Montreal Simon: The Shit Kebab and the Democratic Deficit
Uh oh. I see that Eurozone leaders don't like George Papandreou's idea for a shit kebab referendum.The leaders of Germany and France told Greece on Wednesday it would not receive another cent in...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Occupy Movement and Progressive Bloggers
I see that London, Ontario, has become the first Canadian city to evict its Occupy protesters.And that others are gearing up to do the same thing.As news spread of what happened in London, Toronto's...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Occupy Movement:When Repression Backfires
All over North America the assault on the Occupy campsites continues. From New York City, to Regina, to Vancouver. And in Toronto the Con tool Tasha Kheiriddin, can barely contain herself. The Occupy...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Why the Occupy Movement Will Survive
It’s going to be a cold night at the Occupy Toronto campsite, as the clock on the church that has refused the occupiers sanctuary, counts down the hours before they are evicted. Because you don’t...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Occupy Canada: Why You Can’t Evict a Movement
As I was saying last night, they can arrest us. They can tear down our humble campsites. They can insult us. They can beat us. They can pepper spray peaceful protesters… The pig bastards. But...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Occupy Canada and the Silence of the Lambs
I’m going to miss the Occupy Toronto campsite, this colourful little progressive utopia in the heart of a cold grey city. For by tomorrow night it will almost surely be destroyed. I’m going to miss...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Occupy Toronto:The End of the Beginning
(click pics to enlarge) By the time I got to the Occupy Toronto campsite this afternoon it was mostly gone. The library, where some guy in a Clockwork Orange bowler hat had barricaded himself, was...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: A Hollow Lament for Occupy Canada
I see that Kalle Lasn, one of the Canadian instigators of the Occupy Wall Street movement, laments the way things turned out in Canada. While protesters from Halifax to Vancouver emulated their global...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Why I support the Quebec Student Strike
It's reached a point where I almost can't bear to read or watch any MSM coverage of the Quebec student strike. Because all I usually see is a bunch of kooky old right-wing pundits flapping their gums,...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Quebec and the Big Freedom Party
It's just after 8pm in Montreal, and the reporter from CUTV is talking to a young mother who is taking her two kids to the 28th nightly demonstration in a row. Even though she knows she could be...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Quebec Students and the Occupy Movement
On my way home today I visited the park where Occupy Toronto once lived. And I could hardly recognize the place. The old gazebo where so many passionate speeches were made, and so many dreamed of a...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The One Percent and the Party Animals
In 1985 the late Quebec filmmaker Pierre Falardeau made a short movie called Le Temps des Bouffons (The Time of the Buffoons).It showed members of the Montreal elite partying at the exclusive Beaver...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Quebec: When a Society Wakes Up
It was wet and miserable in Montreal today. But that didn't stop thousands of people from attending a rally to support the Quebec students. Thousands of people clad in raincoats and carrying umbrellas...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Occupy Movement and the Quebec Students
It's been almost a year since the Occupy Wall Street movement was born, and in this very gloomy article Gerald Caplan wonders where it went. It flashed through our lives like a comet in the sky,...
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