Cracks show in premiers&#39; united front
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Canada&#39;s premiers are facing cracks in their united front for a new federal pharmacare program as they prepare for a crucial health-care summit with Prime Minister Paul Martin later this month.
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Ottawa - Canada&#39;s premiers and territorial leaders released a health funding counter-proposal Tuesday, saying Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s offer of $24.
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CALGARY (CP) - Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh discounted suggestions from some provincial premiers that the recent 10-year deal on health care won&#39;t be enough.
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Prime Minister John Howard has added only two new faces to his frontbench line-up. Queensland Liberal Peter Dutton has been promoted to the new portfolio of Workforce Participation, and
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OTTAWA -- Premier Gary Doer choked yesterday. After weeks of tough talk about how he planned to hold Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s feet to the fire on an election promise to set up a national pharmacare program, Doer went limp.
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OTTAWA -- Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers shooting holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of $58.
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While Washington points fingers, the cracks spread.
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WATERLOO -- Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty was playing down expectations yesterday that next month&#39;s first ministers meeting in Ottawa would yield a health-care agreement between Ottawa and the provinces. McGuinty, chairperson of the group of provincial ...
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If you really want to know what kind of gong show next week&#39;s first ministers&#39; conference on health care is going to be, talk to Premier Gary Doer, who&#39;s sat through more than his share of these political shindigs.
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MONCTON, NB (CP) - Despite divisions over equalization and a looming population crisis, Atlantic Canada&#39;s future is bright, the region&#39;s four Conservative premiers said Tuesday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The first ministers health summit headed into its final day Wednesday with the premiers and the prime minister still looking for a cure for the ailing patient - medicare.
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JUST a day after Tony Blair left the Middle East, having won backing for a conference in London on the Israeli- Palestinian problem, the cracks were already beginning to show.
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OTTAWA (CP) - First the premiers snubbed Paul Martin&#39;s breakfast invitation. Then the prime minister reacted in kind to their demand for $36.
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MARK COLVIN: Meanwhile, the Opposition leader has marked the end of three days&#39; campaigning in Brisbane with a $300-million aged care policy.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The sponsorship scandal that did so much to reduce the federal Liberals to minority government is back to haunt them - just as Prime Minister Paul Martin prepares for the fall parliamentary session.
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The battle lines for the control of Manchester United were being drawn up last night with distressing evidence that the struggle could turn ugly following vandalism of property
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A rout in parliamentary elections leaves the President defiant but vulnerable  -  if his  political foes can unite