Part of a downtown Vancouver hotel is under lockdown, and pedestrian and vehicle traffic is being blocked from the 1000-block of Canada Place, while police deal with a distraught man with a gun.
Vancouver Police spokesperson Constable Brian Montague has confirmed that a man with a handgun is holed up inside the Fairmont Pacific Rim.
Montague says officers have contained him to a public area of the hotel and are talking with him.
They have been here for 4 hours now and they still don't know who he is or why he's here.
Hotel guests have been asked to stay inside their rooms.
No injuries or shots fired have been reported so far.
Roads have been closed off and transit continues.