Canada Agrees to Increase Spending on Its Health Care
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Prime Minister Paul Martin gained a major victory for his flagging government early Thursday by reaching an agreement with provincial and territorial leaders that would
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Doctors and the Ontario government have agreed to try to cut the taxpayer-funded prescription drug costs of the poor and elderly by $200 million over the next four years, the Star has learned.
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The federal government can likely scrape up a few billion extra bucks for a health-care deal with the provinces - but that won&#39;t leave much cash in Ottawa&#39;s piggy bank for anything else, analysts say.
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Nearly two-thirds of Manitoba business leaders believe Canada&#39;s health-care system would benefit from a boost in private-sector involvement, a recent poll indicates.
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TORONTO -- Canadian health authorities have purchased an extra 145,000 doses of flu vaccine and are negotiating with a foreign supplier to import more if this season&#39;s high demand threatens to outstrip supplies.
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Health-care providers and pundits are applauding the medicare deal while trying to figure out who will get what. The deal, announced early yesterday, will see $18 billion over six years flowing to the provinces
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The side deal in the health accord that left Quebec out of federal demands for medicare reform proves Canada works for the province, Premier Jean Charest said Thursday.
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OTTAWA - Premier Bernard Lord has signed his name to a deal that will pour millions more dollars into New Brunswick&#39;s health care coffers.
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FREDERICTON - Premier Bernard Lord says he may be willing to give up on a national prescription drug program to get more money for health care from Ottawa.
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KELOWNA - Prime Minister Paul Martin says he&#39;s willing to make concessions to forge a lasting health-care deal with the premiers, including individual deals with the provinces and the possibility of more equalization payments.
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Senate and House negotiators from both parties reached a final deal yesterday on an expansion of a health insurance program for the children of the working poor, just a day after President Bush vowed to veto it.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada will increase its funding for tsunami relief to &#36;425 million, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced Monday.
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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) - After months of acrimony, Prime Minister Paul Martin has reached a multibillion-dollar deal with Newfoundland and Nova Scotia over the sharing of offshore resource revenue, federal sources say.
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There are two ways to judge the recent health agreement reached among the federal government, the provinces and the territories. One is on substance: A fair analysis suggests the funding agreement will improve
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OTTAWA -- A federal pharmacare program would save the Ontario government $3.7 billion annually, freeing up money the province spends on drugs so it can invest in a plan to shorten hospital waiting times, Premier Dalton McGuinty said yesterday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - First ministers were expected Wednesday to complete an agreement that would pump an additional &#36;18 billion into medicare over six years.