Volume 3

Note: With Volume 3, the HALT Report became a monthly newsletter. Every issue had four pages except December which had six.

  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 1 January 1981
    • Editorial: Striking Out
    • Firming the HALT Product
    • Book Review: Restoring the American Dream by Robert Ringer
    • LRT: Boon or Boondoggle Part 2 by Marco den Ouden
    • HALT Across Canada
    • Boytinck Appeal Denied
  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 2 February 1981
    • Editorial: HALTing Monopolies
    • The Voucher System by Heather Engstrom
    • Thoughts on Freedom
    • Fiscal Watchdog: Can Justice Be Privatized? by Robert Poole Jr.
    • Easy Come, Easy Go
  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 3 March 1981
    • Editorial: A Question of Ownership
    • Disposable Dilemma by Heather Engstrom & Paul Geddes
    • HALT Across Canada
    • Books by Marco den Ouden
  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 4 April 1981
    • Editorial: Legal Tax Revolt
    • Education: Losing Touch by Paul Geddes & Heather Engstrom
    • Fiscal Watchdog: The Greening of Central Park by Robert Poole Jr.
    • Who’s Who in HALT: Heather Engstrom
    • Easy Come, Easy Go
  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 5 May 1981
    • Editorial: Welcome Aboard
    • HALT Across Canada
    • Rebels: Walter Boytinck and Gerald Hart by Marco den Ouden
    • Who’s Who in HALT: Bill Buckler by Morley Evans
    • Easy Come, Easy Go
  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 6 June 1981
    • Editorial: Sending Back the Free Lunch
    • The Silent Bomb by Walter Block
    • HALT Across Canada
    • Rebels in Action
    • HALT Board Welcomes Robert Poole
  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 7 July 1981
    • Editorial: First Things First
    • Another American Tragedy by Henry Hazlitt
    • Real City Dump: Bookkeeping by Paul Geddes and Heather Engstrom
    • HALT Across Canada
    • Rebels
  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 8 August 1981
    • Editorial: Seeing the “Longer Effect”
    • Fiscal Watchdog: Too Many Cabs? by Robert Poole Jr.
    • HALT Across Canada
    • The Taxman Cometh by Morley Evans
    • Easy Come, Easy Go by Paul Geddes
    • Rebels
  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 9 September 1981
    • Editorial: Enough is Enough
    • HALT Across Canada by Elizabeth Bolstler
    • Rebels in Action
    • Bill 32: What Price Protection?
    • A Slow and Ever-closing Vise by Paul Geddes
    • A Little Close to Home by Gary Ouellett
    • Easy Come, Easy Go
  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 10 October 1981
    • Editorial: Threshold Challenge
    • HALT Across Canada by Elizabeth Bolstler
    • Thoughts on Freedom by Elizabeth Bolstler
    • New Toastmasters Club: On Speaking Freely by Nick Grimshawe
    • Happy Birthday, Ludwig von Mises! by Cam Osborne
    • Tax Vise by Paul Geddes
    • Rebels
  • HALT Report: Vol. 3, # 11 November 1981
    • Editorial: A Message of Interest
    • Debilitating Prognosis by Nick Grimshawe
    • HALT Across Canada
    • Rebels
    • Easy Come, Easy Go
  • HALT Report Vol. 3, # 12 December 1981
    • Editorial: On Civil Disobedience
    • Business Attacks a Tax by Walter Boytinck
    • Tax Vise
    • HALT Across Canada by Elizabeth Bolstler
    • B.C.’s Social Service Tax Act by Andrée Ross and Cheryl Lowther
    • Interest Rates Demystified by Paul Geddes
    • Rebels
    • Golden Gobbler by Bill Buckler
Volume 4

Note: The HALT Report continued for four issues into 1982 when it ceased publication. In fact, HALT effectively disbanded after that last issue. President Richard Bolstler explained the situation in two letters to HALT supporters. One from February explains the financial constraints that necessitated discontinuing a full-time operation and moving to an all-volunteer effort. The second from May is a letter of resignation as President offering the position to anyone willing to take up the torch. No one did. After four years of living on their savings and running two fine fulltime libertarian organizations, Richard Bolstler and Mike Little returned to private life, ending an important and vital chapter in the Vancouver libertarian movement.

However, while The Libertarian Foundation and HALT effectively died in 1982, another organization, the Greater Vancouver Libertarian Association, had sprung up in January 1981 as a riding association of the Libertarian Party of Canada. It later became the West Coast Libertarian Foundation (this is its website). Its newsletter, West Coast Libertarian, was published continuously, albeit sporadically, from January 1981 to the late 1990s. Those newsletters will be archived here as well.

  • HALT Report Vol. 4, # 1 January 1982
    • Editorial: The Choice is Yours
    • Tax Vise: The Budget Dispatched by Paul Geddes
    • Fiscal Watchdog: Paratransit: The Future is Now by Robert Poole Jr.
    • HALT Across Canada by Elizabeth Bolstler
  • HALT Report Vol. 4, # 2 February 1982
    • Editorial: Pierre’s Polish Joke
    • Rebels in Action by Elizabeth Bolstler
    • Thoughts on Freedom by Bruce Vaughn
    • Easy Come, Easy Go
    • Golden Gobbler by Bill Buckler
  • HALT Report Vol. 4, # 3 March 1982 – 4 pages
    • Editorial: Appealing Development
    • HALT Across Canada by Elizabeth Bolstler
    • Rebels in Action
    • Canada: Poised for Freedom by Kenneth McDonald
    • Easy Come, Easy Go
    • Golden Gobbler by Bill Buckler
  • HALT Report Vol. 4, # 4 April 1982
    • Editorial: For Whom the Bell Tolls
    • HALT Across Canada by Elizabeth Bolstler and Bruce Knapp
    • Thoughts on Freedom by John Egolf Jr.
    • Port Moody City Council Knuckles Under by Cheryl Lowther
    • Tax Vise
    • Rebels in Action