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.
Montreal - One of Canada's longest criminal trials, involving members of the Hells Angels, ended Monday with a total of 26 convictions of gangsterism, drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit murder. The nine accused, who were members of the Hells and one of its puppet clubs, the Rockers, were charged with conspiring between 1995 and 2001 to kill people who were in rival gangs like the Rock Machine and the Bandidos. Winnipeg - A survey suggests the number of Canadians opposed to mandatory retirement has significantly increased over the past seven years, led by those closer to age 65. Thirty-three per cent of respondents agreed that mandatory retirement should be banned, according to the poll commissioned by Investors Group in September 2003 and conducted by Decima Research. That represents a marked increase from a poll in May 1996 conducted by Gallup Canada showing 20 per cent opposed to a mandatory retirement age. Ottawa - Prime Minister Paul Martin will tell the UN that Canada is ready to join an international stabilization force in Haiti. "We'll be there when the conditions are right," Foreign Minister Bill Graham reported on Sunday after embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country after two weeks of rising violence. "It's important to get some forces in there."
