Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 24, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday june. 24, 1968 15 Reform in sex sought Hamilton up Norm Braden is Long haired wealthy and 22, and he s running for parliament to Reform Canada s sex Laws. An Independent Liberal Candi Date in Halton Wentworth or. Braden says he wants to break open morality by legalizing fornication homosexuality abortion and prostitution. He advocates free birth control pills for All women including single girls of 15. At present he says Canadian women Are nothing More than erotic objects with second class status the statement was contained in three mimeographed sheets setting out or. Braden s pro Gram and it caused some raised eyebrows in suburban Waterdown where he lives. That part about fornication see that and just curl he says. I think a lot of people Don t know what it Means and they visualize some sort of orgy. It s one of those words you get in the Back of a Little 60-cent paperback which nobody knows what it Means. 1c i had said sex Ual Intercourse that would have been All right but not Fornica although he says his platform is unchanged or. Braden has removed seedy language and replaced it with All inclusive euphemisms for a leaflet which will be mailed to the Riding s Homes. He bases his Campaign on opposition to a situation in which he says the poor and Rich Are unequal. Wealthy people can buy Safe abortions while poorer women die in Kitchen table operations. In parliament he would sup port the Liberal program and represent poor people who have no political Power. A political science student at Amherst College in Massachusetts until last month or. Bra Den says he himself has enough Money that he does t have to work for a living. I have nothing to he says. I m just taking advantage of the fact that the Money i m spending i did t have to his late father Bill Braden was vice president of the Hamil ton Street railway and a Mem Ber of a prominent old Hamilton family. His step father John Page is headmaster of a Pri vate boys school Willfield col lege. Gas line review ordered Washington up the . Court of appeals ruled Fri Day that the Federal Power commission pc give further consideration to the permit it issued to the great lakes Gas transmission co. To build a pipeline running South of the great lakes. A spokesman for trans can Ada pipe lines ltd., which with the american natural Gas co. Of Detroit is a joint owner of great lakes Gas transmission said the court decision did not overrule or set aside the earlier pc permit. The court in its 40-Page finding said the Fig should give further consideration and study to various aspects of the Case. The court was ruling on the Appeal of Northern natural Gas co. Of Omaha which also had bid for the pc permit. North Ern among other things suggested there might be a Viola Tion of . Anti Trust policy in the award of the permit to great lakes transmission. It argued that if trans can Ada ran the pipeline alone its Gas would be in Competition with that of the Detroit com Pany but that their joint Ven Ture through great lakes Gas introduced an element of anti Competition. The pipeline is to run from the Manitoba Border through the . To Sarnia and Sault Ste. Marie ont. Part of the natural Gas would be sold in the . And the rest in Ontario and Quebec. Although the court made its finding Public Friday it has not yet issued a order to the pc to commence further consideration of its the permit. Eventually after reconsideration the pc could reconfirm its earlier finding and elaborate on the reasoning behind it or change its original finding. Or the matter could be taken to the . Supreme court. The court of appeals in its ruling said that the pc failed to apply proper standards to de Termine anti Trust policy and ignored significant anti competitive effects of the joint venture. Racial ratio Washington Negros comprised 20 per cent of the total . Population in 1900, but in More recent estimates the ratio has declined to the present rate of about 14 per cent. It s High time you did some winning As Well As the politicians. How can you win the election you can Send More new democrats to Ottawa. Lower drug prices. With More new democrats in Ottawa you la win the election. Can you think anyone More important decent housing at a Price you can afford new democrats want the same things you want. A lower Cost of living lower drug prices and decent housing you can afford to name a few. An old age pension you can live on with dignity. Authorized by the new party you la win with More new democrats in Ottawa Churchill Brian Michael mrs. Edith Harry North David South Centre Frances Boniface Harry Shafransky Dauphin mrs. Evelyn Harold Van Kazmir de North Centre Stanley South Bill River Harvey Moats ;