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.
Vancouver - Relatives of some of the 331 Air India bombing victims met with reporters, hours after two Sikh men from British Columbia were acquitted on charges of murder and conspiracy. They called for the government to announce a public inquiry into how the investigation into Canada's worst-ever mass murder was handled, saying such an inquiry could prevent future acts of terrorism in this country. "This was not an aviation accident. This was not an in-flight accident," said Susheel Gupta, an Ottawa lawyer who was 12 when his mother died on board Air India Flight 182 on a June morning in 1985. "This was murder, pure and simple. Murder in any system of justice demands just that Ð justice. And if the murder of 329 innocent people ... doesn't deserve a public inquiry, then we ask: what does?" Saint John, N.B. - Three teenage boys have been charged with possession of explosives in what appears to have been a planned attack on Saint John High School. Police said the students were plotting to take over the school and kill teachers and students. They said the plot was uncovered after two other students overheard a conversation and told the principal. Police said the students planned their attack for April 20, which is Hitler's birthday Ð and the date of a deadly shooting by two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. in 1999.
