Machete

• Should machetes be banned? Questions raised after attack at Edmonton McDonald’s

  'You shouldn't be able to walk into a store and just go purchase a machete for no reason.'

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  Mar 26, 2025
  
• B.C. calls on Ottawa to restrict sale of machetes in bid to curb street crime

  Niki Sharma has penned a letter to Ottawa, asking her federal counterpart to consider classifying machetes as restricted weapons.

  Crime

  Sep 17, 2024
  
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• Winnipeg cops seize machete in arrest of suspect connected with VLT robbery

  A 23-year-old Winnipeg man is in custody after he returned to the scene of a previous crime, police say.

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  May 28, 2024
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• Saskatoon K9 team takes down man with machete over long weekend: police

  Saskatoon police said they received calls on Sunday reporting a man in the area of Avenue K and 21st Street West approaching people for money with a machete in hand. 

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  May 21, 2024
• Winnipeg man suffers serious injuries in machete attack

  A 21-year-old man suffered serious injuries in a machete attack in Winnipeg on Thursday afternoon. Another man, aged 19, has been arrested in connection with the incident.

  Crime

  Apr 19, 2024
• Manitoba man, 19, left with ‘life-altering’ injuries after machete incident: RCMP

  Police said they believe a fight broke out between the victim and two other people who lived in the same building.

  Crime

  Feb 29, 2024
• Manitoba youth accused of assaulting nine-year-old girl, RCMP say

  A 13-year-old boy has been charged with assault with a weapon after an incident at Moskahiken Cree Nation in which a girl 9, was allegedly assaulted.

  Crime

  Oct 12, 2023
• Gun and several weapons seized after Saskatoon police stop armed suspect

  The Saskatoon Police Service were called to the 300 block of Shillington Crescent around 5:30 a.m. Thursday and found a suspect carrying a backpack and a machete.

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  Aug 18, 2023
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• 4 people seriously injured during violent machete attack in north Edmonton, charges laid

  Officers arrived in the Beverly area to find two women and a man suffering from extensive, life-threatening injuries at one home, and a second man seriously hurt in a nearby car.

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  Aug 4, 2023
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• 2 people in Saskatoon attacked by person wielding machete and bear spray

  Saskatoon police said both people suffered effects from the bear spray, but the man also had injuries from the machete attack and he was taken to the hospital.

  Crime

  Jul 26, 2023