I'm sad to see that so many GM workers are losing their jobs in Oshawa. The Canadian Auto Workers union received official notice Friday that GM will begin shutting down its consolidated assembly line in the fourth quarter, which will wipe out 2,000 jobs, reducing the number of GM employees
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Montreal Simon: Quebec and the Big Freedom Party
It's just after 8pm in Montreal, and the reporter from CUTV is talking to a young mother who is taking her two kids to the 28th nightly demonstration in a row. Even though she knows she could be arrested, for defying the Charest government's totalitarian Bill 78, like so many
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vic Toews and the Bill that Wouldn’t Die
OMG. That'll teach me to stroll through a graveyard in Con Canada, when a Harper moon is in the sky. First I read that Vic Toews' internet snooping bill had quietly died. The Internet surveillance legislation sponsored by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has disappeared down a dark legislative hole. For
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Big Majority Party
It's been one year since Stephen Harper stole an election and finally got his majority. And you should have seen him at his Great Majority Party today, wearing a silly hat, and blowing his own trumpet. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Wall of Shame
Well I see we are still a couple of days away from the one-year anniversary of the dark day Great Ugly Leader won his precious majority. But that hasn't stopped some in our Con media from already rushing to buff his bronzed legend buttocks. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Woodworth and the Abortion Debate
Oh. My. Gilead. When I saw those women in red on Parliament Hill today, I thought the Harper Cons were getting ready to re-enact their favourite scene from The Handmaid's Tale. When the women are brought before the men, told to be submissive as Lord Harper's missionary church commands them.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Earth Day and the Harper Cons
I spent a really quiet Earth Day. Paying homage to the sun, using as little energy as possible, and wishing I was in Montreal. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vic Toews and the Prison State
Well I was glad to see Vic Toews pop up on the TV today after his recent physical and mental Vikileaks problems. And I was also glad to see he looked as scary as ever. But sadly my joy at seeing him back on his feet didn’t last long eh?
Continue readingMontreal Simon: An Idiot’s Guide to the RoboCon Scandal
Well, I guess this Gable cartoon kind of says it all. I mean what more can you say eh? That’s what the Cons have done to our Parliament. But since this is after all a four-ring fascist circus, it’s a quiet day, and I’m feeling a bit idiot, I thought
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Quebec to Harper: Take Your Crime Bill…
…and shove it. The debate isn’t over yet for the Harper’s government’s criminal justice legislation – at least not in Quebec. The provincial government announced Tuesday that it would do everything in its power to limit the clout of the legislation that passed a day earlier. And why wouldn’t they?
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Blogging in the Darkness of Harperland
On a grey, wet, day in Harperland it wasn’t too hard to imagine myself in the last scene of The Planet of the Apes. Or imagine myself giving up blogging. For it was the worst of days. First there was this devastating blow Which means we might never know who
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Some Questions for Pierre Poutine
Golly. I see the identity of the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel Blue Poutine is about to be revealed. The news that Elections Canada investigators are aware of the IP address that “Pierre Poutine” used to set up the Guelph, Ont., robocall account has convinced a suspect to step forward and accept responsibility
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Big Boiled Wolf
When I hear Vic Toews howling that he’s being victimized. WAAAAAAAH !!!! Because he can’t do his job after being “anonymously degraded” by Vikileaks. “I take strong issue with the idea that House resources would be used to attack secretly a member of the House,” Toews said, adding that the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Votergate and the Nature of Stephen Harper
Now we know that it wasn’t just robocalls, and that at least one call centre was involved. An analysis of reports of mysterious harassing phone calls during the May 2011 election points to the existence of a systematic voter suppression campaign targeting Liberal voters in tightly contested ridings. Unlike the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Cons and Our Lost Country
They stole the last election and are turning our country into a place most of us don’t recognize. They are trying to blame a young Con campaign worker for the robocalls, even though as I pointed out in my last post. And Joan Bryden points out here. Opposition MPs noted that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Scream and the Nightmare in Harperland
I couldn’t help noticing that this famous painting is going on the auction block. Not just because it’s the most colourful of the four versions, but also because it best represents my reaction to the nightmare world we’re living in. From the situation in Greece… To the nightmare in Harperland. We
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Me, Vic, and the Internet Snooping Bill
Oh boy. Sometimes it’s not easy to be a blogger in the growing darkness of Stephen Harper’s Canada. You can feel the fear in the air. My computer is humming like a toaster, and I don’t know whether it’s the sinister operatives from the PMO, or the Russian hackers. Or
Continue readingMontreal Simon: If the Cons Want to Read Our E-Mails…
Why don’t we find out what they are doing online? I mean what’s good for the goose is good for the gander eh? You know all of this is so much fun. And it just keeps getting better. But let’s not forget why the Cons introduced this totalitarian legislation in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: In Defence of Justin Trudeau
Oh fuddle duddle, or merde as we say in Quebec. I see Justin Trudeau is in trouble again. “I always say, if at a certain point, I believe that Canada was really the Canada of Stephen Harper – that we were going against abortion, and we were going against gay
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Cons, Ducks, and the Great Darkness
(Click pic to enlarge) As I rushed to catch the ferry this afternoon, it still looked like the Canada I love. The fresh dusting of snow. The ducks sheltering from the cold west wind. But as it does so often in Stephen Harper’s Canada, where I once saw light, now
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