Max Seltzer, Author at The True North Times

Manitoba Will Take Aboriginals to Court to Flood Their Territory

Lake St. Martin, Manitoba, is a hotbed (and a floodbed) of Aboriginal activism today, amid blockades over measures to open an emergency channel to help drain the overfilled lake after devastating flooding acros...

Couillard and Leitao’s New Quebec Budget: Balanced next year?

Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitao tabled the 2014-2015 Quebec budget today, and it's quite densely packed. The government plans to erase the deficit by the 2015-2016 budget, which we should see again this t...

Clement Gascon: The Quest for a French-Sounding Quebec Supreme Court Justice

Stephen Harper has appointed a new judge to the Supreme Court of Canada, and this time it may actually work! The Supreme Court's Quebec quota has been left unfilled since Morris Fish's retirement nine months ag...

Ontario Debate: Recap and Highlights

The leaders' debate for the Ontario election just wrapped up, and it was a hot mess (for lack of a better term). All three leaders had fiery rhetoric, half formed plans for the province and cute anecdotes. Here...

Mulcair Committee Appearance on Satellite Offices: A Rundown

Thomas Mulcair has a hearing today. Except, instead of putting the PM on trial as he normally does, Mulcair is the one forced to answer questions. Here's a rundown: Essentially, the NDP set up a s...

Canada Pushes Oil into Europe, Sanctions into Russia

Canadian Natural Resource Minister, Greg Rickford, has been on a celebrity tour of Europe promoting the hottest new Canadian product: crude. With sanctions pending against Russia, European leaders are now worri...

Rob Ford Still Missing, Will Be Back For Election: “Rehab is Amazing”

Rehab? Or...somewhere else? The Learning Company | The Hollywood Reporter | Shaun Merritt | X-Weinzar Rob Ford claims he has gone to rehab, and we don't doubt him, but he has also vanished off th...

Watching the Ridings – Quebec Election 2014

Everybody knows that in First Past the Post, some ridings are more important than others. Here's our analysis on some of the most shocking results on the evening, in some of the most contentious ridings. We'll ...

Depose Ford and Annex Toronto | Counter-Counter-Point

This article is part of our series Counter-Counter-Counter-Point. For a call for Rob Ford to stay in office, read Kyle Muzyka's perspective. With the wrath of the mighty storm o' ice still paralyzing the c...

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