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Focuses on some of the most ardent letters-to-the-editor writers in British Columbia. Political correctness of nurturing discussion, even among people who are not qualified to contribute to it; Abrasive wit of Larry Bennett; Gerry Bloomer's concentration on environmental and economic issues; Doug Dare's penchant for voicing his opinions on what he perceives as social ills; Ground rules for publication on letters pages.

In this article the editors of the magazine comment on free speech issues in Canada. The central focus of the article is prime minister Stephen Harper's view of the subject, and the efforts on the part of the Canadian Human Rights Commission to regulate hat speech. The editors consider that function to be an assault on free speech and call on Harper to curb the powers of the commission.

This article reports on correspondence between former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and abortion doctor and activist Henry Morgentaler in 1973. After Morgentaler was charged with performing illegal abortions, he wrote to Trudeau about the legalization of abortion, hypocrisy in the government, and abortions related to Trudeau and cabinet members. Information on Morgentaler's 1975 imprisonment and his 1988 victory in the Supreme Court is also provided .

This is an article discussing Canadian politics and the outcome of elections for prime minister that were won by Liberal candidate Paul Martin. He announced self-contradictory policies, such as his opposition to the American-sponsored "weaponization of space," yet suggested that Canada would probably join the Bush anti-missile shield which, of course, is based on the militarization of the stratosphere. Determined to mount a rescue mission to rouse Martin out of his slide, the party's brain trust, as opposed to campaign managers (who didn't deserve that title), met for dinner in Toronto on June 9, about halfway through the campaign. These Trudeau-era apparatchiks couldn't credit the notion that a new political movement only eight months old appeared to be clobbering Canada's Natural Governing Party. The ginger group included Senator Jerry Grafstein, who had prepared a similar wake-up memo for John Turner when he succeeded Pierre Trudeau as prime minister in 1984. Dorothy Davey (the wife of former Senator Keith Davey, who invented the modern Liberal Party).