This is one of two versions of Robert Metz’s “Politics Is Personal” issue paper.
Version 1: June, 1988
Version 2: October, 2010 Continue reading »
Jun 011988
Jun 011988
This is Robert Metz’s “Choice” issue paper. Continue reading »
May 311988
Contents:
“Free Trade: Ensuring a Strong Canadian Culture” by Walter Block
“Sunday Shopping and Christian Ethics” by William Frampton
“Films for the Rational Filmgoer” by Marc Emery
“Limits Mean Poor Service” by Lloyd Walker Continue reading »
Apr 301988
Contents:
“No Referendums Please” by Marc Emery
“Equal But not Fair: Ontario’s Family Law Act” by Frank Schaedlich
“Sex-crazed Pension Legislation” by Bruce A. Miller
“The Joke’s On Us!” Continue reading »
Feb 281988
Contents:
“Aborting Our Freedoms” by Marc Emery
“The Right? to Strike” by Lloyd Walker
“The Joke’s on Us!”
“Taxing Charity” by David Pengelly
“Hate Literature” Continue reading »
Jan 011988
Description:
In 1987, then Freedom Party of Ontario Action Director Marc Emery commenced his research into the history of individual freedom, for the purposes of creating a 1988 Calendar of Individual Freedom that would be printed and sold by Freedom Party of Ontario. The calendar featured a number of historical events that, in Emery’s opinion, constituted either “highlights” or “dark days” in the history of individual freedom. It also featured a two page centre-fold of author/philosopher Ayn Rand. The release of the calendar met with critical acclaim, both locally, and among recipients including Milton Friedman, who was one of the people featured in its pages. Continue reading »
Dec 311987
Contents:
Freedom Briefs; Labour vs. Labour: The Truth Behind the Labour Movement; Freedom Party Trashes Garbage Strike; Profile: Ray Monteith; Delivering Our Message on the Postal Strike; U.W.O. Campus Strike; U.W.O. Union Certification Drive; Letters to the Editor; Letters on Labour. Continue reading »
Dec 311987
Contents:
“The Issue is Consent” by Robert Metz
“Who Speaks for Business?” by Marc Emery
“Taxes” by William Frampton
“Protectionism” by David Pengelly
“Can Democracy Save South Africa” by Ian Gillespie and Marc Emery
“Dave Davis and Bill Peterson: Leaders of the Same Party” by Robert Metz
“Unions vs. Freedom of Choice” by Lloyd Walker
INSERT: December 1987 letter from Robert Vaughan, Managing Editor Continue reading »
Jul 311987
Contents:
Openers: Freeing the Slaves. Sunday Closing Laws: Metz and Emery testify to Select Committee on Retail Store Hours; Magder Dinner a Success; Emery to Go to Court August 20 for Sunday Opening Charges; Freedom Party Blasts Toronto City Hall Inquiry Into Sunday Opening Laws. Taxes & Business: BIA Campaigns Draw Government Backlash; Bronte BIA in Trouble After Pamplet Barrage; Bronte Needs BIA; BIA Misrepresents Case; BIA on the Ropes; Mississauga, Toronto, Georgetown, Hamilton, Burlington, and Sarnia Actions; Letters: BIA Backlash; Hamilton City Council Votes Unanimously to As Ontario Government to Ban Freedom Party’s BIA Package and Recommends “Spreading False News” Criminal Charges Against Freedom Party; Newspaper coverage. Meet Bill Frampton. Regulation (Bill 154): Pay Equity Legislation Condemned by Freedom Party at Committee Hearings; Transcript of Questions Asked of Freedom Party by the Committee. Continue reading »
Jun 201987
A violent 18-day strike by unionized (Letter Carriers Union of Canada) Canada Post workers ended on July 4, 1987. During the strike, Freedom Party of Ontario held a counter-picket and expressed opposition to labour monopoly in the postal system and in general. This flyer was used during the campaign. Continue reading »