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COF: Ghiz touts Conference Board report, says Ottawa needs to address fiscal imbalance

In Charlottetown, PEI Premier Robert Ghiz says the provinces need Ottawa's help balancing health-care costs. ...

COF: Premiers of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan announce more open trade

New West Partnership premiers say they'll look at areas trade deal has previously exempted while calling on feds to change their own policies to deal with provinces on equal basis. ...

Your morning briefing

Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Thursday, August 28. ...

Premiers call for roundtable into murdered, missing aboriginal women as alternative in hopes Ottawa will show up

With calls for a national inquiry falling on deaf federal ears, premiers in Charlottetown hope a roundtable will have better results. But Ontario is not holding its breath. ...