Premiers complain about PM&#39;s cash offer
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OTTAWA - &quot;It&#39;s show, and we don&#39;t have the dough,&quot; Premier Pat Binns said as he headed into the first day of a summit on health care in Ottawa.
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KNOWLTON, Que. (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin brushed aside criticism on Friday from a former premier who said Quebec&#39;s side deal in a federal-provincial health accord could weaken the country.
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OTTAWA - Canada&#39;s premiers and territorial leaders have laid down a demand that Ottawa commit to permanently funding 25 per cent of the cost of health care in the country.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s premiers are set to present a counter-proposal that asks Prime Minister Paul Martin to shell out over $5 billion a year in new health-care money.
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TORONTO - Some provincial premiers are backing away from their demand that Ottawa pay for a national pharmacare program. &quot;It appears that it&#39;s not on for the federal government so we have to go back to the
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Calgary - Kelley Charlebois, whose contracts with the health department drew criticism from the auditor general, says the rates he charged the province weren&#39;t excessive.
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OTTAWA (CP) - First the premiers snubbed Paul Martin&#39;s breakfast invitation. Then the prime minister reacted in kind to their demand for $36.
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Prime Minister John Howard came under fire Friday for bankrolling a pre-election e-mail campaign carried out by a company run by his son.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The premiers went for Sunday dinner at Prime Minister Paul Martin's but his offer of billions more for health care left them confused, frustrated, and hungry for more.
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MPs, doctors and medical bodies have slammed offers of money to GPs for referring patients with compensation claims.
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ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin travelled to the capitals of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland on Monday to preside over signing ceremonies for two multibillion-dollar energy deals that have prompted a chorus of complaints from other provinces.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - The premiers of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador broke off offshore revenue talks with Ottawa Wednesday after failing to reach a longer-term deal to keep more money in provincial coffers.
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OTTAWA -- The federal government is kicking in billions in extra bucks for a health-care deal with the provinces -- but that won&#39;t leave much cash in Ottawa&#39;s piggy bank for anything else, analysts say.
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The federal government can likely scrape up a few billion extra bucks for a health-care deal with the provinces - but that won&#39;t leave much cash in Ottawa&#39;s piggy bank for anything else, analysts say.
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Health Minister Gary Mar isn&#39;t coming clean on how far he was involved in sending more than $400,000 in untendered consulting contracts to a former employee, charges Alberta Liberal Leader Kevin Taft.
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Alberta Premier Ralph Klein offered a grudging apology Friday for offending the disabled with comments about recipients of AISH, the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped program, who didn&#39;t look handicapped.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S future has been put at risk by its political leaders in this grubby, greedy election campaign. John Howard has run on a platform of profligacy, renouncing his claims as an advocate of low-taxing small government.