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MONTREAL — One of downtown Montreal's most famous nightlife streets has been turned over to pedestrians this weekend, but it's not part of Mayor Valérie Plante's much-publicized campaign to calm traffic in the city.

RCMP say 15 people are dead and 10 are injured after a bus carrying seniors to a casino crashed with a semi truck on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, Man., on Thursday. Here are the latest developments (all times CT): 9 p.m.

For seniors in communities across Manitoba, minibuses or handivans are essential means of travel.

VANCOUVER — A couple from Victoria, B.C., are $35 million richer after claiming the whopping sum at a B.C. Lottery Corp. celebration in Vancouver.

The RCMP is on its way back as the police force in Metro Vancouver's largest city, says Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke, but the province's solicitor general says he's not "satisfied" he has all information to confirm the decision.

DAUPHIN, MAN. — Health authorities say six of 10 seniors who survived a bus crash in southern Manitoba that killed 15 others were listed in critical condition in hospital. They were among a group of seniors from Dauphin, Man.

OTTAWA — Canada's population has reached more than 40 million, Statistics Canada said. The milestone comes amid a wave of new immigrants as part of Ottawa's promise to bring in 500,000 people a year by 2025.

VANCOUVER — Members of the African descent advisory committee for the Vancouver Police Department have told the Vancouver Police Board they feel they were lied to over the process to reinstate a program that deploys armed officers to public schools.

OTTAWA — Canada's largest federal public-sector union says more than 155,000 workers have ratified new four-year deals with the federal government.

OTTAWA — A pact with the United States to control the flow of asylum seekers across the shared border is constitutional, Canada's highest bench ruled in a unanimous decision Friday, but justices left the door open to further review in court.