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.
Calgary - The Samson Cree First Nation is declaring a partial victory in a lawsuit against the federal government after a judge ordered Ottawa to return $360 million in oil revenues, CBC News has learned. The Samson Cree is suing for millions more in damages over allegations that Ottawa mishandled oil and gas revenues for more than half a century. Final arguments in the case will continue next week. Charlottetown - A P.E.I. man, who was found with the largest collection of child pornography police had ever seen in Atlantic Canada, has been sentenced to two years in jail. City police raided the man's house and office, seizing four complete computer systems, one laptop computer and 64 hard drives. On the machines, they found more than 180,000 pictures and videos of sexual acts involving children as young as babies. Toronto - Time magazine has chosen Maher Arar as its Canadian newsmaker of the year, praising him as a vocal proponent of human rights. U.S. authorities deported the Ottawa software engineer to Syria in October 2002 a couple of weeks after detaining him during a stopover in New York. He had been returning to Canada from a vacation with his family in Tunisia. After spending 10 months in a Syrian jail, where Arar says he was tortured, the Syrian-born Canadian was released. To this day, it's unknown why Arar was detained.
