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.
Ottawa - Federal taxpayers should cover the cost of lawyers to protect the retired civil servant at the centre of the sponsorship scandal, the head of the inquiry looking into the affair said Monday. In a written ruling, Justice John Gomery recommended that the federal government pay the bills for lawyers to represent the interest of Chuck Guité at the inquiry. Gomery said Guité deserves funding because he was employed as a servant of the Crown when his branch spent $250 million on questionable projects in Quebec in the wake of the 1991 sovereignty referendum. Winnipeg - Protesters and police clashed early Tuesday morning at a Winnipeg compound as city trucks attempted to leave to fog for mosquitoes. The protest delayed ? but only for a short time ? the resumption of Winnipeg's controversial program, which had been suspended over the weekend. The protesters want to stop the trucks from driving around the city and spraying the insecticide, which is toxic to all insects including beneficial ones. They claim it is dangerous for humans, too. Vancouver - John Robin Sharpe, who challenged Canada's child pornography laws all the way to the Supreme Court, has been sentenced to two years less a day for indecent assault on a boy more than three decades ago. Sharpe, 71 and in poor health, said he would appeal the sentence.
