Yesterday, a man picked up a gun and killed 18 students in an elementary school in Texas. This morning a candidate for the leadership of the CPC promised to burn Canada’s gun control laws. Wow – talk about not reading the room – at all. Possibly the worst hot take
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Montreal Simon: The Cons and the Monstrous Keeper of the Flame
In my last post I looked at how Andrew Scheer had been caught accusing the United Nations and Justin Trudeau of trying to erase Canada's borders.With what turned out to be a neo-Nazi meme.But it's worth recalling that he wasn't the first Con to go after the U.N.The ugly redneck MP
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Politics of Madness
Well so much for Great Strong Leader, who would try to brainwash into believing that all we need to do to feel safe is to trust our fate to HIM.Trust that only HE can stop the terrorist hordes from beheading us in our beds. And allow HIM to turn Canada into
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper the Big Lie and the Merchant of Venom
It's hard to tell these days whether Stephen Harper is lying because he's desperate, or because he's lost his moral compass.Or on a day like yesterday, because he's simply delusional. He says he doesn't want to sound paranoid, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper is concerned his own federal bureaucracy is trying to
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Dear Canadian National Firearms Association
How Dare You? It is clear that Canada’s excessive firearms control system has failed again. The excessive rules in place do not in any way increase pu blic safety, but merely contribute to an expensive and unnecessary regime which harms only those of lawful intent. Resources wasted on this fundamentally
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: A Modest Proposal On Firearms
For years the argument has been made that regulations related to firearms are just a means for the government to subjugate the populace. However, I have never heard any of these same people object to the reality that the same government insists that they register their car, carry insurance on
Continue readingLeft Over: The new Canadian Plague: Have We all been Infected?
Sadly, Rob Ford epitomises what Canada has become With his crack smoking and drunken misbehaviour, Toronto’s mayor personifies our crude, swaggering, bungling New Canada Robert Hays in the Guardian Fri Dec 13 2013 Speak for yourself, Hays..truly the East seems to have adopted the crudities of the HarperCons
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Montreal Massacre and the Con War on Women
In my sadness over the death of Nelson Mandela, and because I'm so tired, I forgot that Friday was the anniversary of a monumental Canadian tragedy. That on a snowy day in Montreal twenty four years ago, an angry man with a gun stormed through an engineering school and killed fourteen young
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Gun Lobby Goes After the Harper Cons
Well it seemed like a good idea at the time eh? Kill the long gun registry, screw those dead women, get the RCMP to hide the cost of destroying the records.And pleasure his rabid base.Because he thought they would be easily satisfied… But unfortunately for Great Majority Hunter Leader they weren't. Read
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland: The Horror and the Resistance
If you want to know what Stephen Harper and his monstrous Con regime have done to this country, all you had to do was look around you today to see it in all its horror. A Parliament shutdown by a Prime Minister to prevent the opposition from asking questions about a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Lac-Mégantic and the Callousness of the Cons
As people in the shattered little town of Lac-Mégantic try to recover from the terrifying tragedy that struck their town.Try to come to terms with the fact that the bodies of many of their loved ones may never be found. As all over Canada people who live near railway lines wonder if
Continue readingLeDaro: You Have to Register Your Car, But Not Your Gun
Stephen Harper abolished Canada’s long gun registry, considering it an infringement on gun rights. Harper wants to follow the American model it seems – where there are lax restrictions on gun ownership and purchase. However, is that the model we want in Canada? Gun violence is a serious problem in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Slaughtered Children and the Gun Nutz
I'm sure you know how I feel about guns and gun violence. And how I feel about those who hurt children.So you can imagine how I feel about this horror.A heavily armed man opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school Friday leaving 27 dead — including 20 children — and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Montreal Massacre and the Shameless Cons
It's hard to believe that it's been 23 years since their lives ended so suddenly and so brutally.Their faces still stare out at us, so young and full of hope.If they had lived some of them might have kids in university today. And some of their daughters might be studying
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Quebec court makes Vic Toews very mad.
As you might have read, a Quebec Superior Court ruled that Ottawa must hand over gun registry data pertaining to Quebec over to the province, so it can help start up its own provincial gun registry: In his decision, considered a victory for Quebec, Judge Marc-André Blanchard said the registry
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Long-Gun Registry Lives !!!!!
At least in Québec. The federal government’s plan to destroy all data from its long-gun registry is unconstitutional, a judge has ruled, giving Ottawa 30 days to hand to Quebec records collected from the province’s gun owners. “Quebec didn’t embark in the project of setting up a registry knowing that
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany…
Happy Canada Day edition! ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— About these “Harper Hates Me” buttons – I’m coming down on this issue on a side that you might not expect… Public servants who got in trouble for wearing “Stephen Harper Hates Me” buttons to work are fighting back. Several employees at the Canada Revenue
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper and Vic Toews: Conservative Priorities
Safe: Child’s play. Dangerous, may warrant police raids. Conservative priorities are out of whack with reality: according to them, there’s money for fighter jets and prisons we don’t need, but cutting valuable staff from Environment Canada is okay… because there is not enough money? I guess Harper was worried that
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Why Vic Toews Laws are Worse Than Gun Laws
Stephen Harper’s Spying Laws will collect way more info than the Gun Registry ever did. And on ALL Canadians (not just the gun nuts).
Continue readingPop The Stack: Tell Vic Everything…but don’t worry, he doesn’t want to know about your guns
Update 2: Some more great examples of inconsistency, remember when the government used private information on Vets to smear their spokesperson? Update 1: A version of this post can also be seen here at the Huffington Post. Maybe you can help me figure something out. How is it exactly that the same Conservative government
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