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 - Disney has pulled the plug on Pooh Friendship Day, saying the popular local summer festival ate up its entire marketing budget for Canada. Ottawa - Fadi Fadel, a Canadian humanitarian worker kidnapped in Iraq earlier this month, is safe in Amman, Jordan, and his family is celebrating. Pierre Bechard, a Foreign Affairs spokesman, said Fadel arrived in Jordan over the weekend and was in the care of his employers, the New York City-based International Rescue Committee. Canadian cattle farmers languishing in the 11-month-old mad cow crisis are looking forward to a reprieve today, when the US border will lift the remaining import restrictions on beef from younger animals. Edmonton - Aboriginal leaders behind Alberta's first on-reserve casino hope to hit a jackpot of jobs and economic development for the Enoch Cree Nation. Similar casinos in Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have pumped millions of dollars into struggling aboriginal communities as well as provincial coffers. Vancouver - While acknowledging that Canada could help bring about "meaningful dialogue" on Tibetan autonomy within China, the Dalai Lama says he has no plans to raise it with Paul Martin unless the Prime Minister shows interest in the issue. "I consider myself as a Buddhist monk, not a politician," the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet said Saturday.
