Hello! I just donated $250 to your riding association, although I happen to live in the PM’s riding. I wonder what he is thinking? I did this to reward your courage in standing up for the constitution and voting against inexplicable party lines on Bill C-13. I am no lawyer,
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Tattered Sleeve: Oh, Carey
(apologies to Steve Perry) You shouldn’t have posted Knowing how Montrealers feel And you should’ve known Dec. 6 and what it means Oh, I must’ve been a dreamer And I thought you were someone else ‘Course you’re livin’ in a bubble! Oh, Carey, regarding guns Hold on, hold your fire
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Project: The Good People Network
Maybe if we can just all be there for each other Kay? PS: It’s up to all of us to kick the shit out of this life while we’re still here. The dead wouldn’t have it any other way, wot?
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Worries and worts
“We’ll inherit the Earth, but we don’t want it!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZkXQMfZi34 “Thought the eighties were bad enough…” “Free speach got stolen by a pack of thieves… “Silence is death” The voices of dissent
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: It’s the Econom… I mean, Senate, Stupid!
For my younger audience, note that the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign was driven by the message: It’s the Economy, Stupid! (internally only). So… Super Tuesday results are coming in and I see three things: 1) Being unjustly targeted by Trump is turning out to be a very good thing for
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: HOW DID I GET HERE?
Same as it ever was As I watched David Byrne get seemingly jarred and shocked asunder upon an SNL stage last weekend, reprising one of his old band’s best-known hits from the 1980s, it dawned on me that while he has been making hay of this song for nearly forty
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: 30 years ago but never to be forgotten
Geneviève Bergeron (1968-1989)Hélène Colgan (1966-1989)Nathalie Croteau (1966-1989)Barbara Daigneault (1967-1989)Anne-Marie Edward (1968-1989)Maud Haviernick (1960-1989)Maryse Laganière (1964-1989)Maryse Leclair (1966-1989)Anne-Marie Lemay (1967-1989)Sonia Pelletier (1961-1989)Michèle Richard (1968-1989)Annie St-Arneault (1966-1989)Annie Turcotte (1969-1989)Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (1958-1989) May they rest in eternal peace. And may they ever remind us of the need to eradicate violence against women, and
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: This Andrew Scheer guy is not a good guy
All day, Liberal candidates, such as Marc Garneau, have been tweeting and re-tweeting a little snippet of Canadian political history that really underscores Andrew Scheer’s deep disrespect for this country and its most valued institutions: https://twitter.com/MarcGarneau/status/1184468914123751424?s=20 https://twitter.com/i/status/1184468914123751424https://twitter.com/MarcGarneau/status/1184468914123751424?s=20 https://twitter.com/MarcGarneau/status/1184468914123751424?s=20https://twitter.com/MarcGarneau/status/1184468914123751424?s=20 from Wikipedia.org: “O Canada” (French: Ô Canada) is the national anthem of Canada.
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Scott wrote to his Green Party candidate
Given the nature of the Green Party of Canada, and their leader’s stance that all votes will not be whipped, I decided that I would reach out to my local GPC candidate, Daniel Green, to understand his own positions: Mr. Green, As a committed humanitarian and former GPC financial officer
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Top Ten Other Things Andrew Scheer Didn’t Lie About, But Was Never Asked
“I’ve never tried to hide that (I am a dual US-Canadian citizen),” he said in a scrum with reporters in Halifax. “I’ve never been asked about it by Canadians. My father has always been open about where he comes from. I haven’t been asked about it.”–Andrew Scheer 10. Being a
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Montreal: March for Climate Action 09-27-2019
When I hear Greta Thunberg damning the world at the UN… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2019/sep/23/greta-thunberg-to-world-leaders-how-dare-you-you-have-stolen-my-dreams-and-my-childhood-video …I am reminded of exactly where I was when I wrote No Healing: https://soundcloud.com/randboro/no-healing-rough-draft Lyrics: Messing aroundDigging up tarpitsAnd we’ll burn it all away Mining that goldExporting asbestosTrade the future for today We don’t know whyBut I’ve got
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Bollocks, Bollocks, and… what else? Ah yes, more BOLLOCKS
They are lying to you. Deliberately. Methodically. They use a playbook that was written by a maniac who believed so strongly in his own accidental tribal genome that he fatally poisoned his entire brood to prove his horrifically misguided point. That is the usual end-game for the misguided who look
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: The Hate — Original Song #38
As we approach the sad 30th anniversary of a brutal hate crime that left a stain on my beautiful city, I find to my surprise this song of mine, written many years ago, absent from the history of this blog. No longer. RIP, Joe Well you know something’s been eating
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Maisy was born December 3, 2018
She will not reach 12, apparently, before life on this planet is doomed to be inhabitable for humanity.I take that very seriously. As soon as I became a father, that kind of thing started to matter – vibrantly; excruciatingly. Until then, it served as …what? An excuse for nihilism? Bottoms
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Every Canadian should read Bob Rae’s column in the Walrus
It is all about Canada-USA relations, and in particular, this uncomforting reality: “It’s time we understood just how far apart our two countries are and act accordingly” The whole text is here. Interestingly, it comes just hours after the publication of this warning for the EU from the Guardian:EU must
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Stoke the Fire / Untermenschen (repost)
Stoke the Fire (performed live circa 2011) Caught in machinationsBeyond your power?Busy earning a livingYou stoke the fire And you wonder how theyCould let it happenNo time to questionHow big is your picture? Successive generations will be quick to damn usMaybe they‘ll understand us Recipe for murder:Divide the horrorGive the
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: I’m with Lloyd – the USA is not a safe third country right now
I enjoyed another fantastic Father’s Day in the company of my children, but all the while I fought back tears whenever I heard more of the sordid tales of asylum seekers’ treatment at the hands of the US Department of Homeland Security. It’s full-on psychological torture to the parents and
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Preying on Me
I was living in the Mile End Lovely place to find a friend Course you know no one there Is just like me English, French, Greeks Indigenous and artists Lots of folks I call the blister-hearted And that includes the Hasids They’re always doing lots of prayin’ They gotta do
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Requiem for the Hangover of a Canadian Immigrant – Original Song # 36
Eleven months in Still finding your place You cheer for the Habs Watch The Amazing Race The kids have made friends Learned some French, ate Subway (Read more…) you cannot find work And you have just four weeks’ grace Lo and behold It’s Canada Day The PM looks lost touring
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Amazing Che
Amazing ChéHow sweet the soundOf Habs fans leaving their seats In the K, he was lostBut with the CH, was foundWe give praise to Bergevin ‘Twas Captain K that taughtThe PP to clickLeko and BBQ, my FHFears relievedHow precious did that CHé appearThe OT I first believed Through many Rangers,
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