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Disgusting, isn't it?, A block-long emergency garbage dump set up during the York borough strike has brought complaints from local residents. One fami(...)
Disgusting, isn't it?, A block-long emergency garbage dump set up during the York borough strike has brought complaints from local residents. One fami(...)

Disgusting, isn't it?, A block-long emergency garbage dump set up during the York borough strike has brought complaints from local residents. One fami(...)

Date11/3/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Disgusting; isn't it?; A block-long emergency garbage dump set up during the York borough strike has brought complaints from local residents. One family fears it may have to leave its home because of the stench from rotting garbage. Keywest Ave.; where the dump is located; has been closed.
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Trash mounts up: York borough resident Frank Marchese huris his garbage onto the huge mound at Keeledale Park, designated a dump site during the strike by municipal workers
Trash mounts up: York borough resident Frank Marchese huris his garbage onto the huge mound at Keeledale Park, designated a dump site during the strike by municipal workers
10/26/1981
Residents of Riverdale, the area south of the Danforth on both sides of the Don River, dump their garbage in Nathan Phillips Square in a move to press(...)
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5/7/1972
Down in the dumps?, No, this is down in York where garbage has been piling up for more than two weeks because of the municipal workers strike. Two med(...)
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Island residents come ashore on the mainland from $1 a ride water taxi while regular ferry service is cut off by today's strike of Local 43, CUPE
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4/10/1972
They're out: Civic workers in York borough, members of two locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, walked off the job today in a strike over fringe benefits
They're out: Civic workers in York borough, members of two locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, walked off the job today in a strike over fringe benefits
10/14/1981
Something smells. Frustrated North York residents, unable to deliver their rotting garbage to the Ingram Dr. incinerator after it closed for the weeke(...)
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7/16/1979
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9/27/1979
No complaints
No complaints
6/18/1986
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5/31/1976
A Common Sight in the days ahead if the Metro outside workers' strike continues will be pile-ups of garbage like this one on Pembroke St. today. In th(...)
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11/3/1966
Jay Cleary, 8, drags a garbage bag to a temporary dump at a tennis court in Etobicoke - ignoring a giant message to Mayor Dennis Flynn
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8/13/1984
Stacking up As the Etobicoke garbage strike talks broke down and there is now no early end in sight, a youngster pedals quickly past garbage already s(...)
Stacking up As the Etobicoke garbage strike talks broke down and there is now no early end in sight, a youngster pedals quickly past garbage already s(...)
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