If anybody still thinks that the Con regime is not out of control, the sight of Peter Van Loan in Question Period today should have been enough to cure that delusion. For there was Tubby, as his friends call him, filling in for Stephen Harper, clutching a piece of paper
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Montreal Simon: Yunel Escobar and the Bigot Moment
With all the scary things happening in the world today, from America to China. And our foul Con regime leading us to disaster. Just about the last thing I felt like writing about today was Yunel Escobar's bigot moment. Because why should I care what a second-rate baseball player, on
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Big Lie
Well there they were again. The same tired old Con gang and their weird and whacked out leader. Blowing smoke out of every orifice, trying to smear their opponents. Lying like thieves. There’s only one problem with this alarmist scenario, which has been dutifully parroted by Conservative robomaulers across the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford: The Beast and the Animals
I try to ignore him. I look away from his ghastly image. I close my ears every time he opens his monstrous pie hole. I try to delude myself into thinking that I can't possibly be living in Stephen Harper's Canada AND Rob Ford's Toronto at the same time. I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Crazy Religion and the Hatred that Kills
What with Christian extremists spreading hatred, and Muslim extremists on a rampage. I was horrified to see that a Hindu extremist was trying to stir up trouble in Toronto. And delighted to see that his plan to insult Muslims by parading dogs outside a mosque failed miserably.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Netanyahu, Harper, and the War on Obama
The other night I accused Stephen Harper of timing his decision to sever ties with Iran in order to ratchet up tensions, just before Benjamin Netanyahu went ballistic. Why is he doing this? My guess is that he's saying what he's saying because he knows he can't attack, especially before the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Apocalypse and the Monarch Tree
So I'm sitting on a bench down by the swan pond this evening, staring at the signs of The Apocalypse. Two little trees that have surrendered to the Canadian winter. Already. And I'm screaming at them, in my mind. How could you do this to me? How could you leave
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Red Line
When it finally hit me why Stephen Harper suddenly cut ties with Iran, I felt slightly dizzy. So great was my horror. For it seems obvious to me that it had little or nothing to do with security, and everything to do with an orchestrated campaign by Benjamin Netanyahu to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Long-Gun Registry Lives !!!!!
At least in Québec. The federal government’s plan to destroy all data from its long-gun registry is unconstitutional, a judge has ruled, giving Ottawa 30 days to hand to Quebec records collected from the province’s gun owners. “Quebec didn’t embark in the project of setting up a registry knowing that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Occupy Movement and the Quebec Students
It's been almost a year since the Occupy Wall Street movement was born, and in this very gloomy article Gerald Caplan wonders where it went. It flashed through our lives like a comet in the sky, illuminating the most insidious development of our time. Then just as suddenly it flamed
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Benny and Steve and the War with Iran
As you know I'm a real romantic eh? And I'm usually a sucker for movies about two men in love. Especially if they're R-rated.But I think it's safe to say that with the Middle East on the brink of a war that could kill millions of people, the last thing
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Confessions of a Quebec Anglophone
The other night I wrote about how shocked I was by the senseless act of cowardly violence that stole the life of poor Denis Blanchette. And how stunned I was to see his deranged killer scream "The English are rising!!!" As if he was acting in our name, as if
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Steve Harper and the Road to Ruin
Oh no. How embarrassing. That old Con man Steve Harper is at it again. He's been spotted preparing to leave for the APEC summit, disguised as an economist, and already he's lecturing the Americans on how to run their economy. Concerns about a so-called "fiscal cliff" in the United States
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Quebec Shooting and the Hatred that Kills
For a Montrealer like me, who lives and plays happily in both solitudes, and is always trying to bring Quebecers and Canadians together, it was the ultimate nightmare. An old Anglo, in a balaclava …. and a bathrobe … screaming "The English are rising up!!! There's going to be fucking
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Quebec Election and the Angry Canadians
On a sunny afternoon, in my favourite Montreal neighbourhood, both the Quebec election and the hysterical reaction in English Canada, seemed very far away.Which was a good thing eh?Because following the election campaign from Toronto and a beach in Maine, has been very exhausting. And the reaction in English Canada
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland and the Sad Days of August
I hate this time of the year. When you wish summer would go on forever eh? But you know it will soon be over. And as David Frum tweeted recently "Few things on earth are sadder than the last week of a Canadian August."Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mitt Romney and Wrath of Lord Mo Mo
Golly. I've spent the last two days sacrificing one shrimp after the other on the barbie. To the eternal glory of the angry weather god Lord Mo Mo. Hoping that the Big Mo might nudge Hurricane Isaac, in the general direction of Mitt Romney and the Republican convention. And so
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con Army
I see that Stephen Harper's Great Con Clown Tour of the Arctic, has ended with another phony photo-op. Prime Minister Stephen Harper took in a military training operation in Hudson Bay on the final day of his northern tour Friday, observing a scenario involving Canadian Forces intercepting an ecotourism boat carrying
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Cannibal Club (continued)
Holy Moly. For a moment I thought Stephen Harper was playing the good nun again in the Con version of the Sound of Music. You know, the one where Jason Kenney plays the grim Mother Superior who beseeches the young nun to control her lustful urges, and Climb Every Mountain. Like he
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Remembering Jack Layton: One Year Later
I was sorry I couldn't make it to this tribute to Jack Layton. And that I didn't get a chance to scrawl a message on that huge wall at City Hall as I did a year ago. But I was happy to see that somebody wrote what I probably would
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