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Law student, Karen Kahn and Lawyer Michael Bolton. They represent 'The Prisoners Union Committee' Vancouver, BC.
Law student, Karen Kahn and Lawyer Michael Bolton. They represent 'The Prisoners Union Committee' Vancouver, BC.

Law student, Karen Kahn and Lawyer Michael Bolton. They represent 'The Prisoners Union Committee' Vancouver, BC.

Date8/7/1975
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Scratch the surface of almost any prisoner in Canada and you'll find a poverty background, says Michael Bolton, lawyer for the B.C. Prisoners Union Committee. At left, law student Karen Kahn.
Scratch the surface of almost any prisoner in Canada and you'll find a poverty background, says Michael Bolton, lawyer for the B.C. Prisoners Union Committee. At left, law student Karen Kahn.
8/7/1975
Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren't deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases, according to a psychiatrist who was there in 1945. Russell William Barton, 61, of Rochester, N.Y., said that when he entered the camp on May 2, 1945, he had heard and believed that prisoners were deliberately starved to death by the Nazis.
Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren't deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases, according to a psychiatrist who was there in 1945. Russell William Barton, 61, of Rochester, N.Y., said that when he entered the camp on May 2, 1945, he had heard and believed that prisoners were deliberately starved to death by the Nazis.
2/7/1985
Offers help: Winston Seeney of Oshawa is president of Ontario Candecide, an organization aimed at rehabilitating prisoners
Offers help: Winston Seeney of Oshawa is president of Ontario Candecide, an organization aimed at rehabilitating prisoners
7/14/1982
Protest begins: Stephen Magwood, president of the High Park Homeowners and Residents Association, cuts a ribbon to signal the start of protests outside Exodus Link, a new counselling centre for paroled federal prisoners
Protest begins: Stephen Magwood, president of the High Park Homeowners and Residents Association, cuts a ribbon to signal the start of protests outside Exodus Link, a new counselling centre for paroled federal prisoners
1/5/1987
Panel controlling all locks in Rexdale's new $15 million jail is tested by Supt. W. L. Barber yesterday. Known officially as the Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre it will help ease chronic overcrowding at Toronto (Don) Jail - but my almost doubling its capacity. Officials are facing the challenge of housing 340 inmates in a building designed for 200. The cells will contain two prisoners instead of one.
Panel controlling all locks in Rexdale's new $15 million jail is tested by Supt. W. L. Barber yesterday. Known officially as the Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre it will help ease chronic overcrowding at Toronto (Don) Jail - but my almost doubling its capacity. Officials are facing the challenge of housing 340 inmates in a building designed for 200. The cells will contain two prisoners instead of one.
7/13/1977
Area where fiv prisoners died in their cells in a fire during an investigation last month. The floor last Dec. 18 is still blackened by soot. Behind the coroner, Dr. A. broken and paint from the charred ceiling. Macdonald, is the rear entrance to the third-floor block, first men in Stratford jail call the area death row, officials said. [Incomplete]
Area where fiv prisoners died in their cells in a fire during an investigation last month. The floor last Dec. 18 is still blackened by soot. Behind the coroner, Dr. A. broken and paint from the charred ceiling. Macdonald, is the rear entrance to the third-floor block, first men in Stratford jail call the area death row, officials said. [Incomplete]
1/6/1977
University of Toronto's Don Redford displays fragments of a large wine vessel from 14th- century-BC Egypt
University of Toronto's Don Redford displays fragments of a large wine vessel from 14th- century-BC Egypt
9/7/1977
Calculating man: Philip Jong, 19, a Grade 13 student at Earl Haig Secondary School in North York, will again represent Canada at the International Mathematical Olympiad
Calculating man: Philip Jong, 19, a Grade 13 student at Earl Haig Secondary School in North York, will again represent Canada at the International Mathematical Olympiad
6/12/1989
Posing as a 35-year-old Forest Hill married woman seeking a private adoption, Star staff writer, Doris Hopper, chats with Metro Lawyer Irving Copeland in his office. Copeland said he has handled 1,400 private adoptions in 18 years of practice as a lawyer as a lawyer and charges fees of $800 to $1,000 for his services. He said he has travelled widely to bring babies to Metro. I've travelled as far as St. John's and Vancouver. he said.
Posing as a 35-year-old Forest Hill married woman seeking a private adoption, Star staff writer, Doris Hopper, chats with Metro Lawyer Irving Copeland in his office. Copeland said he has handled 1,400 private adoptions in 18 years of practice as a lawyer as a lawyer and charges fees of $800 to $1,000 for his services. He said he has travelled widely to bring babies to Metro. I've travelled as far as St. John's and Vancouver. he said.
3/23/1978
A Metro lawyer will be the first Canadian to win the World Lawyer Award, when the honor is presented in Berlin on Thursday, also designated as World Law Day
A Metro lawyer will be the first Canadian to win the World Lawyer Award, when the honor is presented in Berlin on Thursday, also designated as World Law Day
7/11/1985
Prisoners without lawyers may damage their defence irreparably by statements they make to police, says Walter Pitman
Prisoners without lawyers may damage their defence irreparably by statements they make to police, says Walter Pitman
1/15/1971
Law shop: Lawyer Alan Price stands beside the price list for services posted in his storefront law office in Trafalgar Village mall in Oakville
Law shop: Lawyer Alan Price stands beside the price list for services posted in his storefront law office in Trafalgar Village mall in Oakville
12/22/1986