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He's pushing a button for yes, York University history student Daniel Robinson has spent $322 on 250 buttons with the message: Don't let anger at Prim(...)
He's pushing a button for yes, York University history student Daniel Robinson has spent $322 on 250 buttons with the message: Don't let anger at Prim(...)

He's pushing a button for yes, York University history student Daniel Robinson has spent $322 on 250 buttons with the message: Don't let anger at Prim(...)

Date10/21/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: He's pushing a button for yes; York University history student Daniel Robinson has spent $322 on 250 buttons with the message: Don't let anger at Prime Minister Brian Muironey get in the way of a Yes vote in the referendum. Robinson doesn't expect to break even as he sells the buttons for $1 each at Queen and Bay Sts. yesterday.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0105215F
Just say yes: Among dignitaries at Etobicoke's Yes rally yesterday were, from left, Metro Councillor Dennis Flynn, MP Patrick Boyer, June Callwood, and cabinet ministers Ruth Grier and Ed Philip
Just say yes: Among dignitaries at Etobicoke's Yes rally yesterday were, from left, Metro Councillor Dennis Flynn, MP Patrick Boyer, June Callwood, and cabinet ministers Ruth Grier and Ed Philip
10/4/1992
Unity Applause: Kicking off Yes campaign are, from left, former lieutenant-governors John Black Aird, Pauline McGibbon and Lincoln Alexander
Unity Applause: Kicking off Yes campaign are, from left, former lieutenant-governors John Black Aird, Pauline McGibbon and Lincoln Alexander
9/25/1992
In the dumpster: A Yes sign sits in a garbage bin on Parliament Hill yesterday, a day after voters trashed the unity deal
In the dumpster: A Yes sign sits in a garbage bin on Parliament Hill yesterday, a day after voters trashed the unity deal
10/27/1992
Lorry Lobby, Gord Thompson decorates his truck for Ontario Truckers Association's pro-Yes convoy yesterday in Metro Toronto
Lorry Lobby, Gord Thompson decorates his truck for Ontario Truckers Association's pro-Yes convoy yesterday in Metro Toronto
10/16/1992
Zbigniew Blazeje's 'turned on box' flashes lights, buzzes, For a push-button world, he's designed a toy that lets child push buttons safely
Zbigniew Blazeje's 'turned on box' flashes lights, buzzes, For a push-button world, he's designed a toy that lets child push buttons safely
11/25/1966
Don't Take a Chance: Huge flag hung by students on a downtown Brampton building exhorts residents not to risk voting No in Monday's constitutional referendum
Don't Take a Chance: Huge flag hung by students on a downtown Brampton building exhorts residents not to risk voting No in Monday's constitutional referendum
10/13/1992
I'm a Loser say the buttons the student council at York Mills Collegiate wants to sell to everyone concerned about the welfare of students as the seco(...)
I'm a Loser say the buttons the student council at York Mills Collegiate wants to sell to everyone concerned about the welfare of students as the seco(...)
1/6/1976
Tory candidate Vic Bagnato (left) and his campaign workers sort out a consignment of campaign Bumpf, Their bumper stickers, posters and tin buttons come from William J. Brennan, who says he's one of the little guys
Tory candidate Vic Bagnato (left) and his campaign workers sort out a consignment of campaign Bumpf, Their bumper stickers, posters and tin buttons come from William J. Brennan, who says he's one of the little guys
5/31/1968
Clown has to keep himself fit. Buttons demonstrates energetic lef left
Clown has to keep himself fit. Buttons demonstrates energetic lef left
4/24/1972
A romp for red buttons. Play it Again Sam, by Woody Allen, opened at the O'Keefe Centre last night. Red Buttons plays lead role of a film critic whose(...)
A romp for red buttons. Play it Again Sam, by Woody Allen, opened at the O'Keefe Centre last night. Red Buttons plays lead role of a film critic whose(...)
12/1/1970
Boost for Unity: Students at Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate in Scarborough hoist the fieur-de-lys and the Canadian flag yesterday to show their faith in the country, despite the current crisis
Boost for Unity: Students at Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate in Scarborough hoist the fieur-de-lys and the Canadian flag yesterday to show their faith in the country, despite the current crisis
6/6/1990
Colonial constitutions, an outline of the constitutional history and existing government of the British dependencies, with schedules of the orders in (...)
Colonial constitutions, an outline of the constitutional history and existing government of the British dependencies, with schedules of the orders in (...)
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