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 - Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper and Tory leader Peter MacKay announced Monday that the new party, The Conservative Party of Canada, had been registered Sunday evening with Jean-Pierre Kingsley, the chief electoral officer. "It is now legally in existence and we're moving forward," said Harper. Senator John Lynch-Staunton, who heads Tory forces in the upper house, will serve as interim party leader for purposes of the Canada Elections Act until a new leader is selected in March. Ottawa - People seeking access to medical marijuana now need the recommendation of one medical specialist, not two, under revised rules announced Monday by Health Canada. Ottawa - It cost $2.6 billion to run federal, provincial and territorial correctional services in 2001-02, says Statistics Canada. On an average day in 2001-02, just under 155,000 adults were under the supervision of correctional services agencies, an increase of two per cent from 2000-01. Saint John, N.B. - Much of Atlantic Canada will be digging itself out on Monday after as much as a half metre of snow fell in some parts of the region over the weekend. The storm, which began late Saturday in most areas, dumped an estimated 40 to 50 centimetres in some spots and had winds gusting up to 90 kilometres an hour in New Brunswick.
