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.
Valley City, N.D.- A United States court has rejected Manitoba's challenge to a North Dakota water diversion project. North Dakota wants to drain water from Devils Lake. It is a body of salt-laden water that is prone to flooding. Its water level has risen by 9 metres since 1993. Manitoba and People to Save the Sheyenne, a North Dakota group opposing the $28-million US outlet, believe that salt water from the lake could contaminate the Red River, which flows through Winnipeg, if allowed to drain through the Sheyenne River. Annapolis Royal, N.S. - A humpback whale has forced the shutdown of a hydroelectric plant after swimming through the underground gates that connect the tidal power facility with the Bay of Fundy. Nova Scotia Power officials said Tuesday that the whale got into the Annapolis Tidal Power Plant's head pond during the night while apparently following a school of herring that swam through gates that were opened at high tide. Officials were concerned the whale could get caught in a turbine, so the plant was closed. Ottawa - Justice Minister Irwin Cotler named Ontario Court of Appeal justices Louise Charron and Rosalie Abella to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court of Canada. Charron was named to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1995. She practised civil litigation in Ottawa. Abella, a human rights expert, was appointed to the Ont. Court of Appeal in 1992.
