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.
Winnipeg - Inmates at a federal prison near Winnipeg were confined to their cells Monday after a fellow inmate died in a beating Sunday night. Guards at Stony Mountain Institution, a medium-security prison 25 kilometres north of provincial capital, found the man in a recreation area late Sunday. No one else was injured, Colwell said. Toronto - Hospitals are failing to control antibiotic-resistant "superbug" infections that kill 8,000 patients each year and cost health-care systems at least $100 million annually, a CBC News investigation has learned. The incidence of hospital-acquired MRSA has increased tenfold in less than a decade. Since 2003, C. difficile has killed more than 600 people in Quebec alone, most of them elderly or very sick patients. Montreal - Lawyers for three men facing criminal charges in the sponsorship scandal are asking for a publication ban on their testimony before the Gomery commission. Former advertising executives Paul Coffin and Jean Brault Ð as well as the bureaucrat that ran the $250-million sponsorship program, Chuck Guit Ð are scheduled to appear before the commission next month. Their lawyers appeared before Justice John Gomery on Monday to argue that those appearances could undermine the men's right to a fair trial. The sponsorship inquiry is broadcast every day on French television and the ratings are huge.
