(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-23 04:57 Provincial invest ups China stimulus to 10 trillion yuan-CCTV
BEIJING, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Projects planned by provincial governments will bring the value of China's economic stimulus package to 10 trillion yuan ($1.46 trillion), state television said on Sunday. The central government earlier this month announced a 4 trillion yuan stimulus package to deal with fallout from the global fiancial crisis, including rail and infrastructure projects as well as ...

Provincial projects up China stimulus by $1.5 trn: CCTC
Projects planned by provincial governments will add an additional 10 trillion yuan ($1.464 trillion) to the value of China's economic stimulus package, state television said on Sunday.

McGuinty voices concern on auto aid
The provincial government is ready to work with the battered auto sector, which employs nearly 400,000 Ontarians, but it will bring a "healthy skepticism" to the table, Premier Dalton McGuinty said yesterday.

Government won't limit kids' insulin pumps: Ministry
The provincial government is not capping the number of insulin pumps it will provide to children with Type 1 diabetes at 200, said a health ministry spokeswoman.

Class-action lawsuit launched over reused syringes in Canada
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Canada's federal government and three provincial governments after thousands patients were found involved in the reuse of syringes by health services. This past week, the Regional Health authority of Winnipeg in Manitoba province announced it would test 17 city residents for blood-borne infections after it was learned a nurse reused a finger-stick ...

Dances, cuisine top Suroy South Trail
Local dances, native cuisine and rustic destinations were featured during day 2 of the Cebu provincial government's Suroy Suroy sa Sugbu Southern Heritage Trail.

Chinese provinces allocate $1.46 trillion for economic stimulus
Projects planned by provincial governments in China will add an additional $1.46 trillion to a Chinese economic stimulus package in an effort to create more jobs and offset slower exports, state television said Sunday.

Kurds in N. Iraq Receive Arms From Bulgaria
BAGHDAD -- Kurdish officials this fall took delivery of three planeloads of small arms and ammunition imported from Bulgaria, three U.S. military officials said, an acquisition that occurred outside the weapons procurement procedures of Iraq's central government.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-23 06:09 UPDATE 1-Provincial projects up China stimulus by $1.5 trln-CCTC
By Lucy Hornby

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-23 06:15 UPDATE 1-Provincial projects up China stimulus by $1.5 trln-CCTV
By Lucy Hornby

Editorial: Leaky school deal and condo owners
The provincial government has apparently reached a deal that will see it compensated for leaky schools built at the same time as thousands of leaky condos. But how much, who paid, what will happen to the money -- that's all secret.

Courthouse releases rare mistakes, reviews find
REGINA -- The mistaken release of two men from two different Saskatchewan courthouses last month can be chalked up to human errors made in busy workplaces, say provincial government reviews into both incidents.

All revved up
The kids are fighting for their driving rights. And the provincial Tories are on their side. The huge wave of dissent over the McGuinty government's new driving legislation continues to grow and has prompted opposition leader John Tory to call for a review of the proposal.

Can Jim Flaherty regulate the regulators?
For years, commissions and panels have recommended that Canada's current patchwork quilt of provincial and territorial securities regulators be replaced by a single national watchdog.

Local municipalities take chunk of provincial surplus
Plans develop infrastructure around the district are being hashed out as some local municipalities are deciding what to do with provincial grant money.

Wife of wrongfully convicted man says government 'waiting for him to die'
The wife of a wrongfully convicted man is trying to get the New Brunswick government moving on her husband's demand for compensation.

Repairs Completed in Gambo
The Mayor of Gambo says only time will tell how the town's new arch-shaped culvert will fare against rains in the area. Lloyd Noseworthy says the provincial government sent crews into the town yesterday to install a new culvert that they hope can handle the run-off.

Family seeks justice for dying man
The wife of a dying man wrongfully convicted of a murder in Saint John 33 years ago is accusing the provincial government of waiting for him to pass on before settling the issue of compensation.

Activists hail park logging ban
The bubbly was popping and suds flowing Friday as local environmentalists celebrated the Doer government's sudden announcement it will ban logging operations in all but one of Manitoba's 80 parks by April 1. Environmental and wilderness groups have been demanding an end to logging in parks for years, and had thought their protests were falling on deaf ears. What they didn't know was provincial ...

Protesters fight for 'best water on Earth'
One of the purest, most abundant fresh water supplies on the planet will be contaminated unless the provincial government stops a proposed landfill from being built on the Alliston Aquifer in Tiny Township, protesters warned yesterday as they converged on the Ontario legislature.