‘No words that capture the horror’: small Canada town shattered by mass school shooting

Remote coalmining community of Tumbler Ridge struggles to make sense of attack that has left Canada in shock‘We will get through this’: visibly shaken Mark Carney addresses Canada after mass shooting leaves 10 deadWithin moments of receiving reports that there was a shooter nearby, Stacie Gruntman, the principal of Tumbler Ridge secondary school, did what educators are increasingly trained to do: she put the school in lockdown.Gruntman rushed through the tiny school in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northern British Columbia, checking that classroom doors were secured. Teachers shut off the lights and huddled with their students. Continue reading…