Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed …
Prime Minister Carney to attend vigil in Tumbler Ridge today with other leaders
Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., today to attend a vigil three days after nine people died in a mass shooting.
Carney, who invited other federal party leaders to join him at the vigil, was invited by the town’s mayor.
The offices of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, NDP interim leader Don Davies and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May have all told The Canadian Press they will attend the vigil.
Police said 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar shot her mother and 11-year-old stepbrother at their home in Tumbler Ridge on Tuesday before going to a school where she shot five students, all 12 or 13 years old, and an education assistant.
More than two dozen people were injured in the shooting and Eby said one of them, a 12-year-old girl named Maya Gebala, is “clinging to life in hospital.”
Family of Portapique victims offers advice and support to community in Tumbler Ridge
It was almost six years ago that Tammy Oliver-McCurdie lost her younger sister, brother-in-law and 17-year-old niece in Nova Scotia, all of them victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern Canadian history.
Oliver-McCurdie says that when she heard about the school shooting Tuesday in northeastern British Columbia, she recalled the agony she felt when she learned a man disguised as a Mountie had fatally shot the entire family and 19 other people on April 18-19, 2020.
“This is very difficult for our family as this brings back many emotions,” Oliver-McCurdie said in a statement that focused on offering support to the people of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., where eight people — mostly children — were killed by an armed 18-year-old who police say took her own life.
Oliver-McCurdie also offered some advice on how to cope with a devastating loss that is also the subject of international scrutiny.
Her sister, Jolene Oliver, her brother-in-law, Aaron Tuck, and her niece, Emily Tuck, were among the first victims killed by the Nova Scotia shooter on April 18, 2020.
Canada not on track to hit net-zero by 2050, or meet any climate targets: study
A new study published Friday by the Canadian Climate Institute says Canada is not on track to meet any of its climate targets — not the 2026 interim emissions reduction target, the 2030 Paris Agreement commitment, or even the long-term goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.
The report suggests Canada has moved away from its climate goals thanks to “a slackening of policy effort over the past year, marked by the removal or weakening of climate policies across the country.”
That “slackening” includes the elimination of federal consumer carbon pricing, the conclusion of green home retrofit funding and the cancellation of the oil and gas emissions cap, the report says. Provincially, Alberta and Saskatchewan both weakened and suspended their industrial carbon prices, and Ontario repealed its climate accountability legislation.
The climate institute study comes on the heels of Ottawa’s emissions reductions progress report, which the government quietly published the week before Christmas.
The progress report — which is required under the government’s own climate transparency law — showed the government’s best-case scenario model had Canada achieving only a 28 per cent reduction in emissions from 2005 levels in 2030.
Complainant cross-examination set to continue in Frank Stronach’s sex assault trial
The sexual assault trial of businessman Frank Stronach is expected to continue in Toronto today with the cross-examination of the first complainant testifying in the case.
The complainant told the court Thursday she was “terrified” decades ago when she woke up in a bed in an unknown place and realized she was being raped.
The woman said she didn’t consent to sex with Stronach after running into him at his Toronto restaurant, and didn’t know how she ended up in the bed that night in the early 1980s.
The complainant, who is now in her 60s and cannot be identified under a standard publication ban, also alleged Stronach sexually assaulted her on the dance floor earlier that night.
Stronach, who is 93, has pleaded not guilty to a dozen charges related to seven complainants for incidents that allegedly took place from the late 1970s to the 1990s.
Deadline today to apply for Quebec Liberal leadership, Charles Milliard favoured
Today is the deadline to apply to be leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.
Candidate Charles Milliard, former head of the Quebec federation of chambers of commerce, has the support of the majority of the party caucus.
Mario Roy, a farmer from Quebec’s Beauce region, is the only other person who has confirmed an interest in running, but he may be excluded by the party because of the debts he amassed from the 2025 leadership race.
Milliard, 46, came in second last year to ex-federal cabinet minister Pablo Rodriguez, who resigned in December amid a crisis involving allegations of vote-buying and reimbursed donations.
The race unfolds at a pivotal moment in Quebec politics with the Coalition Avenir Québec also seeking a new leader after Premier François Legault announced last month he would step down.
Quebecers are scheduled to vote in the provincial election set for October.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 13, 2026.
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