Haven’t posted in a bit, but I certainly been busy with Liberal volunteerism! I’ve been helping to run canvassing for the great Liberal candidate in my home riding of Mississauga-Lakeshore, Sven Spengemann. Here are a couple photos from today’s Day of Action: We’ve been going out pretty regularly, and hearing
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The Liberal Scarf: Photos from Mississauga-Lakeshore Day of Action
Haven’t posted in a bit, but I certainly been busy with Liberal volunteerism!I’ve been helping to run canvassing for the great Liberal candidate in my home riding of Mississauga-Lakeshore, Sven Spengemann. Here are a couple photos from today’s Day of A…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Photos from Mississauga-Lakeshore Day of Action
Haven’t posted in a bit, but I certainly been busy with Liberal volunteerism! I’ve been helping to run canvassing for the great Liberal candidate in my home riding of Mississauga-Lakeshore, Sven Spengemann. Here are a couple photos from today’s Day of Action: We’ve been going out pretty regularly, and hearing
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why the Struggle Against Bill C-51 Must Continue
It's taken me two days to come down from last Saturday's big demonstration against the Harper regime's foul Bill C-51.Because I do wear my heart on my sleeve, and it was so great to see so many Canadians in the street at last.Instead of letting Stephen Harper scare them into
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and his Monstrous McCarthyite Cons
When we last left Stephen Harper yesterday afternoon, he was in his Terror Command Bunker, also known as the Fear Centre, trying to block out the sights and the sounds of yesterday's massive Day of Action.And no doubt shocked by the sight of all those demonstrators, all those Stop Harper
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bill C-51: The Cons Turn the Committee Hearings Into a Star Chamber
Well as could have been predicted, the committee hearings into Stephen Harper's totalitarian Bill C-51 are turning into a sinister spectacle.With a little bit of Orwell, and a little bit of Kafka.The Kafka part being that although the bill would give the security forces massive powers to invade our privacy, on
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Two Way to Fight Bill C-51 and Shred Stephen Harper
With Stephen Harper's anti-terrorist bill now being rammed through a parliamentary committee.And the Con regime sounding ever more desperate. “The Holocaust did not begin in the gas chamber. It began with words.”Or veering into the realm of farce.I see there are now at least two ways we can help shred the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Stealthy War on Medicare
On Monday the Health Accord between the provinces and the federal government will expire.There will be no longer be a signed agreement to enforce the five principles of the Canada Health Act.The Health Council of Canada, the independent agency charged with monitoring our healthcare system, will cease to exist.And although
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why We Should Thank Idle No More
I was glad to see that Idle No More's Day of Action took the movement's message to Canadians.Loudly but peacefully. From downtown Toronto to Vancouver Island, protesters ramped up weeks of demonstrations to another level, still peaceful, stopping traffic on busy highways and major rail lines, forcing Canadians to stop and
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Movement Call for Global Day of Action: Chalkupy the World!
via Occupy Los Angeles: On July 12th, participants in OccupyLA met to raise awareness for unlawful arrests of activists that had been targeting a lobby group with a stranglehold on power over local and state politics. The activists handed out chalk and shared the story of unlawful arrests and police
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