AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
In this episode of Left, Right, and Center, host Jim Chapman asks the panelists about how poverty might be resolved.
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Sep 101997
Jul 011997
Document Description:
This booklet is one of four records of action published by Freedom Party of Ontario to give its members and supporters a brief overview of its activities since the party’s founding in 1984. The four records of action were as published follows:
– “Your Money’s Worth!: Freedom Party In Action! 1984-1991” (~1991)
– “On the Record!: Freedom Party In Action! 1984-1992” (~1992)
– “On the Record!: Freedom Party In Action! 1984-1994” (April, 1995)
– “On the Record!: Freedom Party In Action! 1984-1997” (July, 1997) Continue reading »
May 011997
Contents:
“Second Wind” by Lloyd Walker and Robert Metz
“Drugs Should be Legalized” by Ray Monteith
“The Blessings of Saving Under Free Enterprise” by Mark Callen and Professor Walter Block
“Bottom Rung” by Elizabeth Larson and Professor Walter Block
“The Evils of Rent Control” by Gene McDonough and Professor Walter Block Continue reading »
Apr 121997
Initially as interim party leader, Lloyd Walker remained leader of Freedom Party of Ontario from April 12, 1997 until the spring of 2002. This promotional flyer was published at some point between those dates. Continue reading »
Apr 011997
Contents:
The Common Sense Shuffle The New Dealers and the Common Sense Shuffle; Politics and Poverty; Conference for Concerned Canadians A Success; Fireside Chat with Joe Armstrong; Divisional Court Fines London landlord for discrimination; Free Press defends lack of balance; FP’s Calendar of Canada features hundreds of historical references; Ontario Human Rights Commission produces ‘non-existent’ financial records; FP goes on record against tobacco prohibition; Monteith condemns Canadian drug policies: ‘Tell Washington to buzz off!’; FP refuses compliance with Ontario’s Commission On Election Finances. Continue reading »
Dec 151996
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In this recording, Freedom Party member and former Ontario Vice-president Lloyd Walker calls Jim Chapman, host of “Talk of the Town”, and convinces Chapman that there should be no ban on opening one’s retail store on Boxing Day. On December 16, 1996, Ontario’s legislature passed an amendment to Ontario’s Retail Business Holidays Act which removed Boxing Day from the list of days on which the opening of most retail stores is prohibited). The ban on retail shopping on Boxing Day took effect on December 19, 1996.
Dec 041996
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In this recording, Jim Chapman, host of CJBK AM’s “Talk of the Town” program, is discussing a book by John Booth Davies titled “The Myth of Addiction”. Freedom Party of Ontario executive officer Gord Mood calls-in to argue that, essentially, the use or abuse of a drug is a choice; a matter of free will.
Dec 011996
Contents:
Prepared by Lloyd Walker, this special issue of Consent was a 1997 Calendar, featuring significant Canadian historical notes for each day of the year. Continue reading »
Dec 011996
AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
In this recording, Freedom Party member Paul Blair calls the host of “Talk of the Town” to oppose government interference on what we watch on TV.
Nov 211996
AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
In the wake of the Ontario Medical Association’s (OMA) call for a legal ban on smoking tobacco in the private homes of pregnant women or small children (which the OMA calls “a form of child abuse”), Freedom Party president Robert Metz was invited to square off against Dr. Terry Polovoy of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, on ‘Hot Talk’, Radio 98’s daily open-line program hosted by Gord Harris.
Note: This broadcast was reported in Freedom Flyer #31