Alex Ritson

We don't have the same kind of

really, I would say, inflammatory environment that I think you see south of the border sometimes.

And also you have to consider how small this community is.

It's 2,400 people.

That was the only high school in the entire town.

And it's just not the kind of place where you could ever expect something like this to happen.

Here in BC, we're utterly shocked.

We just, we're not used to this.

And in terms of firearms rules, events like this always cause an outcry in the United States.

In Canada, is this a talking point?

It's not in the same way that it is south of the border.

We have gun laws that are quite a bit stricter than in the United States.

Guns are allowed with licenses, but they are usually just hunting rifles.

We do know that the victim actually had a firearm license a few years ago.

Not clear whether that

firearm license was active at this point, again, whether those were lawfully owned.

Srishti Gangdeva, reporter in Vancouver.

There have been some fiery exchanges in the United States Congress where members of the House Judiciary Committee put a series of questions to the Attorney General Pam Bondi about the release of documents relating to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

There's a suspicion that the details of rich and powerful men...

who were associated with the dead financier, were redacted in the latest batch of Epstein material and concern because names, addresses and photographs of some of his victims were published.