Well the cursed year 2016 is almost over, and like the rest of you I'm rushing off to the year 2017, to try escape the dying old man's murderous scythe. And this will be my last post for a while, because I'm leaving for Montreal in a couple of hours,
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Montreal Simon: The Moral of the Ugly Christmas Tree
It's a classic Canadian story, or to be more precise, a story that could only happen in Canada eh?A group of Montrealers set out to get a Christmas tree bigger than the one at New York City's Rockefeller Centre. The one in the picture above.Only to end up with one considerable shorter,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is It Time To Take a Break from Social Media?
I must admit I've been finding to hard to blog or tweet or do anything on social media these days. It's just getting too crazy out there.The blogosphere is too gloomy, Twitter is a smoking battlefield.And it's hard to make people laugh as I like to do, when so many of the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The New Canada and the Return of the Cool Moose
As I'm sure you know, I'm really enjoying living in Justin Trudeau's Canada, and of course the land of the noble moose. And I'm constantly battling with Cons and other grumpy old Trudeau haters who would try to tear it down, or make it something ugly, or all about pipelines and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Canadians Are Helping To Defeat Donald Trump
Judging by this sign, and what I've seen and heard in Montreal and Toronto, if Donald Trump ran for office in Canada, he'd get even less votes than the Cons, and just a few more than the Bloc Québécois.Most Canadians I've met are disgusted by that loathsome demagogue, and hate him almost
Continue readingMontreal Simon: My Tribute To Those Who Fly At Night To Save Lives
These ORNGE air ambulances are a familiar sight in my neighbourhood, taking off or coming into land at the Toronto Island Airport.And I like having them around, because my heroes are those who risk their lives to try to save the lives of others.But t…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How the Fort McMurray Disaster is Bringing Canadians Together
It may be small consolation to the thousands of people who have lost their homes, or their businesses, or have been forced to flee the Fort McMurray inferno.But I have been incredibly moved by the way Canadians all over this fractious country have com…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Celebrating a Great Day in the Life of the New Canada
I suppose I could have asked for one more thing to make yesterday an even more perfect day.I could have asked the Great Polar Bear God of the Great White North to make it stop raining, and make spring feel like spring not winter.But that would have bee…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Celebrating Spring and the Light After the Darkness of the Cons
At first glance it might seem like a strange way to celebrate the arrival of Spring in the Great White North, and the end of the Great Darkness.By turning out the lights.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined Canadian organizers of Earth Hour in askin…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer and the Small-Time Election Campaign
It's been the longest and ugliest election campaign I have ever seen. A monstrous bigot game that has made us look cheap and ugly, and shamed us in the eyes of the world.And as if that wasn't bad enough, then there is this deeply disturbing question: How can such a big young
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Sad Saga of Mother Canada and Jesus Harper
As you may know a Toronto businessman wants to build a massive statue called Mother Canada in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.And although it is a private initiative, the foundation he created is now looking for public money.Even though polls show most Canadians hate the idea.And most of the reviews
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Arrival of Spring and the Con Climate Change Deniers
Well I have to admit that there were times during this brutal winter when I thought the blessed day would never arrive. But Spring is here at last.The island ferry is running again after being grounded for days due to the thick ice.And although my beautiful swans are still having
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Big Chill
It's brutally cold out there, again. With the wind chill it could feel like minus 40 tonight. The Great Lakes are almost completely frozen.I'm worried about the homeless and these young trumpeter swans in the harbour… Who like all the other lake birds now have almost no open water in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Canada: Where Cons and Idiots Roam
Oh boy. It's lucky that where I live it's impossible to not know that I live in the Great White North.Because if it wasn't, I might wonder whether I'm still living in Canada, or whether Stephen Harper has already changed it beyond recognition. For it really is hard to believe
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harperland Winter and Pete Seeger’s Message to Progressives
Well I have to admit it was a pretty grim week in Harperland. It was really cold and dark in the place where I live, and even the lights on the ferry dock couldn't brighten the gloom. Not when Lord Harper is back from his bloated junket to remind me how
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ice Storm, the Cons, And My Awesome People
When I heard the freezing rain tap tapping against my bedroom window the other night I feared the worst. It brought back memories of The Great Ice Storm of 1998, and I wouldn't want to live through something like that again. But when morning came I saw I was lucky. The storm
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Regime’s War on the Maple Leaf
I have no idea why Stephen Harper and his Con minions have such a love affair with royalty.I have no idea why they want to turn us into a colony again. Or make us more British than the British.But I do know that Peter MacKay is an absolute idiot, whether he
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ugliness of Harperland and the Great Chris Hadfield
Sometimes, especially on a cold spring day like today, I can't help feeling depressed about living in a country like Harperland. I can't help thinking about how great we might have been, and what the Cons have made of us. How once we were admired by the rest of the world, as a cool young country
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Hockey Night in Harperland
A couple of my friends came over this evening to watch the Habs-Leafs game on my big screen TV. And they were surprised to find out that I hadn't been planning to watch it, until they turned up.And that I wasn't the least bit excited that the season had finally started.Read
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Tony Clement and The Great Lake Scam
Good Lordy…I mean good lardy. You can't trust those Cons as far as you can spit, and they can squeal.For they will strip most of our lakes, rivers, and creeks of any environmental protection.Just not the ones in their ridings.Read more »
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