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.
Here is a look back at some of the stories that made headlines across Manitoba this week: Challenges such as the mad cow crisis and a slowing economy will translate into a "tough budget" for the Manitoba government this year, Premier Gary Doer said Monday. Doer, however, vowed that the budget would not show a deficit. Is all this talk of a potential return of the NHL to Manitoba just pie in the sky? Winnipeg Mayor Glen Murray thinks so. On Wednesday, he told reporters that he has little hope the big league will return to the 'Peg in the next few years. An RBC Financial Group report showed that the cost of owning a home increased faster in Manitoba than any other province or territory in the final quarter of 2003. However, the report also predicts the situation will improve. The Northern Manitoba Trappers Festival kicked off in The Pas Wednesday, with the World Championship Dog Sled Race highlighting the popular event. The festival is slated to have a very special visitor today Ñ Prime Minister Paul Martin. University of Manitoba professor Gordon Giesbrecht was slated to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman last night. The thermophysiology professor, dubbed "Professor Popsicle" by the media, was to stand in a tank of ice water for 15 minutes. Giesbrecht told reporters the stunt is intended to dispel the myth that falling through ice results in death from hypothermia within minutes. The pair of playful polar bears that appear on the cover of February's National Geographic magazine live in Churchill. A photographer took the photo of the animals playfighting along Hudson Bay. Manitoba Hydro issued an apology to Stonewall after residents there lost their heat twice in just over a week because of a blocked gas line. Stonewall, located just north of Winnipeg, has a population of 5,000 people.
