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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
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Call Number / Accession 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(...)
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
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
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
2/17/1984
Ken Murray, Bids for blueline job
Ken Murray, Bids for blueline job
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
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.
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
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(...)
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
3/3/1965
Arthur F. Knowles: TV Ontario's plea for funds from its viewers is alarming in view of the fact that the station has done so poorly with the $30 million already provided by the taxpayers, reader says. Crown corporation can't begin to compete with Buffalo's PBS station.
Arthur F. Knowles: TV Ontario's plea for funds from its viewers is alarming in view of the fact that the station has done so poorly with the $30 million already provided by the taxpayers, reader says. Crown corporation can't begin to compete with Buffalo's PBS station.
4/9/1982
Douglas Sherbanluk: If taxpayers have to choose . . . they will feed their families, tax expert says.
Douglas Sherbanluk: If taxpayers have to choose . . . they will feed their families, tax expert says.
4/12/1977