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Ty Turner: Official of Psychiatric Patients Advocate Office calls plan a major step backwards.
Ty Turner: Official of Psychiatric Patients Advocate Office calls plan a major step backwards.

Ty Turner: Official of Psychiatric Patients Advocate Office calls plan a major step backwards.

Date5/27/1986
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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House of fear: The St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital houses patients judged not guilty of violent crimes by reason of insanity. Hospital administrator Bob Cunningham, inset, is striving to quiet fears of residents opposed to the release of patients into the community.
House of fear: The St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital houses patients judged not guilty of violent crimes by reason of insanity. Hospital administrator Bob Cunningham, inset, is striving to quiet fears of residents opposed to the release of patients into the community.
7/16/1988
Tokenism feared: Former psychiatric patients Don Weitz and Carol Stubbs, top photo, worry that patients in institutions won't be told they can vote.
Tokenism feared: Former psychiatric patients Don Weitz and Carol Stubbs, top photo, worry that patients in institutions won't be told they can vote.
4/26/1985
On the Job: Dr. Mory Gutman saw patients as usual at his office in the Toronto General Hospital yesterday because all the doctors at the clinic had decided earlier to put their patients first and boycott the doctors' walkout.
On the Job: Dr. Mory Gutman saw patients as usual at his office in the Toronto General Hospital yesterday because all the doctors at the clinic had decided earlier to put their patients first and boycott the doctors' walkout.
4/27/1982
Robert Stephens cosults with a patient in his office. During one weekend, Dr. Stephens talked by phone with 40 patients, was six in his office, visited eight at home and three in hospital, all at about a $3 hourly rate. Not rapacious for overtime work, he says.
Robert Stephens cosults with a patient in his office. During one weekend, Dr. Stephens talked by phone with 40 patients, was six in his office, visited eight at home and three in hospital, all at about a $3 hourly rate. Not rapacious for overtime work, he says.
1/16/1973
A plant doctor who makes house calls is 25-year-old Brian Murphy, who sometimes takes a terminally wilting patient back to his apartment for round-the-clock care among the 60 plants already in residence
A plant doctor who makes house calls is 25-year-old Brian Murphy, who sometimes takes a terminally wilting patient back to his apartment for round-the-clock care among the 60 plants already in residence
5/29/1974
Parkdale expose: On assignment for The Star, freelance writer Betty Jane Wylie posed as a former mental patient to learn the plight of hundreds of psychiatric patients
Parkdale expose: On assignment for The Star, freelance writer Betty Jane Wylie posed as a former mental patient to learn the plight of hundreds of psychiatric patients
8/24/1981
Flood of calls: Brian Donlevy in NDP office takes one of 500 messages from TV viewers backing Kormos.
Flood of calls: Brian Donlevy in NDP office takes one of 500 messages from TV viewers backing Kormos.
4/27/1990
Determined to Stay: Lawyer Irvine P. Dickier, 87, was too busy making phone calls in his 16th-floor office to leave because of a fire nine floors below, to the frustration of Toronto Firefighter Rich Gunns.
Determined to Stay: Lawyer Irvine P. Dickier, 87, was too busy making phone calls in his 16th-floor office to leave because of a fire nine floors below, to the frustration of Toronto Firefighter Rich Gunns.
12/19/1991
He's had it: Brian Mulroney of Toronto sits in his law office and wonders how many more calls he will have to field for his distant cousi, the new Progressive Conservative leader
He's had it: Brian Mulroney of Toronto sits in his law office and wonders how many more calls he will have to field for his distant cousi, the new Progressive Conservative leader
6/13/1983
David Bodrug's firm designs and plans office interiors and it carried out the first major 'office landscape' project in Canada. Open office areas with movable partitions are common today. Firm has branches in Ottawa and New York.
David Bodrug's firm designs and plans office interiors and it carried out the first major 'office landscape' project in Canada. Open office areas with movable partitions are common today. Firm has branches in Ottawa and New York.
2/23/1977
Debbie Bill of Haney, B.C., hopes to win Olympic high jump title in 1972 at Munich. She demonstrates her style of going over bar backwards. Debbie's b(...)
Debbie Bill of Haney, B.C., hopes to win Olympic high jump title in 1972 at Munich. She demonstrates her style of going over bar backwards. Debbie's b(...)
2/9/1971
Rising to the challenge. Carolyn Chanler of Governor Simcoe in St. Catharines bends over backwards to get a medal. Here, she gets at least half of her(...)
Rising to the challenge. Carolyn Chanler of Governor Simcoe in St. Catharines bends over backwards to get a medal. Here, she gets at least half of her(...)
6/5/1992