HALIFAX — Police say an armed man dressed as Batman tried to hold up an armoured vehicle as guards were making a delivery at a bank in the Halifax area.
Clad in a Batman mask, a hoodie and jeans, the man approached guards at a Royal Bank branch in Lower Sackville on Thursday around 11:20 p.m.
Officers say the man, believed to be in his 20s, fled the scene in a nearby minivan.
No one was hurt.
Police continue to search for a suspect.
HALIFAX - Halifax police have ruled out a connection between a gun found on a public bus and the reported sighting of a man possibly carrying a concealed weapon.
OTTAWA - Lawyer Barbara Winters was headed to a meeting Wednesday near her office at the Canada Revenue Agency when she passed the National War Memorial, stopping to snap a few pictures of the two honour guards standing soberly at attention.
VANCOUVER - Charges are still being laid against people accused of being involved in Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot more than three years after crowds looted stores, overturned cars and set fires.
MONTREAL - Jurors at Luka Rocco Magnotta's murder trial have viewed more disturbing unedited photos and footage used to make the so-called video of the dismemberment and desecration of Jun Lin in May 2012.
OTTAWA - Ottawa police are now saying they believe only one gunman was involved in Wednesday's shootings at the National War Memorial and on Parliament Hill.
A gunman killed a soldier at the National War Memorial on Wednesday before being shot in Parliament Hill's Center Block. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the attack will harden Canada's resolve to crack down on terrorists at home and abroad. Here are some past terrorism cases and terrorism allegations, as well as cases in which politicians or legislatures were attacked or such attacks were allegedly plotted: