Jan 011987
 

Contents:
FP Action Campaign Take Off in Ontario, Aurora, Newmarket, Hamilton, Burlington, Metro Toronto, Mississauga, London, St. Thomas, Keswick, Sarnia; (Openers) Metz discusses plans for 1987, Censorship Alert campaign; An Experience to Remember, Michael Emerling (Essence of Political Persuasion), Photos from FP Workshop – October 1986; BIA Campaign Mushrooms Into Major Effort, Merchants meet ant-BIA Group – excerpt (Hamilton Spectator); FREEDOM Party goes to the marketplace to support Sunday Choice, Marc Emery on CFPL-TV, Sunday Shopping, Retail Business Holidays Act; Scores of Charges Laid Over Sunday Shopping (Globe & Mail), Group Stages Blitz for Sunday Choice (Toronto Sun), Grocery Stores Continue to Defy Closing Law (St. Thomas Times Journal); Freedom Party Newspaper Campaign; Election 1987, election call expected in Spring; List of FP Publications.. Continue reading »

Dec 101986
 

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

One of Freedom Party’s many functions is to accept invitations to high schools in Ontario and speak on freedom, freedom of choice and, of course, Freedom Party. Here, Fp President Robert Metz talks with grade 13 students at Northern Collegiate High School in Sarnia in December of 1986. Based on his reference to the distribution of flyer’s opposed to a ban on Sunday retailing, it is being assumed that he appeared at Northern Collegiate between December 7 and December 14, 1986 (the dates on which the flyers were distributed).

Note: Robert Metz’s talk at Northern Collegiate was reported in Freedom Flyer #9.

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Oct 041986
 

1986-10-06.emerling-thumbVIDEO – DESCRIPTION:

On October 4 and 5, 1986, Freedom Party held a workshop for its members and supporters at the then Park Lane Hotel at 186 King Street in London, Ontario. Titled the “Art of Political Persuasion Workshop”, the workshop was led by political advisor Michael Emerling (a.k.a., Michael Cloud). It was Emerling’s first workshop for Freedom Party of Ontario (the second being held in 1989). The workshop originally had been planned and marketed as a two-day event and those two days were video taped in their entirety. Continue reading »