Even if all the New Democrats vote Liberal and all the Liberals vote NDP in the Burnaby South by-election today, the outcome could be a very close one. It’s rude of me to mention this just now, of course, but you have to admit something like this could very well
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Alberta Politics: National Energy Board ruling on Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion leaves everyone deep in their message boxes
Common sense would suggest the recommendation of the National Energy Board yesterday that Ottawa approve the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project despite significant risks to the environment is a small but significant step toward eventual completion of the controversial multi-billion-dollar megaproject. But as was already evident in the immediate reaction
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer, the Con Media, and the Far-Right Menace
This should have been the biggest story in Canada yesterday. The sight of Andrew Scheer addressing a gathering on Parliament Hill that was riddled with racists and other far-right extremists.Members of a movement who routinely accuse Justin Trudeau of treason and demand that he be executed.But instead our ghastly Con
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the choice of Scott Moe and other right-wing leaders to ally themselves with white supremacists and nativists (as seen most recently through yellow vest and United We Roll events) is as politically flawed as it is morally objectionable. For further reading…– Adam Hunter reported on Moe’s initial
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Hate Fest On the Hill
It was an ugly spectacle, hundreds of trucks rolling into downtown Ottawa, heading for Parliament Hill.Disrupting traffic, spewing foul fumes in every direction.And deafening those unlucky enough to be caught in their path.Read more »
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Potholes on the Yellow Brick Road.
It’s the time of year in Canada. The roller-coaster of ice and snow, melting and freezing, leaves even a yellow brick road a minefield of broken and missing bricks. Dorothy and Toto and their three friends have to watch where they step. With the Cowardly Lion (Justin Trudeau) more familiar
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Hey, Andrew Scheer! Do you know whose truck that is you’re riding in?
What are we to make, fellow Canadians, of federal Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer’s now justly famous Louis Riel Day Tweet? Bear with me while we ponder this. There is a troubling point. It will take us only a moment to get there. Mr. Scheer, who leads the Canadian political party
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Media, the Fake Scandal, and the New Generation
After the way the ghastly Con media has gone after him, you might think that by now there wouldn't be much left of Justin Trudeau.And that the old zombies from the Parliamentary Press Gallery would by now be fighting over who gets an arm and who gets a leg.Or proclaiming
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Sounds as if the Trudeau Liberals are listening to their Natural Governing Party lizard brain, finally
Amid all the hoo-ha emanating from the nation’s capital over the partial holiday weekend, the bit that didn’t seem to fit was the dispiriting news – for many Albertans, anyway – that the federal cabinet won’t make a decision until summer at least on whether the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Continue readingMontreal Simon: In Case You Didn’t Know How Low The Con Media Can Go
If you want to know how low the Con media in this country have fallen, consider this :By most honest accounts Andrew Scheer is a religious fanatic, a racist, a misogynist, a closet homophobe, a climate change denier, and a serial liar, who likes to smear his opponents over and over
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Who Is Andrew Scheer? Lesson #3
“Call me Stephen Harper with a smile” Andrew Scheer In this lesson, I am not going to be the one who explains Andrew Scheer. I am going to let the people with whom Andrew Scheer chooses to surround himself define him. In life, the true test of a person’s character
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: The Conservative News Media Circle Of Lie
I did not get into blogging, or commenting on politics to criticize the media. Some people say that criticizing the media means attacking the media, which undermines democracy itself. I disagree, I feel that media criticism is necessary in a market in which hyper-partisan niche media outlets are directly created
Continue readingMontreal Simon: What That Fake Scandal Is Really All About
I knew that there was something truly evil lurking in the shadows of that fake scandal.Even if I couldn't see it, I could smell it.The Cons claimed they were just standing up for the rights of Jody Wilson-Raybould, because she's an indigenous woman, and hates Justin Trudeau. Even though many of their supporters, who
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Scandal That Never Was
Andrew Scheer is still trying to blow air into the fake scandal balloon, but it's just not working.Most Canadians just aren't interested, and with good reason. There's no there, there.And they know the creepy Scheer only too well.Read more »
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: What #LavScam means, in five points
It’s been going on for more than a week, now, and the outlines of it are already seen. Five ways in which it is leaving, and will leave, an impact: Indigenous people. I am the proud father to an amazing indigenous young woman; I work with First Nations across Canada.
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Podcasting – My First Ever Appearance
You can listen here Where do I get my pundit card? Sidebar: does that pundit card automatically make me histrionic as Rachel Curran, or do I have to work up to that level of utter lunacy and out-of-touchedness? The amazing people at the Canadia Podcast brought me on air today
Continue readingMontreal Simon: SNC-Lavalin and the Death of the NDP in Quebec
In my last post I explained why the Con attack on SNC-Lavalin and its workers was going to cost them most of the few seats they have in Quebec.And will almost certainly hand Justin Trudeau another majority. Which needless to say would please me greatly, except for one thing. It would
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: ‘Chuckles’ checks campaign conditions.
With the new democratic leader Jagmeet Singh tied up in a do-or-die by-election in Vancouver and the prime minister under steady fire on the SNC-Lavalin debacle, the conservative leader is out testing fault-lines for the coming election in the Fall. While Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer is not particularly glib, he seems
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Andrew Scheer Is Looking So Desperate
I don't know why Andrew Scheer was looking so desperate. He claims he's winning, and that Justin Trudeau could soon be in prison. So why is he looking like such a loser? He's trying to use this story against Trudeau. And trying to turn Judy Wilson-Raybould into a martyr for
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why the Fake Scandal Is Just A Grotesque Farce
I'm still having a really hard time trying to make sense of that fake scandal, the one that has Andrew Scheer's Cons and their media stooges in a feverish state, and practically quivering with excitement. Is it an attempted very Canadian coup, fronted by Andrew Scheer and his Trumpling Cons, and
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