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Senior Citizens from many parts of Ontario, joined by members of the United Auto Workers, rally at Queen's Park yesterday to ask for higher pensions, (...)
Senior Citizens from many parts of Ontario, joined by members of the United Auto Workers, rally at Queen's Park yesterday to ask for higher pensions, (...)

Senior Citizens from many parts of Ontario, joined by members of the United Auto Workers, rally at Queen's Park yesterday to ask for higher pensions, (...)

Date2/28/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Senior Citizens from many parts of Ontario; joined by members of the United Auto Workers; rally at Queen's Park yesterday to ask for higher pensions; more health benefits and better housing. More than 1;000 pensioners were there; including eight busloads
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    GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
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    Photographs
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0011716F
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      Angry senior citizens rally in Nathan Phillips Square, June 25 against Mulroney's proposals to de-index pensions
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      Darrell, Dick
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      6/5/1947
      Higher old age pensions must wait until the economy is sound enough to pay for them, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau told a television interviewer in New Zealand on May 14
      Higher old age pensions must wait until the economy is sound enough to pay for them, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau told a television interviewer in New Zealand on May 14
      Spremo, Boris
      5/25/1970
      If this is a time of crisis, is it not reasonable to ask all members of the economy - citizens and corporations - to accept a short-term limitation on(...)
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      Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
      9/22/1967
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      Power, Peter
      11/20/1990
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      Spremo, Boris
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      Bezant, Graham
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      Darrell, Dick
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      Stawicki, Andrew
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      Showing their displeasure, some 1,300 members of the Ontario Farmers' Union mass in Queen's Park to plead their cause for higher prices. [Incomplete]
      Geo, Mario
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      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
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