The community of Tumbler Ridge continues to mourn after a mass shooting took the lives of eight people and injured more than two dozen others on Tuesday.

Premier David Eby arrived at the northern B.C. town, where a vigil attended by community members and several officials was held on Wednesday night.

“I can tell you that this is an incredibly strong community,” Eby told reporters. “It’s also a community that’s clearly in shock. The full extent of what has happened has not sunk in.”

Fighting back emotions, Eby recalled that at the vigil people were asked to have a moment of silence and pray for the families who have lost loved ones, as well as for a girl who is in hospital fighting for her life after the shooting.

“That moment for me is representative of the profound tragedy,” he said.

“A beautiful child who went to school, is full of joy and love, who’s clinging to life in a hospital right now and the other children who have died. For the parents, for the families, for the people of Tumbler Ridge … we’ll pray for you in whatever way we pray and know that that’s happening across Canada and around the world.”

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‘It doesn’t feel real’: Tumbler Ridge in shock after 8 murdered in mass school shooting

On Tuesday afternoon, a shooter opened fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, killing a female teacher and five students — three girls aged 12 and two boys aged 12 and 13.

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Alongside the six victims from the school, two others were shot and killed at a separate location before the school shooting — the shooter’s 39-year-old mother and 11-year-old brother or stepbrother.

The shooter, identified by RCMP as 18-year-old female Jesse Van Rootselaar, died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The RCMP said they believe the shooter acted alone.

The shooting left two other people with serious or life-threatening injuries. They were airlifted to hospital. Approximately 25 others were assessed and triaged at the local medical centre for non‑life‑threatening injuries.

Gary Anandasangaree, Canada’s federal public safety minister, said he is heartbroken with the community of Tumble Ridge.

“As we mourn the senseless death of so many young people, what we can do here as a federal government is to support the local community, to support the mayor, to support the families, to support the first responders, to support the teachers and to ensure that we’re with them every step of the way,” Anandasangaree said. “As families are unable to put their kids to sleep tonight, there’s no words that I can say that will bring their children back.”

Mayor Darryl Krakowka thanked the premier and ministers for coming to Tumbler Ridge as “boots on the ground” to connect with the community and provide mental health supports and counsellors for families, students and staff who are grieving.

“It is so important when we see a tragedy like this, with young lives lost, families don’t have their children coming home last night. I think it was really, really important to see that, and I thank the government,” Krakowka said with emotion as Eby placed a hand on his back.

“Our community … we’re one big family,” Krakowka said.

— With files from Global News’ Amy Judd

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Federal investigators say they’re in the “examination and analysis phase” of their probe into the Delta plane crash in Toronto last February.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) outlined the work they’ve done to date Thursday, roughly a year after Delta Air Lines flight 4819 crash landed on a Toronto Pearson Airport runway.

During the afternoon of Feb. 17, the flight — operated by subsidiary Endeavor Air and coming to Toronto from Minneapolis — hit the tarmac and burst into flames; it eventually flipped over on its roof before coming to a stop.

The CRJ-900 aircraft, manufactured by Bombardier, was carrying a total of 80 people on board — 76 passengers and four crew members.

All passengers and crew were accounted for. Delta said 21 people were taken to hospital.

Among the passengers, 22 of them were Canadian. The rest were multinational, according to Deborah Flint, president and CEO of the airport.

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The crash came after the Toronto area was hit with two significant snowstorms that week, and on a day that saw very high winds.

“The investigation is ongoing and is currently in the examination and analysis phase,” the TSB said Thursday.

“Future work will focus on finalizing the analysis of all technical, flight operations, and laboratory results. Following this, the team will proceed with drafting the final investigation report while maintaining continued coordination with representatives from the manufacturer, the operator, the NTSB, the FAA, and Transport Canada.”

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In March, the TSB released its preliminary report that indicated there was a “high rate of descent” seconds before landing. However, it added it was too early to determine what caused the crash.

Since then, the TSB said its investigators have completed tests on the wreckage, examined on-board recorders and completed a “comprehensive review of the meteorological conditions” that day.

“The investigation team conducted simulator exercises at the operator’s facility. The approach profile, including occurrence speeds and thrust settings, was examined in a series of exercises, and the analysis of the simulations is ongoing,” the TSB said.

“An analysis of the survivability factors and the emergency response, including an examination of restraint systems, emergency egress routes, crew coordination, and aircraft rescue and firefighting response is ongoing.”

The TSB did not indicate when it expects to complete a final report.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit the community of Tumbler Ridge “shortly,” his office says, after the British Columbia community was devastated by a mass shooting Tuesday that killed eight people, as well as the shooter, and injured dozens of others.

“The Prime Minister will be visiting Tumbler Ridge shortly in support of the community,” the Prime Minister’s Office told Global News.

“The Prime Minister’s Office is working closely with the community and local authorities to finalise details based on their own immediate needs.”

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree and Housing Minister Gregor Robertson are in the community already, joined by B.C. Premier David Eby, Tumbler Ridge Mayor Darryl Krakowka and B.C. Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger.

The ministers were in the remote mining town “to offer any assistance needed from the federal government in the aftermath of the devastating shooting in Tumbler Ridge.”

“Too many innocent lives taken from their families too soon. To the Tumbler Ridge community: we mourn with you and we stand with you,” Anandasangaree said.

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Roberston, a B.C. MP, said he was “heartbroken” by the tragedy.

“This is an extraordinary community. We have witnessed remarkable compassion and care by every person we’ve met,” he said.

Carney announced Wednesday that Canadian flags will be flown at half-mast for seven days on federal buildings following the mass school shooting.

In Toronto, the iconic CN Tower went dark on Wednesday at the top of every hour to mark the tragedy.

“Tonight the #CNTower will dim for 5 minutes at the top of each hour in honour of the victims of the attack in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia,” the CN Tower’s official social media account posted on Wednesday.

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon offered her condolences to the families of the victims.

“In this unimaginable moment of tragedy, the whole of Canada has Tumbler Ridge in its thoughts. Let us stay united in our compassion and reach out to one another with love and tenderness today, as we join the entire nation in grieving,” Simon said in a statement.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called the shooting a “senseless act of violence.”

“I can’t even imagine the phone calls that parents might have received. I can’t imagine the heartache and hell that they’re living through at this moment. This is a time for all Canadians to unite, to support the families and the community at large. We’ll be in touch with the Prime Minister and the other parties later today to offer all of our support.” Poilievre said on Wednesday.

— with a file from Global News’ Bryan Mullan

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The father of a student killed in a school shooting in southern Alberta almost 27 years ago says forgiveness was at the heart of how he tackled the tragedy.

Retired reverend Dale Lang lost his 17-year-old son, Jason, after the teen was shot by a fellow student in a hallway at W.R. Myers High School in Taber, Alta., about 300 kilometres southeast of Calgary, in 1999.

The 14-year-old shooter, who also wounded another student, was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder and sentenced as a youth to three years in jail and seven years of probation.

“In our case, God granted us the grace to be able to forgive the boy who killed our son, and that was hugely important for us,” he said in an interview Wednesday.

He shared his story again after a mass shooting Tuesday in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., left nine people dead, including the 18-year-old shooter.

Police said the shooter killed her mother and 11-year-old stepbrother at a home in the town before gunning down a teacher and five students at the high school and taking her own life.

Lang said he doesn’t know enough of the details about what happened in B.C. to speak directly about it, other than to say it’s a tragedy.

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“I’m very sad to know that Tumbler Ridge will be going through some difficult days ahead, to say the least, and particularly the families that have lost people,” said Lang.

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“That’s a terrible tragedy that no one should have to go through.”

In a small community, he said, everyone will be very affected. “It’s going to be part of the picture in the life of the community now for years and years to come.”

The process of grieving can be different for everybody, and it takes time, he added.

In his experience, forgiveness was the beginning of not getting “stuck in a place of anger and bitterness.”

He drew strength from his relationship with God, he said.

“(It) is hard to explain to people, because it was so painful and so tragic. And even in the midst of all our tears, we were still able to begin the process of healing.”

He said one of the things that was useful for him and his wife was returning to the high school where Jason was shot to welcome kids back into their classrooms.

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The Taber shooting was the first deadly high school shooting in Canada in about 20 years. It came eight days after a mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., where two students killed 12 students and one teacher before taking their own lives.

“It was a time when people, and young people, needed to feel like the world wasn’t falling apart on them,” Lang said. He added that students also needed to know they were cared for and could get through it.

“Over the years, we’ve had the kids that were in the school contact us or talk with us and let us know that it was a meaningful time for them in a difficult situation,” said Lang.

Lang wrote a book about the killing titled “Jason Has Been Shot!” along with his son Mark.

Lang said it’s something that wasn’t easy to put to paper, but he believes it was cathartic and brought comfort and healing to a lot of people.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 12, 2026.

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École Polytechnique shooting survivor Nathalie Provost says it took her several weeks to return to the site of the Montreal massacre, but doing so allowed her to reclaim her life and create a sense of safety again.

She was shot in the leg, foot and forehead by a gunman who killed 14 women and injured more than a dozen people in 1989, including six of her classmates.

“We cannot live in the fear that it can happen,” Provost said, emotion still ripe in her voice 37 years later.

Her reflections on healing come in response to one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history on Tuesday in Tumbler Ridge, a small community in British Columbia, where nine people are dead, including the suspect.

Provost, now a member of Parliament in Quebec, says going back to school to finish her undergraduate degree once she was released from hospital was her way of moving forward. She says that was the best thing she could have done at the time.

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Now as a mother of four, she acknowledges how difficult that must have been for her own mother, breaking into tears as she speaks of the sorrow and fear that must be consuming the parents of Tumbler Ridge right now.

“I’m so sad. I just cannot imagine what it is being 12, 13, 15, 16 years old and looking at what they were looking at yesterday evening. I remember what I saw. And for all of those who saw horror in their life, I am so sad,” she said.

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Like many other parents across the county, Vancouver psychologist Dr. Valerie Caldeira says it was difficult to send her kids to daycare Wednesday morning.

“My sense of safety, also shattered,” she said, adding, “You kind of have to trust that they will be OK.”

Caldeira says it’s going to take time for the country to recover and that returning to routine is an important step, whether that’s going to extracurriculars or sticking to meal times.

“To have that sense of normalcy – that will really help restore a sense of safety,” Caldeira said.

While our sense of danger might be heightened, Dr. Allison Crawford, a chief medical officer for 9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline, says that is not permanent, and there is hope for restoration.

She said it’s normal to feel overwhelmed, shocked, devastated, and that just knowing other Canadians are feeling this way can be validating and establish social cohesion.

“While we acknowledge the magnitude of this loss now, and have to do work to help people feel a sense of safety and connection …that’s not permanently shattered,” Crawford said.

“I think there’s lots of hope that we will collectively come back together and have that sense of safety restored.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 11, 2026.

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U.S. President Donald Trump called Canada “among the worst in the World to deal with” as the U.S. House of Representatives voted against his tariffs on America’s northern neighbour — a largely symbolic move that shows some wavering Republican support for the president’s massive trade agenda.

“Canada has taken advantage of the United States on Trade for many years. They are among the worst in the World to deal with, especially as it relates to our Northern Border,” Trump posted on social media Wednesday night as results of the vote became clear. “TARIFFS make a WIN for us, EASY. Republicans must keep it that way!”

Six Republicans joined Democrats in a bipartisan push against Trump’s so-called fentanyl emergency at the U.S.-Canada border, which the president used as justification for economywide tariffs against America’s northern neighbour last year.

While Wednesday’s motion passed, it did not get the two-thirds majority it would need to become veto-proof. When it lands on Trump’s desk, it is expected to be shut down.

Canada is also being hammered by separate sector-specific tariffs on industries like steel, aluminum, automobiles and lumber that Trump enacted through a different presidential power.

The bipartisan support does demonstrate Republican uncertainty around Trump’s erratic trade policies directed towards Canada.

Democrat Rep. Gregory Meeks, who introduced the bill, said Canada isn’t a threat.

“Canada is our friend. Canada is our ally,” Meeks said. “Canadians have fought alongside Americans.”

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Trump declared the emergency in order to use the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, also called IEEPA, to hit Canada with 35 per cent tariffs. Those duties do not apply to goods compliant under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, known as CUSMA.

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Meeks said U.S. government data shows a minuscule amount of fentanyl is seized at the northern border compared to the border with Mexico.

In response to Trump’s stated concerns about fentanyl, Ottawa boosted border security measures, with more boots on the ground and drones in the air. Canadian police forces have widely promoted drug seizures in news releases.

During debate in the House earlier Wednesday, Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida, pointed to those drug seizures in Canada and Ottawa’s appointment of a “fentanyl czar” as evidence the problem is real. He also said Canada hasn’t done enough to crack down on drugs.

“Democrats don’t recognize that there is a crisis that it is killing thousands of Americans,” Mast said.

The Senate has voted repeatedly to overturn the fentanyl duties but a procedural rule allowed the House to avoid any votes on Trump’s tariff agenda. That ended Tuesday, when three Republicans joined Democrats to stop the extension of the procedural rule.

While the U.S. Constitution reserves power over taxation and tariffs for Congress, Trump’s duties have so far faced little public resistance from Republican lawmakers, despite concerns shared behind closed doors among traditional GOP free-traders.

“Any Republican, in the House or the Senate, that votes against TARIFFS will seriously suffer the consequences come Election time, and that includes Primaries!” Trump wrote in a separate Truth Social post Wednesday.

“TARIFFS have given us Economic and National Security, and no Republican should be responsible for destroying this privilege.”

IEEPA has become Trump’s favourite tool to impose or threaten tariffs — but its future is uncertain.

The U.S. Supreme Court is still weighing whether Trump can continue using IEEPA. The conservative-led U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical during a hearing on IEEPA in November.

Rep. Adrian Smith, a Republican for Nebraska, said Wednesday’s vote should be delayed until after America’s top court rules on the IEEPA tool. He said Canada is a friend but Trump’s use of duties has pushed Ottawa to have difficult conversations about trade irritants. He cited the example of the digital services tax, which Prime Minister Mark Carney paused to appease the president last year.

Trump’s inconsistent use of tariffs and his claims that Canada should become a U.S. state are hurting American businesses, multiple Democrats told the House. Many also pointed to the president’s Monday social media post threatening to stall the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Ontario to Michigan.

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Representatives from Nevada spoke about the drop in tourism and others from Oregon said Canadian alcohol boycotts were devastating the wine industry.

Rep. Linda Sanchez, a Democrat for California, said claims that Canada is a fentanyl threat are not borne out by facts. She pointed out that CUSMA was negotiated during the first Trump administration and ratified by Congress.

Responsible governments follow the law on trade agreements and don’t negotiate through weird social media tantrums, she said.

“It’s just reckless and frankly, it’s bizarre.”

Trump’s post about Canada was the only comment he made Wednesday about the country, which was grieving Tuesday’s mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. that killed eight people and injured about 25 others.

Other world leaders, as well as U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra, have offered condolences to Canada and Tumbler Ridge in the wake of the tragedy.

—With additional files from Global News

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The prayers at Peachland Baptist Church have been answered after the District of Peachland, B.C., decided to no longer pursue acquiring its property for a new fire hall.

“Glad and relieved for ourselves and for the community,” said Pastor Lyle Wahl.  “We have always said we want to stay here.”

Council had a unanimous change of heart on Tuesday to abandon the land acquisition efforts.

“We came to the conclusion that they didn’t really want to sell and then we just respected their wishes,” said Peachland Mayor Patrick Van Minsel. “You know, that’s how it is and you go, you move on, and you look at the future.”

Wahl said it was a lengthy process that started several years ago.

“It started with our first approach just over four years ago,” said Wahl. “The church has been here in the community for over 100 years. In fact, the church existed before the District of Peachland was officially organized.”

Plans to replace the existing firehall have been on the books for years.

“The current firehall  is old and outdated. It’s too small. It was never intended to be a firehall,” said Van Minsel.

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Peachland residents voted in favour of borrowing up to $17.5-million for the new fire hall in October 2022.

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The district wanted to acquire the church property because it borders land it already owns along Highway 97 and San Clemente Avenue.

“Expropriating a church or forcing a church out of this location has always been a sensitive issue,” Wahl said.

While the church supports the construction of a new fire hall, it has, at times, described the district’s efforts to obtain the land as aggressive.

“I cannot speak for them. I can only know what I know. What I know is that they were always involved in the process, at least during the last two years that I was part of it,” Van Minsel said in response.

The fire hall is still moving ahead on the planned site, even without the church property.

The building itself won’t be smaller but it will sit on a reduced lot.

“We’re dealing with a lot of fires in the last years,” Van Minsel said. “We need to have a location so we can reach our Peachland , the whole Peachland in time, and that location is prime.”

With  land acquisition efforts now dropped,  the attention will turn to getting the project completed once and for all.

The district hopes to have shovels in the ground late this year or early in the new year with the new fire hall up and running sometime in 2028.

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Police in Guelph, Ont., are reminding residents not to let children play with old cellphones after an unregistered device dialed 911 more than 120 times in a single evening.

The Guelph Police Service says the same phone called the emergency number at least 129 times between 4:40 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

Communicators could hear a child during many of the calls but were unable to get anyone’s attention.

Officers were dispatched in an attempt to locate the device using GPS data transmitted with the calls. Police say several addresses were checked, but the phone was not located and no emergency was found.

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Police say any functioning mobile device can call 911, even if it is not connected to a service plan or has its SIM card removed.

However, the approximate location provided by such devices is typically far less accurate than from a phone connected to a cellular network.

Each incoming call from the device was assigned a number beginning with 911, allowing communicators to confirm they were coming from the same phone. But because the device was not connected to a network, it could not be called back.

Police are urging residents to reconsider giving old cellphones to children unless they are fully disabled.

To prevent accidental calls, police suggest removing the battery or allowing the phone to drain completely before handing it over.

Anyone who accidentally dials 911 is urged to stay on the line and speak to a communicator to confirm there is no emergency, preventing the unnecessary use of police resources.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke at the House of Commons Wednesday afternoon following the mass school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., that left eight dead, as well as the shooter, and 27 injured, saying the tragedy “has left our nation in shock and all of us in mourning.”

Members of the House of Commons observed a moment of silence for the victims and agreed to adjourn until Thursday at 10 a.m., skipping question period. Several rows of ambassadors from other countries sat in the galleries of the House of Commons in a rare show of support as party leaders rose to speak.

“Tumbler Ridge represents the very best of Canada. Resilient, compassionate and strong,” Carney said. “‘All of Canada stands with you. May the memories of those lost be a blessing. May this community which has shown its resilience so many times before, once again find the strength to heal and may this house prove worthy of what Tumbler Ridge has always been by striving to make Canada a better, kinder, and safer place.”

Carney also spoke about the need to support victims families as the investigation unfolds.

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“Mr. Speaker, in the days ahead, there’ll be important questions to ask, difficult conversations to have. We owe that to the victims and their families. But now, it’s time for grieving. And remembrance. Now is for the people of Tumbler Ridge and the Peace River region for a community that is enduring the unimaginable.”

Carney also offered words to those directly affected by the shooting.

“To those families who have lost loved ones, this House mourns with you. To those who are recovering from injuries, this House prays for you. To the students, the teachers, the parents, every resident of Tumbler Ridge, all of Canada stands with you.”

Carney also acknowledged all those involved in the shooting’s response and aftermath.

“I want to express my profound gratitude to the first responders, the RCMP officers, who entered immediately that school not knowing what awaited them. To the paramedics and medical staff at the Tumblr Ridge Health Centre. To the teachers and the school staff who acted with extraordinary courage to protect the children in their care. In the darkest of moments they showed the best of our country,” he said.

A book of condolences is available for MPs to sign until Feb. 17, at which time Conservative MP Bob Zimmer, who represents the community, will bring it there.

More to come.

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For two days, the city council urban planning committee heard from several speakers about Edmonton’s residential zoning regulations as it reviewed amendments that would see more restrictions placed on infill development.

On the table are a few changes, including dropping the maximum number of units midblock to six from the existing eight, while also increasing the minimum size of a unit.

Over the course of two days, 70 speakers took time to voice their concerns and it became clear the amendments are not popular with some people on either side of the infill debate.

Coun. Aaron Paquette said there are no wrong arguments.

“Whether you’re dealing with the facts and the figures and the needs of the city or you’re dealing with the change of a neighbourhood or the feeling of not knowing what’s going to happen, those are all valid concerns,” Paquette said.

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Council has been tasked with balancing the need for more affordable housing that developers actually want to build and people are willing to buy or rent with the concerns of existing residents about property values, not enough parking, predatory developers, quality of builds and housing affordability.

Paquette noted Edmonton is dealing with a massive population catch-up from hundreds of thousands of new people moving to Alberta in recent years, while there are also federal grants for multi-unit builds that developers are being enticed to take advantage of.

“So we see this natural spike based on those artificial or unusual circumstances. When those go away — and they will, like the pressure of the population and the pressure of that grant — we get back into a normal state of development and so what happens there? And should we change policy mid-stream in an unusual time? Or do we see how it plays out over the next six months and then revisit?”

Representatives from Edmonton’s development community argue that further restrictions could impact their profitability, which would in turn drive up the cost of infill housing.

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Meanwhile, owners of mature homes said six units on a single lot that previously contained a single-family home is still too many. Some argued that a unit reduction doesn’t even necessarily equate to smaller buildings.

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“It’s all about the massing,” said Kathy Hawksworth, who lives in the south Edmonton Parkallen neighbourhood and is with the Residential Infill Working Group.

“A huge building is a huge building whether it has one, two, six or eight dwellings in it.”

Hawksworth noted large infills can affect the privacy and sunlight of neighbouring yards, affecting plants and energy efficiency investments, like solar panels.

“The loss of gardens, the loss of solar: these have real impacts for residents that are quite apart from whether it’s six units or eight units, or in fact one unit or two.

“It’s all about the massing size, the sheer volume of these huge buildings.”

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A handful of presenters at the urban planning committee on Monday and Tuesday were from the Residential Infill Working Group.

They said the issue is largely the size of the multi-family housing buildings popping up next to bungalows or other much smaller existing homes.

“Infill can fit in nicely, we just need to do it nicely. We just need to do it right,” said Beverly Zubot, who is with the Residential Infill Working Group. “We need some tweaks in the zoning bylaw to make that happen.

“We’re hoping we can sit down with city administration and the development industry, builders, to come up with those metrics.

“The kind of things that will work for everybody.”

They presented a number of potential solutions, including lining up front setbacks with existing homes and splitting housing among a front home and back garage suite, with yard in the middle — breaking up big walls that block sunlight.

“The best format is to have four [units] in the front and two in the rear, and I guess that’s why we’re really encouraging the six-unit cap because that creates the building pattern that now exists in our lovely mature neighbourhoods with trees, with large enough space in between the rear building and the front building for landscaping, amenity areas, gardening, et cetera,” Zubot said.

Other speakers expressed a desire to leave the existing zoning rules as they are, feeling they’ve been successful in developing more homes in mature neighbourhoods and more affordable rents.

When councillors on the urban planning committee began questioning city administration Tuesday afternoon, many of their queries surrounded how amendments would effect change that actually remedies problems Edmontonians are bringing forward.

In the end, the committee decided to send the debate to city council, where the public hearing process will start over again.

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In 2023, the City of Edmonton changed zoning bylaws to allow for more multi-unit buildings up to three storeys in all neighbourhoods.

The aim was to encourage a variety of development to be built more easily in residential areas.

Since then, there’s been mixed reaction to the increase in multi-unit buildings replacing single-family homes.

Infill ended up being a contentious topic during the 2025 fall municipal election campaign after residents of established communities expressed concerns with property values, not enough parking, predatory developers, quality of builds and housing affordability.

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