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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.

Filling Gap: Ethiopian Immigrant Assefa Teka, 30, says his new community phone directory will help Metro's growing African community keep in touch.

Date9/18/1990
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Troubled beginnings: Community leader Dudley Laws says the friction between Metro's and the police began in 1972 with the influx of new immigrants from the Caribbean, whose customs the police failed to appreciate
Troubled beginnings: Community leader Dudley Laws says the friction between Metro's and the police began in 1972 with the influx of new immigrants from the Caribbean, whose customs the police failed to appreciate
9/25/1979
Minorities who excel are readily embraced by the Canadian establishment, says Joseph Chiappetta, a lawyer and community leader of Metro's Italian community. You have to be better than average to be recognized, he said. But this is part of life. You earn recognition and respect. [Incomplete]
Minorities who excel are readily embraced by the Canadian establishment, says Joseph Chiappetta, a lawyer and community leader of Metro's Italian community. You have to be better than average to be recognized, he said. But this is part of life. You earn recognition and respect. [Incomplete]
10/2/1985
Proud and determined: I've never felt so good about myself, says Mario Pietrantoni, 30, who is finally learning to be functionally literate in a community-based program in Metro
Proud and determined: I've never felt so good about myself, says Mario Pietrantoni, 30, who is finally learning to be functionally literate in a community-based program in Metro
11/23/1984
Habibur Rahman: Rexdale businessman and volunteer immigrant-aid counsellor says promotion of ethnic communities causes fragmentation of Canada.
Habibur Rahman: Rexdale businessman and volunteer immigrant-aid counsellor says promotion of ethnic communities causes fragmentation of Canada.
7/26/1990
Neuropsychologist Irving John Snider decided to use his professional knowledge in filling a gap in children's books
Neuropsychologist Irving John Snider decided to use his professional knowledge in filling a gap in children's books
2/3/1977
Welcomed: About 150 members of metro's Indian community attended a reception last night for new Indian high commissioner to Canada, M
Welcomed: About 150 members of metro's Indian community attended a reception last night for new Indian high commissioner to Canada, M
11/30/1982
Wider, please: Dr. Seymour Tobe checks out the mouth of his patient, a Doberman named Vinny, who needs a brace to correct an out-of-place tooth. The veterinary dentist says although many vets will clean animals' teeth, he's the only one in Metro performing a full range of dental services, including braces, fillings and extractions.
Wider, please: Dr. Seymour Tobe checks out the mouth of his patient, a Doberman named Vinny, who needs a brace to correct an out-of-place tooth. The veterinary dentist says although many vets will clean animals' teeth, he's the only one in Metro performing a full range of dental services, including braces, fillings and extractions.
4/16/1985
A former shoeshine boy, David Blackmore, left, is now known as the 'Pied Piper of Cabbagetown'. He founded the Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre which, he says, 'keeps kids out of the kind of trouble I used to get into.'
A former shoeshine boy, David Blackmore, left, is now known as the 'Pied Piper of Cabbagetown'. He founded the Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre which, he says, 'keeps kids out of the kind of trouble I used to get into.'
6/20/1984
Musical phone plays the market. Touch-tone telephone, demonstrated by Bell vice-president M.N. Davies, can, via a computer link, buy your groceries, place your stock market orders or keep you nicely seperated from your bank manager by doing your banking.
Musical phone plays the market. Touch-tone telephone, demonstrated by Bell vice-president M.N. Davies, can, via a computer link, buy your groceries, place your stock market orders or keep you nicely seperated from your bank manager by doing your banking.
2/20/1969
Ron Kelly is organizing an Act up (Aids Coalition To Unleash Power) group in the hopes of jolting Metro's gay community into taking more radical actinon
Ron Kelly is organizing an Act up (Aids Coalition To Unleash Power) group in the hopes of jolting Metro's gay community into taking more radical actinon
1/24/1991
One of 160 robbery victims in Metro's hold-ups between Dec. 30-Jan. 31, East York shopkeeper George Behrakis, 47, says now I carry a big gun. If somebody tries to take my money again, I'll kill him.
One of 160 robbery victims in Metro's hold-ups between Dec. 30-Jan. 31, East York shopkeeper George Behrakis, 47, says now I carry a big gun. If somebody tries to take my money again, I'll kill him.
2/5/1975
Keeps him busy: Jack Pollick takes pride in his pill-bottle model of a community he dubbed Geriatria
Keeps him busy: Jack Pollick takes pride in his pill-bottle model of a community he dubbed Geriatria
1/15/1992