Prairie residents oppose medicare penalties in Ottawa crackdown
A Health Department poll shows a solid Prairie majority against Ottawa’s penalties on provinces allowing private clinic user fees. Nationally 57 percent oppose, 39 percent support, with Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland already losing federal transfers totaling 4.2 million. Reform health critic Grant Hill says Canadians reject the Liberal use of financial penalties.
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Newfoundland
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Quebec
British Columbia
Atlantic Canada
Reform Party
Grant Hill
Mother Teresa Hovers Between Hope and Risk in Calcutta
In Calcutta, Mother Teresa remains on life support with a faltering heart and lung infection after malaria fever worsened cardiac trouble. Doctors report slight improvement but warn the Nobel laureate, turning 86 this week, is still unable to speak as six physicians monitor her round the clock. The Missionaries of Charity mark her birthday with prayers as a banner proclaims Long Live Mother Teresa.
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India
Migunel Teresa
Woodlands
Mother Teresa
Missionaries of Charity
Judith
Reuters
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S.K. Sen
Brakes Probed in Edson Grain Train Runaway Investigation
Investigators test how much brake force stops a string of grain cars in Edson yards after a fatal August derailment near Yates. CN officials note cars can roll even with brakes applied as teams track speed, velocity, and braking effectiveness using satellite data and event-recorders.
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Yates
Feeny
Gary McLaughlin
The
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Chretien vows to hold line on social policy control
Prime Minister Jean Chretien told about 3,000 supporters in Belleville and at a Gravenhurst ceremony that Canada must enforce standards to keep medicare universal. He rejected calls by nine premiers for broader federal provincial power sharing and cited no desire to cede authority.
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Jean Chretien
Canada
Chretien
Toronto
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Belleville
Quebec
Lucien Bouchard
David Dingwall
Dough Young
Math teacher Dick Giles comes out as Diane at class
Santa Rosa junior college instructor Dick Giles, 58, revealed to the Press Democrat that he is a transgender woman. He said he has identified with the opposite gender for years and began dressing full-time in women's clothes with his wife's support. He attended a high school reunion in a dress.
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Press Democrat
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Ill
Future of law in Canada studied amid unemployment concerns
The Canadian Bar Association will launch a one year national study on the future of the legal profession amid unemployment among new lawyers. Yukon lawyer Tom Ullyett says many graduates struggle to find jobs and articling positions as costs rise and competition grows.
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Canadian Bar Association
Tom Ullyett
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Young Lawyers
Ullyett
Yukon
Quebec
University of British Columbia
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