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December 31 Toronto Members of the […]

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1977-12-31

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December 31 Toronto Members of the Body Politic collective together with lawyer Clayton Ruby held a press conference to denounce the police raid on the newspaper's offices the day before as an attack on freedom of the press. Ruby said that he would initiate an action in the Supreme Court of Ontario to squash the search warrant and demand that everything taken in the raid be returned.

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December 30 Toronto Five members of […]

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Toronto

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Clayton Ruby

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Supreme Court of OntarioToronto Police Service

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The Body Politic

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"Police Told to Yield Papers Taken in Raid," Toronto Star, four star ed., 3 January 1978, p. A3."The Media: Making News Happen," Body Politic, no. 40 (1978), p. 9"Body Politic to Go to Court over Police Raid of Offices," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 2 January 1978, p. 4