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Thursday, December 30, 2010

BELL TELEPHONE'S WRONG WRONG NUMBERS

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 LET'S KEEP DINGING BELL When Bell was fined $1.3 million for screwing around with the same do-not-call list that it is paid to run, I...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

ERIC DOWD, CONSCIENCE OF QUEEN'S PARK

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RELENTLESS, CANTANKEROUS, EXASPERATING Each December, the courteous phone call came from Eric Dowd, inviting me to the Queen's Park Pr...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

JOHN DOWNING BIOGRAPHY

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FAMILY John Henry Downing Junior was born June 10, 1936 in Toronto to J. H. Downing, an east-end doctor who chaired the Toronto Board...
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

KENNY ROBERTSON VE3 ERS

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BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM The Toronto Telegram died in 1971 but its memories live on with a shrinking band of survivors from the fi...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

MINI SKIRTS AND ROBERT FULFORD

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HOW EXPO 67 SHOOK UP CANADA Robert Fulford and I were sitting having an agreeable time at one of the many parties before Expo 67 opened whe...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

TAKING THE HIGH ROAD ON EGLINTON TRANSIT

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One constant in Toronto's transit politics is that if you have three people in a board room planning the next transit line, you will get...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

GREAT SUCCESS OF RUNNYMEDE HEALTHCARE CENTRE

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SURVIVING THE GAUNTLET There is nothing as grand as the re-opening of a hospital which has had more death notices than those who h...