olympic news. CNN has been light with any coverage of the shooting which is kind of surprising. They have had much more detail on their website on this and other major shootings in Canada.
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I did see reports on both BBC & CNN late yesterday. I’m fairly certain CNN aired a CBC report as is but the BBC did a fairly decent report of their own. Such a tragic situation, especially in Canada where this type of thing is rare, they were mostly kids, 13-17, so sad.