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.
Winnipeg - As part of a harm-reduction strategy, social workers have begun handing out special 'safe crack' kits, complete with "high quality" pipes and instructions, to addicts on the streets. Ottawa - It was supposed to fix health care for a generation, but a much-ballyhooed summit between Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and the provincial premiers has been downgraded to just another in a series of wrangles. With the Sept. 13-15 talks less than three weeks away, the provinces and the federal government are as far apart as ever with little in sight that would end doctor shortages and trim long waiting lists. Toronto - While physicians consider a colonoscopy the gold standard for detecting colorectal cancer, a new Ontario study suggests that the diagnostic procedure isn't perfect ? and the researchers want to find out why. A colonoscopy, in which a flexible tube carrying a viewing scope is threaded through the colon, or large bowel, misses about four per cent of malignant growths in the upper end of the colon, says the study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Winnipeg - Police have a new weapon in their fight against prostitution ? a john-cam that captures video footage of hookers getting into cars that's later posted on a public website.
