It was only 11 degrees today. The leaves are still green. But in my neighbourhood the signs are turning orange.Which normally would be enough to cheer me up. Because orange is the colour of hope eh? But I guess like a lot of progressives I’ve got a cas…
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Montreal Simon: Tim Hudak, The Bloater, and the Dirty Game
Gawd. It’s a horrible thought eh? But when I think about the homophobic porker Charles “Bloater” McVety these days, I can’t help thinking of the Con teabagger Tim “Hoo Hoo” Hudak.Because after reading McVety’s grotesque ad in the National Pos…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Insite Victory and Kevin’s Story
I’ve written about Kevin before. The young heroin addict I found shooting up on the door step of the Yale Town apartment I was renting, while taking a summer course in Vancouver.How I felt like I was looking at somebody dying before my eyes. How h…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The National Post Apologizes for Anti-Transgender Ad
The National Post should never had published this truly evil ad from the grotesque homophobe Charles “Bloater” McVety.It was offensive, it was cruel, it was aimed at bullied children.But at least now they they have apologized.The fact that we will not …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Brad Trost and the Zombie Threat
Holy jumpin’ Joan of Saskatchewan !!! I gotta give the Con wingnut Brad Trost some credit eh? Not only does he look FABULOUS in a dress. I hear he’s declared a holy redneck jihad against Great Ugly Leader.“The battle over the IPPF continues…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Dumbo Made Harper Look Like an Idiot
Uh oh. Mayday. Mayday. It seems that Peter Dumbo MacKay is more of a frequent flyer on Air Taxpayer than even I thought.Peter MacKay has racked up nearly $3 million worth of flights on the government’s Challenger jets since assuming the role of defence…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mitchell Wilson, Jamey Rodemeyer, the Bullies, and Lady Gaga
As you know I hate bullies of all stripes. From Stephen Harper and his thug Cons, to those who bully children for being different or gentle, to those who beat helpless old people in senior’s homes.So you can imagine how I feel about those who bullied a…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Politics of Fear
As if his foul crime bill wasn’t bad enough, an insane attempt to turn our Canadian justice system into a carbon copy of the one that has failed so badly in the United States. Even as the crime rate goes down.As if it wasn’t a brutish attempt to h…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Agony of Omar Khadr: The Documentary
I don’t think I’ve ever been so ashamed to be a Canadian as the day I saw this video of CSIS agents interrogating Omar Khadr.The sound of Omar sobbing “help me…help me” in that ghastly gulag, when he finally realized that those Canadians weren’…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Absurd Con Assault on the CBC
OK. So today probably isn’t the best day to defend the CBC. Not when I went to watch Question Period this afternoon, and discovered that their tabloid news network was covering the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor instead.Gawd. Where’s the p…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Cons and the Country I Don’t Recognize
On a beautiful early fall day like this one it’s hard to believe that bad things can happen in Canada.But when I see what the Cons are doing to our country, trying to turn us into a prison state, or leading us to financial disaster in the name of their…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Thomas Mulcair and the NDP
As I’ve said before I don’t really want to discuss the NDP leadership race until all the candidates have declared, and I’ve heard what they have to say.But since Brian Topp seems to be leaving the impression that The Force is with him because he’s smar…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Prison State
I always knew that Stephen Harper would eventually turn this country into a prison state, as sinister as the man himself.I always knew that his American-style plan to jail even more Canadians flew in the face of reason.“We’re not governing on …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Bullies Go After the CBC. Again.
I have never understood why the Cons hate the CBC so much. Why the grotesque teabaggers at Fox News North spend so much time hissing and spitting at it.Or why senior Con operatives use CBC hate to whip up their rabid supporters, and sque…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jamey Rodemeyer, the Bullies, and Lady Gaga
The other night I wrote about the tragic story of Jamey Rodemeyer, the 14-year-old boy from Buffalo, New York, who was bullied to death for being gay.So I’m glad to see that the bullies may be held accountable.Police are looking to bring crim…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jimbo Flaherty, Dumbo MacKay, and the Jumping Doggies
Golly. I went down to the farm this afternoon to check with my financial advisers, after hearing about this horrible meltdown.But when I got there I discovered little Jimbo Flaherty had beaten me to it. Because he’s DESPERATE for any kind of …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s War on Women (Continued)
Well so much for Mother Harper, the friend of women and children. He will fund Planned Parenthood. But only in countries where abortion is illegal.International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda has decided to approve a proposal by the International …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jimbo Flaherty’s Strange Upside Down World
I’m proud to say I’ve never believed anything little Jimbo Flaherty, the one-time King of the Mole Hill, had to say about ANYTHING. But his recent behaviour leaves me wondering whether he’s gone completely batty.The stock market is tanking. The do…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Sad Death of Jamey Rodemeyer
Jamey Rodemeyer was a 14-year-old boy who lived in Buffalo, New York. He was relentlessly bullied because he was gay. He cried out for help online for months.And when nobody helped him he committed suicide.On Sept. 8, he wrote: “No one in my …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford Surrenders to People Power
He blubbered, he bubbahed, he pouted, and then he surrendered.In a significant concession to public opposition and to queasy council allies, Ford voted at the end of a 20-hour executive committee meeting to reject some proposed cuts and to put off deci…
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