Health boss won&#39;t budge on calls to step down
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A defiant Gary Mar refuses to step down as Alberta health minister despite a scathing auditor general&#39;s report. &quot;I&#39;ll take responsibility by taking steps to try to mitigate the legitimate problems identified by the auditor general,&quot; Mar said yesterday.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown has insisted he will stick to his 'golden rule' on spending, despite calls from the City and unions.
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A senior minister said Saturday he would not quit for failing to declare properly how his unsuccessful campaign for the deputy leadership of the governing Labour Party was funded.
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The Prince George's hospital system's board of directors rejected yesterday a demand by County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) that several members resign, deepening a standoff between the county and the nonprofit company that runs several county medical facilities.
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EDMONTON - 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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The embattled director of the National Hurricane Center said Friday he has no plans to step down despite a petition from his staff calling for his ouster.
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LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair was locked in a fight yesterday to keep control over when he leaves office, with 15 Labor lawmakers demanding he step down. They included seven junior members who resigned to protest his refusal to do so.
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TORONTO -- Health Minister George Smitherman says the province will move ahead with its latest proposal to Ontario&#39;s doctors, even though it doesn&#39;t have their approval.
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A public vote should decide Tony Blair's successor as Labour leader, Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt says.
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Doctors leaders have backed down in a dispute with the government over extending GPs opening hours.
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The top Republican in the U.S. House, battling calls for his resignation over a Capitol Hill sex scandal, called a news conference on Thursday to again say he will not step down, senior party aides said.
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Health chiefs in Cardiff might not support the final phase of the Children's Hospital of Wales because of its cost.
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The European Union's health chief wants to introduce tougher food labeling rules to combat the growing problem of obesity across Europe, but is facing stiff political and industrial opposition.
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Siemens chief executive Klaus Kleinfeld says he will not stand down over an ongoing corruption probe at the German firm.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 3 -- The government of Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has pressured its most prominent anti-corruption official to step down, weeks after the arrest of a powerful former governor from the ruling party on corruption charges.
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Media & professional: NHS bosses have forced iSoft and other squabbling companies linked to the troubled Â£6.2bn health service IT upgrade to suspend an increasingly acrimonious dispute.
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OTTAWAâPolitical deadlock is looming over the coming first ministers&#39; health summit, with federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh stepping up his public criticism of the premiers&#39; proposal for a national pharmacare program.