Premiers take aim at federal money offer, say it&#39;s skewed
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OTTAWA (CP) - The country&#39;s premiers talked cordially with Paul Martin in front of the TV cameras at the first ministers meeting Tuesday, but behind the scenes they were preparing to attack.
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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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The Premiers says Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s offer of 58.1 billion dollars in health care funding over 10 years needs CPR. Martin had wanted to focus on health care reforms during day one of the national summit in Ottawa.
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In the state with the highest unemployment figures, there is skepticism over the candidatesâ economic promises.
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OTTAWA - One day after Ottawa revealed an embarrassment of riches with a surprise surplus of $9.1 billion, new figures show the federal government is on track for yet another bonanza.
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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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Labor leader Mark Latham&#39;s plans for older Australians has received a mixed reaction from interest groups. At Labor&#39;s campaign launch yesterday, he promised to pay for the hospital costs of all Australians
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KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) - The federal government will seek a flexible medicare-reform agreement that could include individual deals with provinces, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Wednesday.
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LABOR has accused the Federal Government of engaging in reckless spending which could push up interest rates. The claim came as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gave the Government and the Reserve Bank a glowing report card.
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With the federal election out of the way, the path has been cleared for a possible interest rate hike, but some economists don&#39;t expect rates to rise until next year.
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Treasurer Peter Costello has been accused of paving the way for the government to break its big-spending election promises after he expressed scepticism about official predictions of strong economic growth.
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OTTAWA - Premier Gordon Campbell says the federal government&#39;s latest multi-billion offer to increase health-care funding falls far short of what&#39;s needed.
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When the federal government says it can&#39;t afford a national pharmacare program -- the one recently proposed by the provinces -- what it&#39;s really saying is that the provinces can&#39;t afford what they already have.
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OTTAWA -- Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers shooting holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of $58.
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By DENNIS BUECKERT  OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has tossed the opposition parties a gift tied up in political tripwires - a $1.5 billion eco-fund for provinces and territories that depends on passage the federal budget next month.
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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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TORONTO - Some provincial premiers are backing away from their demand that Ottawa pay for a national pharmacare program. &quot;It appears that it&#39;s not on for the federal government so we have to go back to the