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He's fighting the top man
He's fighting the top man

He's fighting the top man

Date11/26/1969
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0060208F
Antique scales are simply office decoration for lawyer James DaCosta, but they are likely to be regarded as very real sales of justice by his visitors. DaCosta, 46, becomes top enforcement officer for the Ontario Securities Commission in September - the man in charge of keeping Bay Streeters in line. He's been a specialist in mining and securities law for many years.
Antique scales are simply office decoration for lawyer James DaCosta, but they are likely to be regarded as very real sales of justice by his visitors. DaCosta, 46, becomes top enforcement officer for the Ontario Securities Commission in September - the man in charge of keeping Bay Streeters in line. He's been a specialist in mining and securities law for many years.
7/29/1975
Fighting back: Lawyer John Gorman, right, examines a cheque from an anonymous donor - the first donation in a battle he's organizing against farm foreclosures
Fighting back: Lawyer John Gorman, right, examines a cheque from an anonymous donor - the first donation in a battle he's organizing against farm foreclosures
1/2/1982
He's fighting city hall
He's fighting city hall
12/12/1968
He's No Chicken: Dennis Dowling, who owns chester Chicken Farm in King, is fighting mad over his weiis drying up over the past five years.
He's No Chicken: Dennis Dowling, who owns chester Chicken Farm in King, is fighting mad over his weiis drying up over the past five years.
4/2/1990
Victor Ling is world- renowned for his work in cancer research. Last year he received both the Dr. Josef Steiner Prize in Europe and the General Motors Kettering Prize - recognized as the top international award for cancer research - at a June dinner in Washington, D.C. Ling helped discover how cancer cells resist the effects of tumor-destroying drugs by using a tiny protein. The protein ejects drugs from the cell before they have time to act. Ling spent years refining and confirming the discovery, which has sparked a search for the right decoy drug capable of fooling the protein and allowing cancer-fighting drugs to slip in for the kill.
Victor Ling is world- renowned for his work in cancer research. Last year he received both the Dr. Josef Steiner Prize in Europe and the General Motors Kettering Prize - recognized as the top international award for cancer research - at a June dinner in Washington, D.C. Ling helped discover how cancer cells resist the effects of tumor-destroying drugs by using a tiny protein. The protein ejects drugs from the cell before they have time to act. Ling spent years refining and confirming the discovery, which has sparked a search for the right decoy drug capable of fooling the protein and allowing cancer-fighting drugs to slip in for the kill.
8/2/1991
Sammy Baird is police chief of Campbellford and a Big Man there since he stood off an angry mob and caused the Riot Act to be read to avoid violence at the jailhouse. But he's also abused by many people-like the ones who covered the town's population sign he's holding with obscenities.
Sammy Baird is police chief of Campbellford and a Big Man there since he stood off an angry mob and caused the Riot Act to be read to avoid violence at the jailhouse. But he's also abused by many people-like the ones who covered the town's population sign he's holding with obscenities.
4/20/1968
He's not overweight but advertising man Ken Borden says that's only because you don't get fat just tasting. Cooking is more than a hobby for him - he's already taken seven different night courses and says these courses aren't work, they're fun.
He's not overweight but advertising man Ken Borden says that's only because you don't get fat just tasting. Cooking is more than a hobby for him - he's already taken seven different night courses and says these courses aren't work, they're fun.
9/6/1979
Top policemen: Donald Heaton (left) chief superintendent of the RCMP and Jon Jenkins, Chief of Durham Regional Police, are members of the group fighting organized crime in Ontario
Top policemen: Donald Heaton (left) chief superintendent of the RCMP and Jon Jenkins, Chief of Durham Regional Police, are members of the group fighting organized crime in Ontario
3/2/1984
Fire strikes rooming house. Firemen fighting a blaze today on the top floor of a three-storey rooming-house on Pembroke St. carry up a fan to pull out(...)
Fire strikes rooming house. Firemen fighting a blaze today on the top floor of a three-storey rooming-house on Pembroke St. carry up a fan to pull out(...)
4/10/1975
Ambulance attendants help one of several firefighters injured last night fighting a top-floor blaze in a Triller Ave
Ambulance attendants help one of several firefighters injured last night fighting a top-floor blaze in a Triller Ave
11/23/1987
One of Canada's fighting tanks, six tons of concentrated destructive power, tops a rise at Camp Borden as recruits put it through actual war paces. Th(...)
One of Canada's fighting tanks, six tons of concentrated destructive power, tops a rise at Camp Borden as recruits put it through actual war paces. Th(...)
10/7/1939
No Passengers on this Route, Top bus drivers from across Canada and the United States have been fighting it out for the honor of being named North Ame(...)
No Passengers on this Route, Top bus drivers from across Canada and the United States have been fighting it out for the honor of being named North Ame(...)
9/26/1978