Ottawa&#39;s unhealthy budget game
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Welcome to Canada&#39;s least funny parlour game, launched by Paul Martin in his years as finance minister and carried on with great doggedness by the current minister, Ralph Goodale.
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&#39;We are putting too much pressure on ourselves,&quot; Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty warned yesterday. He&#39;s right. With less than two weeks to go until the first ministers conference on health
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The Federal Government says the big-city mayors request for a share of the federal gas tax revenues is too rich. Over the weekend, the mayors from Canada&#39;s 10 biggest cities, including Ottawa, said they&#39;re
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They don&#39;t call it the Grand National Drunk for nothing. Temptations abound during Grey Cup Week and it&#39;s easy for players on both sides to get caught up in all the hoopla.
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National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman, painting a bleak picture of the league&#39;s economic state, yesterday locked out players
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Tainted-blood victims with hepatitis C are outraged at a new Ontario government program to prevent and treat their deadly illness, saying it falls millions short of the money they were promised years ago.
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A nationally funded pharmacare plan proposed by the premiers will be too costly, the federal Finance Minister said Thursday, and acknowledged that this September&#39;s meeting with the first ministers may include some head-butting over ...
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Ottawa appears to be opening up to Quebec&#39;s demands to resolve the issue of health care funding, Premier Jean Charest said yesterday on his way into his weekly cabinet meeting.
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Canada&#39;s premiers are facing cracks in their united front for a new federal pharmacare program as they prepare for a crucial health-care summit with Prime Minister Paul Martin later this month.
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OTTAWAâPrime Minister Paul Martin kicked off the first ministers&#39; meeting yesterday by announcing $700 million to improve aboriginal health.
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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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TORONTO -- Post-partum depression clinics, breastfeeding clinics and other vital women&#39;s health services are on the chopping block as the province demands that hospitals balance their budgets next year, advocates warned yesterday.
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TORONTO (CP) - Ontario must exercise restraint in keeping to its plan to balance the budget, Finance Minister Greg Sorbara said Thursday as he gave his first economic statement since May&#39;s budget.
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OTTAWAâFinance Minister Ralph Goodale says the federal government couldn&#39;t possibly pay for the national pharmacare plan favoured by the premiers, which he says would cost Ottawa $12.
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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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Sometimes it&#39;s hard not to think that the national capital&#39;s worst problem is corruption. This is one of those times. After months of frying smaller fish, the inquiry into the Quebec sponsorship scandal is
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The federal budget is on an unsustainable path, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.