Politics

VICTORIA — British Columbia's seniors advocate has called for the enforcement of tenancy laws to protect retirement home residents who he said face illegal rent increases and evictions.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre vowed Thursday to repeal the Liberals' Online Harms Act should it become law, the same day the parliamentary budget officer estimated that setting up proposed new regulators would cost $200 million over f

VICTORIA — Three veteran New Democrat cabinet ministers and community stalwarts in Surrey and Victoria have announced they won't seek re-election in British Columbia's fall vote.

CALGARY — Calgary is cancelling a state of emergency over its water conservation crisis, but a ban on outdoor watering remains.

MILTON, ONTARIO — The "vast, vast majority" of Liberal MPs continue to support their leader, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland insisted Thursday.

LENNOX ISLAND, P.E.I. — The government of Canada and Prince Edward Island’s Mi’kmaq First Nations announced an agreement on Thursday to turn a pristine chain of islands with sacred cultural significance into a national park reserve.

The age question for presidential candidates is more than four decades old.

GATINEAU, Que. — The Competition Bureau says it will speed the development of guidance on the interpretation of new provisions in the Competition Act aimed at greenwashing.

EDMONTON — In Hinton, Alta., an industrial town in the shadows of the Rockies, residents left without a doctor to write prescriptions face a three-hour drive to Edmonton to try their luck at a walk-in clinic.

OTTAWA — A majority of Canadians think Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will stay on to lead his party in the next election even as his approval ratings are still extremely low, a new poll suggests.