He can try to hide behind big legal words. He can claim he didn’t know. But nobody can deny that this is a brutal assault on gay people. The Harper government is being accused of taking away same-sex rights by “stealth” in light of a surprise government stand that non-resident
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Montreal Simon: Dr Strangelove and the Oil Pipeline
Well in case anyone didn’t understand why the Harper Cons are calling native people and environmentalists “radicals” and “foreign interests.” Leave it up to Tom “Strangelove” Flanagan to explain Big Oil’s plan for Total World Domination. The branding of opponents as “radicals” is part of a strategy to make sure the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver and the Leaking Pipeline
Oh. My. Oily. Oliver. What bad timing. Canadian pipeline builder Enbridge reported a leak from one of its pipelines on the day public hearings began into the company’s planned Northern Gateway pipeline. And don’t you love this? Enbridge declined to describe how it could be safe to continue operating a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver, the Radicals, and the Foreign Interests
You know….if you needed a cheap and apparently inexhaustible source of natural gas to heat your home, you could do worse than connecting a hose to Joe Oliver’s big mouth and another one to his other vibrating orifice. Environmental and other “radical groups” are trying to block trade and undermine Canada’s
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ugly Lockout and the Quiet Revolution.
Golly. I don’t think I’m going to have to consult my horoscope to find out where I’m going to be, and what I’m going to be doing on Saturday the 21st of January. Because I already know. In London, Ontario, supporting these locked out Canadian workers. And why am I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con Klown Show
Well there he was today, posing in front of another carefully composed human backdrop, shrugging off the latest grim economic news. Choosing instead to go after environmental groups and native people opposed to the construction of a pipeline. While ignoring the many lobbyists from Big Oil who tell him what to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Choo Choo Run
Well I see that Great Choo Choo Leader is trying to put some distance between him and the lockout at the Electro-Motive plant in London, Ontario. Even though he once used the factory to shill his corporate tax cuts. “This is a dispute between a private company and the union
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Cons and Our Hollowed Out Country
It was -17 degrees in London, Ontario, today, where a foreign company has locked out 400 Canadian workers. To try to slash their wages and benefits by more than fifty percent, and gut their pensions. And in Alma, Quebec, where another foreign company has locked out 700 Canadian workers, and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Cons and the Race to the Bottom
What would you say if you worked at Caterpillar’s Electro-Motive plant in London, Ontario, and found yourself locked out? Because you wouldn’t agree to have your wages and health benefits cut by more than fifty percent, and your pension eliminated altogether. Even though Caterpillar is making record profits. Its CEO
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Citizen Peladeau and the War on the CBC
Jumping Jiminy Cricket. I must have had too much booze soaked plum pudding eh? But when I saw that Pierre Karl Péladeau says his war on the CBC isn’t a vendetta, I couldn’t help thinking that his nose must be growing. The media magnate insists that his crusade to force the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Cotlergate Stephen Harper’s Watergate?
Lordy. Isn’t life unfair? Great Ugly Leader makes destroying the Liberal Party his singularly depraved obsession. And gets rewarded with a juicy majority. While the poor guy who said this: “We’ve done tens of millions of dials through our call centre and there’s never been any complaint launched against us,”
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Con Canada and the Dirty Trick Gang
Golly Sherlock can you believe this? The polling company behind those phony calls in Irwin Cotler’s riding is feeling a little heat. A trade association that represents Canadian marketing and polling firms says it is looking into complaints about controversial phone calls into Liberal MP Irwin Cotler’s Montreal riding made
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Global Warming and the Bubbles of the Apocalypse
When I look at a picture of our beautiful little blue planet, and I think of what the Cons have done, I feel so angry and so ashamed to be a Canadian. We’re a rich, advanced country that should be a leader. Yet we’ve failed the world on climate change. We
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Kyoto and the Shame of the Cons
I could run this old video of Peter Kent introducing a documentary where he calls global warming “the greatest threat to life on the planet” and warns that the devastating effects of climate change “will be seen in our children’s lifetime. Or I could run this picture of him returning
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons Go After Our Medicare System
They promised they wouldn’t go after medicare. But that was then and this is now. The Conservative government is putting the provinces on notice that Ottawa plans to shrink the rate of growth in health transfers. As Finance Minister Jim Flaherty prepares to meet his provincial and territorial counterparts Monday
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney’s Ridiculous War on the Veil
OK. So I’m not a big fan of religion, and I’m not a big fan of the burqa or the niqab. But then as you know I’m not a big fan of Jason Kenney either. So I find his new war on the veil totally ridiculous. It seems unlikely that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Krusty Blatchford and the City of Sissies
And so it came to pass that the ghastly Con scribbler Krusty Blatchford was strolling trolling through the streets the other day, when she came across a group of young boys hugging each other. Farted loudly. And did declare Toronto to be a City of Sissies. I know men have feelings
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Attawapiskat and Our New Canadian Flag
It’s going to be -21 degrees and feel like -30 in Attawapiskat today. Where some families are living in tents and plywood shacks like this one. So what is our hideous Con government doing, more than a month after that poor little community declared a state of emergency? Preparing to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Silence
Sometimes it’s the small things that can tell you a lot about the country we are becoming under the sinister Harper regime. And how The Great Darkness is becoming The Great Silence. We know about the big things. How the Cons have paralyzed the civil service with fear. How they’re
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Scary Christmas Party
OMG. I don’t know whether I should tell you, because you’ll NEVER believe me. But I went to Stephen Harper’s Con Christmas party last night. And boy was it SCARY. Of course, the theme WAS fear and paranoia. Suspicious Conservatives are vetting guests to their annual caucus Christmas party in
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