A year ago I wrote a post about Canada Day and called it Canada Day in Harperland: Between Hope and Despair.Because although I never lost hope that we would defeat him, the monster was still in power…And I couldn't help wondering how long it wo…
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Montreal Simon: Celebrating Our First Harper-Free Canada Day
It was a beautiful blue summer day in the Great White North. The kind I dream about all year round.A chance to get away from the city, feel the clean lake air in my face. Try to forget about all the problems we face in this increasingly scary world.And…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Electoral Reform and The Final Destruction of the Cons
It's been almost seven months since Stephen Harper and his foul Con regime came crashing down.And I'm still celebrating that happy day. But I've also been patiently waiting for another great day.The day we start the process that will make…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Celebrating Spring and the Light After the Darkness of the Cons
At first glance it might seem like a strange way to celebrate the arrival of Spring in the Great White North, and the end of the Great Darkness.By turning out the lights.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined Canadian organizers of Earth Hour in askin…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Celebrating a Trudeau Christmas in the New Canada
It's Christmas Day, and although it's a bit gloomy out there because it won't be a white Christmas in the place where I live.It seems to me that the lights have never shone brighter, after Harperland's long night.And never has there …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Remembering Harperland’s Last Nightmare Before Christmas
As you know I have been having a bit of trouble getting into the spirit of the season.It has been dark and gloomy and foggy where I live, and so warm the skates stick to the ice, it's hard to believe it's winter in Canada.And what with being fo…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Hairy Question: Why Was Margaret Atwood Censored By the National Post?
We've all seen this absurd clip in that ghastly Con attack ad at least a thousand times. For there is no escaping it.And if you're like me you have no doubt wondered what it has to do with Justin Trudeau's qualifications to be Prime Minister.And whether it's just another hideous
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Main Reason Stephen Harper Must Be Defeated
This photo was released today by the Con Ministry of Propaganda, and is apparently designed to portray Stephen Harper as a leader bearing the burden of governing this country as only he can.The man with the lonely job of steering this country through a dark and perilous time.But to me
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Insanity of Harperland
I'm glad I'm leaving Canada for a while because I really need to get away from this ghastly political monster.Who is now so desperate, he is turning his depraved Harperland into a mad house.For there he was in a Bloomberg interview claiming that he was a Great Economist Leader, the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Sad Saga of Mother Canada and Jesus Harper
As you may know a Toronto businessman wants to build a massive statue called Mother Canada in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.And although it is a private initiative, the foundation he created is now looking for public money.Even though polls show most Canadians hate the idea.And most of the reviews
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Crimes of the Con Regime and the Country We Could Be
As the fireworks burst over my neighbourhood last night, and I watched the Cirque du Soleil's amazing performance at the opening ceremony of the Pan Am games, I was reminded of the country we could be.A still young country that could dazzle the world in a peaceful beautiful way. A
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Canada Day in Harperland, Between Hope and Despair
It's Canada Day in Harperland in the grim year of 2015. And I must admit I'm finding it hard to find a reason to celebrate, or find words to express how I feel.For it has been a grim year, and think I said what I wanted to say about Canada,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Stephen Harper Changed the Face of Canada
It still looks like the Canada I first saw on a glorious fall day long ago, through the window of a plane coming into land at Montreal airport.As I bounced up and down in my seat with excitement, and looked down to see if I could spot any bears on
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Canada Desperately Needs a Magna Carta Moment
Yesterday was the 800th anniversary of the day King John reluctantly signed the Magna Carta, the document that was the foundation of our parliamentary democracy, and the rule of law.And most importantly declared that nobody was above the law, not even the king.So it's ironic that few people have celebrated that anniversary
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harperland Spring and the Phony War
I must admit I'm finding Harperland this week a little strange and rather depressing. Or should I say even stranger and more depressing than usual.For although we could be just two months away from the start of an election campaign, as I pointed out yesterday. You'd never know, it's eerily
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Stephen Harper the Worst Prime Minister in Canadian History?
It's not a question most people who know me would dare ask me.Lest they be forced to listen to a five-minute diatribe, or watch my face turn red, and smoke pour out of my ears.But now somebody has asked the question: Is Stephen Harper the worst prime minister EVER? And since
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Strange Harperland Spring and the Propaganda Challenge
It's been eerily quiet down by the waterfront where I live. It still doesn't feel like Spring.People seem strangely subdued. And although I am looking forward to all the good things warm weather brings, I can't shake the feeling that something awful is about to happen.And polls like this one
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Springtime in Harperland and the Battle to Take Canada Back
Well Spring has finally arrived in the little corner of Canada where I live. The hockey goals have been fished out of the once frozen canal where they sank after the ice melted.And biking season is here at last… Which would be perfect if I didn't live in Harperland, where winter
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Blogging in the Darkness of Harperland
When I started blogging nine years ago I never could have imagined that so many years later I'd still be blogging in the darkness of Stephen Harper's Canada.Or that after all he's done to this country, he could still dream about winning another bloody majority.Or that we are still living
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Politics of Fear
The other day I wrote a post where I asked, or begged our progressive leaders to elevate their game. To go big or go home.And make the struggle to defeat the Harper Cons a larger struggle to save Canada and its values.And I have to say that last night in
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