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WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says he's now ready to move ahead with a health-care funding deal with Ottawa.

TORONTO — An Ontario court has ruled that Toronto's public transit agency is allowed to randomly test its employees for drug and alcohol use.

EDMONTON — Alberta's two conservative parties, working on a deal to join forces, are at odds when it comes to social clubs for gay students in schools. Wildrose Leader Brian Jean says he disagrees with Progressive Conservative Leader Jason Kenney.

EDMONTON — Another investigation has cleared former Alberta premier Alison Redford of wrongdoing on how she selected a law firm to sue tobacco companies on behalf of the province.

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — Lawyers on both sides in a preliminary hearing for a Saskatchewan farmer accused of fatally shooting an indigenous man say they hope the truth will come out.

Some Air Miles collectors reacted with anger Monday after learning the reward program is lowering the cap on in-store cash miles redemptions to $50 per day as it prepares to resume the program Wednesday.

It appears the 2018 Winter Olympics will lack the star power of Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews after the NHL announced Monday it will not interrupt next season to accommodate the Pyeongchang Games.

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, April 4 ——— NO SEATS CHANGE HANDS IN FIVE FEDERAL BYELECTIONS The seating grid in the House of Commons is unchanged following five federal byelections.

OTTAWA — The final outcomes of Monday's federal byelections might appear to do little to change the political landscape in the House of Commons, since no seats changed hands among the parties. In fact, the opposite may well be true.

MONTREAL — Emmanuella Lambropoulos, the 26-year-old school teacher who easily won Monday's federal byelection for the Liberals in the riding of Saint-Laurent, can credit her victory to a "perfect storm," her supporters say.