Nick Auf der Maur

His daughter Melissa Auf der Maur was a frequent subject of his newspaper columns as she was growing up.

[citation needed] Auf der Maur was also a television personality, serving as co-host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Quelque-Show with Les Nirenberg during the early 1970s.

While working as a story editor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he and his producer were arrested under the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.

He accurately predicted the massive cost overruns and deficits of the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, and was a sharp critic of longtime mayor Jean Drapeau.

In 1987 Auf der Maur controversially supported the Overdale development, which saw nearly 100 of his constituents evicted from their homes, which were then demolished in 1989.

In 1988, he briefly joined the Civic Party of retired former mayor Jean Drapeau, to whom he had previously been bitterly opposed.

[4] Auf der Maur was a regular at various downtown Montreal bars, and often transacted official and unofficial business there.

The introduction was written by his long-time friend Mordecai Richler, and contains over 20 caricatures of Auf der Maur drawn by political cartoonist Aislin.