Ottawa: Calculations

Nova Scotia Dept: Alberta would be handed about $810 million more under Ottawa s new per capita transfer model if it were in place today, calculations by show, according to The Chronicle Herald. Nova Scotia, which is set to receive about $760 million in health transfers from Ottawa in 2011-12, would see its funding drop $22 million and vICTORIA The Harper government s health plan is often said to divide booming western provinces and poorer eastern provinces. But, more accurately, it pits Alberta against everyone else. Every other province would lose out. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.