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Angry nurses

Angry nurses

Date10/13/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Angry nurses: Placard-carrying nurses staged a noisy demonstration outside the provincial government's offices at Queen's Park yesterday. The nurses took on the new role to drive home their anger at having worked without a contract for 12 months.
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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
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0011842F
      Weary nurses demand changes, Instead of going home to bed after their 12-hour midnight shifts, about 50 nurses from downtown Toronto hospitals marched on Queen's Park yesterday
      Weary nurses demand changes, Instead of going home to bed after their 12-hour midnight shifts, about 50 nurses from downtown Toronto hospitals marched on Queen's Park yesterday
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      6/11/1931
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      Seeking equal pay raises won by general hospital nurses last week, about three dozen psychiatric nurses employed by the Ontario government picketed Qu(...)
      Bezant, Graham
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      From left, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario's Eleanor Ross and Ontario Nurses Association's Gloria Lynn are hoping to remedy conditions that a(...)
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      Bock, Tony
      1/26/1987
      The Queen visits New Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was met by nurses and 15 children from the Catholic Settlement House. Prince Philip joked with the nurses
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      Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022
      6/26/1973
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      Spremo, Boris
      3/5/1969
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      Mahler, John
      11/24/1975
      On the stand: Nurse Mary Costello testifies at Grange commission yesterday that some nurses at Hospital for Sick Children were afraid to join one team because it had so much bad luck
      On the stand: Nurse Mary Costello testifies at Grange commission yesterday that some nurses at Hospital for Sick Children were afraid to join one team because it had so much bad luck
      Cooper, David
      1/30/1984
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      77 - and still going strong, Nope, Jim Magee isn't telling his age but that's how old the Von (Victorian Order of Nurses) is this year. Nurse Judy Whi(...)
      Russell, Jim
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      Barefoot nurses and an intern slosh through the water on the floor of the emergency wing of Wellesley Hospital today as they pass a barefoot nurse ans(...)
      Barefoot nurses and an intern slosh through the water on the floor of the emergency wing of Wellesley Hospital today as they pass a barefoot nurse ans(...)
      Bezant, Graham
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      Nurses like their bright new caps, Nurse Glenice Irvine adds a spot of color to the operating room at the Hospital for Sick Children with her polka do(...)
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      Darrell, Dick
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      Kicking up their heels: Violet King, 76, dances with nurse Derek Spencer at the new Victorian Order of Nurses Adult Day Centre in Willowdale
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