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Downtown London Metrobulletin (Issue #2)

Jun 011981

Published by later-to-be Freedom Party Action Director Marc Emery, nine issues of the Downtown London Metrobulletin were published from 1981 to 1982. Emery launched the Downtown London Metrobulletin after leaving the broadsheet newspaper he founded in 1980, the London Tribune. Emery and fellow investor/writer Robert Metz left the London Tribune over its editorial policy: Emery’s vision of a hard-hitting newspaper was trumped by other investors, who did not want their friends and business connections to be criticized in the paper. The Downtown London Metrobulletin was succeeded by the London Metrobulletin in 1983, which Emery launched after buying the printing assets of the London Tribune (which had failed following the departure of Emery and Metz).

Contents of Issue #2:
We’re back; Exclusive interview: the mayor, Al Gleeson; Downtown in 1986: Wow!; B.I.A. Report: Mall experiment delayed until next year; Eyesores; Crime and punishment: Allan Singer has been taken to court for conducting his business in English; Core area sabotage; Manual for starting a “Community Assoc.”; Random notes; Downtown parking: Plenty of it!; Random notes on parking; An interview with the President of Alcor Investments: ‘Bullish on downtown’; Letters; Bids to restrict competing businesses decried.
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Robert Metz on inflation and greed

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May 191981

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Years prior to the founding of Freedom Party of Ontario, Robert Metz calls into the Wayne McLean radio talk show to talk about inflation and greed.

Robert Metz on “the poverty line”

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May 151981

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Years prior to the founding of Freedom Party of Ontario, Robert Metz calls into the Wayne McLean radio talk show to talk about “the poverty line”.

Downtown London Metrobulletin (Issue #1)

All, Downtown London Metrobulletin

May 151981

Contents of Issue #1:
What a mess; In search of the 3rd dept store; Council: Everything we touch turns to stone; Random notes; The downtown business “Tell it like it is” survey; Random notes; New ideas: Dining in the great! outdoors; Cabs: Gov’t price fixing; Random notes; B.I.A. board meeting Tuesday May 12: For 1981…no mall; Mall plan ignores merchants; Letters. Continue reading »

Marc Emery on Access 96: BIAs

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May 121981

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Robert Metz on capitalism in Ireland

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May 061981

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Years prior to the founding of Freedom Party of Ontario, Robert Metz calls into the Wayne McLean radio talk show (the guest of which was Reverend Carson) to comment about capitalism in Ireland. Robert finds it surprising for anyone to consider Ireland capitalistic. Robert discusses the nature of capitalism versus a mixed economy.

Marc Emery on Access 96: private police

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Apr 281981

1980-xx-xx.emery-thumb2 AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

Years prior to the founding of Freedom Party of Ontario, Marc Emery was a weekly contributor a program called Access 96, broadcasted on CFPL FM 96 in London, Ontario. In this broadcast, Marc condemns the 6% conviction rate of the London police force, and concludes that people are going to have to hire private police if they want to be protected from criminals.

Marc Emery on the conflict in Ireland

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Apr 221981

1980-xx-xx.emery-thumb3 AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

Years prior to the founding of Freedom Party of Ontario, Marc Emery calls into the Wayne McLean radio talk show to comment about the conflict in Ireland.

Marc Emery on Access 96: OMB hearings

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Apr 211981

1980-xx-xx.emery-thumb2 AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

Years prior to the founding of Freedom Party of Ontario, Marc Emery was a weekly contributor a program called Access 96, broadcasted on CFPL FM 96 in London, Ontario. In this broadcast, Marc talks about a four-week Ontario Municipal Board hearing into the expansion of White Oaks Mall and Westmount Mall. Marc speaks out against bad and unscrupulous business persons using by-laws to interfere with their competitors.