It lasted for almost twenty years. It cost more than 13,000 gay and lesbian soldiers their military careers. It was hideous, it was cruel, it was brutishly unfair.But last night at 12:01 am, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell finally died.(click pic to enlarge)…
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Montreal Simon: The General and the Flying Torpedo
Well I see that General Walter Natynczyk is still defiant over his use of a government jet to join his family on a Caribbean vacation.And is apparently determined that if he doesn’t pay for it SOMEBODY will…If revelations of his travel costs are…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Canadian Resistance
Holy Conchella. Talk about bad timing. On the very day Obama was talking about creating jobs and raising taxes, there was Great Bobo Leader talking about lowering taxes, and creating criminals.”At a time when hundreds of thousands of Canadians are…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Little Farm
Far Enough Farm is a little hobby farm located on one of the Toronto Islands. Every year hundreds of thousands of people visit it.Because admission is free, it’s a great place for poor families to take their children to, and introduce them to a way of …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford’s War: The Fight Back Begins
His ghastly face stares out from newspaper boxes all over the city, like Big Bubbah. The message couldn’t be clearer, or more urgent.Rob Ford has declared war on us. Now we must declare war on him, and the City Council stooges who are helping him …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Tim Hudak Exposed as a Fraud. Again.
Uh oh. It looks like the Con teabagger Tim Hoo Hoo Hudak has one more reason to look confident worried deeply disturbed. After having been caught using ringers.Ms. Raheb told the Windsor Star that her group was approached by Mr. Hudak’s campaign to a…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When Gay Kids are Made Invisible
As if gay kids aren’t persecuted enough. As if they aren’t insulted, hurt, killed, or driven to suicide just because of who they are, and who they love.As if it wasn’t hideous enough that in some Catholic schools in Ontario, gay kids aren’t allowed to …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ugly Cons and the Broken Liberals
OK. Let me get this straight eh? The Con smear machine that destroyed Ignatieff and Dion, goes after Brian Topp.“Topp is a union boss and has deep union ties,” they say in a memo to MPs and party faithful. “How could Brian Topp speak on beha…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Another Good Reason Not to Ban Internet Anonymity
Not only do Big Business and Big Brother want your real name.So does the mob.Three years ago, after the suicide of a popular actress who had been bullied via the Internet, South Korea introduced a radical policy aimed at stamping out online hate. It re…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Moron Nation
(click pic to enlarge)As I watched a storm sweeping in over Toronto this evening, I couldn’t help thinking about how Rob Ford is planning to turn the city I have come to love into a dirtier, uglier, place.It turns out that muni…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Royal Plan to Kill Canada
I wish I could laugh at Stephen Harper’s ridiculous attempt to return us to the days when we were British.This is all fairly subtle, of course. We’re not going back to the days when every classroom featured a royal portrait and we started every da…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Freddie Mercury’s Ultimate Birthday Card
Well it’s late night at Simon’s, and although the proprietor is feeling very sleepy, he’s also very excited eh?Because tonight even by the awesome standards of this crummy joint, we have an extraordinary performance by the great Freddie …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Three Simple Words that Can Save a Life
About ten years ago I saw a young couple throw themselves in front of a subway train at the McGill metro station in downtown Montreal. It was all over in a flash.All I saw was two people on the opposite platform suddenly rush forward, and then the …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jimbo Flaherty and the Con Depression
Holey Moley. I see the Con gnome Jimbo Flaherty has gone from being the king of his tiny castle, to being the moron on the mole hill.Unemployment is rising, the economy is contracting, the stock market is tanking.Jimbo and Great Economist Buffoon …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: If You Missed the Republican Debate…
Don’t worry. You can watch it all here in 45 seconds… Except for the even uglier part I told you about last night. The irony? By the standards of today’s Teabagger Party, Ronald Reagan was a tax and spend communist.When he was governor…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Perry, Stephen Harper, and the Alpha Flight
I knew when fascism came to America it would be wrapped in the Confederate flag, and carrying a cross AND a gun, like the Republican candidate for President Rick Perry.But who knew it would look so sinister, and sound so ghastly… On his liv…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Hidden Threat
Well I see that ten years after 9/11, Great Crusader Leader has declared “Islamicism” the greatest threat to Canada….and Nigeria.”When people think of Islamic terrorism, they think of Afghanistan, or maybe they think of someone in the Middl…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Kochtopus and a Lesson for Progressives
Charles and David Koch are two American billionaires who have contributed more than any others to just about every right-wing cause in the United States. From promoting climate change denial to funding the Tea Party.They go to extraordin…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jack’s Labour Day Parade: The Video
I’ve been a union supporter since I was seventeen, when I got a summer job at a mine in Northern Ontario.Where it was explained to me by some of the toughest but nicest guys I’ve ever known, that if we didn’t have unions we’d all be slaves. And I …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Leanne Iskander and the Catholic Homophobes
Leanne Iskander is a 16-year-old lesbian who has led the fight to create a Gay-Straight Alliance club at her state-funded Catholic school in Ontario.But last week the Toronto Catholic District School Board voted to put denominational rights before huma…
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