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 - A federal agency found $700 million in suspected money laundering by international terrorist and crime organizations last year ? a dramatic leap from the $460 million it uncovered a year earlier. About 10 per cent ? $70 million ? is likely linked to terrorists, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre said in an annual report released Thursday. That's up from $22 million the year before, indicating a serious security threat, warned the agency, created in 2000 to track illegal financial activities. Vancouver - Some United Church ministers in Ontario and B.C. are trying to unionize, saying they want to improve their poor working conditions. They say the pressures and challenges they face in their job can sometimes be considered abusive, wages approach those of sweatshops given the long hours many ministers work, and church leadership doesn't deal with problems adequately. The ministers have approached the Canadian Auto Workers union, and will meet with a legal team. Vancouver - An Iranian immigrant says he gave a record $6-million donation to a children's hospital in B.C. to thank the country that welcomed his family 18 years ago. Vancouver real estate developer Djavad Mowafaghian's gift is the largest individual donation in the history of the B.C. Children's Hospital. The money will be used to expand the children's cancer clinic.
