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.
Edmonton - A University of Alberta research team says it has discovered a clean way of generating electricity by simply directing water at a solid surface. The discovery is chronicled in a research paper. It has a wide range of possible uses - from powering small devices such as Palm Pilots or calculators with water batteries, to maybe someday contributing electricity from a clean, renewable source to a national power grid, says the university. Ottawa - Canadian Alliance MPs caucus voted overwhelmingly Sunday to endorse the merger plan announced by Harper and Tory Leader Peter MacKay last Thursday following weeks of sometimes acrimonious negotiations over uniting the right. Under the plan, the respective party memberships must endorse the merger by Dec. 12. A new leader will be chosen March 21, a few bare weeks before Liberal leader-in-waiting Paul Martin is expected to call a spring election. Montreal - About 60 per cent of Canadians thought recently that Jean Chretien's departure as prime minister would be an advantage for the country, suggests an opinion poll. The poll also suggested 39 per cent of Canadians believed Paul Martin would make a better prime minister than Chretien, while 25 per cent thought the opposite. A significant 36 per cent said they didn't know or refused to answer.
