The other day, Cathie from the excellent blog Cathie From Canada, left this comment on my blog:I have never been more proud to be Canadian than I have been since this crisis began. Even Ford is rising to the occasion. Someday I hope to read the story of how Trudeau did
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Montreal Simon: Covid-19: The Week That Could Determine The Fate of Canada
It's a bit bleak in my neighbourhood these days. The ice has gone from the rink, so now if you want to skate you've got to have wheels. But I was still glad to be able to spend some time by the lake this weekend, feel the cool fresh wind
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Monstrous Nature of the Cons
About a week ago I ran a picture of Andrew Scheer grinning and chuckling during a debate on the Coronavirus, no doubt thinking that he could use the medical emergency to try to destroy Justin Trudeau.But of course it's not easy to do that, not when Trudeau and his team
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why The Coronavirus Pandemic Could Destroy Donald Trump
Donald Trump has always been a lousy president, a corrupt vulgar man who has debased himself and his country over and over again.He has failed his country in its hour of need. Never has dumb seemed so dangerous.And this is nothing less than attempted genocide.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau And The War On COVID -19
He has had to weather one crisis after another. His wife is sick with Covid-19, and he must take care of their children alone, while under self-isolation.But from that little office he is still governing this country.Still communicating with other world leaders.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Covid-19: So Who Will Get The Ventilators?
There are few worse ways to die than with a bad case of pneumonia, gasping for every small breath of air, a burning pain in your chest, your panicked eyes bulging out of your head.But it's the way most Covid-19 patients die, and why ventilators that can pump oxygen into their damaged
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Covid-19: How To Prevent Our Hospitals From Collapsing
The great Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder drew that one seventeen years ago, during the SARS outbreak. But it works just as well today.For it reflects what many people all over Canada are feeling about the latest killer virus, Covid-19, as it keeps ramping up. Shock. Fear. Panic. Stunned confusion. Madness.But as
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Hate Had To Surrender To Our Canadian Values
The railway blockades have been a real test of Canada's character, a measure of its Canadian values.With most favouring compromise and negotiation over the use of force. While others screamed for native blood.Includiing our monstrous Cons, who tried to use the crisis for crass political purposes.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Peter MacKay and the Cage Boy Horror Show
I have always had trouble taking Peter MacKay seriously. I've always thought of him as a wannabe Margaret Thatcher, who couldn't quite pull it off.There is a reason I call him Dumbo.And of course, this doesn't make him look any smarter.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Canada Is Definitely NOT Broken
I must admit that for a while the situation looked bleak. The country was in an uproar, convulsing in a spasm of late winter madness.Mohawk protesters were trying to set fire to trains, Andrew Scheer and other racists were having a field day. And all over Canada angry old Cons were screaming at Justin Trudeau."Arrest
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Leadership Fiasco: Is This All There Is?
The deadline has come and gone. Nominations for the Con leadership race are now closed.And one thing is immediately obvious, this country has never seen a lousier line-up.In fact so bleak is the situation, that when I think of the two front runners, Peter MacKay and Erin O'Toole, I can't
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney and the Teck Frontier Fiasco
For months Jason Kenney has been strutting around like a puffed up mini Mussolini, bellowing "Trudeau gimme that mine, or else!!!!"And threatening that Alberta could separate if the Liberal government didn't approve the Teck Frontier project, a massive oil sands mine.But today you could hear the air hissing out of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Has Andrew Scheer Finally Finally Lost His Marbles?
As you may know, I have always been deeply concerned about Andrew Scheer's mental stability. His creepy smile, his religious extremism, his feverish obsession with Justin Trudeau, and his compulsive desire to strangle the truth, always made me wonder whether he was going off the deep end.And sure enough, I truly believe
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Day of Decision
He waited as long as he could, too long in the opinion of many.He was obviously hoping that peaceful negotiation could bring down the rail barricades, in the best Canadian tradition.But at last Justin Trudeau's patience was exhausted.And it was the day of decision.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Now Can We Call The Cons The Levant Party?
In my last post, I looked at how Peter MacKay tweeted his support for far-right vigilantes who dismantled a blockade near Edmonton.Only to hastily delete it. But by then it was too late, it had gone viral.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ugly Cons and the Shadow of the Vigilante
The barricades are still up, the ugly Cons are still howling for native blood.And a lot of people all over the country are impatient and angry.But Justin Trudeau's decision to rely on the Canadian values of negotiation and compromise seems to be working. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says he's hoping the RCMP's offer
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Native Protests and the Bestial Cons
Thanks to this blockade I had to rent a car and drive to Montreal, instead of taking the train.But Seb and I got to play our favourite songs all the way there and back, which we hadn't done for a long time. So we had a blast.And for a while
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Clown Erin O’Toole’s Far Right Farce
I've always known that Erin O'Toole wasn't the brightest bulb in the universe, but I've always thought of him as a relatively innocuous Con clown. Unfortunately ever since he set out to win over his party's rabid base, he 's starting to sound like a far-right extremist.And this is just the latest
Continue readingMontreal Simon: John Baird Crashes Out Of The Con Leadership Race
He swam menacingly around the shark tank. He couldn't make up his mind. He knew the Cons were hoping he'd liven up their deadly boring leadership race.He knew they were desperate. It is hard to imagine a race more boring than this one… As in any arena, strong competition breeds strong competitors. A
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will The Native Protests Kill The Reconciliation Process?
As I'm sure you know, there have been protests all over the country, in solidarity with the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in northern B.C.And while most of the protests have been noisy but peaceful.Some have been ugly with people denied entrance to the places where they work.Read more »
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