Author: Simon

I didn’t really want to watch the coronation of Pierre Poilievre, let alone write about it.  It was just too boring and too ugly. And of course everyone knew who was going to win. The fix was in. But it didn’t take long for Poilievre to show us what kind

Although fall marks the end of summer, and heralds the impeding arrival of winter, I have always loved the season. The fall colours are just another reason I love Canada so much. But this year I'm finding it hard to celebrate the stunning beauty of our country. Read more »

I can only imagine how pleased Pierre Poilievre must have been, to be the first Con to welcome the far-right truckers to Ottawa. He cheered their arrival, he defended their occupation, he brought them donuts and coffee. And for a while at least the move paid off, as the convoy

I have rarely seen a video that disturbed me more than the one of the Con ape Elliot McDavid going after Chrystia Freeland. I have always hated bullies, and McDavid's loud and vulgar misogyny made it even harder to watch. But what I thought was even more disgusting was the way

It's hard to know how desperate Pierre Poilievre must be after all the mistakes his sordid campaign has made recently. But judging from the panicked state of his advisers, and the kooky videos he's putting out, he must finally have realized that he might win the Con leadership race, but

Pierre Poilievre has been making a lot of kooky videos recently, that are both deeply disturbing, and strangely enough also hilarious. Like the latest one where he compares our banking system to a parking meter, that is always stealing our money.  Or the one where he looks like he's about to

As soon as the Con leadership race began Pierre Poilievre came charging out, determined to leave his opponents in the dust. Or drive them off the road. He got big crowds at some rallies, he promised them all kind of crazy things AND the head of Justin Trudeau. And with less

In my last post I wrote about reports that Pierre Poilievre is slowly but surely losing his marbles. The news that Stephen Harper's endorsement had done him more harm than good has apparently pushed him over the deep end. He can't believe that his Big Daddy could let him down

Pierre Poilievre is a really kooky person, a really kooky Con, and he has been making some really kooky videos. Like the one where he appeared to make love to a piece of wood, slobbering all over it like he wanted to mount it. Or the the one where he

I call them the toxic Trudeau haters, and have long warned that unless these ugly Cons are brought under control they could set this country on fire. Only to be shocked by the indifference of so many Canadians, and the media's failure to recognize the danger and expose those would

It has been almost a week since Stephen Harper emerged from his far right crypt to endorse Pierre Poilievre, and we still don't know why he did it. Did he do it to help Poilievre? Did he do it to screw Jean Charest? Or did he do it to help

Stephen Harper has been lurking in the shadows of the ghastly Con leadership race from the moment it began. He let his flunkeys know that they should do everything they could to support Pierre Poilievre, to prevent Jean Charest from becoming Con leader. But he never dared show his face. Until

You don't have to live right next to Billy Bishop Airport, like I and about half a million others do, to understand what a disruptive presence the island airport has become. When the wind blows from a certain direction, you can hear the noise and smell the fumes all over downtown

Pierre Poilievre has been a professional politician all his life. It's the only job he's ever done. He's a feral politico if ever there was one, with a well honed survival instinct. So it's hard to understand how he could have made such a potentially catastrophic mistake as thinking he

It was yet another perfect blue sky day, and I was feeling even sunnier than usual. So I thought that instead of writing about the ugliness of the Cons, I would write about something different, and a little a lot lighter. Like the Prime Minister's new haircut. I couldn't decide

I’ve been taking some time off to enjoy one of the finest summers I can remember, with one blue sky day after the other. I’ve enjoyed getting out on the lake, leaving the noise and the madness of the big city behind. And feeling the fresh clean wind in my

The Con leadership race was always going to be a horror show. Most of the candidates and their supporters were some of the worst political freaks this country has ever known. They were racists, ugly misogynists, vile homophobes, and climate change deniers determined to torch the planet in the name

Pierre Poilievre has always been attracted to far-right extremists. There he is with Andrew Scheer greeting the United We Roll convoy back in 2019. Even though it was riddled with racists, religious fanatics, and those who wanted to arrest Justin Trudeau. Last winter he greeted the convoy that occupied Ottawa with

As you know, Pierre Poilievre has been running away from the new Con convoy which is now preparing to occupy Ottawa again. I thought he had finally learned that his close relationship with the convoy terrorists had many decent Canadians turning away in disgust. And who can blame them?  With the so

It's another American horror show, in a country where there are so many. But this one is different. It's a horror story on an epic scale, a genocidal scale. It's a crime against women everywhere. And it's yet another sign that the long shadow of fascism is upon us.