Oren Lefkowitz, Author at The True North Times

CCLA: Most Detained Canadians Are Innocent, Awaiting Trial

Apparently our law enforcers have been doing an exceptionally thorough job of protecting Canadians from the frighteningly dangerous threat of people who might have committed a non-violent offence maybe (but mos...

New Brunswick Legislature to Return For One Day For Pension Amendments

In a world strongly divided along party lines, it seems that one group is capable of uniting our leaders: old blue-collared retirees, specifically ones who used to work in a paper mill in Edmunston, New Brunswi...

4 BC Events That Weren’t Archived, So We’ll Never Know About Them

The years of 2004 to 2014 will be forever remembered as a time in British Columbia when nothing happened. The wind may have blown, the snow may have fallen, but in terms of human civic history, not a peep was h...

The CRA Audits PEN Canada For “Political-Activities” AKA Harper-Hating

Yesterday morning, the Canadian Revenue Agency launched their political-activities audit of PEN Canada, a small charity dedicated to promoting freedom of speech, and you don't need to audit the CRA to figure ou...

It works so well, but it's still so disturbing

Elizabeth May Enlists NDP And Grits For Co-Operation To No Avail

They say you’ll never get what you want if you don't ask for it, but with Elizabeth May's new strategy to pick up seats in the next election, no one's even calling her back. This past weekend was the Green P...

Aboriginal Leaders Give Vancouver An Eviction Notice

When it comes to First Nations politics, Vancouver wants to have its cake and eat it too. There's a pattern here of two-faced policy that's got local Aboriginal leaders ready to evict the city of Vancouver off ...

Politicians are Animals: The Paintings of Tony Taylor

Call it a zoo, a jungle, or even a vet’s office. However you want to spin it, there’s one common message uniting these commonly used analogies; politics is animalistic. Beyond the façade of polite photo-ops and...

Health Canada: 6-Year-Old Epileptic Boy Must Smoke Marijuana

It would seem that due to the changes Health Canada have made to their medical marijuana rules, Liam McKnight, a 6-year-old Ottawa boy suffering from epilepsy, can no longer legally buy his cannabis oil and mus...

Ottawa Prostitutes Won’t Expose Tories’ Johns

In a stunning twist of irony, Canada’s prostitutes have proven to have more integrity than our dearest politicians. Yesterday morning, a representative for POWER (Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau Work, Educate...

Eve Adams And Natalia Lishchyna Disqualified: Tories Put Their Foot Down

OPEN CALL: The Conservative Party is looking for a new candidate for the Oakville-North Burlington riding, since they just recommended that both of the front-runners be disqualified for misconduct. Anyone who i...

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