Here, on the attempt at a hostile takeover of the U.S.’ political system – and the need for Saskatchewan to update its campaign finance rules to avoid the same fate. For further reading…– Libby Watson wrote about the decline of the U.S.’ public financing system once candidates decided they could
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Alberta Politics: Sarcasm does not become a premier — especially as our placid boreal Dominion grows less gelid by the day
Methinks the premier doth protest too much! What else can we say about Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s bizarre 2,330-word public letter yesterday to Alex Neve of Amnesty International Canada, attacking Mr. Neve, the organization he leads, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia, Iran, the Soviet Union, the Saudi royal family, the Qatari
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How We Can All Help Impeach Donald Trump
He's made the cover of New Yorker magazine again, just in time for Halloween.But even that the portrait of a killer clown can't properly portray the horror of Donald Trump.The grubby groper, the short fingered vulgarian, the bully, the beast, the shameless liar who has just shattered his own one-week
Continue reading350 or bust: Tom Steyer: How Climate Change Changed Me
* Tom Steyer is founder and president of NextGen Climate, an organization that acts politically to avert climate disaster and preserve American prosperity. He recently responded to a New York Times article that detailed how he made his fortune as a hedge fund manager with portfolios in the fossil fuel
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney’s Other Big Foreigner Problem
Well surprise, surprise. I see that Jason Kenney has stopped bragging about how he plans to fix the foreign workers problem, after the tragic story of that waitress in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.Who was reduced to tears after she lost her job to one of them.And who can blame him eh? When
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: 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 readingMontreal Simon: The Day Joe Oliver Collided with Robert Redford
OMG. How embarrassing. I see that old Con man Joe Oliver just won't give up. Once he tried to fool us into thinking that the water from the tar ponds would be safe to drink. Now he's in New York trying to scam the Americans into believing that the Cons
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ad Campaign that Will Finish off the Keystone Pipeline
Well as you know, Stephen Harper is trying to convince Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, by claiming he's serious about reducing green house gas emissions. And as you also know, I believe the pipeline will be one of the casualties of a missile strike on Syria, as Obama
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