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 - A pro-marijuana senator who backs Belinda Stronach says he's going to have a word with the Conservative party leadership hopeful about her opposition to decriminalizing pot. Pierre Claude Nolin, who's working on the Stronach campaign in Quebec and who headed a Senate committee recommending legalization, said Wednesday that he plans to meet with Stronach next week to educate her on the facts. Stronach said a more liberal pot law would slow traffic at the Canada-U.S. border because of increased security, a sentiment echoed by the U.S. ambassador. Fredericton - New Brunswick drivers are still hot under the hood over auto insurance rates, seven months after voters almost drove Premier Bernard Lord from office over the issue. Freeman Mansfield, a forestry worker from the Minto area in central New Brunswick, delivered Wednesday a 5,500-name petition to Elizabeth Weir, head of a provincial legislature committee studying public auto insurance. "The private insurance companies are way out of whack with the premiums they're charging," Mansfield said, handing over a bundle of signatures that took seven weeks to collect. "People are frustrated." Montreal - A Montrea city worker who has been accused of driving his snowplow into a minivan while drunk has been fired. There were no injuries to the two van occupants.
