listen.

if you want to kill yourself, it's easy enough to find a bridge or some poison or something else.

you don't need to trigger the cops, who probably want to catch you alive if they can, anyways.

canada has experienced a few unfortunate outbursts of mental illness. but, this doesn't appear to be a terrorist attack - nor have any of the incidents here been accurately described that way.

it seems like this person was suicidal and wanted to go out in a bang.