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 - How to tackle the crisis in Canada's aboriginal communities was the first order of business at the first ministers meeting on health care. Prime Minister Paul Martin pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to take special aim at health problems specific to aboriginal communities. "This is a historic opportunity for all of us," Martin told the other leaders. Martin pledged $700 million to attack the health crisis. Martin says the money will pay for more doctors and nurses, especially aboriginal health professionals. He said the money will be an investment in "health promotion and disease prevention that will include expansion of the aboriginal diabetes initiative and a national suicide prevention strategy." Vancouver - If you're in the market for 92 houses, a hospital and two rec centres, an abandoned B.C. mining town ? with a $7-million price tag ? may be worth a look. Kitsault, which is 140 kilometres northeast of Prince Rupert is for sale, along with 80 hectares of forest and one kilometre of beach. Kitsault was abandoned in 1982 when the nearby molybdenum mine was closed. Montreal - A one-year-old girl is at the centre of a court battle in Montreal between a lesbian couple and the child's biological father. The man is asking the court for access to the girl and for the right to have his name on her birth certificate. But the two women say he was simply a sperm donor and they are the child's legal parents.
