National News

VANCOUVER — Vancouver police say a man detained in a vehicle ramming at the city's Pacific Coliseum on Thursday night had "religious delusions" and had been the subject of a 911 call earlier that day from a Bible study group. Sgt.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's government introduced legislation Friday that would grant it new powers to quickly push forward major projects the federal cabinet deems to be in the national interest.

LONGUEUIL — Economic and geopolitical turmoil is forcing the Canadian and European space agencies to work together more closely, the organizations' leaders said Friday as they signed a joint statement reaffirming their long-standing collaboration.

TORONTO — Hla Wynn was looking forward to his annual trip to New York this summer, eager to spend time with family and help his brother recover from surgery.

OTTAWA — Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel says there's no evidence that forcing people into addictions treatment works — but she won't weigh in on whether provinces should pursue involuntary treatment.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending his decision to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit later this month — despite the fact that security officials have linked Modi's government to the murder of a Canadian man two

MONTREAL — Montreal is bracing for a transit strike that could severely disrupt bus and metro service starting Monday.

MONTREAL — A village in Quebec's Far North has lifted a state of emergency triggered by a months-long water shortage.

VANCOUVER — Seventy-one-year-old Roger Oake sat on a bench outside the Union Gospel Mission shelter in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside after breakfast.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government has introduced legislation aimed at cutting down barriers to internal trade by recognizing provincial and territorial rules at the federal level.