Skip to main content
Digital Archive Ontario Homepage
Armstrong: Minorities are treated badly when jobs are at premium, the former rights commissioner says
Armstrong: Minorities are treated badly when jobs are at premium, the former rights commissioner says

Armstrong: Minorities are treated badly when jobs are at premium, the former rights commissioner says

Date4/27/1981
Names
(photographer)
FormatPicture
Notes
Original Toronto Star caption: Armstrong: Minorities are treated badly when jobs are at premium, the former rights commissioner says.
Subject
    Medium
    Photographs
    Language
      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0029655F
      Former chiefs: Jack Ackroyd, left, and Harold Adamson are credited for taking the first steps to improve relations between Metro police and minorities when they headed the force
      Former chiefs: Jack Ackroyd, left, and Harold Adamson are credited for taking the first steps to improve relations between Metro police and minorities when they headed the force
      Ackroyd, Jack
      1/2/1983
      Lemona Johnson: Police need more education about minorities, says the widow of a man shot by a policeman
      Lemona Johnson: Police need more education about minorities, says the widow of a man shot by a policeman
      Mahler, John
      9/27/1979
      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]
      Bull, Ron
      10/2/1985
      TV or not TV: That is the question for CFL commissioner Donald Crump, who will be seeking a television rights deal to give the league a badly needed cash transfusion
      TV or not TV: That is the question for CFL commissioner Donald Crump, who will be seeking a television rights deal to give the league a badly needed cash transfusion
      Bull, Ron
      1/5/1990
      Recruitment dispute, Metro police deputy chief Jack Marks, left, says studying the number of minority-group officers would break the Human Rights Code(...)
      Recruitment dispute, Metro police deputy chief Jack Marks, left, says studying the number of minority-group officers would break the Human Rights Code(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      3/11/1982
      Hindo-Moslem differences threaten to result in a massacre of minorities in Bengal, a province of 60,000,000 population
      Hindo-Moslem differences threaten to result in a massacre of minorities in Bengal, a province of 60,000,000 population
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      5/26/1947
      Commons committee goes on the road next week to listen to groups who believe minorities are constant victims of ignorance and bigotry
      Commons committee goes on the road next week to listen to groups who believe minorities are constant victims of ignorance and bigotry
      Cooper, David
      11/6/1977
      Paul Gill: The most difficult group to reach will be female members of visible minorities, predicts police constable who was born in India
      Paul Gill: The most difficult group to reach will be female members of visible minorities, predicts police constable who was born in India
      Power, Peter
      12/6/1991
      Getting involved in the planning and excitement of International Women's Year, women from various racial minorities met in Metro at the home of Kay Li(...)
      Getting involved in the planning and excitement of International Women's Year, women from various racial minorities met in Metro at the home of Kay Li(...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      1/31/1975
      Making links: Constable Bission Ramdewar hopes improved communications with ethnic minorities will enable him to prepare police for touchy situations
      Making links: Constable Bission Ramdewar hopes improved communications with ethnic minorities will enable him to prepare police for touchy situations
      Dexter, Brian
      7/5/1988
      Poster features a modified illustration of a queen of hearts playing card.
      International Women's Day! Jobs and rights for women!
      Klunder, Barbara
      1979
      Toronto art dealer avrom isaacs: Feels badly treated even though case was dismissed
      Toronto art dealer avrom isaacs: Feels badly treated even though case was dismissed
      Barkley, Harold
      10/21/1972