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CP NewsAlert: B.C. throne speech cancelled because of Tumbler Ridge shooting

  • Wolfgang Depner

    Wolfgang Depner

  • Canadian Press

  • February 11, 2026

Lt.-Gov. Wendy Cocchia delivers the throne speech in the assembly at the legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

VICTORIA -- British Columbia's provincial legislature has cancelled Thursday's throne speech because of the mass shooting that claimed nine lives in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

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