Carney suspends trip to Europe following B.C. school shooting

Update, February 11th, 6:30 p.m.: RCMP revised the death toll to nine after one person did not succumb to their injuries as was believed. 

OTTAWA, ON — Prime Minister Mark Carney is suspending travel to Halifax and Munich, Germany, following a deadly school shooting in British Columbia.

Carney says in a statement he is devastated by the horrific shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. and that he joins Canadians in “grieving with those whose lives have been changed irreversibly today.”

RCMP say eight people, including the female suspect, are dead after a shooting at a school in the northeastern B.C. town.

Two more bodies were found at a home that is a location believed to be connected to the incident.

Carney was scheduled to fly to Halifax midday Wednesday to announce the long-awaited defence industrial strategy before flying to Munich where he was to spend the rest of the week at the Munich Security Conference.

His office says he is postponing the announcement and suspending his overseas trip “for the time being.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published February 10th, 2026.

The Canadian Press