Within hours of the third-worst mass shooting in Canadian history, the mainstream legacy media has once again gone to great lengths to cover up the real identity of the shooter.

On February 10, residents of Tumbler Ridge, a remote town in British Columbia, Canada were left reeling from a shooting spree that left 9 dead and 27 wounded. Judging by the screaming headlines and stories that followed the attack, the majority of readers would certainly believe that a female shooter was responsible for the carnage.

The New York Times, in its early coverage of the massacre, would only describe the killer as a “female in a dress with brown hair.” While the Grey Lady was playing it safe, not revealing details until all of the facts were known, later reporting reserved just a single line to acknowledge that the killer, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, was “born as a biological male and chose to identify as a female.”

Meanwhile, the Associated Press completely and unforgivably failed to mention the fact that Rootselaar was a biological male. In its description of the killer, AP would only say that “she was an 18-year-old who had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health…”

That is a critical omission, since millions of people depend on the AP for their daily news consumption. News stories collected by the agency are published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and........

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