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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.

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 - Undecided voters looking for an easy winner in Tuesday night's party leaders' debate could be forgiven for going to sleep with their minds still not made up. Liberal Leader Paul Martin pounded away about a $50-billion "black hole" he sees in the budget plans of Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, and Harper repeatedly referred to the money lost in the Liberal sponsorship scandal. Meanwhile, NDP Leader Jack Layton insisted his party was capable of forming a government, and attacked both Martin and Harper over their policies and records. Edmonton - Following the discovery on Friday of a sixth dead sex trade worker in the Edmonton area, Alberta police are reluctantly facing up to the possibility that a multiple killer may have been involved in the deaths. The RCMP say a body found east of Sherwood Park on Friday was 19-year-old Rachel Quinney, who worked as a prostitute. She is the sixth sex trade worker to be found dead on the city's outskirts in the past two years. Brandon - A tornado touched down on the south edge of Brandon Tuesday afternoon. A car lot and a trailer park were damaged. Windows were broken and trees uprooted, but there don't appear to have been any injuries Environment Canada says it was a category F-0 twister, which is the weakest category of tornado. Meteorologists say more tornadoes are a possibility.

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