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The team: Complaints commissioner Sidney Linden, seated centre, with his investigators, from left: Steve Lechnewsky, Ed Singleton, Philomena Stanway, Lorenzo Mendoza and Astaw Seife
The team: Complaints commissioner Sidney Linden, seated centre, with his investigators, from left: Steve Lechnewsky, Ed Singleton, Philomena Stanway, Lorenzo Mendoza and Astaw Seife

The team: Complaints commissioner Sidney Linden, seated centre, with his investigators, from left: Steve Lechnewsky, Ed Singleton, Philomena Stanway, Lorenzo Mendoza and Astaw Seife

Date3/12/1982
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Today, the Police Complaints Board under complaints commissioner Sidney Linden, left, will decide the officer's fate
Today, the Police Complaints Board under complaints commissioner Sidney Linden, left, will decide the officer's fate
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Sidney Linden, below left, is Metro's public complaints commissioner.
Sidney Linden, below left, is Metro's public complaints commissioner.
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Sidney B. Linden Q.C. Public complaints commissioner
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Treasure of Whiterock Estates, Ronald Bluestein sits in his office in downtown Toronto explaining his company's real estate operations in Ontario. He is one of three principals in the firm which subdivides farm land, and then aggressively sells lots with the slogan Own a Piece of Canada. A team of Star investigators has disclosed that titles to many of the Whiterock Estates lots are faulty.
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Drug investigators: Metro police chief Jack Marks, left, was asked by Harold Adamson to investigate drug problems at Woodbine afte Dan Beckon's death
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Police and investigators from the Ministry of Transport sort through personal effects and debris at the site of yesterday s airliner crash. They ident(...)
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