Premiers gather to hammer out health stance
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Nearly all of Canada&#39;s premiers will be meeting today and tomorrow for last-minute talks on health care ahead of a summit with Prime Minister Paul Martin.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The provinces can do a better job of delivering health care to First Nations than Ottawa does and the idea of the provinces and territories taking it over will be broached at next week&#39;s first ministers conference, BC&#39;s health minister
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin kicked off his meeting with the country's premiers and top aboriginal leaders Monday with a &#36;700-million plan to improve native health.
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OTTAWA - Tempers flared at the national health summit on Tuesday over Ottawa&#39;s offer of short-term funding to address long waiting times for some medical procedures - a problem that some of the premiers tracked back to Paul Martin&#39;s term as finance
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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 (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin kicked off his meeting with the country&#39;s premiers and top aboriginal leaders Monday with a $700-million plan to improve native health.
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OTTAWA - In a ceremony held in the National Conference Centre just after midnight, the prime minister and the premiers have formally signed a 10-year agreement aimed at rescuing the country&#39;s health-care system.
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Political jockeying over health care intensified yesterday as Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty stepped up the pressure on the federal government to assume responsibility for a national pharmacare program.
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There&#39;s nothing wrong with a separate health deal for Quebec at next week&#39;s first-ministers meeting, Premier Jean Charest said yesterday, following a meeting with various representatives from Quebec&#39;s health care network.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin is downplaying the federal-provincial gulf over health funding, saying the first ministers meeting is more than just a numbers game.
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Ottawa - Canada&#39;s premiers and territorial leaders released a health funding counter-proposal Tuesday, saying Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s offer of $24.
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Restrain the presses. In a new poll, the Canadian Medical Association found declining public satisfaction with medicare. Released one month before Prime Minister Paul Martin sits down in Ottawa to talk about the health-care system with the premiers, it ...
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The Labor leader who heads the Scottish government has made the state of his country's health a priority.
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Canada&#39;s premiers issued a challenge yesterday to Prime Minister Paul Martin to say what he meant when he promised a national pharmacare program during the June election campaign.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s premiers are hopeful that Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s tenuous grip on a minority government will give them leverage to drive a hard bargain at this week&#39;s high-stakes health-care summit.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s premiers have presented a counter-proposal that asks Prime Minister Paul Martin to shell out $5.3 billion a year in new health-care money.
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Health care is the No. 1 priority of the federal Liberal government, but it&#39;s not its only priority, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said yesterday in a speech in which he put some financial parameters on the first- ministers health-care summit next week.