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Halifax (Wednesday July 25, 2012)   Nurses congratulate Premiers for working together for the future of public health care. Governments need to be much more ambitious to ensure better health, better care and better value for Canadians, says the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) on the opening of the Council of the Federation meeting.  The Canadian Federation of…

  Nurses Unions will be holding events open to the public and media during the Council of the Federation meetings.     Wednesday July 25 at 11:00am - 1:00pm "Lunch and Learn" with three speakers on improving health care James D. Hughes, President of Graham Boeckh Foundation,…

Earlier today the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) made a donation of $10,000 towards the “Wounded Warriors Weekend” in recognition of the heroic sacrifices our troops and veterans have made to ensure our safety at home. SUN presented the donation at a press conference announcing the weekend held at the Royal Canadian Legion in Regina.   “As registered nurses, SUN…

Produced by the Regina LeaderPost, check out this interactive timeline of how Saskatchewan became the frontier for Canada's national health care system. www.leaderpost.com

Saskatchewan:  Saskatchewan residents are not only marking Canada Day on July 1, they are celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first public health care program in North America. “It’s an important achievement, particularly since Medicare did not have an easy birth and continues to face challenges as it ages,” says Tom Graham, President of CUPE Saskatchewan, which…