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 - Sheila Copps said she is contesting her loss of the Liberal nomination in Hamilton East Stoney-Creek because her loyalty to the voters of the Ontario riding is more important to her than her loyalty to the party. Copps called her Saturday loss by 311 votes to Transport Minister Tony Valeri after a 12-hour selection process a "massive orchestrated fraud." Montreal - A Quebec-based scouting group says it received only $250,000 from the federal sponsorship program to put on a millennium jamboree, though the Public Works website lists the association as receiving $600,000. The francophone scouting association's money for the 2000 "Jam des neiges" was passed through Groupaction Gosselin Strategic Communications, one of the Liberal-friendly ad agencies at the centre of the still-unravelling sponsorship program fiasco. Vancouver - Tests on a quarantined British Columbia chicken farm show the existence of two different forms of avian influenza, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Tuesday. Officials stress the H7N3 virus discovered on the B.C. farm is not the same virus that has infected birds in Asia and doesn't pose a high risk to humans. Investigators will continue looking at other farms in the area as part of the ongoing effort to control the virus.
