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Giving up jobs: Dr. Mark Doidge (left) and engineer Henry Gold are leaving Toronto to help 600,000 Ethiopian refugees in the Sudan. They are seeking help to gather supplies.
Giving up jobs: Dr. Mark Doidge (left) and engineer Henry Gold are leaving Toronto to help 600,000 Ethiopian refugees in the Sudan. They are seeking help to gather supplies.

Giving up jobs: Dr. Mark Doidge (left) and engineer Henry Gold are leaving Toronto to help 600,000 Ethiopian refugees in the Sudan. They are seeking help to gather supplies.

Date1/19/1984
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Giving up jobs: Dr. Mark Doidge (left) and engineer Henry Gold are leaving Toronto to help 600,000 Ethiopian refugees in the Sudan. They are seeking help to gather supplies.
Giving up jobs: Dr. Mark Doidge (left) and engineer Henry Gold are leaving Toronto to help 600,000 Ethiopian refugees in the Sudan. They are seeking help to gather supplies.
1/19/1984
Key members of a Canadian team setting up a medical clinic at a refugee camp in Ethiopia are Dr. Michael Kane, left, a member of Canadian Physicians for African Refugees. and engineer Henry Gold
Key members of a Canadian team setting up a medical clinic at a refugee camp in Ethiopia are Dr. Michael Kane, left, a member of Canadian Physicians for African Refugees. and engineer Henry Gold
4/21/1985
Filling Gap: Ethiopian Immigrant Assefa Teka, 30, says his new community phone directory will help Metro's growing African community keep in touch.
Filling Gap: Ethiopian Immigrant Assefa Teka, 30, says his new community phone directory will help Metro's growing African community keep in touch.
9/18/1990
Helping hand: Rosemarie and David Sanderson-Kirby of Sanderson-Kirby and Associates belong to a new counselling industry which offers advice on firing and helps employees find new jobs
Helping hand: Rosemarie and David Sanderson-Kirby of Sanderson-Kirby and Associates belong to a new counselling industry which offers advice on firing and helps employees find new jobs
9/29/1983
High school teacher Peter Scher in cab driver role. It is one of jobs he will do in summer to help him save money for house
High school teacher Peter Scher in cab driver role. It is one of jobs he will do in summer to help him save money for house
6/1/1971
Best-stressed: Seeking help from his kids, Charles, 3, and Kathy, 8, John Crosbie looks for a pun to launch the new year at their Ridge Dr. home.
Best-stressed: Seeking help from his kids, Charles, 3, and Kathy, 8, John Crosbie looks for a pun to launch the new year at their Ridge Dr. home.
1/2/1981
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.
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.
1/3/1974
The chief engineer of the Toronto Airport Hilton Hotel, Dennis Potter, shows his bed-making skill on a weekend when about 40 of the hotel's 225 jobs were unfilled and a convention was blooked in
The chief engineer of the Toronto Airport Hilton Hotel, Dennis Potter, shows his bed-making skill on a weekend when about 40 of the hotel's 225 jobs were unfilled and a convention was blooked in
10/21/1974
Help me get my wife back man pleads. A 26-year-old accountant who says his wife left him because he was a workaholic is seeking public support to try to get her back. [Incomplete]
Help me get my wife back man pleads. A 26-year-old accountant who says his wife left him because he was a workaholic is seeking public support to try to get her back. [Incomplete]
2/1/1980
Canada's biggest service in booming temporary-help field is Office Overload Ltd. Clare Copeland, president, is shown in Toronto headquarters, ringed by employees (left to right) Lois Young, Laura Smith, Debi Perkins, Gayle Farnes, Janice Chivers-Wilson and Helen Wood. In an ironic switch, Laura Smith came in to look for a temporary job and wound up with permanent job-working full-time for Office Overload.
Canada's biggest service in booming temporary-help field is Office Overload Ltd. Clare Copeland, president, is shown in Toronto headquarters, ringed by employees (left to right) Lois Young, Laura Smith, Debi Perkins, Gayle Farnes, Janice Chivers-Wilson and Helen Wood. In an ironic switch, Laura Smith came in to look for a temporary job and wound up with permanent job-working full-time for Office Overload.
5/10/1976
Shared loss: Matthew (Al) Cripps reads a protest sheet as Mark Toljagic looks on at a self-help meeting for the relatives of workers killed on the job. We have no rights at all, Cripps says.
Shared loss: Matthew (Al) Cripps reads a protest sheet as Mark Toljagic looks on at a self-help meeting for the relatives of workers killed on the job. We have no rights at all, Cripps says.
4/24/1992
Tridel trio: Brothers, left to right, Leo, Elvio and Angelo DelZotto say a growing construction-supplies unit should help offset real estate weakness for Tridel
Tridel trio: Brothers, left to right, Leo, Elvio and Angelo DelZotto say a growing construction-supplies unit should help offset real estate weakness for Tridel
5/24/1990