I am trying with great difficulty to ignore the current campaign for a new Parliament and, if there is any justice, a new PM. I have been also trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to stop comparing and contrasting (thanks so much to all my Uni profs. who beat that concept into my
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Left Over: Composure Under Pressure…..
I am trying with great difficulty to ignore the current campaign for a new Parliament and, if there is any justice, a new PM. I have been also trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to stop comparing and contrasting (thanks so much to all my Uni profs. who beat that concept into my
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Nightmare in Amerika, and the Lesson for Canada
At first sight it couldn't be a more depressing sight, or more of a nightmare.Team Mitch McConnell and his ghastly Republican tea baggers, seizing control of Congress, and promising to bring change to America.Which has some progressives in that country wondering whether it's the end of irony.Or the beginning of
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 readingCowichan Conversations: How Obama Shocked Harper as Keystone’s Frustrator-in-Chief
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Here is a ‘Bloomberg Business News’ snapshot of todays strained US Canada relations. Our troubles are politically driven and stalled by the ups and downs of the Keystone pipeline controversy. US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper are dissimilar in most if not all respects.
Continue reading350 or bust: Indians And Cowboys Join Together To Reject & Protect
On April 22, an alliance of pipeline fighters — ranchers, farmers, tribal communities, and their friends — called the Cowboy and Indian Alliance rode into Washington DC and set up camp on the National Mall. For 5 days, they will hold ceremonies and demonstration to remind him of the threat
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Not So Good Good Friday
Lordy. I see that Stephen Harper didn't have a very good Good Friday.His Easter Message was no doubt well received by his dwindling flock, the 28% of Canadians who still support him.Because they all agree that Jimbo Flaherty would want the Cons to keep his legacy alive.Canada’s budget watchdog says
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Man Who Could Destroy Stephen Harper’s Pipeline
If Stephen Harper fails to get his precious Keystone pipeline, he’ll have Tom Steyer to blame almost as much as Barack Obama.Because the anti-pipeline billionaire has just produced a devastating poll that could kill the project dead.By reminding his fellow Americans that Harper’s bitumen won’t be fuelling their country, it will
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
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Oil Pimps and the Attack of the Billionaires
Well you'd think Stephen Harper and his pipeline pimps would be celebrating the U.S. State Department's decision to declare the Keystone project almost good to go.The State Department released a report on Friday concluding that the Keystone XL pipeline would not substantially worsen carbon pollution, leaving an opening for President Obama
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Keystone Ad Stephen Harper Doesn’t Want Americans to Watch
Well as you know he's been putting pressure on the Obama administration to approve his Keystone XL pipeline.And so have his Republican buddies. Republican leaders in Congress are planning a legislative offensive to force the White House’s hand on the Keystone XL pipeline decision if the Obama administration does not declare
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Candian Snow Job
While Neil Young was reminding Harper and Co. that they had obligations to Canada’s native peoples, John Baird was in Washington, trying to extract a promise from Barack Obama and John Kerry that the United States would build the Keystone XL pipeline. But Mr. Obama and Mr. Kerry were unmoved.
Continue readingCalgary Grit: 2014: Year in Preview
We don’t know what will make headlines in 2014. After all, most political predictions are about as accurate as a Forum poll. So I won’t try to guess how 2014 plays out, but here are a few things we can reasonably expect to see this year: With the new electoral
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Harper Sticks Taxpayers With Huge Hotel Bill !!!
Oh no. Not ANOTHER sordid Con scandal. How many more can we endure, how much longer can Stephen Harper keep debasing himself, shaming us in the eyes of the world? And how dare he make the TAXPAYERS pay for HIS political debauchery !!! Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Tom Steyer Has Stephen Harper Running Scared
Well I see that Stephen Harper hasn't dared reply to Tom Steyer's letter demanding to know whether he has been working with the Tea Party extremists to blackmail the U.S. government. We have a saying in the United States that I believe may also resonate in Canada: When you go
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Stephen Harper Collaborating with the Teabaggers?
Uh oh. I knew Stephen Harper's all out offensive to try to force Obama to approve the Keystone pipeline was going to end badly eh?First he made a fool of himself by declaring that he wouldn't take no for an answer. Now Tom Steyer wants to know if he's been
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con Klown Pushers
Well I see Stephen Harper has returned from his disastrous attempt to try to force Obama to approve the Keystone pipeline. And that after shooting himself in both legs by insulting the American President, the long ride back from New York City was more like Napoleon's retreat from Moscow than Lincoln's
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Stephen Harper Declared War on Obama
OMG. Sound the humiliation alert siren. I just KNEW that Stephen Harper's deranged Crusade to try to get Obama to aprove the Keystone Pipeline was going to end badly.I knew the writing was on the wall when his army of Con lobbyists was laughed out of Washington after trying to fool the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Our Prime Minister Steve Has Pretty Shaky, and Dubious Friends and Colleagues, but then…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The days of easy-going top down manipulation and disregard for almost everyone could be drawing to an end for PM Steve Harper. In todays National Post Dean Del Mastro MP is a featured cheater of the week. Oh, yes it is a beautiful day but
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The New York Times Goes After the Harper Regime
Uh oh. It looks like Stephen Harper has been exposed. He's been trying to fool the Americans into thinking he's a REAL environmentalist, so Obama will give him his precious Keystone pipeline. But being called a tongue biter, or a muzzler, by the New York Times, isn't going to help.Read
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