Martin denies charge he wanted to gut medicare
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Prime Minister Paul Martin is denying Sheila Copps&#39; accusations that he wanted to dismantle the Canada Health Act. During a news conference Monday with Mexican president Vincente Fox, Martin said it&#39;s &quot;simply
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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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An author of last year's law creating Medicare prescription drug benefits says liberal groups are undermining the program by spreading false information about it, and he wants them to stop. But the organizations will have none of it.
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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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Republican John McCain says he opposed President Bush's tax cuts because they didn't come with spending cuts. That is not what he said at the time.
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OPPOSITION health spokeswoman Julia Gillard today dismissed the Australian Medical Association&#39;s attack on Medicare Gold, saying Labor&#39;s plan offered a workable alternative.
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President Bush's most recent surgeon general accused the administration Tuesday of muzzling him for political reasons
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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 Paul Martin denied on Friday that Canada was trying to drive Internet pharmacies out of business, despite Ottawa&#39;s recent complaints over drug sales to the United States.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety  official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled  from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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A House of Representatives panel on Thursday rejected along party lines a Democratic bid to force the Bush administration to turn over records about the estimated cost of last year&#39;s Medicare drug bill.
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Vermont's Republican governor challenged the Bush administration's prescription drug policy in federal court yesterday, marking the first time a state has chosen a legal avenue in the expanding battle over Canadian imports.
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Paul Martin tells an inquiry he was not involved in a fund scandal, in rare testimony by a sitting Canadian leader.
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Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York denied that he would cede to the federal government any of his existing or previous investigations into business practices.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin says it would be inappropriate for him to comment on a challenge to the head of the sponsorship inquiry.
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OTTAWA (CP) - New evidence tabled at an inquiry into the sponsorship scandal proves Paul Martin knew about the scam all along, opposition critics charged Wednesday.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, under fire from American Indians for telling voters that tribes were &quot;ripping off&quot; the state with their casinos, refused on Friday to back down from the charge.