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 - Jack McClelland, an icon of Canadian publishing has died. McClelland, 81, had been ill for some time. McClelland began working for his father's company McClelland and Stewart in 1946. He became president in 1961. When he took over he transformed the company by encouraging, supporting and publishing a new generation of Canadian writers, including such giants of Canadian literature as Irving Layton, Margaret Laurence, Leonard Cohen, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Atwood and Timothy Findley. Montreal - The Bloc Qubcois has gone after Liberal leader Paul Martin in its first advertising blitz of the election campaign. The radio and newspaper ads launched Friday ask how Martin was unaware of problems in the sponsorship program. Martin was finance minister while millions of dollars were funnelled to Liberal-friendly ad firms in return for little or no work. Montreal - Some people who worked for a Quebec advertising firm involved in the scandal-plagued sponsorship program say their boss asked them to make donations to a Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election. People who worked for Lafleur Communications Ð a firm that went on to handle many of the contracts Ð say the personal contributions to a candidate in Montreal - Saint-Lambert were really donations from the company's owner, Jean Lafleur.
