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SPONSORSHIP Opportunity for the 2013 Health and Lifestyle Expo

January 25, 2013

Sponsorship Form 2013 The first of the baby boomers turned 65 last year.  Provinces, states and countries everywhere ...

Drug-buying plan expected to save provinces and territories $100 million

January 25, 2013

OTTAWA—Provincial and territorial governments expect to save up to $100 million in health-care spending by ...

CRA will no longer mail out tax forms

January 25, 2013

Do you usually fill out your tax forms on paper and mail them in? If so, you may be affected by the important change ...

Stroke victim’s wife fights physicians to keep him on artificial life support

January 25, 2013

As Dennis Daye lay unconscious in Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Tuesday, his wife and physician sat in a hospital ...

Calling all CARP Members… “Protect Your Vision!”

January 24, 2013

DEADLINE FOR INTERVENTIONS: FEB. 20, 2013 Help keep VisionTV in 10 million households on basic cable and ...

City of Burlington Invites Residents to Participate in Budget Workshop

January 24, 2013

Information posted January 24, 2013 Please see the following invitation to Burlington residents to participate in an ...

Happenings: CARP’s Upcoming Public Consultation Papers

January 24, 2013

January 25, 2013 - CARP submits consultation papers regularly to ensure that our voice is heard when governments ...

Counterpoint, Opinion: Legalizing assisted suicide wrong and dangerous

January 23, 2013

MONTREAL — At the entry to Paris’s oldest hospital, the Hôtel Dieu, are these words: “To cure occasionally, ...

The Canada Revenue Agency’s move angers seniors’ advocates

January 23, 2013

Canada’s taxman doesn’t do paper anymore — at least not mailed-out packages. Millions of taxpayers are finding ...

End of paper tax return raises fears

January 23, 2013

Pat Marie, 84, does her own income taxes. She uses a simplified tax return that the Canada Revenue Agency mails to her ...