It's been more than twelve years since he was horribly wounded in a firefight in Afghanistan. Then jailed and tortured in that hellhole called Guantanamo, even though he was a child soldier. Then betrayed by his own government. He is Canada's most famous prisoner, and yet for all that time he has also
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Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper, Tom Mulcair, and the Terrorist Menace
Well I'm happy to see that Great Warrior Chicken Leader has apologized for his somewhat less than Churchillian behaviour during the recent one-man assault on Parliament Hill. Prime Minister Stephen Harper told his hushed caucus Wednesday morning he felt remorse for surreptitiously ducking into a closet during last week's assault on
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Assault on Democracy: When Fear is the Enemy
It was for me strangely enough, the most terrifying moment of a nightmarish day. Standing in a crowded subway station, waiting for a train to take me home, watching the fear on people's faces.It was only a few hours after most of them must have heard about, or seen what
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great War on ISIS Trap
It couldn't have been a more jarring sight, or a more deeply disturbing one.For there was Stephen Harper, back from his stunning performance as Great Mother Leader at the United Nations, where he posed as a friend of women and children, and a champion of peace.Now in an unusually agitated state, bordering
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Climate Change Revolt
They marched in Canada, they marched all over world, and in New York it was one of the biggest demonstrations that city has ever seen. Legions of demonstrators frustrated by international inaction on global warming descended on New York City on Sunday, marching through the heart of Manhattan with a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con Day of Infamy
It couldn't have been a more welcome sight. The last Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan. If I had been watching them coming in to land, I would have been waving my arms in the air, and shouting "Glory Hallelujah, we are free at last." And this couldn't have been a happier sight. There
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Real Crime of Bradley Manning
I suppose it could have been worse. He could have got sixty years, he got thirty-five. Thirty-five years for telling the truth, blowing the whistle on war crimes. Among the 700,000 classified documents Mr Manning downloaded while stationed in Iraq was a video that showed a US Apache helicopter in Baghdad
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Omar Khadr: A Child Soldier Comes Home
It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him down so shamefully.But at least tonight he is finally home.Read more »
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