Canada's government survives
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Canada's minority Conservative government survives a confidence vote over its policy agenda.
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The health agreement reached between Ottawa and the provinces is a curious document. On the one hand, it puts Ottawa back in the game by committing the federal government to ratchet up its share of medicare funding.
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Toronto -- 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 substantially increase federal spending for Canada&#39;s ailing $60 billion
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Nation needs government help to maintain competitive edge, group says.
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Governments from around the world yesterday narrowly succeeded in keeping the international bid to combat catastrophic global warming alive, in the face of determined attempts
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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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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Three Venezuelan government  ministers said on Monday that President Hugo Chavez had easily  survived a referendum on whether to recall him but the comments  conflicted with opposition hints that they had won.
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The impression up north is that Canada caved to the U.S. in settling a decades-long dispute, and that could hurt Stephen Harper's precarious minority government
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The New York Times has recently run a piece pondering the renowned nation of Canada, and whether it has fallen from its once lofty heights of international greatness.    "A country is not just a health system."  This is the sentiment of one of a few Canadian authors recently lamenting the decline of Canadian engagement around the world.  The question then becomes: what makes a nation great?  Why would Canadians resent the place of  their placid and peaceful country?  And, what does this say about the roles taken on by other influential nations around the world?
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By JAMES STEVENSON  CALGARY (CP) - The Prime Minister told Canada's municipal leaders Friday that his government was in the middle of an "historic effort" to revitalize Canada's infrastructure and improve the quality of life.
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Four months ago, Canadians put Prime Minister Paul Martin on probation. At the time, uncertainty over his initial performance in office led many voters to question whether he was as good a fit for the job as had been so widely expected.
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VANCOUVER - Never mind hockey. The real game in Canada has always been the squabbling that goes on between the provinces and the federal government.
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The Canadian government and Navy officials insisted they still had confidence in the four problem-plagued second-hand submarines purchased from Britain, even after the fire aboard the HMCS Chicoutimi that killed an officer and injured nine others.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s coalition Monday failed to defeat two no-confidence motions. However, he remains in government because the opposition did not muster the 61 votes needed to bring him down.
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Greece's government survives a no-confidence vote, fending off the prospect of snap elections.
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Restrain the presses. In a new poll, the Canadian Medical Association found declining public satisfaction with medicare. Released one month before Prime Minister Paul Martin sits down in Ottawa to talk about the health-care system with the premiers, it ...
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Bulgaria's Socialist-led government survived a no-confidence vote Friday on a motion filed by the opposition, claiming that the government was unable to cope with a health care crisis.