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Don River backdrop: NDP leader Bob Rae promised a law ensuring women and men get equal pay for similar jobs, to end doctors' extra-billing and cut tax breaks to big business
Don River backdrop: NDP leader Bob Rae promised a law ensuring women and men get equal pay for similar jobs, to end doctors' extra-billing and cut tax breaks to big business

Don River backdrop: NDP leader Bob Rae promised a law ensuring women and men get equal pay for similar jobs, to end doctors' extra-billing and cut tax breaks to big business

Date4/10/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Don River backdrop: NDP leader Bob Rae promised a law ensuring women and men get equal pay for similar jobs, to end doctors' extra-billing and cut tax breaks to big business.
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No more breaks: NDP Leader Ed Broadbent says oil firms should get no more tax breaks
No more breaks: NDP Leader Ed Broadbent says oil firms should get no more tax breaks
3/29/1979
Two leaders of a group of doctors who now extra-bill their patients say that if the government bans the practice, they will defy the law, pay the fine(...)
Two leaders of a group of doctors who now extra-bill their patients say that if the government bans the practice, they will defy the law, pay the fine(...)
3/18/1986
Committee clash: Dr. Hugh Scully, left, chairman of the Ontario Medical Association board, tangled with Ontario NDP leader Bob Rae yesterday over plans to ban extra-billing
Committee clash: Dr. Hugh Scully, left, chairman of the Ontario Medical Association board, tangled with Ontario NDP leader Bob Rae yesterday over plans to ban extra-billing
4/10/1986
Discipline issue may have doctors marching on Queen's Park again as they did last year over extra-billing (above)
Discipline issue may have doctors marching on Queen's Park again as they did last year over extra-billing (above)
5/29/1986
Discipline issue may have doctors marching on Queen's Park again as they did last year over extra-billing (above)
Discipline issue may have doctors marching on Queen's Park again as they did last year over extra-billing (above)
6/16/1986
Information campaign: Striking doctors stood outside Exhibition Stadium yesterday to hand out literature on their reasons for their fight against extra-billing
Information campaign: Striking doctors stood outside Exhibition Stadium yesterday to hand out literature on their reasons for their fight against extra-billing
6/15/1986
Office closed: Dr. Louis Myers closes up shop on Brunswick Ave. as doctors across the province start an open-ended strike. This latest move intensifies their protest against extra billing and officials hope for at least the 60-per-cent response they got in last month's two-day walkout.
Office closed: Dr. Louis Myers closes up shop on Brunswick Ave. as doctors across the province start an open-ended strike. This latest move intensifies their protest against extra billing and officials hope for at least the 60-per-cent response they got in last month's two-day walkout.
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Opposing views: Showdown over extra-billing sets nurses and teachers (above) against doctors
Opposing views: Showdown over extra-billing sets nurses and teachers (above) against doctors
8/9/1967
Murray Elston: Health minister wants to deduct extra-billing from doctors' payments
Murray Elston: Health minister wants to deduct extra-billing from doctors' payments
4/15/1986
Bob Rae: NDP leader asked MDs what they were negotiating, if not a billing ban
Bob Rae: NDP leader asked MDs what they were negotiating, if not a billing ban
4/10/1986
On the spot: Financial Institutions Minister Brian Charlton said the government is reviewing whether to allow pension funding breaks promised by the Liberals
On the spot: Financial Institutions Minister Brian Charlton said the government is reviewing whether to allow pension funding breaks promised by the Liberals
3/18/1991
His mother breaks up when Ontario NDP Leader Stephen Lewis tells audience at testimonial dinner for his father that she got angry and used language he'd never heard her use before when he pretended he didn't want to speak at dinner
His mother breaks up when Ontario NDP Leader Stephen Lewis tells audience at testimonial dinner for his father that she got angry and used language he'd never heard her use before when he pretended he didn't want to speak at dinner
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