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.
Knowlton, Quebec - Calling himself a hockey fan, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Friday he believes the National Hockey League and its players will eventually settle their bitter labour dispute. "They will resolve the strike," Martin said of the lockout, which took effect at midnight Wednesday. But Martin didn't offer any timeline for his optimism. Toronto - Dane Squires was late for his own funeral. At least it seemed that way after people gathered Thursday at a Toronto funeral home to mourn the retired welder from Newfoundland whom they believed had been hit by a train. Squires was initially identified as the man who was hit by a commuter train last Friday night. But during the funeral, Squires showed up at his sister's house unaware that he was presumed dead. Vancouver - By combining stem cell science with orthopedic surgery, a team of researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute is aiming to reduce the failure rate in hip replacements and make repeat replacements and other joint repairs obsolete within 10 to15 years. A group of seven scientists will explore how stem cells ? the body's "master cells" that can reproduce and develop many mature functional cells ? can be used to regenerate bone cells to better secure artificial joints and other bone replacement structures.
