Alberta will use health meeting to push Ottawa to increase health funding
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EDMONTON (CP) - Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is refusing to attend most of the first ministers conference on health, but he still plans to make his demands firmly known.
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - The country's premiers arrived for a key meeting Wednesday unsure on whether to try to force Ottawa to set up a national pharmacare program, but firmly convinced that more federal money for health is essential.
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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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QUEBEC (CP) - Provincial ministers in charge of local governments said Friday the new health accord signed with Ottawa gives them confidence they can also reach a new funding deal for cities and towns.
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There is a lot of talk about the need to boost the training and retention of Canada&#39;s medical workforce.
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TORONTO (CP) - Roy Romanow made an impassioned plea Wednesday for Prime Minister Paul Martin and the provincial premiers to come up with a concrete strategy -and not just more rhetoric -on how to maintain the lifeblood of Canada&#39;s health-care system at ...
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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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TORONTO - Hospital funding in Ontario has sparked a three-way fight between the health minister, the province&#39;s largest union and hospital administrators.
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Ralph Klein is hopeful that this week&#39;s meeting of the premiers results in a unified consensus on a national pharmacare program, the Alberta Premier&#39;s spokeswoman says.
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OTTAWA -- Ontario&#39;s child and youth services minister will be in Ottawa Monday pushing for more money for new and improved child-care spaces and early learning programs.
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OTTAWA - Ottawa&#39;s latest $12 billion offer is not enough to fix Canada&#39;s health care system, some premiers are charging as they prepare for an historic three-day summit with the prime minister.
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OTTAWA - Federal and provincial officials hope to lay the groundwork for a national early childhood education and child-care program when they meet in Ottawa on Tuesday.
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More Americans are looking to Canada for ideas on fixing the health-care crisis.
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TORONTO (CP) - The association representing Canada's doctors is calling on Ottawa to provide a whopping &#36;1 billion to address the shortage of physicians and develop a strategy to ensure the country has enough health providers to care for patients in the future.
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TORONTO (CP) - In his first public address as federal health minister, Ujjal Dosanjh carefully toed the government line on Monday, saying Ottawa is prepared to invest more money in medicare to reduce waiting times, but not by sponsoring a national pharmacare program demanded by the provinces.
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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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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.