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Bill Tracey: Pigeon droppings and garbage-filled laneways are only some of the problems city hall employee faces in fight to clean up Parkdale.
Bill Tracey: Pigeon droppings and garbage-filled laneways are only some of the problems city hall employee faces in fight to clean up Parkdale.

Bill Tracey: Pigeon droppings and garbage-filled laneways are only some of the problems city hall employee faces in fight to clean up Parkdale.

Date8/30/1979
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0134976F
Looking for answers: Some suggestions to aid jobless young people with their problems, and to help find employment are offered by life-skills class of teacher Bill Bochar, above.
Looking for answers: Some suggestions to aid jobless young people with their problems, and to help find employment are offered by life-skills class of teacher Bill Bochar, above.
4/1/1981
New dimension in traffic tie-ups? Apparently adding a whole new dimension to problems ground traffic already faces trying to reach Toronto Internation(...)
New dimension in traffic tie-ups? Apparently adding a whole new dimension to problems ground traffic already faces trying to reach Toronto Internation(...)
2/27/1970
Metro Toronto faces all the problems of a heavily settled urban centre--overpopulation, traffic tie-ups and pollution
Metro Toronto faces all the problems of a heavily settled urban centre--overpopulation, traffic tie-ups and pollution
7/15/1968
City's troubleshooter: Bill 'Quick Fox' Tracey fields the complaints of tenants and landlords in the Parkda'e bachelorette combat zone
City's troubleshooter: Bill 'Quick Fox' Tracey fields the complaints of tenants and landlords in the Parkda'e bachelorette combat zone
4/22/1980
Court fight faces John and Larysa Stockton of Mississauga, who are questioning the fairness of the Ontario government's demand that they pay back the 1,250 home buyers grants they've received over the past two years
Court fight faces John and Larysa Stockton of Mississauga, who are questioning the fairness of the Ontario government's demand that they pay back the 1,250 home buyers grants they've received over the past two years
8/4/1977
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
3/10/1970
Installed foam: Ingo Koenne of Scarborough says he can only thank God that he and his sons Jason, 9 (left), and Andrew, 7, escaped the more serious health problems caused by urea foam insulation, but the value of his house plummeted
Installed foam: Ingo Koenne of Scarborough says he can only thank God that he and his sons Jason, 9 (left), and Andrew, 7, escaped the more serious health problems caused by urea foam insulation, but the value of his house plummeted
10/4/1984
Youth counsellors: Keith Baird, above with co-worker Pam Jolliffe, defends the Living Skills program for young people and says the real losers are those in positions of authority who saw the youths only as problems and not as individuals.
Youth counsellors: Keith Baird, above with co-worker Pam Jolliffe, defends the Living Skills program for young people and says the real losers are those in positions of authority who saw the youths only as problems and not as individuals.
3/4/1980
Their marriage in crisis, a young couple are looking for advice from Dr. Ernest Moss, director of the Ontario Centre for Personality Development. Dr. Moss thinks that the confusion men and women have about their roles today causes problems in some marriages. The women's liberation movement has made some women more sexually aggressive and the effect can cause the husband to become temporarily impotent, the psychological says.
Their marriage in crisis, a young couple are looking for advice from Dr. Ernest Moss, director of the Ontario Centre for Personality Development. Dr. Moss thinks that the confusion men and women have about their roles today causes problems in some marriages. The women's liberation movement has made some women more sexually aggressive and the effect can cause the husband to become temporarily impotent, the psychological says.
1/29/1975
Luxury-priced fur coats are the end product through which thousands of chinchilla breeders hope to make money, despite some past problems
Luxury-priced fur coats are the end product through which thousands of chinchilla breeders hope to make money, despite some past problems
7/21/1971
Charles Bens: Cities misunderstand their problems. They think about revenue shortage but their problem is expenditures.
Charles Bens: Cities misunderstand their problems. They think about revenue shortage but their problem is expenditures.
4/22/1974
Tougher stand wanted: Prostitutes bring a myriad of problems to the city, says David Cooper of the Downtown Business Council. He calls for greater police powers to maintain the health and vitality of our downtown area.
Tougher stand wanted: Prostitutes bring a myriad of problems to the city, says David Cooper of the Downtown Business Council. He calls for greater police powers to maintain the health and vitality of our downtown area.
10/16/1980