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EDMONTON - With Alberta facing a $6 billion shortfall in next month's budget, Premier Alison Redford's government has passed a motion to refuse a mandated cost-of-living pay hike for all 87 members of the legislature.

TORONTO - Calling himself "Dalton McGuinty's guy," Finance Minister Dwight Duncan announced Thursday he was quitting Ontario politics to clear the way for premier-designate Kathleen Wynne to renew the Liberal front benches.

CALGARY - A research paper is reinforcing the idea that Canada's resource industry is at risk of being left behind internationally if it doesn't find a way to get oil to receptive markets in the 91Ô­´´ Rim.

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is defending itself against accusations from the auditor general that it knowingly delivered a budget last spring that was off by $27 million.

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TORONTO - A Toronto police officer shot in vain at a snowplow that was quickly barrelling down on him in the seconds before it mowed him down and left him dying in the snow, court heard Wednesday. Several people who witnessed the death of Sgt.

OTTAWA - The veterans ombudsman says he's disappointed with the Harper government's response to his call to treat ex-soldiers and members of RCMP fairly when they apply for disability benefits.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's first modern-day treaty has withstood a constitutional challenge launched in the province's top court by two members of the Nisga'a Nation.

TORONTO - Employers who once believed family matters have no business in the workplace will have to start rethinking their position if they hope to stay on the right side of Canada's evolving employment laws, experts suggested Tuesday.

EDMONTON - The Alberta Teachers' Association is warning the government not to impose a contract on the province's 42,000 public school teachers.