You've just got back to Canada. You have some time to kill before your connecting flight.You whip out your mobile phone to check out the web, using the airport's free Wi-Fi.Only to have Big Brother start following you around.Welcome to Harperland. Read more »
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Montreal Simon: Harperland and the Winter of Our Discontent
Gawd. It's getting grim out there in Harperland. I've never seen so many people looking so miserable and so grumpy. Every subway window seemed to me today like a framed picture of despair.The weather's brutal, the credit card bills are coming in, the future has never seemed more uncertain, the country never
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Happy New Year in Harperland
Well it's hard to believe that I survived another year in Harperland. Because 2013 was such a brutal year, I sometimes wondered whether I was still living in Canada eh?But it was also the year the Con regime began to fall apart. The year their monstrous leader was mortally wounded.So
Continue readingMontreal Simon: One Day in the Darkness of Harperland
It was cold and dark tonight by the lake where I live. Like it usually is in late November, in Canada. But at least for the first time there was a sprinkling of snow on the ground to brighten up the gloom.Which is more than I can say about Harperland, where it just
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Thanksgiving in Harperland:The Sorrow and the Hope
It still takes my breath away. This country so big and so beautiful. And on this Thanksgiving Day, even in Harperland, I have so many reasons to be thankful.A roof over my head and enough food to eat. A great companion, a loving family, friends who keep me grounded and make
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland and the Progressive Journey to Victory
It's been pretty grey and wet where I live. It gets dark before you know it. Soon it will be winter in Harperland. In all its grim horror.But on the positive side I have a few days off, so I can take a short break from blogging, recharge my batteries, and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Strange and Scary History of Stephen Harper
One of the reasons we find ourselves living in the sinister darkness of Harperland, is because too many Canadians know nothing about the tortured career or weird nature of the man who would change this country beyond recognition. But would do it in such a shadowy, stealthy, incremental manner that many would not
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why PRISM Matters
The Guardian has done an excellent and vital job digesting the U.S. National Security Agency PRISM data leaked by Edward Snowden. A good deal of it had come out, in part, in dribs and drabs but it was the British newspaper that put it all together in chilling context. It’s
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Census and the Dark Harperland Summer
I've never seen a summer like this one. So grey, so cold, so ominous. And as it turns out so Harperland eh?For more proof today that if Great Ugly Leader has his way we'll all end up living in perpetual darkness. Read more »
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Longer He Stays, The More Damage He Does
Lawrence Martin has admitted that the title for his latest book was inspired by Rick Pearlstein’s examination of the Nixon administration. However, Martin writes, Harperland is not Nixonland — at least not yet: Harperland is not in a league with Nixonland, certainly not on the basis of what we know
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harponado and the End Times
Sometimes these days I feel like a guy in a boat who can see a massive thunderstorm bearing down on him.But can't row fast enough to escape it. Can't shake the feeling that Mother Nature is angry, and that we're on the verge of a cataclysm. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Wonderful Saving of Far Enough Farm
Two years ago I first told you the story of Far Enough Farm, the beautiful little hobby farm on the Toronto Islands. A gentle story book place if ever there was one. I told you how the brutish Con ogre Rob Ford was trying to destroy it for no good reason.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland: The Horror and the Beauty
One of the worst things about living in Stephen Harper's monstrous Canada, is having to spend so much time writing about the crimes of the Con regime.The vile acts, the ugliness, the cruelty, the barbarism of that bestial cult that is slowly killing our country. Instead of being able to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harperland Spring and the Partisan Nightmare
When I woke up today, the sky was blue, the sun was shining, and for a moment I thought that Spring had arrived in Harperland. Finally !!!!!But then I stepped outside, realized that it was still horribly cold eh? And my day went rapidly down hill.Before I could even finish my first coffee,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Day of Infamy
It seemed like just another day in the Great Frozen North.A day when Canada looked liked it always does at this time of the year. But then I remembered it wasn't just another day. It was the seventh anniversary of the day Stephen Harper and his Cons came to power. The day
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Hockey Night in Harperland
A couple of my friends came over this evening to watch the Habs-Leafs game on my big screen TV. And they were surprised to find out that I hadn't been planning to watch it, until they turned up.And that I wasn't the least bit excited that the season had finally started.Read
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland and the Horror of 2012
Golly. It's hard to believe that the horrible year of 2012 in Harperland is finally almost over.And that I'm still standing. For if on this day in 2010 I wrote this:It was the worst of years. The year when the crazed tyrant Stephen Harper ripped a giant hole in the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland: The Light and the Darkness
As I write this they have started voting on the Godzilla Budget in the House of Commons, and what a horror show it is. The ghastly good ol' boys from the Reform Party whooping it up as they bury our democracy. Again.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harperland and Our Lost Canada
I was on my way to catch the ferry the other day, when I came across this seagull perched majestically on a pole, looking like it knew the answer to everything.So I said "Seagull, explain me this; how can something as horrible as Harperland happen in a place as beautiful
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: HarperLand’s View of Organized Labour – They’re "Animals"
Harper LabourMin Lisa Raitt apparently got into it with disgruntled Air Canada employees last night at Toronto airport. Three Air Canada employees apparently greeted Raitt with a round of slow-clapping, saying “Great Job.” Raitt reportedly took exception and asked that the RCMP “arrest these animals.” Then again, they were union
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