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In just three months, more than 4,000 e-mail messages have been sent to Federal MPs through the CARP E-Voice system. Now you can use CARP E-Voice to contact your provincial representatives as well. Click here to try it!
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Warning! They're closing the door on patients again
Bureaucrats continue to study forced therapeutic substitution, without consulting patients
On February 9 and 10, a group of academics and bureaucrats met at a conference in Vancouver to discuss what they called “best practices” in pharmacy management.
Among the “best practices” they heard about was forced therapeutic substitution...
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Innovative online research panel offers valuable rewards for participation
50Plus and Decima Research join forces
Join Decima Research’s online panel and help shape the products, services and policies that matter to you and earn valuable rewards or win cash prizes.
50Plus and Decima Research have joined forces...
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The Home Depot Canada announces national spring hiring blitz
Retailer encourages 50-plus applicants
The Home Depot Canada has kicked off its hiring season with plans to hire 7,000 new associates in time for its busiest sales period beginning in spring, and over 14,000 associates throughout the course of 2006. The Home Depot promotes its job opportunities in cooperation with CARP...
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Get the facts about COPD
Take our quick test to see if you're at risk
Do you know what COPD is? If you do, you are one of only 17% of Canadians who know about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, the fourth leading cause of death...
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Harper cuts Cabinet size, merges Human Resources and Social Development into one Ministry
Diane Finley named as Minister
Stephen Harper, Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister, named a 27-member cabinet, down from former Prime Minister Paul Martin's 37...
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You called it
Our readers favored Conservatives, predicted Tory win
The pre-election survey, in the previous issue of CARP Action Online, resulted in a clear preference...
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Stress Killing Seniors: Stats Can
Study shows psychological distress is "major factor" for determining life expectancy
by James Pasternak
Canadian women 65 years of age or older who claimed they suffered from psychological or financial stresses in the mid-1990s, were more likely to die over the next eight years than those who felt they did not have such problems...
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