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It doesn't work: Ken McLennan, standing, with draftsman Everton Martin, says competitive bids on construction contracts -- intended to keep prices down for taxpayers and businesses -- have the opposite effect
It doesn't work: Ken McLennan, standing, with draftsman Everton Martin, says competitive bids on construction contracts -- intended to keep prices down for taxpayers and businesses -- have the opposite effect

It doesn't work: Ken McLennan, standing, with draftsman Everton Martin, says competitive bids on construction contracts -- intended to keep prices down for taxpayers and businesses -- have the opposite effect

Date5/29/1980
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      ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0130139F
      Artist Martin Hirschberg must be laughing at the government for foolishly spending $38,000 on electric sclupture and at the taxpayers who will be payi(...)
      Artist Martin Hirschberg must be laughing at the government for foolishly spending $38,000 on electric sclupture and at the taxpayers who will be payi(...)
      Lennon, Frank
      1/25/1975
      Stop the upward spiral of our taxes is the rallying that George McLean, 45, executive director of the Canadian Taxpayers Association, hopes will spur Canada's little taxpayers to join his organization
      Stop the upward spiral of our taxes is the rallying that George McLean, 45, executive director of the Canadian Taxpayers Association, hopes will spur Canada's little taxpayers to join his organization
      Lennon, Frank
      7/27/1978
      With scrap steel selling for half of what it was a year ago, dealers like Benny Stark have to recycle heaps of ingenuity to keep their businesses alive
      With scrap steel selling for half of what it was a year ago, dealers like Benny Stark have to recycle heaps of ingenuity to keep their businesses alive
      Spremo, Boris
      10/13/1982
      Reassures investors: Contracts with Japanese on coal shipments from the Quintette project in British Columbia are firm on volume and price, Denison chairman Stephen Roman says
      Reassures investors: Contracts with Japanese on coal shipments from the Quintette project in British Columbia are firm on volume and price, Denison chairman Stephen Roman says
      Mahler, John
      2/17/1984
      Ken Murray, Bids for blueline job
      Ken Murray, Bids for blueline job
      Spremo, Boris
      9/29/1970
      Slacking seizures: Tough times have forced commercial landlords to negotiate for back rent instead of evicting businesses - and that's hurting his business, says Al Stanley, who works with Dorie Wallace at Durham Balliff Services
      Slacking seizures: Tough times have forced commercial landlords to negotiate for back rent instead of evicting businesses - and that's hurting his business, says Al Stanley, who works with Dorie Wallace at Durham Balliff Services
      Irish, Paul
      3/20/1992
      Greig Clark (left) explains work order to Graham Appleton, one of the students working for Clark's College Pro Painters company. He expects to sign $1 million in contracts between now and September and employ up to 250 student painters.
      Greig Clark (left) explains work order to Graham Appleton, one of the students working for Clark's College Pro Painters company. He expects to sign $1 million in contracts between now and September and employ up to 250 student painters.
      Lennon, Frank
      5/3/1978
      Architect Irving Grossman has known artist most of his life and because of these contracts most of the works in his personal collection are pieces that have been created by very close friends
      Architect Irving Grossman has known artist most of his life and because of these contracts most of the works in his personal collection are pieces that have been created by very close friends
      Philp, Barry
      1/27/1967
      Seeking bids. Dave Sharp works to heat up the bidding on a dump truck at an auction sale held yesterday by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, in Bolton. It wa(...)
      Seeking bids. Dave Sharp works to heat up the bidding on a dump truck at an auction sale held yesterday by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, in Bolton. It wa(...)
      Dunlop, Al
      12/12/1991
      Limousines like this one cost Toronto Taxpayers $200,000 a year, Controller Margaret Campbell gets out of her chauffeur-driven car at city hall
      Limousines like this one cost Toronto Taxpayers $200,000 a year, Controller Margaret Campbell gets out of her chauffeur-driven car at city hall
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      3/3/1965
      Emissary: On behalf of taxpayers, John Pickard, Metro treasurer and commissioner of finance, is the man who swings multi-million-dollar deals in the Eurobond market
      Emissary: On behalf of taxpayers, John Pickard, Metro treasurer and commissioner of finance, is the man who swings multi-million-dollar deals in the Eurobond market
      Loek, Dick
      8/20/1987
      Mrs. Patricia Whitehead. I can't see spending taxpayers' money on it any more
      Mrs. Patricia Whitehead. I can't see spending taxpayers' money on it any more
      Ross, Fred
      8/3/1971