Health debacle raises questions over Canada govt
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An increasingly acrimonious meeting over health care is starting to raise questions about the stability of Canada&#39;s new minority Liberal government, but one minister
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OTTAWA (CP) - In a major policy shift, the federal government says it will consider compensating more people who contracted hepatitis C through tainted blood.
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Canada&#39;s new public health agency should have been headquarters in Ottawa to avoid the problems the US experiences when it located its own agency away from Washington.
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Polls indicate that public confidence in Canada's health insurance system is eroding, although politicians remain reticent to privatize services.
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TORONTO - Health authorities in Canada are trying to determine what measures need to be taken to ensure the safety of the country&#39;s blood supply after learning a little-understood primate virus can be transmitted through blood transfusion.
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Canada has responded with mixed reactions to the shortage of flu vaccine in the United States and to President Bush's suggestion that Canada could fill the gap.
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The Sheila Copps-Paul Martin Canada Health Act dispute is intriguing. Copps says in a new book that Martin had intended in his 1995 budget to scrap the Canada Health Act as a sop to the provinces, which faced a 40 per cent cut to federal cash transfers.
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TORONTO -- Health organizations had a lukewarm reaction to the provincial government&#39;s announcement yesterday of a plan to revamp Ontario&#39;s health-care system to cut wait times and integrate services, saying it lacks concrete action while adding another
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Bowing to mounting pressure from sick and dying Canadians, the federal government will begin talks to compensate &quot;forgotten&quot; victims of the tainted blood scandal.
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Edmonton - A government ministry broke its own rules when it hired Health Minister Gary Mar&#39;s former executive assistant as a consultant, the province&#39;s auditor general says in his annual report.
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Tainted-blood victims with hepatitis C are outraged at a new Ontario government program to prevent and treat their deadly illness, saying it falls millions short of the money they were promised years ago.
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Canada is considering asking officials from the other Group of Seven rich nations to study ways to make their health care systems financially sustainable, a Canadian official said on Saturday.
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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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OTTAWA (CP) - Minister Ujjal Dosanjh can&#39;t say yet whether a private clinic for medical emergencies would violate the Canada Health Act - but critics say the violation is blatant.
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OTTAWA: A kiss-and-tell book from a former cabinet member accuses Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin of trying to undermine the country&#39;s cherished health care system, dealing him another blow as he struggles to keep his minority government afloat.
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On prescription drugs, at least, Ujjal Dosanjh has his priorities dead right. The federal health minister&#39;s most important job right now is to ensure Canada&#39;s supply of pharmaceuticals.
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TORONTO -- Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman yesterday became the latest member of the Liberal cabinet to face accusations of selling access to party donors.