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 - Margaret Kemper, ex-wife of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, has been charged with drunk driving. Staff Sgt. Mike Laviolette said Kemper, 55, was charged after her vehicle was pulled over in a routine traffic stop. Police allege they smelled alcohol from Kemper, the driver of the car. Laviolette alleges Kemper failed a roadside screening and later failed a breathalyzer test at the police station. "It was very straightforward," said Laviolette. "She was very co-operative." Kemper, who lives in Ottawa, was married to the former prime minister from 1971 until 1984. Bonavista, Nfld. - The mayor of a small town in Newfoundland wants the provincial government to come up with ways to protect icebergs, saying they're a valuable tourism resource. Bonavista Mayor Betty Fitzgerald said tourists flooded to the town recently to see a large iceberg that had grounded itself offshore. They left prematurely when a crew from the Canadian Iceberg Vodka Corp. took a boat out to the site and began cutting chunks off the iceberg to use in its products, said Fitzgerald. "They were leaving because they thought it was awful that iceberg was being harvested." Brampton, Ont. - A 21-year-old male student from China has been charged with first-degree murder in the case of Cecilia Zhang, the nine-year-old girl who disappeared last October from her parents' Toronto home.
