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Canadian Medicine (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
A round-up of Canadian health news, from coast to coast to coast and beyond, for Tuesday, September 30. Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre hospital, where a homeless man died of a bladder infection last week after waiting in the emergency room for 34 hours, has implemented changes to prevent another, similar tragedy. [ Canadian Press ] Although it's not entirely clear yet why the man was not given...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
If you want to know what a politician has been up to, have him empty his pockets.Take Tony Clement's left front pocket, for example. It contains a pedometer, the numbers spinning toward a daily average of 23,000 steps a day.
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Bow. James Bow. (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
When Health Minister Tony Clement was at the Democratic Convention in Denver, he joked that, as health minister, he had approved of the buffet his entourage had set up to wine and dine visiting delegates. Some bloggers interpreted this as...
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The Galloping Beaver (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Except that their sense of humour seems to come at the expense of dead Canadians and contaminated food. It seems to be a habit with this lot. Remember, the first we heard of the humourous aspect of a tainted food tragedy was from Harper's Health Minister, Tony Clement. Instead of staying in Canada and managing his portion of a file which saw over a dozen Canadians dead and over 40 seriously ill, he...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
A friend of mine raises a couple good points; where are the Liberal attack ads about: a) Tony Clement being AWOL during recent Listeria crisis.b) Reminding Ontarians about Flaherty's anti-Ontario statements.There needs to be more pointed criticisms levelled at the Conservatives. Perhaps a frugal Liberal campaign has these ads in the works or waiting to go as the campaign comes down to crunch time?
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, launched a new online database that will improve access to information on licensed natural health products. The Licensed Natural Health Products Database will allow Canadians to quickly and easily search for more detailed information on natural health products that have been authorized for sale in Canada.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, today announced the reappointment of Arnold Steinberg as a member of the Governing Council for the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), for a three year term. "Mr. Steinberg has already made a significant contribution having acted as Chair of the Governing Council while a new president was being sought," said Minister Clement.
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Shorter federal Health Minister Tony Clement : " If you folks are quite finished dying, I'd really like some uninterrupted media attention for a couple minutes, thank you very much ."
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
You've got to be kidding me: Health Minister Tony Clement says the Conservative government is ready to consider changes to how it responds to epidemic cases following an independent investigation into the listeriosis outbreak involving Maple Leaf Food products. Oh, really, Tony? Well here's step one: ensure the Minister of Health STAYS IN THE COUNTRY. Oh, and here's what anyone could have predicted...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Sept. 5, 2008) - The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, today announced the reappointment of Arnold Steinberg as a member of the Governing Council for the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR), for a three year term. "Mr.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The Honourable Vic Toews, President of the Treasury Board, on behalf of the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, tannounced further developments in wait time reduction efforts in Manitoba with a federal investment of up to $870,000.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Individuals living in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside will benefit from two new treatment services thanks to an investment by the Government of Canada. The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, and the Honourable George Abbott, B.C.
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Market Wire - Government: Security (law enforcement, homeland etc) (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) A meeting of Federal/ Provincial/ Territorial Ministers of Health will take place on Friday, September 5, 2008. The meeting will be co-chaired by the Honourable Tony Clement, federal Minister of Health, and the Honourable Doug Currie, Minister of Health for Prince Edward Island.
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
"Canada's Government has already begun to address the issues that individuals with ASD and their families are facing." - Alleged Health Minister Tony Clement, The Tyee, September 1, 2008 Alleged Health Minister Tony Clement has given us quite a whopper with that one. To the extent that individuals with autism spectrum disorders have had their issues addressed in Canada it has been provincial
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
STEINBACH, MANITOBA (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Vic Toews, President of the Treasury Board, on behalf of the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, today announced further developments in wait time reduction efforts in Manitoba with a federal investment of up to $870,000. The project, Demand-Side Control in Diagnostic Imaging in a Primary Care Setting, will test a multi-faceted approach aimed...