Detained

• Mother detained on TTC bus because daughter was sleeping in stroller

  The TTC apologized to the four-year-old girl's mother, who was detained by the driver over concern for the child's well-being. "I could have woken her up," Rebecca Clements says.

  Canada

  Aug 17, 2023
  
• Regina man says he was ‘racially profiled’ and detained by police in Walmart

  Regina resident Dominick Louison from the Kahkewistahaw First Nation says he was racially profiled and was wrongfully detained in Wal-Mart.

  Canada

  Aug 2, 2023
  
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• Saskatchewan Roughriders’ Purifoy detained after Regina restaurant ‘disturbance’

  Saskatchewan Roughriders player Loucheiz Purifoy says he was with teammates at a Regina restaurant where a disturbance occurred on Nov. 28.

  Canada

  Nov 30, 2021
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• Coronavirus: Saskatchewan government detaining people who won’t self-isolate

  The Saskatchewan government has established what they call an 'isolation centre' in Regina, used to detain COVID-19 patients not following public health orders.

  Canada

  May 13, 2020
• Protesters call for action from BMO after Indigenous man, 12-year-old handcuffed in Vancouver

  Maxwell Johnson and his granddaughter were accused of trying to commit fraud while opening a bank account for the young girl.

  Canada

  Jan 10, 2020
• Indigenous man, 12-year-old granddaughter handcuffed after trying to open account at Vancouver bank

  A visit to a Vancouver bank for a B.C. Indigenous man and his 12-year-old granddaughter ended with the pair in handcuffs on the streets of downtown last month.

  Canada

  Jan 9, 2020
• Police report drunken fights, other bad behaviour at Winnipeg Whiteout Party

  "There were a lot of people who maybe overindulged," said Carver,  "and that caused people to get a little bit feisty."

  Apr 13, 2019
• ‘Adventure’ traveller from B.C. detained in Syria

  The mother of the man from Nanaimo, B.C., said he has not been in touch for more than a month and is pleading for help getting him home.

  Jan 4, 2019
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• By boat, taxi and on foot, latest asylum seeker into Manitoba describes long journey

  The exhaustion in Mustaffa Jaelle's voice could still be heard as he described his long walk into Canada, and what he hopes is a better life.

  Feb 23, 2017
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• Another Canadian comes forward with story of being detained in Cuba

  Taylan Evrenler had been to Cuba twice before, but his visit last week that included a trip to Havana is easily the most memorable. He was detained and questioned by police over a two-day period and was only allowed to leave when he agreed to make a payment.

  Canada

  Nov 10, 2015