Golly. If Stephen Harper's stature on the world stage keeps shrinking we're going to have to swap that magnifying glass for a microscope eh? Yesterday we found out how low he has sunk. When the New York Times accused him of muzzling scientists in a monstrous attempt to "guarantee public ignorance."Today
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Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Neverending Torture of Omar Khadr
I knew that something was terribly wrong when the very first thing he did when he came to power was go after the equality of women. I still remember the chill that went through me, when I realized we were now in the hands of some weird ideologue, with cold dead eyes, and a REALLY
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The New York Times Goes After the Harper Regime
Uh oh. It looks like Stephen Harper has been exposed. He's been trying to fool the Americans into thinking he's a REAL environmentalist, so Obama will give him his precious Keystone pipeline. But being called a tongue biter, or a muzzler, by the New York Times, isn't going to help.Read
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Outrageous Prorogation Vacation
Well at least now we know another reason Stephen Harper shutdown Parliament. Not just so he could dodge questions about that sordid Senate scandal. Or take a long paid vacation before he went over the deep end.But also so he could travel across the country, and launch his new/nouveau re-election campaign.By shamelessly
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Scottish Independence and Some Lessons for Canadians
Well for a brief moment today I was able to escape the grim, grey, reality of Harperland. My body was in soggy Toronto, but my heart was in Edinburgh. Because one year from now Scotland will hold a referendum to determine whether it wants to become an independent country. And
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Obamacare, the Koch Brothers, and the Harper Cons
It's a frightening and truly disturbing sight. The Republicans in the House of Representatives threatening to shut down the American government. Again. With one vote on Friday, the Republican-led House launched the latest spending battle in Congress — one that could bring a government shutdown in less than two weeks. By a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rona Ambrose, and the Con War on the Sick
Well I see it didn't take long for the new/nouveau Con Health Minister Rona Ambrose to show her true colours. Health Minister Rona Ambrose is slamming her own department's decision to provide heroin to certain addicts under a special access program and insisting it won't be allowed to happen again. "Our
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Economist Leader Myth
It's one of the most depressing things about living in Harperland eh? The way Great Monstrous Leader commits one democratic atrocity after the other, but gets away with it by claiming he's the best leader to manage the economy.And so many Canadians still swallow that fraudulent myth, hook, line, and SINKER. When in fact Stephen
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mike Duffy’s Mysterious Visit to the Harper PMO
Oh my Satanic Sherlock. This PMO mystery just keeps getting more and more entertaining, in a nightmarish sort of way.Yesterday we found out that although the paper trail was lost, or consumed in the hellish fires humming shredders of the Con regime, Mike Duffy did visit the PMO as the Senate scandal was
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Senate Scandal: How Did Harper Not Know?
Well as you know it's been hard to know what went on in the PMO as the Mike Duffy scandal was breaking. And the Cons were in a frenzy trying to cover it up. Because the PMO operatives would rather cut their own tongues off than squeal. And the paper
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Joe Oliver Collided with Robert Redford
OMG. How embarrassing. I see that old Con man Joe Oliver just won't give up. Once he tried to fool us into thinking that the water from the tar ponds would be safe to drink. Now he's in New York trying to scam the Americans into believing that the Cons
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Gun Lobby Goes After the Harper Cons
Well it seemed like a good idea at the time eh? Kill the long gun registry, screw those dead women, get the RCMP to hide the cost of destroying the records.And pleasure his rabid base.Because he thought they would be easily satisfied… But unfortunately for Great Majority Hunter Leader they weren't. Read
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland: The Horror and the Resistance
If you want to know what Stephen Harper and his monstrous Con regime have done to this country, all you had to do was look around you today to see it in all its horror. A Parliament shutdown by a Prime Minister to prevent the opposition from asking questions about a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: General Alexander’s Scary Star Trek Fantasy
He is the man most responsible for taking the surveillance state into a new and even more sinister Orwellian age. The General who while working in Iraq decided that instead of just monitoring terrorists and suspects he should monitor EVERYONE. And as the head of the National Security Agency is now
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Strange and Scary History of Stephen Harper
One of the reasons we find ourselves living in the sinister darkness of Harperland, is because too many Canadians know nothing about the tortured career or weird nature of the man who would change this country beyond recognition. But would do it in such a shadowy, stealthy, incremental manner that many would not
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Voyager One and Our Message to the Aliens
It's amazing to think that this little toy that we earthlings made is now sailing out of our solar system. The tireless Voyager I spacecraft, launched in the disco era and now more than 11 billion miles from Earth, has become the first man-made object to enter interstellar space, scientists said
Continue readingMontreal Simon: My Kind of Way to Fight the Quebec Charter of Values
I really like this photo. And I'm glad some Quebecers took to the streets today to protest against the PQ's exclusionary so-called Charter of Quebec Values. And although I am an atheist if I had been in Montreal today I might have marched with them. Because I will not let
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Pamela Wallin and the Sad Tale of the Monkey Senator
Oh goody. Hooray !!!! We're all more than $100-thousand dollars richer (divided by 35 million). And all thanks to Pammy !!!! Senator Pamela Wallin says she has sent personal cheques totalling $100,600.98 plus interest to the federal government to repay expense claims as ordered by a Senate committee last month.And
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con War on the Truth
If you want to understand what Stephen Harper is trying to do to Canada you can't focus on each individual atrocity he commits, no matter how painful the bite. You have to focus on the whole ghastly web he is spinning, to understand that his main target is the TRUTH. Take
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Pipeline Crusade
Well he may be losing his battle to convince Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, but I see nothing will stop Stephen Harper from launching yet another oily crusade. First he will conquer or bribe British Columbia.A parade of cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats will head to British Columbia
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