Dave Chomiak was Canada&#39;s longest-serving health minister File ...
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WINNIPEG - After five years as provincial health minister, Dave Chomiak was moved to a new portfolio in Tuesday&#39;s provincial cabinet shuffle.
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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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On prescription drugs, at least, Ujjal Dosanjh has his priorities dead right. The federal health minister&#39;s most important job right now is to ensure Canada&#39;s supply of pharmaceuticals.
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Hospitals told to start special hiring; Health minister says funding is sign province is in &#39;high gear&#39; against C. diff. Quebec Order of Nurses president Gyslaine Desrosiers told a nursing convention yesterday
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TORONTO (CP) - A report from Cancer Care Ontario will help guide the province in its long-term goal to reduce treatment wait times, but there&#39;s still no quick fix, Health Minister George Smitherman said Thursday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin wanted to scrap the Canada Health Act when he was a deficit-fighting finance minister, says Sheila Copps in a politically explosive new memoir.
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TORONTO (CP) - The federal government&#39;s commitment to spend $41 billion on health care was a good deal for the provinces, but it will only help stabilize the system and do little to address inevitable challenges in the future, New Brunswick Premier
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As the flu-vaccine shortage began, Canada quickly emerged as a potential life buoy. Ujjal Dosanjh, Canada&#39;s Health Minister, personally phoned Tommy Thompson, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, and
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Canada&#39;s health minister says doctors and pharmacists who give prescriptions to Americans without meeting them first are being unethical.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The former governor of Canada&#39;s central bank has made an unusual foray into the political fray over health care, questioning proposals for greater competition within the single-payer medicare system.
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OTTAWA -- The bureaucrat who was in charge of drafting the 1995 budget says it never called for scrapping the Canada Health Act. Don Drummond, former assistant deputy minister of fiscal policy in the Finance
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Well, that&#39;s settled then, isn&#39;t it? Paul Martin, the magpie of a Prime Minister, has declared the issue of wait times for medical treatments to be his government&#39;s priority. And the Canadian Medical Association this week threw its ...
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TORONTO -- Health Minister George Smitherman says the province will move ahead with its latest proposal to Ontario&#39;s doctors, even though it doesn&#39;t have their approval.
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OTTAWA - Some Liberals are complaining that last week&#39;s federal-provincial health agreement may have been a bit too generous. Last week, Prime Minister Paul Martin and the first ministers signed a $41-billion 10-year agreement on health.
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Political squabbling over a national pharmacare program is threatening to &quot;scuttle and destroy&quot; next month&#39;s federal-provincial health conference, which is fundamentally about the future of Canada, former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow has warned.
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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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Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s 40-member cabinet will roll up its sleeves at a retreat here in Kelowna today and try to hammer out a plan to fix the nation&#39;s health-care system that will satisfy provincial premiers.