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.
Regina - Patients are dying in one of Saskatchewan's largest emergency rooms because of chronic understaffing, says a letter from doctors to the provincial health minister. Dr. Jon Witt, writing on behalf of his colleagues on the front lines at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, says resources are spread too thinly at the hospital and patient care is suffering. "Too many days and nights we have the simultaneous arrival of critically ill patients and it has become routine to make potential heart attack patients wait hours to be seen." Vancouver - Conservative leadership candidate Belinda Stronach warned Thursday of the economic threat posed by proposals to decriminalize marijuana. The 37-year-old businesswoman told an offbeat Vancouver radio show that liberalizing pot use would lead to increased searches and delays in the flow of goods at the U.S. border. "I think it's a bigger issue than we're willing to admit if we were to decriminalize marijuana." Calgary - Military officials have quietly begun to track down veterans used as human guinea pigs 50 years ago in chemical warfare tests to inform them they may apply for disability pensions. The effort comes as a lawyer is preparing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of veterans who endured poisonous mustard gas trials on the Alberta prairie during the Second World War.
