Here’s the second part of my freewheeling interview with environmental artist and activist Franke James. We discuss the pro-active philosophy that guides her visual essays, including her most recent essay ‘What’s Harper Afraid Of?’ Which has generated more that 5,300 letters to the PM, her workshops and the lack of
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NEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Interview With Environmental Artist Franke James (part the 2nd)
Here’s the second part of my freewheeling interview with environmental artist and activist Franke James. We discuss the pro-active philosophy that guides her visual essays, including her most recent essay ‘What’s Harper Afraid Of?’ Which has generated …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When the Harper Oil Pimps Destroy Themselves
Last night I told you how the Harper regime was creating a Royal Canadian Oil Police to make sure that nobody but NOBODY stops their planned pipeline to British Columbia. Today they're setting up a Royal Canadian Mop and Pail Brigade to clean up this latest oil spill. Up to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Silent Coup
I've been writing about Stephen Harper for a long time, and every year the picture on the screen gets darker and more sinister. Just as I always knew it would. For his lust for power knows no limit. And his ideological depravity know no bottom. But so dark is the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Tom Mulcair and the Tarry Bubbly
Whew. I see Tom Mulcair managed to gallop into Alberta today, cast his eyes upon the darkness of the Oil Sands, and make his getaway without dropping the dreaded T word. In his first-ever visit to the Alberta oilsands as NDP leader, Mulcair was about to substitute “tar” for
Continue reading350 or bust: The Enbridge Pipeline: What’s At Stake?
Greenpeace’s latest video about the destructive Alberta tar sands, and the Enbridge Pipeline that our current federal government is intent on pushing through over all opposition: * Together, we can stop the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline: click here for more.
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Song: "You’re Walkin’ on the Fightin’ Side of JB"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I posted up another song an’ video on YouTube. It pretty much speaks for itself. Have a look-see:
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Song: "You’re Walkin’ on the Fightin’ Side of JB"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I posted up another song an’ video on YouTube. It pretty much speaks for itself. Have a look-see:
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Song: "You’re Walkin’ on the Fightin’ Side of JB"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I posted up another song an’ video on YouTube. It pretty much speaks for itself. Have a look-see:
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Naked Emperor and the Con Regime
If I had painted this picture of Great Ugly Gorgeous Leader, I would have put a crown on his head, and made his buttocks more fleshy, like one of Picasso's women. Or the ridiculous Con prude James Moore. But apart from that I quite like Margaret Sutherland's Emperor Haute Couture.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mulcair and the Attack of the Con Hogs
Well I see the Big Oil Cons have finally released their attack hogs. The Harper Conservatives have finally unleashed the attack dogs on Tom Mulcair. They've pounced on the newly minted NDP leader's musings about the economic impact of Alberta's oilsands to paint him as a divisive, ill-informed, irresponsible enemy of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The McCarthyite Cons and the Dutch Disease
OK. So I was wrong. When Christy Clark became the latest Con stooge to denounce Thomas Mulcair, for simply pointing out that the Dutch Disease is killing our manufacturing sector, I said it could only mean one thing. Big Oil and its Con puppets were scraping the bottom of the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Dr Mulcair and the Dutch Disease
Ever since Thomas Mulcair warned that the Dutch Disease is killing this country, every shabby oil pimp and Con huckster in Canada has been lining up to denounce him. And now we've finally reached the bottom of the dirty oil barrel. Christy Clark, the Conservative Liberal ConLiberal Premier of British
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Peter MacKay and the Libyan Fiasco
Oh no.Try to keep this one confidential eh? Because if the Russians find out, they'll invade us tomorrow. But it seems that Peter Dumbo MacKay, our Minister of War, is having trouble crunching massaging the numbers. Again. Amid allegations the Conservative government intentionally lowballed the price of the F-35 stealth
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: a tiny glimpse into the ways our government serves the corporate and financial world, not the people of Canada
Some Key Areas Where Neoliberal Policy Undermines both the Industrial Economy and Canadian Democracy Under the Harper Regime, the investor class is constantly being protected at the expense of the real industrial economy, for just about all policy decisions privilege both the financial sector, with its market-driven initiatives and debt-driven
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Trojan Horse
Well, let's put it this way eh? It wasn't exactly democracy's finest hour. First the Cons rolled their Trojan horse budget, packed to the rafters with non-budget stuff that will gut our environmental laws, into the House of Commons. Then when the opposition demanded the bill be split up so
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New Song: "The Ballad of Steve Harper"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve HarperCome and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New Song: "The Ballad of Steve Harper"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve Harper Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty tricks up his sleeveThe oil
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New Song: "The Ballad of Steve Harper"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve Harper Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty tricks up his sleeveThe oil
Continue readingbastard.logic: Fun With Infographics (Ethical Oil Edition)
Via Matt Price @ HuffPo Canada:
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