Politics

SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia is restricting the use of cellphones in schools and targeting social media companies in an attempt to reduce the harm they cause to children, which Premier David Eby likened to the damage from tobacco and opioids.

OTTAWA — Canada opted to say as little as possible Friday about an International Court of Justice ruling that ordered Israel to prevent a genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

WINNIPEG — An external review of Manitoba Public Insurance, the province's Crown-owned auto insurance corporation, has found instability, confusion over responsibilities and a high ratio of managers.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles City Council member was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for a pay-to-play bribery scandal involving real estate development projects. José Huizar, 55, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John F.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship, who lost by a wide margin when he ran for a U.S.

RIVIERE-AU-RENARD, Que. — Nearly three decades after a moratorium was put in place, the commercial redfish fishery is set to reopen in Quebec and Atlantic Canada this year, Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier announced Friday.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's new seniors advocate is Dan Levitt, an adjunct professor of gerontology at Simon Fraser University and the head of a non-profit long-term care home.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The federal housing advocate was in St. John's, N.L., this week to join the leader of the Nunatsiavut Inuit in his long-standing fight for an end to the "deplorable" housing conditions in northern Labrador.

RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep.

OTTAWA — Canada's former justice minister says he would have no fear of pressing ahead with a plan to allow people to seek medical assistance in dying solely on the basis of mental illness.