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.
Toronto - Canada's health profession needs to show medical students that it's tough but rewarding to practise family medicine in order to alleviate the country's shortage of physicians, say some of the country's top family doctors. Governments across Canada are currently dealing with a shortage of family physicians as more medical students choose instead to specialize in one area of medicine. A shortage of family doctors has put more stress on those practising and given medical students the impression that it's the toughest job to do, said Dr. Calvin Gutkin, executive director and CEO of the college of physicians. Toronto - The glory days for Ontario marijuana-smokers are over, at least for now, with provincial police poised to start laying possession charges again after months of turning a blind eye to public toking across the province when pot laws were temporarily loosened. Ontario Provincial Police officers have been advised that they can now enforce Canada's laws against simple possession of pot after a court ruling last week clarifed that the law was constitutional. Ottawa - The military has reassessed the threat level in Afghanistan and will send in more armoured vehicles in the wake of a mine explosion two weeks ago that killed two Canadian soldiers. The military will also send a South African-built, mine-protected vehicle to help clear mines from roads.
