Anything the Australians can do… We can do…um…differently… But then we got gay marriage and they don’t.. You know how I feel about the love between English and French Canadians eh? Ooh la la. Vive la difference. And how a fence must never keep us apart. So it may not
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Montreal Simon: The Burning Planet and the Icy Hand of the Cons
They are planning to torch the planet. By sticking another knife into the bleeding side of the Kyoto Accord. For the greater glory of Big Oil. They are planning to turn us into a prison state. To appease the old white people in their rabid base, who believe in moral certainty,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: A Hollow Lament for Occupy Canada
I see that Kalle Lasn, one of the Canadian instigators of the Occupy Wall Street movement, laments the way things turned out in Canada. While protesters from Halifax to Vancouver emulated their global counterparts by pitching tents in public spaces and brainstorming ways to challenge the status quo, Lasn said
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Welcome to the Con Horror Show
Oh no. I don’t want to frighten you eh? But has anybody noticed that the Con regime is turning into a real horror show? Not only have they started calling anybody who disagrees with them a traitor. But there was the rabid wingnut Rob Anders the other day, claiming that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Fox News and the Pepper Spray Turkey
It was an image that shocked the world. An image that should shock everybody. Right? But not Bill O’Reilly and the Fox News bimbo Megyn Kelly, who shrugged it off as just a “food product.” “I agree [the tape] looks bad,” Kelly says. It’s just that the protesters were sitting
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Lady Gaga’s Message to a Canadian School
In a country where bullying is an epidemic, and almost nothing is being done to stop it, isn’t it great to know that at least Lady Gaga cares. Too bad she couldn’t send a message to Jamie Hubley and his school in Ottawa. Before he committed suicide. Because after Jamey Rodemeyer
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Occupy Movement and the Nature of the Beast
Twenty four hours after this little campsite was demolished, I see that Margaret Wente couldn’t restrain herself from going down to St James Park, squatting on all fours, and delivering this dreary dump. Despite the current circumstances, every single protester in North America is pretty well guaranteed a comfortable middle-class
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Occupy Toronto:The End of the Beginning
(click pics to enlarge) By the time I got to the Occupy Toronto campsite this afternoon it was mostly gone. The library, where some guy in a Clockwork Orange bowler hat had barricaded himself, was being dismantled. Some of the neighbours were taking back “their” park. So be careful where
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Occupy Toronto and the Old Rebel
I visited the Occupy Toronto campsite on my way back from work today, and it was a sad and desolate sight. Exhausted street kids tearing down their tents, as an icy wind blew the dead leaves around them. The demolished kitchen that once fed hundreds of people a day, now
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Next Time a Pig Screams…
You can tell him this: Wrong. You are the 0.01 % and you’re a greedy PIG… And remember, in Canada the gap between the rich and the poor is growing even faster than the one in the United States. Of course, the pigs will say that you can be rich
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Occupy Canada and the Silence of the Lambs
I’m going to miss the Occupy Toronto campsite, this colourful little progressive utopia in the heart of a cold grey city. For by tomorrow night it will almost surely be destroyed. I’m going to miss the endless discussions about how to change the world and make it a better place.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Occupy Canada: Why You Can’t Evict a Movement
As I was saying last night, they can arrest us. They can tear down our humble campsites. They can insult us. They can beat us. They can pepper spray peaceful protesters… The pig bastards. But theywill NEVER stop our movement from continuing to spread all over the world, developing in new
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why the Occupy Movement Will Survive
It’s going to be a cold night at the Occupy Toronto campsite, as the clock on the church that has refused the occupiers sanctuary, counts down the hours before they are evicted. Because you don’t have to ask yourself what would Jesus do eh? Or be a weatherman, to know that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bully Awareness Week and the Dead Kids
It’s Bully Awareness Week, and for kids in Canada it couldn’t have come at a better time. After a horrifying streak of bullying related suicides. Mitchell Wilson, bullied to death because he had muscular dystrophy. The bullying that her grandson suffered at his school, Westcreek Public School in Pickering, led the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Cons and the Great Darkness
We knew that if he ever got his precious majority the lights would be going out all over Canada. But who could have known that the Great Darkness would arrive so soon? They are turning our Parliament into a Con cabaret, braying like donkeys, stifling debate, and using closure to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Occupy Movement:When Repression Backfires
All over North America the assault on the Occupy campsites continues. From New York City, to Regina, to Vancouver. And in Toronto the Con tool Tasha Kheiriddin, can barely contain herself. The Occupy movement has had two months to develop a coherent message, engage broad public sympathy, or begin its
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Occupy Movement and The Revolution
This sign in the Occupy Toronto campsite still stands defiantly. But of course the occupiers will be moved eventually. Because the power has the police. Just not tonight. Occupy Toronto protesters will not be evicted tonight following a last-minute court injunction against the city’s plans to forcibly remove them…Full arguments
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Occupy Movement and the Coal Mine Canaries
By the time I made it down to the Occupy Toronto campsite this weekend it was getting dark. There seemed to be more tents than ever, but although they were celebrating their one-month anniversary, the mood was definitely subdued.Maybe it’s be…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Pipeline Debacle
Oh no. How embarrassing. I see Stephen Harper was doing the hula hula in Hawaii today, trying to get Obama to change his mind about the Keystone XL pipeline. Because he said it was a “no brainer” so now he looks like an IDIOT.And so does little Jimbo F…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Do So Many Canadians Hate the Occupiers?
I haven’t been able to visit the Occupy Toronto campsite in the last two days. But I have spent quite a bit of time wondering why so many Canadians seem to hate the occupiers so much? And I mean HATE.Because this isn’t just manufactured bile, this is v…
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