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.
Gormanville, N.S. - A 90-year-old woman in Nova Scotia may have cheated herself out of $75,000 after failing to apply for her Canada Pension more than two decades ago. The federal government says it will pay one year of the 25 years of the missed payments, a decision the woman's daughter says isn't fair. Alfreda MacPhee said she discovered the problem when her mother's health deteriorated this past December. When MacPhee called the Canada Pension Plan offices, she was shocked to find out her mother, who spent 20 years working for Canada Post, had never applied for her own pension when she turned 65. St. John's, Nfld. - A senior member of a group campaigning against the East Coast seal hunt says physically attacking people such as research scientists and sealers is an "effective tactic" that may be justified in the quest to save animal life. Saskatoon - One of several people accused of sexually abusing children in Saskatchewan in the early 1990s will receive $150,000 after settling a lawsuit against the provincial government and the police agencies that investigated him. Over the past decade, four prosecutions in connection with the Martensville case have resulted in malicious prosecution lawsuits. Penticton, B.C. - A British Columbia man has been arrested and charged with the murder of a 12-year-old girl in the city of Penticton more than a quarter of a century ago.
