Freedom Flyer (Issue #9: January, 1987)

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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 »

Freedom Flyer (Issue #7: July, 1986)

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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 »

Gord Mood versus David Peterson on Minimum Wage Laws

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Jun 121985
 

1985-xx-xx.mood-peterson-thumbAUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

On June 12, 1985, David Peterson (then leader of the Ontario Liberal Party and premier-in-waiting) was a guest of the Wayne McLean talk show. Topics covered: taxpayer funding for the Pan-Am Games; facilities for women; contracts with hospital workers; extra-billing for health care services; Ontario Hydro debt; funding for Catholic high schools; de-indexing of pensions; beer and wine in corner stores; a bill on status Indians; difference between the Liberals and NDP; minimum wage laws; tuition fees and high grades needed to attend university; and a domed stadium for Toronto.

At the 36:15 point in the recording, Freedom Party of Ontario’s Gord Mood calls in and asks for difference between Liberals and NDP. Peterson says that the NDP are socialists and the Liberals are not. He then asks Gord the difference between the socialists and Premier Miller. Mood replies that Miller apparently has caved-in to the radical left within and without of his party. Gord then asks about wanting to work for less than the minimum wage: is it better for him not to work than to work at less than the minimum? Peterson says that Gord seems to be trying to catch him in a logical trap.

Gord Mood Excerpt:
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Freedom Flyer (Double Issue, #5 and #6: June, 1985)

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Jun 011985
 

Contents:
Issue #5: First half of 1985 – Freedom in Action; Front Page, Marc Emery, FP Action Director guest on open-line radio; Robert Metz audio tapes on election 1985; Pan-Am update; (Openers) Metz discusses multiple topics from current political events to community involvement; Hear the Voice of Freedom Party, cassette tapes of debates and radio talk shows; No Tax for Pan-Am games campaign successful; Excerpts from Pan-Am newspaper articles (London Free Press); Pan-Am related political cartoons (London Free Press); Excerpts from newspaper articles Pan-Am Games, Capital Gains, Bob Rae on Income Tax (Globe & Mail); Eaton’s Unionization Strike a Failure; Eaton’s Strike a Scam, Garth Turner, Excerpts from newspaper article (Toronto Sun); Freedom and Responsibility in Ontario’s Educational System, details and proposals on education.

Issue #6: Election 1985, Creating a Choice, Political cartoon (London Free Press); Article, FP Campaign Director, Marc Emery; Fringe Parties don’t go anywhere – FP election activities – newspaper excerpts (London Free Press); Freedom Party Candidates 1985; Feminists Avoid Freedom Party; More, No Tax for Pan-Am Victory, history of the campaign, flyer, document and newsletter reprints.

NOTE: Issue 5 of the No Tax for Pan Am Committee Newsletter was included, as an insert, in this double issue. Continue reading »

Freedom Party’s First Election Profiled on TV London News (Ontario’s 1985 Provincial Election)

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Apr 251985
 

VIDEO – DESCRIPTION:

During the Ontario provincial election of 1985, TV London news did a report introducing the public to Freedom Party, and its first election. It profiled the three Freedom candidates who ran in that election: Robert Metz, Rob Smink, and Michelle McColm. Discussed: bureaucracy, unions (Eaton’s rejection of union), job-creation schemes, health care, abortion, taxes and more. Continue reading »

Freedom Flyer (Issue #3: May – June – July – August, 1984)

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Aug 011984
 

Contents:
Openers: Money, Effort, Dedication; From the President; Talkin’ Philosophy; Freedom Party only Political Party Supporting Freedom of Speech; Our Continuing Battle Against Censorship; “Freedom Party praises AMI’s handling of hospital” (newspaper coverage); Planning and Preparation for Municipal Elections (Part 3); What Price Freedom? What Cost the Lack of It? Continue reading »

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