I could run this old video of Peter Kent introducing a documentary where he calls global warming “the greatest threat to life on the planet” and warns that the devastating effects of climate change “will be seen in our children’s lifetime. Or I could run this picture of him returning
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Montreal Simon: The Cons Go After Our Medicare System
They promised they wouldn’t go after medicare. But that was then and this is now. The Conservative government is putting the provinces on notice that Ottawa plans to shrink the rate of growth in health transfers. As Finance Minister Jim Flaherty prepares to meet his provincial and territorial counterparts Monday
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney’s Ridiculous War on the Veil
OK. So I’m not a big fan of religion, and I’m not a big fan of the burqa or the niqab. But then as you know I’m not a big fan of Jason Kenney either. So I find his new war on the veil totally ridiculous. It seems unlikely that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Krusty Blatchford and the City of Sissies
And so it came to pass that the ghastly Con scribbler Krusty Blatchford was strolling trolling through the streets the other day, when she came across a group of young boys hugging each other. Farted loudly. And did declare Toronto to be a City of Sissies. I know men have feelings
Continue readingMontreal Simon: My Very Gay Message to Rick Perry
I’ve been taking a little heat recently, from some of my gay friends, for not having written anything about Rick Perry’s grotesque little video. But as I explain to those fools, if I wrote a post every time some Christianist bigot in Amerika opened and closed his or her filthy
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Attawapiskat and Our New Canadian Flag
It’s going to be -21 degrees and feel like -30 in Attawapiskat today. Where some families are living in tents and plywood shacks like this one. So what is our hideous Con government doing, more than a month after that poor little community declared a state of emergency? Preparing to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Silence
Sometimes it’s the small things that can tell you a lot about the country we are becoming under the sinister Harper regime. And how The Great Darkness is becoming The Great Silence. We know about the big things. How the Cons have paralyzed the civil service with fear. How they’re
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Scary Christmas Party
OMG. I don’t know whether I should tell you, because you’ll NEVER believe me. But I went to Stephen Harper’s Con Christmas party last night. And boy was it SCARY. Of course, the theme WAS fear and paranoia. Suspicious Conservatives are vetting guests to their annual caucus Christmas party in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The True Horror of the Harper Cons
For more than five years, in my humble way, I tried to illustrate what the horror of a HarperCon majority would mean for Canada. I made this photoshop three years ago. But they got their preciousssssss majority, and now like a pack of hungry zombies, they are totally out of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Religious Bullies Go After Gay Kids
Don’t you just love crazy religion? They are always attacking each other, claiming that only their god is the real one. Spewing gibberish and hate out of every orifice, or blowing up their rivals. But nothing can bring them together as quickly as a chance to attack gay kids. Christian,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Montreal Massacre and the Murdered Legacy
I’m glad the Harper Cons weren’t invited to this sad ceremony on Parliament Hill. For how could those grotesque Cons mourn those murdered women? When they are greasing up their guns to murder their legacy. “Even as we mourn the 14 women killed at l’École Polytechnique, this government is taking
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Attawapiskat and the Shameless Cons
Woohoo. Excellent. I see the Con Injun Agent has been kicked out of Attawapiskat. Attawapiskat band councillors kicked out a federal appointee in charge of overseeing the troubled band’s finances on Monday when he showed up in the remote Northern Ontario reserve. Good for that little community. First the Cons
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Capitalist Pigs and the Cream Separator
Uh oh. I mean oink oink. I see the unrepentant capitalist pig just can’t help itself. Stuffing itself with human misery. While the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. A new report finds that the gap between the rich and the poor just keeps getting wider in Canada.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: If You Want to Know What Bullying Feels Like…
You can read this story. What world is this that playgrounds have become killing grounds? The murder of hope, love, creativity, passion, ingenuity, individually. This goes unpunished. Unnoticed. Why? When these die, our very person dies. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s when people don’t care about bullying. I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Reefer Madness
I have been so busy denouncing Stephen Harper’s foul Omnibus Crime Bill, that would destroy internet freedom, handcuff judges, and turn us into a prison state. Even as the crime rate plummets to record lows, and Canadians have never felt safer. That I haven’t had a chance to say anything
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Big Brother State
Here’s a question that I believe requires an urgent answer. If you lived in a country where a sinister, authoritarian leader had reduced civil servants to a state of fear and paralysis. Nobody gets in trouble for keeping their mouths shut, but people in government are really afraid — like, really
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Has the War on Bullying Finally Begun?
It’s taken a lot of dead Canadian kids. Kids like Marjorie Raymond. “I have a hard time leaving this world,” she wrote her suicide letter, “but I think it will be for a better world.” But it looks as if the Great War on Bullying has finally begun. McGuinty said school
Continue readingMontreal Simon: What do Bachmann and Kenney Have in Common?
Michele Bachmann believes that gays should be able to get married as long as they marry somebody of the opposite sex. Jane Schmidt, a student at Waverly High School, in Waverly, Iowa, recently asked Michele Bachmann, “Why can’t same-sex couples get married?” “They can get married,” Bachmann responded, “but they
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Peter MacKay and the Outraged General
Well if you remember, when we last left Peter Dumbo Mackay he was happily buzzing over Newfoundland, on his way back from a fishing trip, and claiming he was late for a military demonstration. But wait. What’s this alarming new development? Mackay —- Air Tax Payer to tower…Mayday…Mayday. Tower ——Tower
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Flying Messiah
Golly. I can only imagine the panic that must have ensued in the PMO after Nycole Turmel demanded that Stephen Harper spend a night in Attawaspiskat. “You should sleep in a shack with a sleeping bag, you will see the sleeping bags provided by the Red Cross are not enough.
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