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Who your real friends are. Ontario Premier David Peterson, right, discovered he was a little short of cash when it came to paying for popcorn and pop (...)
Who your real friends are. Ontario Premier David Peterson, right, discovered he was a little short of cash when it came to paying for popcorn and pop (...)

Who your real friends are. Ontario Premier David Peterson, right, discovered he was a little short of cash when it came to paying for popcorn and pop (...)

Date9/25/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Who your real friends are. Ontario Premier David Peterson, right, discovered he was a little short of cash when it came to paying for popcorn and pop at the kickoff of the United Way campaign at Queen's Park. But a generous friend, Tory MP David Crombie, came to his rescue. United Way hopes to raise $2.3 million from federal and Ontario government workers-in Metro.
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Here's the Pop Pop popcorn popper
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Would have quit. Friends persuaded him to go on. He is shown at Right as a sergeant major in the militia before the last war. When it began, he joined(...)
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Japan meets Ontario, When Ontario Premier David Peterson met Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in Toronto Sunday they talked of strengthening (...)
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