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Past Master: Amateur historian Danny Dickhoff, 12, left, plays street shinny with his brother Leon, 10, right, and pal Brent McGill, 11.
Past Master: Amateur historian Danny Dickhoff, 12, left, plays street shinny with his brother Leon, 10, right, and pal Brent McGill, 11.

Past Master: Amateur historian Danny Dickhoff, 12, left, plays street shinny with his brother Leon, 10, right, and pal Brent McGill, 11.

Date2/16/1995
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Risked lives: Andy Patterson, 32, flanked by Dean Ribble (left), 12, and his brother, George, 10, dragged Patterson's 12-year-old son, Billy, screaming from a Mississauga building after 8,000 volts shot through the boy's body when he caught a foot in a transformer room
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Barbaric sport? Government spending on amateur sport should be supplying rinks for shinny hockey, reader says, rather than supporting the barbaric and(...)
1/16/1981
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Backyard Shinny: Eric Lindros, 15, pulls away from brother Brett, 13, during backyard shinny game
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Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
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Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
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Emmauel Bourdos, whose take-home pay as a hospital orderly is about $110 a week, helps the two eldest of his six children with their homework as the family gathers around the table. From the left are Bourdos, Photini, 11, Margaret, 10, Mrs. Bourdos holding Dino, 2, Tina, 5, and Bessie, S. Bourdos is one of 6,000 Metro hospital workers who are preparing to risk the consequences of an illegal strike to get a decent wage comparable to that in similar work.
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