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 - Parts of the West Edmonton Mall will stay closed for an undetermined time as insurance adjusters examine the damage from a severe hailstorm that damaged the roof and forced the evacuation of 30,000 people from the world's largest shopping mall. Water was ankle-deep in parts of the 800-store mall after pipes on the second floor burst. The mall's NHL-sized ice rink and indoor amusement park were flooded as sections of the roof ripped open under the force of the hail and pounding rain. Witnesses said they saw a waterfall flowing from the centre's second level. Vancouver - Fish farmers in British Columbia say they're worried new regulations in the U.S. will cut into their business. From now on, salmon served in Alaskan restaurants must be labelled "wild" or "farmed." The new law is designed to let consumers make an informed choice about what they eat. Halifax - A fiddle that belonged to Canadian folk musician Don Messer has returned to Canada, after a New Brunswick woman bought it at auction Sunday. Della Gillespie from St. Stephen, N.B., paid $8,000 for the fiddle, a German-made copy of a Stradavarius, at the 55th Maritime Fiddle Festival. The instrument was one of 14 fiddles that Messer, who died in 1973, had collected over his lifetime. Though the 84-year-old Gillespie doesn't fiddle anymore, she said buying the instrument was a bittersweet connection to her past and a "bargain" at $8,000.
