It's an inspiring sight, and a chilling one. Kevin Page, the parliamentary budget officer standing up for the right to know the truth, in a country where the Big Lie rules. As the Cons try to smear him and muzzle him as they have so many others. They have attacked
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Montreal Simon: Jason Kenney Drops the A-Bomb
They say people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones eh? So it seems to me Jason Kenney really should know better than to call the Deputy Premier of Alberta an asshole. The only explanation seems to be that when Jason Kenney, the federal immigration minister, hit the button on his
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mulcair and the Orange Juggernaut
I knew that the NDP's support in Quebec would improve as soon a Tom Mulcair became leader. Nobody hates the Con regime more than Quebecers do. And they know a fighter when they see one. But this is still stunning. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Quebec and the Betrayal of the Young
I like the words on this mural at the East side gallery in Berlin. "If they don't let us dream, then we don't let them sleep." Because the day we stop dreaming about a better world, is the day that we start dying eh? And those who would betray the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Quebec Students and the Magic Moment
Like so many things in Quebec these days it was an amazing sight. Eighty thousand people in downtown Montreal watching an outdoor show by Loco Locass, a very popular and very political hip hop group. The group was dressed in red and waving a Quebec flag with a red square
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Coping With the Horror of Harperland
Sometimes when I stare at the horror of Harperland, like Simon in the Lord of the Flies stared at the head of the pig, I get a bit depressed eh? I don't know how I'm going to make it to the next election. Three years seems such a long time.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Day of Infamy
It was the Canadian Parliament's darkest day, and at the same time one of its finest. Each new round of voting began with a round of applause from the New Democrat benches and ended with whoops and cheers from the Conservatives whose majority might means they’ve voted down every motion
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Fatal Gamble
Well there he was the other day, telling a big economic conference in Montreal that his government's economic policies were a model for the whole world. But if you look at the expression on his face as he reads his prepared lines, you really have to wonder whether he still believes
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vic Toews and the Missing Women
Is there any truth Stephen Harper's Con regime won't try to deny? Is there anyone they won't try to muzzle? The federal public safety minister’s office tried to scale back an apology the RCMP delivered earlier this year to the families of serial killer Robert Pickton’s victims, Postmedia News has
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Quebec Students and the Little Red Square
The Grand Prix of Montreal is finally over, and sadly my favourite driver Anarcho Panda, the gentle mascot of the student movement, didn't win. And although there were a lot of red squares and red Ferrari shirts at the race. If you wore a red square anywhere near the Grand Prix
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Drowning My Sorrows in Harperland: A Cautionary Tale
Oh boy. It was such a beautiful day. I went for a long bike ride, and this evening from a distance Toronto never looked so pretty. At least the parts I could see through the thick haze. Because there was a smog alert eh? But then I remembered I live
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Montreal and the Grand Prix Circus
It's Saturday night in Montreal, and the Grand Prix party is just warming up. Thousands of people are milling around on Ste Catherine street. Demonstrators, racing fans, tourists, party kids, riot police. And I'm watching the live feed on CUTV and can't believe what I'm seeing. So I can understand
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When the Harper Oil Pimps Destroy Themselves
Last night I told you how the Harper regime was creating a Royal Canadian Oil Police to make sure that nobody but NOBODY stops their planned pipeline to British Columbia. Today they're setting up a Royal Canadian Mop and Pail Brigade to clean up this latest oil spill. Up to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Silent Coup
I've been writing about Stephen Harper for a long time, and every year the picture on the screen gets darker and more sinister. Just as I always knew it would. For his lust for power knows no limit. And his ideological depravity know no bottom. But so dark is the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Dean Del Mastro and the Ghastly Cons
Uh oh. I KNEW it was a mistake to make Dean Del Mastro, the Con point man on the robocall scandal. One moment he was leading the charge, bellowing like a bull, claiming da Liberals did it, and that the Cons didn't do dirty stuff like that. The next moment
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bill 13 and the Victory of the Bullied Children
It seems like it took forever. But tonight bullied children in Ontario are finally a little bit safer. And gay kids have the right to call themselves gay, and form Gay-Straight Alliances. No matter what some Catholic School Boards have to say, or what grotesque homophobes like Charles McVety spew
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Blackout Speakout Protest
I’m not sure I agree with this kind of protest. I’d prefer to see a million angry Canadians in the streets. But anything is better than nothing. To resist is a sacred duty. And silence is not an option.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jean Charest and the Grand Prix Panic
Oh no. Somebody please stop him. It looks as if Jean Charest has finally, as we say in Québec, perdu ses pédales, or lost his pedals. He's so eager to discredit the students, so he can run against them in a snap election, he's accusing them of plotting to sabotage
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney and the Royal Jelly
As you probably know I'm not exactly a fan of Jason Kenney. Ever since he said that gays should be free to marry, but only if they married someone of the opposite sex, I have had trouble taking him seriously eh? And I don't think I could EVER trust a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Quebec: When a Society Wakes Up
It was wet and miserable in Montreal today. But that didn't stop thousands of people from attending a rally to support the Quebec students. Thousands of people clad in raincoats and carrying umbrellas gathered in Montreal's Jeanne-Mance park Saturday afternoon for what was billed as a family-friendly protest in support
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