The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Montreal - Bombardier could choose to assemble a new type of aircraft at its pIant in Northern Ireland if there's more government financing available there, chief executive Paul Tellier said Tuesday. Bombardier has to locate its plants where it gets the best public backing, Tellier said. Toronto - Rates of resistance to antibiotics in Canada appear to have levelled off in the face of persistent efforts over the past decade to educate the public and doctors on the appropriate use of these essential drugs, a new report said Tuesday. "We're seeing reduced use of antibiotics in the community and we're seeing the resistance level off. So we're not seeing the rapid increase that we saw during the first half of the 1990s," said Dr. Donald Low as he and colleagues from the Canadian Bacterial Surveillance Network released the group's annual report card on resistance in Canada. Ottawa - Liberal MP John Bryden is quitting the party - a party he says has suffered under the stewardship of Prime Minister Paul Martin and has lost public confidence. "The sponsorship file, which is causing all the controversy, has I think brought to the surface doubts about the Liberal party in the public at large and has brought about doubts with me as well," he said. Bryden said he plans to talk to Conservatives in his riding about running for their party, and will sit as an Independent in the meantime.
