There was an incredibly revealing moment today. A moment that summed up the way many in the MSM have been going after Chief Spence and the Idle No More movement.And like it has been all along, it was both banal and brutal.Read more »
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Montreal Simon: Idle No More and the Great Confusion
Well I think it's safe to say that it was quite a day in my home and native's land eh?As if the great Ojibwa Mishipeshu of Lake Superior was thrashing its tail around and causing a great confusion. Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she won't be at a meeting Friday between First
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Racist Backlash
As the great rising continues, I see that a Global TV crew has been kicked out of Attawapiskat. A Global News crew was escorted off the Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario and threatened with arrest after trying to do a story on living conditions in the community. And while on the one
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Sounds of Resistance
Well say what you like about Stephen Harper. Call him the Crime Minister or the devil himself.But nobody can deny that he’s consistent eh?One moment he’s waging a war of wills with a starving woman who represents some of the poorest people in Canada.Or boasting about the eleven thousand government
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Real Terrorists
If Stephen Harper thought his grudging offer to meet with the AFN Chiefs would defuse the Idle No More movement, he couldn't have been more wrong.From Sydney to Cornwall to Vancouver.Because you can't stop a movement whose time has come eh?Or it seems stop Christie Blatchford from smearing those in the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Idle No More Humiliated Stephen Harper
In all my years of watching Stephen Harper I have rarely seen him looking so frustrated and so humiliated.But there he was today at a ridiculous photo-op in a Ford factory, looking like was about to implode.And no wonder.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Idle No More Will Make Harper Eat Crow
For some ghastly reason I couldn't help wondering tonight what Stephen Harper is eating while Chief Theresa Spencer dies of hunger. As Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence continues her hunger strike, a critical care doctor is warning that the human body begins to break down after such a long period without food.Jones said
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Power of Solidarity
One day historians, or forensic psychiatrists, will no doubt argue over why Stephen Harper was prepared to let Chief Theresa Spence die.Was it because that cold, cruel, man couldn't feel the pain of others?Or was it because he was a coward?Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Bigot Voices
As Chief Theresa Spence enters the 16th day of her hunger strike, with Stephen Harper still refusing to meet her, I see his inaction is causing some old Canadian demons to take flight.Flying out of their internet caves like bats, and emitting bigot sounds.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Con Denial of History
When I woke up today and saw that it had snowed, for the first time this winter, I felt like I was back in Canada eh?Because I can't imagine winter in the Great White North without snow. Just like I can't imagine this country without the Québécois or the First
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When the Cons Try to Cover Up Murder
His name was Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener. He was a Canadian peacekeeper who was killed murdered by the Israeli military in 2006.Now the Canadian military, and the Harper government, are trying to cover-up how he died.The Defence Department has quietly removed from the Internet a report into the killing of a Canadian
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the War on Christmas. Again
Oh no. Just when I thought the War on Christmas was over. Here it comes again.As brought to us by Bill O'Reilly, the Fox Nation, and this year by Santa himself.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Christianist Threat
Uh oh. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Stephen Harper has admitted he is getting his guidance from above.Asked about how faith influences his decisions, Harper said that he prays regularly to “ask for strength and for wisdom.”Which explains the state our country is in, and why the Con
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why is Stephen Harper Afraid of Chief Spence?
It's hard to believe that a native leader from a suffering community, would have to go on a hunger strike, to try to get a meeting with a Canadian Prime Minister.On the eve of a day of aboriginal protest, the hunger-striking chief of the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation is again calling
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Pat Martin and the Rat Faced Cons
Golly. I have no idea why Pat Martin called the Cons rat faced whores.Martin launched into a Twitter tirade for the ages Wednesday night, calling the Conservative Party “rat faced whores” and attacking Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ personal life to express his displeasure over not being invited to an
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ikea Monkey and the Harper Kong
Gawd. If my protest calendar for December wasn't booked solid. And if I hadn't got plastered at the office Christmas party.I might have been walking around today with a sign reading "Free Darwin Now."Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vic Toews and the Bushmaster Man Card
Uh oh. Zombie alert. As if the Newtown Massacre wasn't scary enough, here comes Vic Toews, the Minister of Public Insecurity.Stumbling out of his crypt to claim that the Cons are protecting Canadians from gun violence."We made (it) very clear that there are certain types of firearms that simply should
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Guns, God, Madness, and the Harper Cons
I was glad to see Obama visit the latest community in America to be shattered by gun violence. And I was happy to hear him say this. "We can't tolerate this any more. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change. So maybe all the poor little
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jim Flaherty and the Theatre of Cruelty
You might think that Jim Flaherty would be satisfied with ramming through his latest Trojan Horse budget.His ghastly swollen beast stuffed to the gills with toxic waste.But no. Now he's going after seniors and the Canada Pension Plan. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Plan for Total Chinese Domination
All hail Great Monkey Leader and his five fourteen year plan to make China richer !!!Where if you're Canadian we don't want you.The B.C. Federation of Labour says documents show it will be 14 years before Canadians replace all the temporary foreign workers from China hired to work at an
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