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EDMONTON - Alberta politicians — facing billions of dollars in red ink — get back to business in the house Tuesday to pass what Premier Alison Redford calls a watershed budget along with a new centrepiece Financial Management Act.

MONTREAL - The next Canadian to travel to space might be making the journey on a commercial flight instead of through the national space agency.

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says a tightened budget will be a big part of the spring sitting of the legislature which starts Monday. Wall says the government needs to keep overall spending increases to under four per cent.

Premier Christy Clark accepted the resignation Friday of one of her closest advisers as the political fallout over a leaked strategy aimed at wooing ethnic voters continued to rock the Liberal government.

EDMONTON - A couple has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the death of a mentally handicapped woman who was sometimes confined to a dog run.

TORONTO - Ontario's health minister is praising a Toronto hospital for taking firm action against a top doctor who had controversial financial dealings with the province's troubled air ambulance service.

TORONTO - Drivers who talk on a cellphone — even one that's hands-free — while executing a left-hand turn at an intersection could be putting themselves at serious risk, say neuroscientists who imaged the brain to see how it copes with competing task

TORONTO - An American man has been charged with several offences in connection with incidents at the G20 Summit in June 2010, Toronto police said Wednesday. Quinn McCormic, 25, of Boston, Mass.

SYDNEY, N.S. - A group of Cape Breton seal hunters say they've decided to call off the annual slaughter on Hay Island. Spokesman Robert Courtney says the hunt has been suspended because there is no market for the pelts.

OTTAWA - A looming expiration date for First Nations police funding has many chiefs worried for the safety of their communities.