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.
Belleville, Ont. - Hospital officials in Belleville, Ont., have isolated a patient with an undiagnosed respiratory illness. An official at Belleville General Hospital said the patient had recently travelled abroad. The hospital has put in place protocols similar to those instituted in hospitals across Ontario last year during the SARS crisis. Montreal - Chuck Guit and Jean Brault, two key figures involved in the sponsorship scandal, have been charged with six fraud-related counts each, the RCMP said Monday. Guit, the now-retired bureaucrat who was responsible for the operation of the federal sponsorship program, was arrested at his Ottawa home by the RCMP. Brault, who was head of Groupaction, turned himself in accompanied by his lawyer, at the Montreal RCMP office. Groupaction was one of the ad agencies hired by the federal government to provide marketing and advertising expertise for its $250 million sponsorship program, designed to raise the profile of Ottawa following the 1995 Quebec referendum. Cornerbrook, Nfld. - Fishermen along the west coast of Newfoundland said they lost thousands of lobster pots when gale-force winds hit the area over the weekend. Fishermen are reporting between two-thirds to almost all of the 300 pots that they are allowed to set have been destroyed. The lobster season only opened a week ago.
