Wait times wrong focus at summit: Romanow
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Canada&#39;s first ministers were wrong to focus on wait list times in fivc key areas during the recent health care summit, says Roy Romanow, the former Saskatchewan premier who led a landmark royal commission on the state of medicare.
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Russia's envoy to six-party talks on North Korea said on Thursday foreign ministers might need to join the negotiating teams if progress was made during talks on February 8 in Beijing , RIA news agency reported.
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The objection to aspects of Harmony&#39;s bid for Gold Fields, submitted by Gold Fields to the Securities Regulation Panel (SRP), is purely a delaying tactic, Harmony CEO Bernard Swanepoel told I-Net Bridge on Friday.
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Well, that&#39;s settled then, isn&#39;t it? Paul Martin, the magpie of a Prime Minister, has declared the issue of wait times for medical treatments to be his government&#39;s priority. And the Canadian Medical Association this week threw its ...
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It was almost two years ago that Roy Romanow released his landmark report on the future of medicare. Since then, the study has too often been used as a battering ram by premiers seeking more money from Ottawa.
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Passengers on a Finnair flight leaving from Moscow to Helsinki had to wait for about four hours at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on Saturday as Russian officials took radiation readings in the front of the ...Comment
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The loser of last month's presidential election in Ukraine again delayed his opponent's inauguration on Thursday by failing to deliver a promised court appeal, infuriating the president elect's team.
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin and Canada&#39;s first ministers are expected to turn their attention to the problem of reducing waiting lists, following an acrimonious first-day summit meeting over proposed funding to fix Canada&#39;s health care system.
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The divisions threatened to overshadow a summit aimed at making the E.U. the world leader in the battle against climate change.
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MOSCOWâCalling Canada &quot;a major and important partner,&quot; Russian President Vladimir Putin told Prime Minister Paul Martin yesterday he hopes the &quot;very meagre&quot; trade between the two countries - valued at about $1 billion a year â-ill increase in the
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Western election observers on Tuesday rejected concessions offered by Russia's presidential election chief and demanded to be allowed to enter the country earlier than the February 20 date suggested by Moscow.
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The European Union opened summit talks with Russia in disarray on Friday after Poland vetoed the start of talks on a partnership pact.
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The Ukrainian opposition on Tuesday complained of foot-dragging by officials and a vote-count cover-up in the race for president, claiming that opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko had taken the lead.
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Canadian Ambassador to the Ukraine Andrew Robinson, reprimanded by Ukrainian authorities for criticizing irregularities in the campaign for next month's presidential election, was acting on instructions from Ottawa, the Canadian Foreign Ministry said.
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By Dario Thuburne Helsinki - Russian and EU leaders gathered on Friday for a summit in Helsinki that has been deeply clouded by a Polish veto on EU partnership talks with Moscow and wider discord in EU-Russia ...Comment
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Western election observers on Tuesday  rejected concessions offered by Russia's presidential election  chief and demanded to be allowed to enter the country earlier  than the February 20 date suggested by Moscow.
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Some of the international challenges facing Russia's next leader: