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Sign of the times, Watch your step reads the sign outside the Legislature at Queen's Park where NDP Leader Bob Rae spent some agonizing hours this wee(...)
Sign of the times, Watch your step reads the sign outside the Legislature at Queen's Park where NDP Leader Bob Rae spent some agonizing hours this wee(...)

Sign of the times, Watch your step reads the sign outside the Legislature at Queen's Park where NDP Leader Bob Rae spent some agonizing hours this wee(...)

Date5/11/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sign of the times, Watch your step reads the sign outside the Legislature at Queen's Park where NDP Leader Bob Rae spent some agonizing hours this week. Should he back the Liberals and help bring down the Tory government? Or should he support a Tory minor
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    ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
    CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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    Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
    Object NumberTSPA_0075136F
    Bread-and-butter campaign: Some voters were upset veteran Donald MacDonald stood aside for the new NDP leader to run for Queen's Park, but Bob Rae's meeting them face-to-face
    Bread-and-butter campaign: Some voters were upset veteran Donald MacDonald stood aside for the new NDP leader to run for Queen's Park, but Bob Rae's meeting them face-to-face
    Rae, Bob
    6/6/1982
    Boxed-in TTC striker Bob Miles uses sign in front of Queen's Park today voicing disapproval as members of the Legislature met to end Metro's 19-day tr(...)
    Boxed-in TTC striker Bob Miles uses sign in front of Queen's Park today voicing disapproval as members of the Legislature met to end Metro's 19-day tr(...)
    Bezant, Graham
    8/30/1974
    Man in the middle, NDP leader Bob Rae walks out of Premier Frank Miller's office at Queen's Park today after hearing a personal plea to support the mi(...)
    Man in the middle, NDP leader Bob Rae walks out of Premier Frank Miller's office at Queen's Park today after hearing a personal plea to support the mi(...)
    Rae, Bob
    5/24/1985
    Strategic plan: Lieutenant-Governor Hal Jackman reads the Speech from the Throne in which the NDP government says troubled times call for a creative response
    Strategic plan: Lieutenant-Governor Hal Jackman reads the Speech from the Throne in which the NDP government says troubled times call for a creative response
    Bull, Ron
    4/6/1992
    Seeing the sights: Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis gets some tourist tips from Diana Jervis-Read, Ontario's deputy chief of protocol, yesterday after leaving a Queen's Park meeting with Premier Bob Rae
    Seeing the sights: Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis gets some tourist tips from Diana Jervis-Read, Ontario's deputy chief of protocol, yesterday after leaving a Queen's Park meeting with Premier Bob Rae
    Spremo, Boris
    12/6/1990
    Watch where you're going: The recent warmer weather has brought out signs of summer, like this balloon and popcorn vendor who was spotted pedding his wares past Queen's Park yesterday
    Watch where you're going: The recent warmer weather has brought out signs of summer, like this balloon and popcorn vendor who was spotted pedding his wares past Queen's Park yesterday
    Spremo, Boris
    11/18/1982
    Hot time: Premier Bob Rae, left, interim Liberal leader Jim Bradley and Conservative Leader Mike Harris took part in the first Queen's Park Sizzler comedy roast
    Hot time: Premier Bob Rae, left, interim Liberal leader Jim Bradley and Conservative Leader Mike Harris took part in the first Queen's Park Sizzler comedy roast
    Mahler, John
    11/27/1991
    Circling Queen's Park, 135 large dump trucks seal off the Legislature building for more than three hours today as the Ontario Haulers Association soug(...)
    Circling Queen's Park, 135 large dump trucks seal off the Legislature building for more than three hours today as the Ontario Haulers Association soug(...)
    Spremo, Boris
    6/12/1974
    Metro's first is a long one, Metro Council had its first meeting in the new City Hall last night, but it was just like old times. Members spent six hours trying to get their business done
    Metro's first is a long one, Metro Council had its first meeting in the new City Hall last night, but it was just like old times. Members spent six hours trying to get their business done
    City council members
    9/22/1965
    NDP outgrows its Caucus room. The 38 New Democrats elected to the Legislature last week couldn't fit in their old caucus room at Queen's Park today and had to meet in a committee room to plan their strategy as Opposition. Leader Stephen Lewis (left) talked with Dr. Charles Godfrey (Durham West), of the Pickering anti-airport group People Or Planes. Behind them is former provincial leader Donald MacDonald (third from right).
    NDP outgrows its Caucus room. The 38 New Democrats elected to the Legislature last week couldn't fit in their old caucus room at Queen's Park today and had to meet in a committee room to plan their strategy as Opposition. Leader Stephen Lewis (left) talked with Dr. Charles Godfrey (Durham West), of the Pickering anti-airport group People Or Planes. Behind them is former provincial leader Donald MacDonald (third from right).
    Lewis, Stephen, 1937-
    9/24/1975
    He's hot: Conservative Leader Mike Harris, left, lambastes Premier Bob Rae in the Legislature yesterday over NDP scandals
    He's hot: Conservative Leader Mike Harris, left, lambastes Premier Bob Rae in the Legislature yesterday over NDP scandals
    Harris, Mike, 1945-
    11/23/1992
    Slow and fast: Ontario Premier David Peterson, left, wants to carefully study free trade deal, but NDP Leader Bob Rae wants him to condemn it and recall Legislature
    Slow and fast: Ontario Premier David Peterson, left, wants to carefully study free trade deal, but NDP Leader Bob Rae wants him to condemn it and recall Legislature
    Bock, Tony
    9/2/1987