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.
Winnipeg - Let's hope Santa has a computer ? because Canadian children seem to be firing off far fewer letters to the jolly old elf this year and a lot more e-mails. Canada Post said it received 50,000 fewer letters to Santa this year than it had by the same time in 2003. A spokesperson suggested the drop might be because more children fired off messages to the e-mail address listed on the website for its letter-writing program. "It may be just a sign of the age," said Peter Wypkema, communications director for Western Canada. Qu'Appelle, Sask. - A Saskatchewan woman separated from her birth family for more than four decades was reunited with two of her brothers Wednesday, just in time for Christmas. Valerie Todd was given up for adoption along with several of her five siblings more than 40 years ago. She had spent the better part of the last three decades searching for her birth family, dreaming of the day they'd be reunited. On Wednesday night, her brothers Randolph and John showed up on her doorstep in Qu'Appelle, Sask., 45 kilometres east of Regina. Toronto - Some areas of southern Ontario were expecting to receive up to 40 centimetres of snow by the end of the day Thursday, as a major winter storm caused big delays on one of the busiest travel days of the year. By mid-morning, the Ontario Provincial Police had already reported more than 400 traffic accidents.
