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.
Calgary - The mother of one of seven teens killed in a powerful avalanche last year is angry with the quality of a coroner's report which she calls a "cut-and-paste effort" that doesn't answer major questions about the disastrous school field trip. "It was the coroner's job to take it (the investigation) from the time the avalanche hit - to be a fact-finding service and those (facts) are missing," said Donna Broshko, whose son Scott was among those killed last Feb. 1 when a wall of snow crashed upon them in Glacier National Park near Revelstoke, B.C. Toronto - Provinces counting cash they expected to receive from Ottawa for health care may not want to jump the gun, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale warned Tuesday. Ottawa's promised $2 billion to the provinces for health care is still not a "done deal," said Goodale. The federal government is working hard to make good on the promise made last year, but Goodale warned it's still not confirmed. Ottawa - Former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow, former federal finance minister Michael Wilson, writer Guy Vanderhaeghe, sportscaster Johnny Esaw and media magnate John Honderich are among the newest members of the Order of Canada. Romanow capped a political career of more than 30 years with a royal commission study of the health care system for former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien.
