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Kicking off kidney month with a grin, Dialysis patient Linda Colpman, 13, of Toronto is delighted to receive an autograph from Ontario Lieutenant-Gove(...)
Kicking off kidney month with a grin, Dialysis patient Linda Colpman, 13, of Toronto is delighted to receive an autograph from Ontario Lieutenant-Gove(...)

Kicking off kidney month with a grin, Dialysis patient Linda Colpman, 13, of Toronto is delighted to receive an autograph from Ontario Lieutenant-Gove(...)

Date2/28/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Kicking off kidney month with a grin, Dialysis patient Linda Colpman, 13, of Toronto is delighted to receive an autograph from Ontario Lieutenant-Governor John Black Aird when he toured the dialysis unit yesterday at Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. The tour by patrons and guests of the Kidney Foundation of Canada marked the opening of the foundation's annual fund-raising campaign. March is Kidney Month.
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Kidney specialist Dr. Paul Tam vowed to bring a $1 million kidney dialysis unit to Scarborough after Gary Belz died of a heart attack due to kidney failure more than two years ago. Tam said if Belz, then 37, hadn't had to wait a month for dialysis treatment at a downtown hospital, he would still be alive today. And Tam said the dozens of patients who travel downtown for dialysis would have a much, much better quality of life if a unit were Scaborough. But after [Incomplete]
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Report of the right honourable the lords of the committee of His Majesty's most honourable Privy council on certain complaints against Lieutenant Gove(...)
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Unity Applause: Kicking off Yes campaign are, from left, former lieutenant-governors John Black Aird, Pauline McGibbon and Lincoln Alexander
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