A pile of police have been deployed near Ubisoft for what has been reported so far as a hostage taking, an armed robbery, a bomb threat, and/or a large ransom demand.
An SPVM spokesperson says they are in "verification mode." No event has yet been confirmed.
It is quite unusual that at this stage there would be no information about the cause of a deployment this big.
For example, normally if an armed man had taken someone hostage, police would have said that by now. This is a thing that happens occasionally in a city like Montreal.
It's also very unusual that reporters have found no witnesses to anything yet.
When I first heard of this a little over an hour ago I started searching "Ubisoft" and man are there a lot of people angry at them about some game problem.
To recap: Police went in large numbers including swat members after an unconfirmed threat near the city's Ubisoft office over an hour ago.

Police have confirmed no one is hurt. They have yet to confirm if there's an actual event taking place.
The intrepid @felixseguin says his impeccable police sources are telling him that it looks like a hoax. Caveat: Police operation still underway.
The Ubisoft building is six storeys and occupies half a city block. It takes time to find nothing, if there's nothing to be found.
The Montreal police just sent out a statement saying their operation continues but "no threat has been identified."

People are starting to come out of the Ubisoft building now.
I'm going to stop amplifying this hoax now.

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