It was so beautiful and warm yesterday I wish I could have spent the whole day sunning myself on the beach, or swimming in Lake Ontario.Because when I saw the lifeguard boys racing for home at the end of their shifts, I was reminded that summer will soon be following
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Northern Reflections: Bad Moon Rising
http://www.scenicreflections.com/ You know the Conservatives are in trouble when Ian MacDonald says they are. No Liberal or Dipper, MacDonald got into politics as a spokesman for Brian Mulroney and as an ardent supporter of his high school classmate, Jim Flaherty. But now he is worried. The latest EKOS poll
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Stephen Harper Finally Running Out of Time?
He has been keeping a low profile. Apart from a steady barrage of short statements on the Ukraine crisis he isn't saying much about anything else.Let alone this devastating poll. Far from the apparent ascendance of the Conservatives as the new natural governing party, their reign appears to be closing
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Coming Storm
It's summer in Canada. The tragically short season when one should be allowed to forget about our grubby political scene, think about more beautiful things, and enjoy them while it lasts.But this is Harperland, and there is a storm on the horizon.Stephen Harper is on the move, and the next election
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Fatal Momentum of Justin Trudeau
Golly. Talk about the showdown at the Calgary Corral, or the redneck Stampede.The aging gunslinger in the black hat, staring with his cold dead eyes at the young upstart in the white hat, who is preparing to humiliate him.And while I can only imagine what was going through Stephen Harper's
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Increasing Desperation of Stephen Harper
Lordy. Somebody call an exorcist. Stephen Harper is haunting my inner sanctum. I just can't get away from him.As I told you the other day, I was shocked to find that flyer jammed in my front door.And today my nightmare only grew worse.When I found this unsolicited invitation in my twitter
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Regime and the Attack Ad Question
Well as you can imagine, the secure facility where I live is a Con-Free Zone.No pictures of Stephen Harper are permitted, except those stored in the bowels of my computer.And his name may not be mentioned in my presence, without written permission.So you can imagine how horrified I was to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Could Stephen Harper Still Win the Next Election?
It's a horrible question, and one I'd rather not ask myself in the middle of the Victoria Day weekend.Lest it encourage me to join half the population, and start drinking heavily.But with all those reports or rumours that the Cons are preparing for an election sooner rather than later. Maybe it
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How To Motivate Young Canadians to Vote (Part Two)
Last week I wrote a post looking at how important it is to get more young Canadians to vote in the next election.Because if more of them do vote, we will almost surely defeat Stephen Harper. I said that if you want them to cast a ballot, first you must move
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How To Move Young Canadians To Help Defeat Stephen Harper
It should be obvious by now that the key to winning the next election is getting out the vote.For why else would Stephen Harper and his Con regime be going to such desperate lengths to suppress it?And there isn't a group that needs to be encouraged more to vote than
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Can We Take Him At His Word?
When asked this week if he would run for re-election in 2015, Stephen Harper answered, “Of course, yes.” It was a pretty flatfooted statement. But Tasha Kheiriddin, one of the prime minister’s most steadfast supporters, writes that his answer is open to interpretation: Some surveys have found that the public
Continue readingBlunt Objects: New Sask Ridings Give NDP a Leg Up
The folks doing the federal redistribution for the province of Saskatchewan has come out with their proposed boundaries today, finally putting to rest those horrible eight ridings that broke up the cities of Regina and Saskatoon into four parts each, combining urban and suburban parts of the cities with huge
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