CUPE-Ontario Government Eye Showdown
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees is preparing for a showdown with the Ontario Government. CUPE was quick to react after Health Minister George Smitherman said Ontario hospitals should look for savings in their janitorial and clerical services.
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Canada's two main parties are neck and neck in an opinion poll published on Saturday, leaving the outcome of the next federal election up in the air.
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Fists and flags were flying yesterday as the Argos and Hamilton Tiger-Cats renewed hostilities yesterday in a Labour Day game for the ages at Ivor Wynne Stadium.
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The country&#39;s provincial and territorial health ministers forged ahead today with their push for a multibillion-dollar national pharmacare program despite continuing rejection of the idea from Ottawa.
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The two governments are hoping to respond to queries tabled by the DUP and Sinn Fein by Friday.
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A new round in a bitter fight over French energy privatisation has begun in parliament over a plan for Gaz de France to merge with Suez which also spotlights deep strains in European energy policy.
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The mission is to fix Canada&#39;s much-vaunted, but ailing, health system for a generation, but federal and provincial governments looked hopelessly divided on Friday
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LONDON, Ont. (CP) - Health care was the focus Monday as the three candidates vying for leadership of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party had their final televised debate of the campaign.
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TORONTO (CP) - Retailers, cigarette manufacturers and advocates for the rights of Canada&#39;s smokers were mobilizing Wednesday for a long, arduous battle over the Ontario government&#39;s stringent new crackdown on smoking.
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TORONTO - It appears the new agreement between Ontario&#39;s 21,000 doctors and the province&#39;s Liberal government is far more lucrative than the government will admit to.
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Two lesbians who married in Canada have been given the chance to challenge the Irish government over its stance on same-sex marriage.
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An increasingly acrimonious meeting over health care is starting to raise questions about the stability of Canada&#39;s new minority Liberal government, but one minister
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s premiers are set to present a counter-proposal that asks Prime Minister Paul Martin to shell out over $5 billion a year in new health-care money.
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Political jockeying over health care intensified yesterday as Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty stepped up the pressure on the federal government to assume responsibility for a national pharmacare program.
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The planned purchase of Canadian mining giant Noranda by a state-owned Chinese corporation is facing growing opposition in Canada with even lawmakers of the governing Liberal Party calling on the government to block the takeover.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The three federal opposition leaders met Friday in Montreal to plot strategy for the coming session of Parliament, where the minority Liberal government faces a challenge to hold onto power.
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TORONTO - Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is reportedly ready to announce that gas sold in the province will have to contain at least five per cent ethanol within three years.