AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
FPO’s President Robert Metz calls into the Wayne McLean radio talk show to tell the show’s guest – Bishop John Sherlock – about his concern for a an anti-capitalist statement on the economy.
Jul 141986
Jul 011986
Contents:
Openers; Group of Conviction Run By Man With Many Convictions; Action Director Marc Emery Goes to the Polls in London Civic Election; Tax Credit Ceiling Raised; Freedom Party Supporters Help Win a Big Battle for More Freedom for Merv Lavigne and Millions of Canadian Workers; “Teacher wins key case on use of union dues” (newspaper report); Promises, Promises! (socialized medicine); Freedom Party Campus Association Gets Rolling in 1985-1986 Campus Year; “Wage gap blamed on women’s own views” (newspaper coverage); Unemployment – As a Goal in Life; A Four Letter Word Starting With “F” (Censorship Alert campaign). Continue reading »
Jun 201986
AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
Open-line talk-radio debate between (then) Communist Party of Canada’s leader William Kashtan and FPO’s President Robert Metz.
Note: In 1986, Freedom Party promoted this recording as one of its “Hear the Voice of Freedom” cassette series. In the promoted version, the original recording (taken from the June 20, 1986 episode of Hotline, with Wayne McLean) was preceded by an introduction. Links to both the “Hear the Voice of Freedom” production, and to the original Wayne McLean recording from which the production was made, appear below.
May 011986
Contents:
Sounding the alert!; Censorship: Let us count the ways; Political books seized by Canadian customs; Censorship- A black and white issue; No humans allowed; Still the censor board to us; More censorship has all party support; Smurfs, Jedi manipulate children through sexual stereotyping; Swedish censor board restricts E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial; Four Star Trek episodes deemed unsuitable for children by B.B.C; Thousand and One Nights ruled obscene; Censorship Alert! Contributions tax-creditable; New type of censorship; Toronto Sun publisher finds anti-censorship ad “respulbive, tasteless, and insensitive”; Religious conviction can get you a legal conviction; Pro-apartheid speaker ban sought at Toronto university; Censorship violates all our fundamental freedoms; No nudes are good nudes; Disarmament groups cite hate literature provisions in attack of Red Dawn; women primary market for ‘blue’ videos; Racist trash; Help us soud the ALERT! through newspaper advertising; Censorship aided and abetted; draft of proposed newspaper ad; Rock music & videos under attack; The sounds of censorship; Canadian writers, artists, plead for forced support; Feminist view of men irrational & hateful; Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me!; Sex toys now ruled obscene publications; ‘Disgusting’ objects determined by number on display; ‘Art police’ at work; Brotherhood of censors; Nyetto videos; Artistic fascism; Child pornography: the censor’s favourite myth; Linda Lovelace still a “victim”; Ontario teachers favour censorship; Who’s responsible?: Ideas vs. action. Continue reading »
Apr 011986
Contents:
Rob Martin: A man for all (political) seasonings; Government and student government; Opportunity denied; Must we beg?; South Africa, freedom, democracy, and the lessons of the past. Continue reading »
Feb 011986
Contents:
Sounding the alert!; Censorship: Let us count the ways; Political books seized by Canadian customs; Censorship- A black and white issue; No humans allowed; Still the censor board to us; More censorship has all party support; Smurfs, Jedi manipulate children through sexual stereotyping; Swedish censor board restricts E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial; Four Star Trek episodes deemed unsuitable for children by B.B.C; Thousand and One Nights ruled obscene; Censorship Alert! Contributions tax-creditable; New type of censorship; Toronto Sun publisher finds anti-censorship ad “respulbive, tasteless, and insensitive”; Religious conviction can get you a legal conviction; Pro-apartheid speaker ban sought at Toronto university; Censorship violates all our fundamental freedoms; No nudes are good nudes; Disarmament groups cite hate literature provisions in attack of Red Dawn; women primary market for ‘blue’ videos; Racist trash; Help us soud the ALERT! through newspaper advertising; Censorship aided and abetted; draft of proposed newspaper ad; Rock music & videos under attack; The sounds of censorship; Canadian writers, artists, plead for forced support; Feminist view of men irrational & hateful; Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me!; Sex toys now ruled obscene publications; ‘Disgusting’ objects determined by number on display; ‘Art police’ at work; Brotherhood of censors; Nyetto videos; Artistic fascism; Child pornography: the censor’s favourite myth; Linda Lovelace still a “victim”; Ontario teachers favour censorship; Who’s responsible?: Ideas vs. action. Continue reading »
Feb 011986
Contents:
Censorship Defence Fund promotional poster. Continue reading »
Dec 021985
AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
In the 1980’s, Garfield (“Gar”) Mahood was the head of the Non-Smokers Rights Association (NSRA). The group’s purpose, essentially, was to get people to stop smoking tobacco. In this recording from the Wayne McLean talk show on Radio 98 in London, Ontario, Mahood was McLean’s in-studio guest. Freedom Party president Robert Metz calls in in reaction to Mr. Mahood’s comment, apparently made earlier in the broadcast, that if the London Free Press newspaper and other newspapers do not police themselves as he said they promised to do – i.e.., stop publishing tabacco advertisements – then the NSRA is in favour of a legislated solution (i.e., censorship). NOTE: this is the only portion of the broadcast that was recorded.
Dec 011985
AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
In late 1985, radical feminist Varda Burstyn was the guest of a CBC talk radio show hosted by David Shatzky. The two discussed a book that had just been published (release date: November 28, 1985): Women Against Censorship. Burstyn was the book’s editor. The book contained a number of essays concerning feminist views on pornography and how to combat it. The general message of the book was that pornography should be eliminated not by censorship but by the promotion of feminist ideas. Freedom Party of Ontario’s Robert Metz initially found the topic hopeful – because it was opposed to censorship – but his hopes quickly were dashed: Burstyn was advocating taxpayer funding for the promotion (on air, etc.) of feminism. Metz called in to the show. This is the recording of his call.
Aug 091985
AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
August 9, 1985. It’s the cold war, and the Berlin Wall is years away from falling. It is the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan by the USA. U.S. President Ronald Reagan has announced a “Star Wars” initiative that would destroy enemy missiles before they land and do harm. Canadians hold strong views about whether to participate in the development of Star Wars. And an 18 year old young man by the name of Jamie Lefcoe (founder and president of Students United for Nuclear Sanity) is the in-studio guest of Radio 98’s Wayne McLean Hotline. Lefcoe’s group is against missile testing, and the arms race. McLean asks his callers: “Was it right for the USA to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and on Nagasaki?”, and “Should Canada be involved in Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars Program?”.
Lefcoe’s position is that Canada should not participate in Star Wars, that mutual disarmament is the way to go, and that it is irrelevant which side (USA versus the USSR) is worse. To him, the USSR’s communist philosophy and totalitarian nature is not the issue, and does not matter. Over the course of the two hour program, three Freedom Party members call in to the show: Gord Mood, Robert Metz, and Marc Emery. London West’s MP, Tom Hockin (PC) also calls in.