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Waffle 1972-1973
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1972-1973 (Creation)
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1 folder of textual records
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File consists of newspaper clippings, event information, news releases, statements,memos, correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas relating to the establishment of the Waffler Movement for an Independent and Socialist Canada, after the formal departure of the group from the New Democratic Party caucus. File includes the newsletter Waffle News, PRO TEM issue number 3 with ‘An interview with James Laxer’(1972) and the O. A. P. O. Newsletter with a press release on the throne speech and guaranteed adequate income (G.A.I.). It also includes memos and activity updates from the Kingston Waffle and Ottawa Waffle and other Waffle groups across Ontario, alongside agendas for Waffle conferences in London, Ontario. It also includes the Waffle’s 1972 Federal Election coverage and Waffle co-founder John Smart’s perspective of the Waffle Council Meeting in 1972. It also includes a press release regarding the resignations of Bruce Kidd, James Laxer and Krista Maeots of Toronto and John Smart (Ottawa Centre) from their positions on the executive of the Ontario New Democratic Party and a statement on the Waffle’s own political campaign during the 1972 federal election, where the group decided not to run a candidate, but instead campaign to highlight issues and areas of the country the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP ignored in their platforms.