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.
Ottawa - Prime Minister Paul Martin and his justice minister vigorously defended the process for naming judges, after the former head of their party's Quebec wing suggested the appointments were used as payoffs to Liberal lawyers. "No judicial appointment is made until it has gone through a committee," Martin told reporters on his way out of a cabinet meeting on Thursday. His comments came after statements on Wednesday by Beno"t Corbeil, who used to be director general of the Montreal office of the Liberal Party of Canada. Corbeil told Radio-Canada and the Globe and Mail that lawyers often volunteered to work for the Liberals on the understanding that it was a road to judicial appointments. St. John's, Nfld. - The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is dissociating itself from comments by one of its directors who condoned assassination as a means of protecting animal life. Founder Paul Watson Ð who earlier this week supported Dr. Jerry Vlasak's position on the society's board of directors Ð issued a statement Thursday, saying the society does not condone violence against sealers. Arnold's Cove, Nfld. - Crab fishermen in Newfoundland headed out into Placentia Bay Thursday morning to revive their blockade of oil tankers, the latest step in their protest against the provincial government's controversial crab quota plan.
