(Click pic to enlarge) I can’t remember a more gloomy New Year’s eve, grey, strangely warm, and eerily ominous. Last year, on the final day of 2010, I wrote this: It was the worst of years. The year when the crazed tyrant Stephen Harper ripped a giant hole in the
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Montreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Big Lie
Well at least we know one thing eh? When Rob Ford called 911 because he felt threatened by the comedian Marg Delahunty. And then used the F-word when talking to a dispatcher, because police didn’t come quickly enough. It wasn’t because they didn’t know where he lived. According to numerous
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the War on the Unemployed
You don’t have to be a weatherman, or an economist, to know that a cold wind is blowing in Harperland, and that a recession could be just around the corner. So what are the Cons doing? Answer: Planning to cut corporate taxes even more, and taxing our paycheques. Canadians will
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When the Religious Fight Each Other
Well let’s see…in Iraq the Sunni are bombing the Shia. In Nigeria, the Muslims are bombing the Christians. In Israel, secular Jews are battling the ultra-Orthodox. And in the Church of the Nativity, where Jesus is said to have been born, the Christians are fighting the Christians. With brooms… Holy
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness
I was trying to think about something to blog about on this cold, wet miserable night. Then I read about the death of Joe Bodolai, the American who nurtured so many great young comedians in Canada. Who killed himself the other day by drinking a mixture of Gatorade and anti-freeze,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Don Cherry’s Horrible Year
Well as you no doubt know Don Cherry has probably had his worst year ever eh? All those NHL concussions, and all that terminal brain damage, have no doubt taken the shine off his rock’em sock’em videos. Now even Raffi is going after him for being such a bully. And
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Citizen Peladeau and the War on the CBC
Jumping Jiminy Cricket. I must have had too much booze soaked plum pudding eh? But when I saw that Pierre Karl Péladeau says his war on the CBC isn’t a vendetta, I couldn’t help thinking that his nose must be growing. The media magnate insists that his crusade to force the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: What Christmas Means To Me. Once Again.
I wrote this post two years ago, and although so much has happened since then, and we now live in the darkness of Harper’s Canada, I see no reason to change it. So here we go again. It’s Christmas Eve, and once again I have to explain to my friends,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Scary Christmas Message
Oh boy. It was such a lovely evening. The setting sun glowed golden. And for the first time this winter it was cold enough to imagine it was almost Christmas in Canada. But sadly that golden glow didn’t last long. For when I went home and put on the TV,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Chicken Lilley and the Sun News Bigots
If they ever make a Canadian version of the classic movie Chicken Run, they’re definitely going to have to give the lead role to Fox News North’s Brian Lilley. Because not only does he look the part, with an absurd pompadour instead of a cockscomb, but he’s as cowardly as
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Occupy Canada and the Great Darkness: My Video
I visited St James Park the other day, about a month after the Occupy Toronto campsite was torn down. And not even the Christmas lights on the old gazebo, could brighten up the bleakness. I much preferred it when it was full of gentle dreamers, talking about changing the world.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Fox News North and the Phony War on Christmas
Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar. More like scary Lezra, and the never
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Religious Fanatic Attacks Poster of Virgin Mary
Well I suppose it was too real to be tolerated. A poster of the Virgin Mary receiving a pregnancy test. So a religious fanatic attacked it with a pair of scissors. “This is Satanic, this is the ultimate Satanic attack, when Lucifer attacks his worst enemy, the Blessed Virgin. “This
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Cotlergate Stephen Harper’s Watergate?
Lordy. Isn’t life unfair? Great Ugly Leader makes destroying the Liberal Party his singularly depraved obsession. And gets rewarded with a juicy majority. While the poor guy who said this: “We’ve done tens of millions of dials through our call centre and there’s never been any complaint launched against us,”
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Oil Sands and the Banana War
Oh. My. Monkey. It looks like Chiquita Banana is giving Canada’s oil sands the cold shoulder. The Canadian oil sands industry is facing an unlikely adversary in Chiquita Brands International, the banana company. The Ohio-based company said it will work with environmental organization ForestEthics to eliminate shipping of Chiquita bananas
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bradley Manning and the Horror of Haditha
What perfect timing. Just as the U.S. ends its war in Iraq, not with a bang but a whimper. Bye bye Big Lie. Bye bye Shock and Awe. Bye bye mass murder. Bye bye Abu Ghraib. In a junkyard near Baghdad, somebody came across the true horror of Haditha. The
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Con Canada and the Dirty Trick Gang
Golly Sherlock can you believe this? The polling company behind those phony calls in Irwin Cotler’s riding is feeling a little heat. A trade association that represents Canadian marketing and polling firms says it is looking into complaints about controversial phone calls into Liberal MP Irwin Cotler’s Montreal riding made
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and Our Broken Parliament
I see that Parliament has adjourned with the Cons gnashing their teeth flapping their wings over what Justin Trudeau said yesterday. “Bullshit!” he cried, his fury dramatically framed by flowing locks and sharply drawn facial hair. “You piece of shit!” he added in Mr. Kent’s general direction. But I thought
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Remembering the Blogger Bruce McDonald
A reader reminded me tonight that it’s been a year since the gay Progressive Blogger Bruce McDonald killed himself. How time flies. Although I never met Bruce, his blog Canuck Attitude, inspired me to begin blogging. And since he died, I’ve written several post about him. But this will probably
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Global Warming and the Bubbles of the Apocalypse
When I look at a picture of our beautiful little blue planet, and I think of what the Cons have done, I feel so angry and so ashamed to be a Canadian. We’re a rich, advanced country that should be a leader. Yet we’ve failed the world on climate change. We
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