As Stephen Harper drags our parliament into the pit of democratic depravity, by accusing the NDP of supporting an imaginary carbon tax only he can see. Repeating a Big Lie over and over again like a shameless con man, or a desperate maniac. Going after Tom Mulcair, as one pundit
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Montreal Simon: Tubby Van Loan and the Mighty Mulcair
If anybody still thinks that the Con regime is not out of control, the sight of Peter Van Loan in Question Period today should have been enough to cure that delusion. For there was Tubby, as his friends call him, filling in for Stephen Harper, clutching a piece of paper
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Big Lie
Well there they were again. The same tired old Con gang and their weird and whacked out leader. Blowing smoke out of every orifice, trying to smear their opponents. Lying like thieves. There’s only one problem with this alarmist scenario, which has been dutifully parroted by Conservative robomaulers across the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford: The Beast and the Animals
I try to ignore him. I look away from his ghastly image. I close my ears every time he opens his monstrous pie hole. I try to delude myself into thinking that I can't possibly be living in Stephen Harper's Canada AND Rob Ford's Toronto at the same time. I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Long-Gun Registry Lives !!!!!
At least in Québec. The federal government’s plan to destroy all data from its long-gun registry is unconstitutional, a judge has ruled, giving Ottawa 30 days to hand to Quebec records collected from the province’s gun owners. “Quebec didn’t embark in the project of setting up a registry knowing that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Quebec Election and the Angry Canadians
On a sunny afternoon, in my favourite Montreal neighbourhood, both the Quebec election and the hysterical reaction in English Canada, seemed very far away.Which was a good thing eh?Because following the election campaign from Toronto and a beach in Maine, has been very exhausting. And the reaction in English Canada
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland and the Sad Days of August
I hate this time of the year. When you wish summer would go on forever eh? But you know it will soon be over. And as David Frum tweeted recently "Few things on earth are sadder than the last week of a Canadian August."Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Cannibal Club (continued)
Holy Moly. For a moment I thought Stephen Harper was playing the good nun again in the Con version of the Sound of Music. You know, the one where Jason Kenney plays the grim Mother Superior who beseeches the young nun to control her lustful urges, and Climb Every Mountain. Like he
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Teabagger
Golly. Don't look now eh? But I hear that Stephen Harper has fallen hard for the new Republican heartthrob Paul Ryan. You have to believe that the duo of Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty are salivating at the chance to work with a Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan White House. Ryan is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vic Toews and my Manitoba Nightmare
Oh. My. Zombie. What a horrible nightmare. I'm pedaling furiously across Manitoba, desperately looking for a cheap motel. Because I've been warned not to be out on the road after dark. Especially when there's a full moon eh? And then suddenly I'm stopped by a cop and charged with SPEEDING
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Great Furry Leader and the Nasty Pipeline
Good golly Miss Molly. Who needs Pussy Riot when we got Stephen Harper? And could this possibly be true? Could he really be a changed man, as his new/old image would suggest? Could he really have morphed into a Great Purry Furry Leader who now loves scientists, isn't going to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Pipeline and the Terrorist Menace
Some days this summer its been too hot to go to the beach. And when I do go, and I lie there on the baking sand, I can't help thinking of the sun as the enemy. Burning the life out of the planet. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Darth Harper and the End of the Con Empire
It must have seemed like such a good idea to a man like Stephen Harper. He would teach Obama to humiliate him by delaying approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. By making Americans think the Democrats are driving Canada into the arms of their Chinese enemies. Because they don't call
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the War on Government
The thing that scares me the most about living in Harperland is how so many, who should know better, can't see the forest for the trees. Or the monsters who hide behind them. So Nik Nanos can report that many Canadians have lost confidence in government. Nik Nanos, the president
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford: When the Bigot is a Moron
Damn. I've been trying to think of something nice to say about Rob Ford for soooo long. It's the kind of guy I am. Always looking for the good in people. Or the pony in the manure. And besides after calling him an incompetent buffoon, a crass and vulgar redneck,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Omar Khadr and the Invisible Kid
I love this UNICEF message. It's one of the best messages against bullying and violence against children I have ever seen. But for some reason it also makes me think of our invisible kid, Omar Khadr. And makes me wonder who will protect him from the depravity of Vic Toews? Read more
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Culture of Intimidation
Well I see a group of theatre companies in Vancouver are putting on a play based on Stephen Harper and his Con regime. Even though there are fears Great Horned Leader might sue them. Practically every theatre company in the city has joined together to mount a staged reading of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Attack of the Angry Doctors
OMG. I don't blame the Cons for thinking that Canada's doctors are after them. But that'll teach them to treat sick refugees as less than human. “There is a new way of thinking in medicine, which is that doctors, because of their stature, privilege and expertise, have a duty to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Angry Canadians
OMG. Fan me with a chicken feather. I can understand why Stephen Harper must be wondering why he's laying one egg after the other. His polls are tanking, his credibility is shot, his corrupt regime is imploding, and his dirty oil pipeline is now just a pipedream. But after everything
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Alison Redford and the Pipeline to Nowhere
Holy hee haw. Lasso me like a baby steer. I can't believe that Alison Redford is still snubbing Tom Mulcair. Redford said no meeting with Mulcair is on the books. "Nobody's asked me to meet with him and I'm quite busy Stampeding and speaking to Albertans about what matters to them."
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