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Teaching toughs: Teacher Lawrence Mitoff has spent 20 years trying to help young offenders learn while they're in jail.
Teaching toughs: Teacher Lawrence Mitoff has spent 20 years trying to help young offenders learn while they're in jail.

Teaching toughs: Teacher Lawrence Mitoff has spent 20 years trying to help young offenders learn while they're in jail.

Date9/2/1991
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Strategy can backfire: Say Dr. Howard Barbaree, left, and Dr. Bill Marshall who work with offenders.
Strategy can backfire: Say Dr. Howard Barbaree, left, and Dr. Bill Marshall who work with offenders.
3/9/1990
Youth workers such as Toronto's Fred Mathews, left and Grant Lowery decry the serious lack of research on adolescent sex offenders.
Youth workers such as Toronto's Fred Mathews, left and Grant Lowery decry the serious lack of research on adolescent sex offenders.
1/12/1987
Youth workers such as Toronto's Fred Mathews, left and Grant Lowery decry the serious lack of research on adolescent sex offenders
Youth workers such as Toronto's Fred Mathews, left and Grant Lowery decry the serious lack of research on adolescent sex offenders
1/12/1987
Youth workers such as Toronto's Fred Mathews, left and Grant Lowery decry the serious lack of research on adolescent sex offenders
Youth workers such as Toronto's Fred Mathews, left and Grant Lowery decry the serious lack of research on adolescent sex offenders
1/12/1987
John Hogarth, a professor at Osgoode Hall law school, looks over his report on the methods and attitudes of lower court judges in sentencing offenders
John Hogarth, a professor at Osgoode Hall law school, looks over his report on the methods and attitudes of lower court judges in sentencing offenders
10/5/1971
Paying the price: George McFarlance introduced restitution program in which offenders repay their victims. More than $102,000 has been returned.
Paying the price: George McFarlance introduced restitution program in which offenders repay their victims. More than $102,000 has been returned.
11/24/1982
New-style teacher: Teaching in the '80s requires a special type of teacher, says writer Vienneau, and Garry macey is just that
New-style teacher: Teaching in the '80s requires a special type of teacher, says writer Vienneau, and Garry macey is just that
5/29/1981
Top teacher: Etobicoke Collegiate institute music teacher Don Strathdee, shown with Andrea Ellison on flute, will retire at the end of the month after teaching at the school for 34 years
Top teacher: Etobicoke Collegiate institute music teacher Don Strathdee, shown with Andrea Ellison on flute, will retire at the end of the month after teaching at the school for 34 years
6/8/1987
Bela Fejer: Now a lawyer, he's spent years trying to get Canadians to invest in Hungary. He's shown with framed Toronto Star front page of Dec. 8, 1956, which was a catalyst in his life.
Bela Fejer: Now a lawyer, he's spent years trying to get Canadians to invest in Hungary. He's shown with framed Toronto Star front page of Dec. 8, 1956, which was a catalyst in his life.
12/26/1983
Black activist Richard Dildy - who was once arrested for proclaiming Santa a fraud during Toronto's annual Santa Claus parade - is dead at age 47. He died of kidney and liver failure in Wellesley Hospital Friday. The United States-born insurance salesman spent most of his life trying to convince parents to stop telling children that Santa Claus is coming to town. [Incomplete]
Black activist Richard Dildy - who was once arrested for proclaiming Santa a fraud during Toronto's annual Santa Claus parade - is dead at age 47. He died of kidney and liver failure in Wellesley Hospital Friday. The United States-born insurance salesman spent most of his life trying to convince parents to stop telling children that Santa Claus is coming to town. [Incomplete]
4/9/1987
Tough times: Employeers suffering the effects of recession and rising labor costs aren't going to solve thier problems by trying to take advantage of workers, says Laborers International union official John Stefanini
Tough times: Employeers suffering the effects of recession and rising labor costs aren't going to solve thier problems by trying to take advantage of workers, says Laborers International union official John Stefanini
9/30/1983
After 40 years: Jack Burke, retiring as principal and teacher of Associated Jewish Schools, has been teaching his own grandchildren there - Michael, 10, David, 8, and Elisa, 12 - as well as the grandchildren of some of his original pupils.
After 40 years: Jack Burke, retiring as principal and teacher of Associated Jewish Schools, has been teaching his own grandchildren there - Michael, 10, David, 8, and Elisa, 12 - as well as the grandchildren of some of his original pupils.
3/28/1980