Standoff

• Murder charges laid in double homicide in remote northern B.C. community

  Police shot the suspect following a standoff in Tsay Keh Dene earlier this week. The bodies of two other people were found at the scene.

  Crime

  Apr 12
  
• Police watchdog probes Vancouver Island arrest after man hurt during standoff

  Police reported that when they arrived, the man resisted arrest, allegedly produced an unspecified weapon and barricaded himself inside the home.

  Crime

  Apr 9
  
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• Inquest scheduled for deaths of 2 during 2019 Surrey hostage-taking

  Police fatally shot Nona Marnie McEwan and Randy E. Crosson while responding to a hostage taking in Surrey in March 2019.

  Crime

  Mar 19
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• 2 men in custody following armed, barricaded incident in Winnipeg

  Winnipeg had an increased police presence responding to a report of an armed barricaded that involved a suspect discharging a firearm at police.

  Crime

  Feb 10
• Man, woman arrested after morning standoff with police at residence in Stoney Creek

  Hamilton police says the two people were arrested and a gun was seized during a standoff at a residence in the area of Maple Avenue and Mountain Avenue South.

  Crime

  Jan 9
• Standoff with distraught man ends peacefully in North Vancouver

  RCMP were called to Central Lonsdale around 8:15 a.m., to reports of a "man acting erratically and brandishing a weapon" outside a home.

  Crime

  Jan 5
• Man charged after standoff closes road in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory: OPP

  Lower Slash Road was closed between Deseronto Road and Mowbrays Road as a precaution while a man barricaded himself in a home in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. The man was arrested.

  Crime

  Dec 19, 2023
• Man barricades himself in Trent Lakes building: Peterborough County OPP

  Police say before officers arrived, the suspect had left a residence and barricaded himself inside a building on Bessie Avenue, about five kilometres northeast of Bobcaygeon.

  Crime

  Aug 15, 2023
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• Watchdog deployed after RCMP shoot man following Grand Forks standoff

  The Independent Investigations Office has been called to Grand Forks, where RCMP shot a man following a standoff on Saturday.

  Crime

  Aug 14, 2023
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• Grievers protest months-long cemetery standoff that’s left over 300 bodies unburied

  The labour dispute has left more than 300 bodies unburied, with the remains stored at freezing temperatures in an on-site repository.

  Canada

  Jul 9, 2023