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 - The Liberal government faced renewed opposition attacks Wednesday about corruption as the Conservatives hammered away over the revelation in Tuesday's budget of a so-called secret unity fund. The fund, estimated at $40 million a year, was apparently never mentioned in any budget document. It came to light when Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said Tuesday that the National Unity Reserve would be scrapped, saving the government a projected $100 million over three years "I ask the Prime Minister, how many other secret Liberal slush funds has he had out there," Conservative leader Stephen Harper said in the House. Ottawa - There are new details about the RCMP investigation of a reporter who made waves with her stories about Maher Arar. Juliet O'Neill wrote a newspaper article last year based on the secret RCMP file on Arar. Juliet O'NeillNewly released documents show the RCMP followed her for weeks, picked through her garbage, and scanned her e-mail before raiding her home and office in January, trying to find out how she got hold of the secret file Vancouver - Retired FBI agent Ron Parrish faced more tough questioning at the Air India trial in B.C. Supreme Court. Parrish is a Crown witness giving evidence against one of the accused bombers, Ajaib Singh Bagri.
