As you know, I have a dream. One that I hold tightly to my chest in this dark Harperland, where hope goes to die.The dream of defeating Stephen Harper and his foul Cons who are trying to scare Canadians into voting for them.By helping to create a Great Stop Harper
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The Disaffected Lib: Screw Oversight! In HarperLand, We Watch YOU, You Don’t Watch Us.
What’s the point in having domestic spying if it means you’re going to be, oh I don’t know, “accountable?” Canada’s Closet Clausewitz, def min Jason Kenney, says there’ll be no additional oversight of national security operatives after the Harper government rams through bill C-51. Defence Minister Jason Kenney, who has
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Does Stephen Harper Get Away With It?
One of the questions I get asked the most is how after damaging Canada so much does Stephen Harper get away with it?And I have to tell them I have no idea. I'm not a psychiatrist, I can't explain madness.Or how he could fool so many for so long.But with
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Horror of Harperland and the Arrival of Baby Freedom
Gawd. I was planning to go through all the posts I wrote this year, and write something about the deathly year of 2014.So I could warn Baby 2015 what to expect, when he or she comes roaring through the door, with hope in its eyes. Into this dark Harperland, where hope
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Monstrous Legacy of the Con Regime
It will probably be years after Stephen Harper and his monstrous Con regime are finally driven from office, before we will be able to total up the damage they have done to this country.And it will take me a couple of days to go through the more than 400 posts
Continue readingMontreal Simon: What Christmas Means to Me. Again
It's Christmas Day, and although I'm an atheist, and I believe that our beautiful planet is our heaven and our hell.And that it's up to us to decide what world we want to live in. Not up to some invisible deity or some bloodthirsty Godzilla. And although I hate the shopping
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Year Ahead and the Coalition Dream
It's a little too soon to take out my crystal ball and predict what's going to happen next year, like so many in the MSM are already doing.Even though the big hollow ball in my neighbourhood seemed to think it knows, as I passed it on my way home last
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Under The Bus
While these Raging Grannies could perhaps use the services of a good singing coach, their hearts, and their lyrics, are clearly in the right place: Recommend this Post
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Real Stephen Harper and the Light in the Darkness
I hate this time of the year, when it gets dark before you get home. And of course nowhere is it darker than in Harperland, where the beast rules, and hope goes to die.But now at last I see a glimmer of light. The Con Death Machine which has been on
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is It Time To Shame Those Who Still Support the Cons?
It was a magnificent and moving sight, fourteen beams of light reaching into the sky from the top of Montreal's Mount Royal.One for each of the women murdered at the École Polytechnique, in the shadow of the mountain where I want my ashes scattered, twenty-five years ago.But as beautiful as
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper, Stephen Lewis, and the Con Neanderthals
Somewhere in his grim bunker, or his dank closet, Stephen Harper must be celebrating madly.I'm sure he can't quite believe his good fortune. Or the way the bony hand of fate has saved him from almost certain defeat.But war has been good for Great Leader, and after trailing Justin Trudeau
Continue readingMontreal Simon: My Scary Halloween in Harperland
Well I'm glad Halloween is over, because it really is a challenge trying to scare people in Harperland.Where every day is Halloween and scarier than the day before. Especially if you're forced to run or hop around in a bunny suit that's at least two sizes too small. And people laugh
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harperland Summer and the Country Where Hope Lives
It's Labour Day. The Snowbirds are roaring over my house for the last time, heading for the CNE air show on the other side of the island. It feels like summer is over.And the roar of the jets only reminds me of what a cataclysmic summer it has been. The
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Return to Harperland and the Great Progressive Depression
Well I'm finally back home in Toronto, after spending two weeks in Scotland, and a few days in Montreal.And although I'll miss the excitement of the Scottish referendum campaign, and the uplifting spirit of the Commonwealth Games.I brought Clyde, the thistle-headed games mascot home with me, and hopefully a haversack
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harperland Spring and the Big Con Makeover
If it wasn't for the fact that it's almost May, and Spring still feels like Autumn, I might have trouble believing I'm still living in Canada, or Harperland.For when I check out the news these days I can't believe what I'm reading.First there was Pierre Poilievre watering down his toxic Unfair Elections
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland and the Great Canadian Resistance
For years Stephen Harper and his PMO thugs have had their way with this country. Defiling our values and traditions, muzzling our democracy, and dragging us into their filthy darkness.But now at last they have gone too far. And as the author of Harperland points out, even in this frigid land,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Dead Swan and the Maple Tree That Lived Forever
Two days ago in the freezing cold of this never-ending winter, I noticed a swan lying weak from hunger on the frozen lake, while its partner looked anxiously on.Unable to understand what was happening, why there is almost no open water this year. No place to draw the food from it needs
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Unpleasant Besmirching of Baby Trudeau’s Name
Although I've never worked in one, and babies terrify me, I always enjoy dropping by the maternity ward, because it's the happiest place in the hospital.Most of the mums are positively glowing, having demonstrated once again that women are stronger than men.And I like to kid the first-time dads by assuring
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland and the Lights in the Darkness
Oh boy. I realize it's not easy to remain cheerful and optimistic in this dark Harperland. Not even in my little Hobbit Town where it's always Christmas.Not when this freezing winter seems to have gone on FOREVERAnd not when I can't even even tell my friends to cheer up, without
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harperland Winter and Pete Seeger’s Message to Progressives
Well I have to admit it was a pretty grim week in Harperland. It was really cold and dark in the place where I live, and even the lights on the ferry dock couldn't brighten the gloom. Not when Lord Harper is back from his bloated junket to remind me how
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