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.
Vancouver - An accused Air India bomber helped smuggle vulnerable Indians into Canada, then "virtually enslaved them" by having them work for little pay as teachers in the school he ran, court heard Monday. Ripudaman Singh Malik also used money from his illicit activities in British Columbia to support Sikh militants and their families in India. Some money from the school was used to smuggle arms from Pakistan to India, a former agent with Canada's spy agency said. Toronto - Canada ranks first among the G-7 countries in education spending, ahead of the United States, indicates a new report released Tuesday. In 1999-2000, spending on education represented 6.6 per cent of the Canadian gross domestic product, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, says the report by the Canadian Education Statistics Council. That puts Canada first among the G-7 countries in 1999 in percentage of the GDP allocated to education, it notes. New York - Canada's economy is still running a surplus and more tax cuts are being considered, Finance Minister John Manley said Monday. Despite such crises as the SARS outbreak this year, social spending has been shored up and taxes have been cut - and will likely fall even more, Manley said in his speech to the Council of the Americas in New York.
