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Painkiller controversy: Dr. Kenneth Walker has been one of the most vocal proponents of the legalization of heroin for medical purposes for the past f(...)
Painkiller controversy: Dr. Kenneth Walker has been one of the most vocal proponents of the legalization of heroin for medical purposes for the past f(...)

Painkiller controversy: Dr. Kenneth Walker has been one of the most vocal proponents of the legalization of heroin for medical purposes for the past f(...)

Date9/27/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: Painkiller controversy: Dr. Kenneth Walker has been one of the most vocal proponents of the legalization of heroin for medical purposes for the past five years. Any more studies on its use are a total waste of taxpayers' money, he says.
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    ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
    CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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    Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
    Object NumberTSPA_0087917F
    Kenneth Walker: Gynecologist has lobbied two years to have heroin legalized for medical purposes
    Kenneth Walker: Gynecologist has lobbied two years to have heroin legalized for medical purposes
    McConnell, Colin
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    Darrell, Dick
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    Proponents angry: Metro Councillor Scott Cavaller, right, with Chairman Alan Tonks, rails at the province yesterday for killing the market value assessment plan.
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    Beaty, Keith
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    Michael Robinette: The director of the Metro Organ Retrieval Exchange Program doubts that people would ever accept the idea of bodies being kept alive artificially for medical purposes
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    Bull, Ron
    3/4/1981
    More than 500 men, inmates of the Ontario Industrial Farm at Burwash, are producing lumber and other supplies for war purposes. The men can fell tree like the one shown above on a dime
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    Toronto Star (Firm)
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    Geo, Mario
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    No toy, but a scientifically constructed scale model is this sleek replica turned out for test purposes at the National Research Council laboratories (...)
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    National Research Council
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    Upper Canada. --(Public lands.) : An act to provide for the disposal of the public lands in Upper Canada, and for other purposes therein mentioned. (P(...)
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    Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
    1840
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    Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002
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    An act to provide for the formation of incorporated joint stock companies for manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes
    An act to provide for the formation of incorporated joint stock companies for manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes
    John Lovell (Firm)
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    A bill intituled An act for the union of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the government thereof, and for purposes connected therewith (presented by the Earl of Carnarvon
    A bill intituled An act for the union of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the government thereof, and for purposes connected therewith (presented by the Earl of Carnarvon
    Canada. Constitution Act, 1867
    1867