Ottawa rebuffs first ministers&#39; counter-offer
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Day two of the first ministers summit on health care carried on in the same vein as day one -- with both sides clinging to positions divided by billions of dollars.
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OTTAWA - The prime minister&#39;s communications director is denying allegations that Paul Martin considered eliminating the Canada Health Act in a draft of his 1995 budget.
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OTTAWA (CP) -- Prime Minister Paul Martin is denying accusations in Sheila Copps&#39; new book that he wanted to dismantle the Canada Health Act.
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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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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Prime Minister Paul Martin offered to help resolve the NHL labour dispute, but was turned down. Martin told CBC Television that both the NHL and NHL Players&#39; Association declined unspecified
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Prime minister defends government's preparations.
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TORONTO (CP) - Health Minister George Smitherman dismissed as &quot;ridiculous&quot; Tuesday opposition claims that he has been intimidating hospital administrators into keeping mum about potential cuts.
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TORONTO -- The NHL rejected last week&#39;s proposal by the players&#39; association and then had its own counteroffer turned down Tuesday during a 3Â½-hour negotiating session.
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Canadian PM says his government will not help the convicted tycoon restore his citizenship or return to Canada from the US.
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OTTAWAâPolitical deadlock is looming over the coming first ministers&#39; health summit, with federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh stepping up his public criticism of the premiers&#39; proposal for a national pharmacare program.
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A last minute offer by the province of New Brunswick to avoid a strike by hospital workers in the province has failed. Premier Bernard Lord presented the employeeâs union with a plan to increase wages over the next four years.
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Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers came to the defence of Paul Martin Friday against suggestions by ex-minister Alfonso Gagliano that the prime minister made a grave error in abolishing the sponsorship program.
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Ministers play down speculation Tony Blair could be offered the job of president of the European Council.
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Parliament's watchdog says ministers are wrong to withhold the first date it asked for legal advice on the Iraq invasion.
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Ottawa would never agree to the kind of national pharmacare program proposed by the premiers because it would cost too much and makes no sense, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said today.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The bureaucrat who ran the federal sponsorship program is standing by his contention that Paul Martin&#39;s office tried to interfere in a 1994 advertising contract.
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Based on an eight-page memorandum the NHL has sent to all teams, mysteriously obtained by TSN, the NHL has rejected the NHLPA offer and is poised to issue its own counter-offer at a 1 pm meeting with the NHLPA on Tuesday.