Well let's face it, it's not a great time to be an Albertan. Their Great Leader Stephen Harper's oily obsession with creating a Greater Albertonia his leading them to disaster.Once they were living high off the bitumen, and lording it over the rest of us. Now the wheels are falling
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Montreal Simon: What Would You Tell Stephen Harper If He Tried to Shake Your Hand?
It's a horrible thought, and it could only happen in a nightmare.But what if you were wandering through a deathly dreamscape, and suddenly there was Stephen Harper, offering to shake your hand?What WOULD you say to him?And while that could never happen to me, because I'd rather cut off my
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Sinister Plan to Jail Pipeline Protesters
You think Stephen Harper might have learned his lesson. You think a tiny sliver of light might have penetrated even into his dark world.You think he might have finally realized that his oily obsession is leading us to economic disaster. Declining crude oil prices are taking a brutal toll on the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Oily Road to Disaster
He was warned, but Stephen Harper wouldn't listen. Warned that he should not put so many economic eggs in one oily basket.He was warned that the future would be green, or there would be no future. So it made no sense to turn us into a tarry petro state, and even
Continue readingMontreal Simon: BREAKING: Russian Ship Threatens BC Coast Again
Well it looks as if Stephen Harper has jumped the gun again. For this morning he tweeted this: Thank you to the @CCG_GCC's Gordon Reid and others for the great work they are doing off the coast of the Haida Gwaii off the coast of BC.— Stephen Harper (@pmharper) October
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Climate Change Charade
With every day that passes, the devastating consequences of climate change become more obvious and more alarming.The galloping horsemen or signs of the impending apocalypse. Flooding, famine, disease and war to name but a few.Only to be joined by the latest one: the fish are swimming towards the poles. Read more
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Day of the Con Planet Burners
It happened during Question Period in the middle of the debate about whether Canada should go to war.So most did not notice and it will soon be forgotten.The moment when Tom Mulcair quoted Stephen Harper's infamous 2002 statement on Kyoto:“Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Leona Aglukkaq’s Disgraceful Con Clown Summit Show
She was Stephen Harper's designated hitter at the Climate Change Summit in New York.And although the Con Propaganda Ministry tried to stir up media interest in her speech. And Leona Aglukkaq seemed to believe afterwards that she had hit one out of the park… Wheels up! Successful week in #NYC where I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Regime and the Horror of Lac Mégantic
The report into the horrifying tragedy in Lac-Mégantic is out, and it couldn't be more devastating for the Con regime.A railway with a “weak safety culture” and a federal regulator that was asleep at the switch combined to bring about the worst accident in modern Canadian history, says a report
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Keystone Pipeline Dream Takes Another Hit
I never understood how the U.S. State Department could conclude that building the Keystone XL pipeline would not substantially increase carbon emissions.It didn't make sense.And sure enough it turns out somebody didn't know how to count.Because now it seems the pipeline's impact could be FOUR times higher than estimated.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Pipeline Gambit
Well it's the talk of the town. The pundits are perplexed. Shock and confusion reigns. Everybody is trying to figure out why Stephen Harper is disowning his tarry baby. After working so hard to conceive it. And in some parts of the country paranoia runs rampant. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cowboy King and the Northern Gateway Pipeline
Well, surprise, surprise, he couldn't contain himself. At the end of his political career, paranoid and increasingly desperate, his grand pipe dream of going down in history as Alberta's greatest champion proved irresistible.The nerd from Etobicoke would be the Cowboy King of Albertonia. The one who put the other provinces
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Day of Decision
Well the day of decision is finally here. The day Stephen Harper must decide whether to approve the Northern Gateway Pipeline.And no doubt he is psyching himself up in his bunker, by among other things reminding himself that David Suzuki was on that list of Canadian heroes I wrote about
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper, Tim Hudak, and the Con Climate Change Deniers
When I first saw this picture of Stephen Harper and Tony Abbott having breakfast together, I thought something had gone wrong with their "special relationship."I mean they both looked so tense, and the cat looked sooooo jealous.And that even after Abbott called Harper a "beacon" for Conservatives all over the world.But
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Obama Humiliated Stephen Harper. Again.
Well as you know Stephen Harper has been duelling with the voices in his head. Seeing enemies everywhere, and losing track of what century he's living in.Two days ago he was channelling Margaret Thatcher, fighting the Cold War all over again.Challenging Vladimir Putin to knock down the Berlin Wall, and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: If the CBC Wants to Honour Knowlton Nash it Must Fire Rex Murphy
On a day when the country is mourning the CBC icon and distinguished Canadian Knowlton Nash. At a time when the CBC is bleeding to death from the savage cuts imposed by the brutish un-Canadian Harper regime.And some of its most admired journalists are taking early retirement, to try to protect
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney’s Other Big Foreigner Problem
Well surprise, surprise. I see that Jason Kenney has stopped bragging about how he plans to fix the foreign workers problem, after the tragic story of that waitress in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.Who was reduced to tears after she lost her job to one of them.And who can blame him eh? When
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Kitimat Rebellion
When historians assess the legacy of Stephen Harper fifty years from now, the many scandals of his corrupt regime will probably merit only a few paragraphs.But what they will say of him without a doubt, is that at a critical point in human history he failed his country and his
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rex Murphy’s Obscene and Demagogic Assault On His Critics
I see that Rex Murphy has finally responded to complaints that he is in a conflict of interest when he attacks environmentalists on the CBC, while shilling for Big Oil.And that he has done it in his usual fashion, by trying to bury the inconvenient truth under a mountain of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Horribly Humiliating Day in Mexico
Well I think it's safe to say that Stephen Harper's Great Tiny Tour of Mexico is shaping up to be the most pathetic foreign trip ever by a Canadian Prime Minister.For one thing the Three Amigos aren't the Three Amigos anymore, not when the two others hate him.And he has
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