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.
Yellowknife - A court has awarded $10.7 million in damages to the widows of nine men killed by a bomb during a labour dispute at Yellowknife's Giant Mine, blaming the mining company and the union almost as much as the man who laid the explosives. The suit, filed on behalf of the families by the Workers Compensation Board, suggested that all parties to the labour dispute shared responsibility for the underground explosion on Sept. 18, 1992. Toronto - The Canada Safety Council is calling for a moratorium on casino and gambling expansion across the country because as many as 360 problem gamblers are committing suicide every year. "If you have an average of one a day people killing themselves because of an addiction, it's become a public health and safety issue," said council president Emile Therien. "For every suicide, five gamblers with self-inflicted injuries could end up in hospital," the council says in a statement posted on its website. Montreal - The National Parole Board has ruled that Karla Homolka must stay in prison for her full sentence, warning that she remains a risk to commit another violent crime. Homolka's 12-year sentence for her role in the torture, rape and murder of Ontario schoolgirls Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French ends on July 5, 2005. Her ex-husband, Paul Bernardo, is serving a life sentence.
