Once upon a time when I thought about the plight of our First Nations, I used to think that George Bernard Shaw was right:"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them. That is the essence of inhumanity."But now I see
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Montreal Simon: Idle No More and the Ugly Canadians
One of the many things the Idle No More movement has done is force many Canadians to stare at the face of the real Canada.And in the process take a good look at themselves.But what I can't help but wonder is now that they have, do they like what they
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Great Day of Protest
Oh boy. I sure picked the wrong day to be felled by the flu eh? Because I wanted so much to be there.But even on the small TV in my death bed bedroom, it was an awesome and inspiring spectacle. As members of the federal government and First Nations community met
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Media Assault on Idle No More
There was an incredibly revealing moment today. A moment that summed up the way many in the MSM have been going after Chief Spence and the Idle No More movement.And like it has been all along, it was both banal and brutal.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Great Confusion
Well I think it's safe to say that it was quite a day in my home and native's land eh?As if the great Ojibwa Mishipeshu of Lake Superior was thrashing its tail around and causing a great confusion. Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she won't be at a meeting Friday between First
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Racist Backlash
As the great rising continues, I see that a Global TV crew has been kicked out of Attawapiskat. A Global News crew was escorted off the Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario and threatened with arrest after trying to do a story on living conditions in the community. And while on the one
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Cons and the Big Smear
Well it's not in the Book of Chaos, the 200-page handbook the Cons once put out to disrupt the opposition, and shut down committees.But it clearly comes from the same cesspool of depravity.From the same Con operatives who brought you Stephen Harper's catalogue of dirty tricks.And it's filthy instructions couldn't
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Sounds of Resistance
Well say what you like about Stephen Harper. Call him the Crime Minister or the devil himself.But nobody can deny that he’s consistent eh?One moment he’s waging a war of wills with a starving woman who represents some of the poorest people in Canada.Or boasting about the eleven thousand government
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Real Terrorists
If Stephen Harper thought his grudging offer to meet with the AFN Chiefs would defuse the Idle No More movement, he couldn't have been more wrong.From Sydney to Cornwall to Vancouver.Because you can't stop a movement whose time has come eh?Or it seems stop Christie Blatchford from smearing those in the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Idle No More Humiliated Stephen Harper
In all my years of watching Stephen Harper I have rarely seen him looking so frustrated and so humiliated.But there he was today at a ridiculous photo-op in a Ford factory, looking like was about to implode.And no wonder.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Idle No More Will Make Harper Eat Crow
For some ghastly reason I couldn't help wondering tonight what Stephen Harper is eating while Chief Theresa Spencer dies of hunger. As Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence continues her hunger strike, a critical care doctor is warning that the human body begins to break down after such a long period without food.Jones said
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Anti-Harper Revolt
One can only imagine what Stephen Harper is thinking as he watches Chief Theresa Spence getting weaker and weaker.Is there even a flicker of sympathy in his cold dead eyes, or is it all false pride or cold calculation?Is he appealing to the racism of his rabid base?Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland and the Horror of 2012
Golly. It's hard to believe that the horrible year of 2012 in Harperland is finally almost over.And that I'm still standing. For if on this day in 2010 I wrote this:It was the worst of years. The year when the crazed tyrant Stephen Harper ripped a giant hole in the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Power of Solidarity
One day historians, or forensic psychiatrists, will no doubt argue over why Stephen Harper was prepared to let Chief Theresa Spence die.Was it because that cold, cruel, man couldn't feel the pain of others?Or was it because he was a coward?Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Bigot Voices
As Chief Theresa Spence enters the 16th day of her hunger strike, with Stephen Harper still refusing to meet her, I see his inaction is causing some old Canadian demons to take flight.Flying out of their internet caves like bats, and emitting bigot sounds.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Con Denial of History
When I woke up today and saw that it had snowed, for the first time this winter, I felt like I was back in Canada eh?Because I can't imagine winter in the Great White North without snow. Just like I can't imagine this country without the Québécois or the First
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When the Cons Try to Cover Up Murder
His name was Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener. He was a Canadian peacekeeper who was killed murdered by the Israeli military in 2006.Now the Canadian military, and the Harper government, are trying to cover-up how he died.The Defence Department has quietly removed from the Internet a report into the killing of a Canadian
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Chief Spence, Harper, and the Attawapiskat Christmas
I didn't want to blog tonight. I just wanted to enjoy Christmas.But I couldn't get these two contrasting images out of my mind. Chief Theresa Spence slowly starving to death.While Stephen Harper, with a weird look on his face, plays cribbage. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the War on Christmas. Again
Oh no. Just when I thought the War on Christmas was over. Here it comes again.As brought to us by Bill O'Reilly, the Fox Nation, and this year by Santa himself.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Luka Magnotta and My Lost Country
I can't imagine a worse way to end this horrible year in Harperland than having Luka Magnotta awarded the title of Newsmaker of the Year. For not only is that cruel psychopath smirking in his jail cell tonight. It also says so much about about the country we have become, and
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