Canadian health care deal adds $14 billion to ailing fund Pact ...
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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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Canada will provide about $105 million in new funding for HIV/AIDS programs directed at women around the world, International Cooperation Minister Aileen Carroll announced on Wednesday to coincide with World AIDS Day, the CP/Canada.
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U.S. program allots $15 billion to buy low cost combination drugs made by foreign companies, opening the way to treat more patients in poor countries.
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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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CALGARY - The Canadian Medical Association says the creation of a Canada Health Access Fund would be instrumental in reducing waiting periods for people in need of urgent medical treatment.
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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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Canada said on Thursday the multibillion-dollar health-care deal it has negotiated with its provinces will not derail its day-care and urban-renewal initiatives
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A bipartisan accord in the House calls for a $150 billion spending plan, including significant tax rebates. But senators may want add-ons.
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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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HALIFAX (CP) - A revised offshore deal between Ottawa and Nova Scotia could add as much as &#36;1 billion to the provincial treasury over the next 16 years.
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OTTAWA (CP) - First ministers were expected Wednesday to complete an agreement that would pump an additional &#36;18 billion into medicare over six years.
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TORONTO - Downsizing strategies implemented by governments and companies alike in the 1990s have burdened Canada&#39;s health-care system with up to $14 billion a year in additional costs, a new federal study concludes.
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TORONTO (CP) - Downsizing strategies implemented by governments and companies alike in the 1990s have burdened Canada&#39;s health-care system with up to $14 billion a year in additional costs, a new federal study concludes.
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D.C. leaders said yesterday they have reached a final agreement to spend $79 million on a plan to save financially troubled Greater Southeast Community Hospital after lawyers for the city worked out eleventh-hour assurances that its investment would be protected.
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Canada&#39;s promise to give C$18 billion ($14 billion) to the 13 provinces and territories over the next six years for health care won&#39;t push the federal government into deficit, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said.
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OTTAWA (CP) - After months of acrimony, Prime Minister Paul Martin has reached a multibillion-dollar deal with Newfoundland and Nova Scotia over the sharing of offshore resource revenue, federal sources say.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s premiers have presented a counter-proposal that asks Prime Minister Paul Martin to shell out $5.3 billion a year in new health-care money.