I’ve written about Kevin before. The young heroin addict I found shooting up on the door step of the Yale Town apartment I was renting, while taking a summer course in Vancouver.How I felt like I was looking at somebody dying before my eyes. How h…
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Montreal Simon: Brad Trost and the Zombie Threat
Holy jumpin’ Joan of Saskatchewan !!! I gotta give the Con wingnut Brad Trost some credit eh? Not only does he look FABULOUS in a dress. I hear he’s declared a holy redneck jihad against Great Ugly Leader.“The battle over the IPPF continues…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Cons and the Country I Don’t Recognize
On a beautiful early fall day like this one it’s hard to believe that bad things can happen in Canada.But when I see what the Cons are doing to our country, trying to turn us into a prison state, or leading us to financial disaster in the name of their…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Prison State
I always knew that Stephen Harper would eventually turn this country into a prison state, as sinister as the man himself.I always knew that his American-style plan to jail even more Canadians flew in the face of reason.“We’re not governing on …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Bullies Go After the CBC. Again.
I have never understood why the Cons hate the CBC so much. Why the grotesque teabaggers at Fox News North spend so much time hissing and spitting at it.Or why senior Con operatives use CBC hate to whip up their rabid supporters, and sque…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jimbo Flaherty, Dumbo MacKay, and the Jumping Doggies
Golly. I went down to the farm this afternoon to check with my financial advisers, after hearing about this horrible meltdown.But when I got there I discovered little Jimbo Flaherty had beaten me to it. Because he’s DESPERATE for any kind of …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jimbo Flaherty’s Strange Upside Down World
I’m proud to say I’ve never believed anything little Jimbo Flaherty, the one-time King of the Mole Hill, had to say about ANYTHING. But his recent behaviour leaves me wondering whether he’s gone completely batty.The stock market is tanking. The do…
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Stephen Harper’s Plan To Rebrand Canada
Uh oh. Hold the fruit salad. It turns out Stephen Harper’s obsession with everything royal isn’t just another moment of madness. It’s part of a Con Master Plan to lead us bravely into the future. By marching us back to the&nbs…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Cons and the Long Way Down
When I think of how the little Con gnome Jimbo Flaherty is bringing the economy down to his level. But doesn’t want us to worry.Even though once again he didn’t see it coming, and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. When I think about how the&nb…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Postal Workers and the War on Pensions
I visited a postal worker’s picket line yesterday morning. And in the evening Sébastien dropped by and took this great picture after the Cons announced they intend to force them back to work.
The Conservative government is vowing t…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Bigots and the Rainbow Chasers
It was a grey and rainy Monday, so imagine how great it was to stumble home from work, and see this beautiful rainbow streaming down on my island.
Especially since I know that a sight like that must drive these rainbow chasers CRAZY.
A…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: What do the Cons and the Saudis Have in Common?
They both hate high gas prices.
For all the wrong reasons.
Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said Sunday that he wants oil prices to drop so that the United States and Europe don’t accelerate efforts to wean themselves off his country’s…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Tony Clement and the Chainsaw Massacre
Only Stephen Harper’s tormented mind could have conjured up such a ghastly apparition. The sight of the bumbling idiot Tony Clement coming after us with a humming chainsaw.Mr. Clement says there will be no backing down…“Yeah, …
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