Madness in the Method | Longwoods eLetter January 3, 2012

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Petty. So that is to say that really all that the Conservative party is committing to is to extend that six percent escalator into (20)15-16, but there’s no commitment to do it beyond that.

Flaherty. Well, we’ll see how long the agreement would be. We will keep it at six percent for whatever the duration of the agreement is. What you asked me was how long would the agreement be. Well, I don’t know, we’ll have to talk to all the provinces about that. It could be two years, five years, whatever. Whatever it is, six percent.

Jim Flaherty interviewed by Kathleen Petty on the CBC Radio Program “The House.”

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Conferences

January 10-12, 2012: Webinar. Use Evidence to Inform Your Practice: CHSRF’s EXTRA Program
January 25, 2012: Webinar. Hospital Automated Inventory Management Systems
January 27, 2012: Toronto, ON. Inaugural Patient-Centered Care Symposium
February 3-5, 2012: Toronto, ON. National Institute on Nursing Informatics.
February 13, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advanced Health Leadership Program – Rotman School of Management
February 15, 2012; Montreal, QC. 2012 CEO Forum
February 21-24, 2012, Vancouver, BC. Canadian Patient Safety Officer Course
February 23-24, 2012: Toronto, ON. Patient, Family and Community Engagement – Conference and Workshop
February 28-29, 2012: Vancouver BC. Will paying the piper change the tune?  Promise and pitfalls of healthcare funding reform
April 2-4, 2012: Toronto, ON. Ontario Public Health Convention
April 13-14, 2012: Ottawa , ON. CMA and CSPE Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership
April 25-26, 2012: Toronto, ON. Conference for Administrative Professionals
April 25-27, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advances in Health Informatics Conference – call for papers now open
May 4-5, 2012: Toronto, ON. 2012 National Health Law Conference
May 22-25, 2012: Toronto, ON. The Dorothy Wylie & Health Leaders Institute
May 28, 2012: Montreal, QC. Appplied Research in Cancer Conference
May 31-June 1, 2012: Toronto, ON. Second Annual National Nursing Executives Summit
May 29-31, 2012: Montreal QC. Annual CAHSPR Conference – Call for Abstracts
June 4-5, 2012: Halifax, NS. National Health Leadership Conference

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Gordon Guyatt, Dundas, Ontario, to officer of the Order of Canada
Seymour Schulich, Willowdale, Ontario, to officer of the Order of Canada
Calvin Stiller, Arva, Ontario, to officer of the Order of Canada
Alvin Zipursky, Toronto, Ontario, to officer of the Order of Canada
Jean Deslauriers, Saint-Laurent, Quebec to member of the Order of Canada
Mary Ferguson-Paré, Lakefield, Ontario to member of the Order of Canada
Nigel Rusted, St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador to member of the Order of Canada
Margaret Spoelstra, Toronto, Ontario to member of the Order of Canada
Garnette Sutherland, Calgary, Alberta to member of the Order of Canada
Bernard Zinman, Toronto, Ontario to member of the Order of Canada