Perspective These are today's top three news stories today in Canada as posted on googlenews.ca: The minority Liberal government will make good on a pledge to bring in a national child-care program worth $5 billion over five years, Prime Minister Paul Martin said yesterday... Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman denied Saturday that the province is trying to bribe doctors into cutting prescription drug costs to the poor and elderly, saying the proposal is meant to curb the over-prescription of medication to seniors... "There is no bribe here," Smitherman said, responding to criticism of a provincial proposal asking Ontario doctors to cut drug costs, and in return, obtain a funding boost for physician services... Grannies raged in Montreal and clowns and jugglers marched on Parliament Hill on Saturday as part of what was billed as a national day of action against Canadian participation in the American missile defence system.