Federal

Health groups urge Ottawa to save refugee services

May 19th, 2012

The heads of several of Canada's leading health-care organizations have written a strongly worded letter to the federal immigration minister, urging him to rescind plans to cut health services to refugees and refugee claimants…….click here to continue reading

Health-care debate: a chance to get past paralysis

March 30th, 2012

It took decades to get a law enacted. But if we're going to rethink the federal role here, should we also stop having the feds favor companies with tax breaks?……click here to continue reading

New health care system in the works

January 24th, 2012

Medicare patients in North Jersey will be able to participate in a new style of health care if the federal government approves applications by groups of doctors associated with two Bergen County hospitals…….click here to continue reading

Health-care funding edict splits Canada in two as premiers meet in Victoria

January 15th, 2012

Premiers will arrive in Victoria this week to hash over their response to Ottawa's edict on health-care funding that has left many premiers east of Manitoba seething, and the western ones celebrating the prospect of the federal government finally getting out of the way…….click here to continue reading

Health transfers plan strengthens Ottawa but hurts provinces: budget officer

January 12th, 2012

OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog says the new health-care funding formula will slowly reduce Ottawa's support for medicare, but it will also put the federal government on a solid fiscal footing for the future…….click here to continue reading