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TORONTO — The deadly attack on a Vancouver street festival has prompted event organizers across Canada to comb over their security practices in a bid to protect attendees and assure them festivals are safe.

VANCOUVER — Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says people are "sick and tired" of inquiries and reviews into a recurring pattern in which people in a mental health crisis become involved in a public safety crisis.

LONDON — Holding a white towel against her body, a young woman smiles and looks into the camera. "It was all consensual," she says before asking if she's being filmed. "You are so paranoid ... I enjoyed it," she adds.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump says he will meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House "within the next week." Carney and Trump spoke on the phone Tuesday and the president described the prime minister as a very nice gentleman.

EDMONTON — Seventy-year-old Tan Hoang vowed he would never return to Vietnam after fleeing the country with his family on a makeshift wooden boat.

MONTREAL — A series of violent storms that swept through Quebec on Tuesday knocked out power to more than 144,000 clients, including one of the largest hospitals in the province, and badly injured a teenager in Montreal.

TORONTO — Canada's highest court is set to decide whether it will hear arguments in a trailblazing climate change lawsuit that could clarify whether governments are constitutionally required to tackle planet-warming emissions.

MONTREAL — An organization representing Quebec Inuit wants Elections Canada to investigate reports that some people in Nunavik were unable to vote in Monday's federal election.

VICTORIA — The man accused of killing 11 people at a Vancouver festival was under the care of a mental health team, but there was nothing to indicate a change in his condition that warranted involuntarily hospitalization, British Columbia’s Health Mi

VANCOUVER — Communal grief following the ramming attack at a Filipino festival in Vancouver that killed 11 people last weekend will likely persist for months, mental health experts in British Columbia warn.