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 - Alfonso Gagliano met weekly with the head of a federal sponsorship program and gave explicit instructions about how its money should be spent, a senior bureaucrat told a parliamentary committee Thursday. In her testimony, Huguette Tremblay directly contradicted last week's statements from the former public works minister. Gagliano's ministry was responsible for the sponsorship program, which an auditor's report said paid up to $100 million in fees to advertising companies that did little or nothing for the money. Saskatoon - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to consider whether to let Saskatchewan reintroduce a law forcing businesses to hide tobacco products from minors. Last October, Saskatchewan's highest court struck down the 2002 legislation after a tobacco company complained that the ban was unconstitutional. Since then, many vendors have removed curtains that had been hiding cartons of cigarettes and other tobacco products for sale. Toronto - Thirty nurses have launched a $200-million lawsuit against the Ontario government, claiming they were not adequately protected during last year's SARS outbreaks. The nurses accuse the government of not enforcing occupational health and safety standards in hospitals.
