It's finally starting to feel like Spring in the place where I live, and after a long hard winter I am reminded again why I love Canada so much.Soon I'll be out on the lake feeling the fresh wind in my face, far from the madding crowd and all the
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Montreal Simon: BREAKING: Stephen Harper Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize !!!!
OK. I realize you are staring at that headline in disbelief. And wondering whether I've finally lost it.But then so am I eh?And I wrote it.Because as bizarre, or as horrible, or as insane, or as obscene as it may be, it's true.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: GAZONTO: What if Gaza Was Toronto?
This simple but powerful artistic collage by the Palestinian photographer Belal Khalel, couldn't sum up better how I feel about what is going on in Gaza. The ceasefire broken, whole neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, hundreds of thousands with no place to call home. More than 2,000 dead. More than ten thousand
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con War on the Wounded Children of Gaza (Continued)
The ceasefire is holding. The kids are playing again on the beach where four of their friends were killed while playing soccer, by shells from an Israeli gunboat.But thousands of Palestinian children have been wounded… The situation in the hospitals is so desperate they can't treat them in Gaza.“Palestinian health
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Gaza Summer and the Cruelty of Stephen Harper
On a warm Sunday afternoon, in the leafy lanes of Ward's Island, with the last flowers of the summer in full bloom, it should have been possible to forget about the horror of Gaza.At least for a few hours. Especially now that another shaky truce has been announced. But in this Gaza
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Stephen Harper Is Not A Real Friend of Israel
He likes to pose as Israel's best friend. Or as Benjamin Netanyahu's best buddy. And would have us believe that supporting the right-wing Netanyahu regime is the best way to support Israel.When it is not, for as Tony Burman points out, Harper's buddy Benny may be the only winner of the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Regime’s War on the Wounded Children of Gaza
The other day I told you about a tiny candle of decency in the darkness that is Gaza.Ontario's plan to bring wounded children to be treated in the province's hospitals. The Ontario government is willing to provide medical care to 100 injured children from Gaza, it said Tuesday – several days after
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Failed Smearing of Justin Trudeau
It has been said of Stephen Harper that you can put him in the prettiest places on earth, you can surround him with cute children and/or kittens.You can use a trowel to apply a ton of mascara. You can give him a shiny fresh coating of lipstick.But you can't take the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Human Catastrophe in Gaza
Well I hope he's satisfied. I hope his wild cheerleading for the savage assault on Gaza earns him a tin medal from the Netanyahu regime.Or a wet kiss from his good buddy Benny.For Godzilla knows he deserves it. No other leader of any other government in the civilized world cheered
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Gaza, Israel, and the Dangerous Harper Doctrine
It's an enduring mystery, a strange thing. Why does Stephen Harper seem to like Israel more than he likes Canada?What is it about that country that moves him so much, and makes his cold dead eyes moisten with emotion?Why is he encouraging Israel's savage assault on Gaza, at a time
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Latest Gaza Horror and Israel’s War on the Media
When I read stories like this one. A deadly attack on a school in the city of Rafah in the south of Gaza has been denounced as a "moral outrage" and "criminal act" by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon.At least seven people were killed and dozens more wounded after
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Clown John Baird and the Destruction of Gaza
As if the situation in Gaza wasn't bad enough. As if the need for serious diplomacy to end the slaughter couldn't be greater.As if Canada wasn't enough of a rogue nation in the eyes of the world.And the last thing anyone needed was the Con clown John Baird pouring more
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Children of Gaza and the Bestiality of Stephen Harper
It was an act of unspeakable barbarity. One that has been condemned by governments all over the world. The US and UN have condemned the shelling of a school housing displaced civilians in Gaza. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the attack, which killed 16, was "outrageous". "I condemn this attack in
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