tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157315432024-03-14T10:40:44.368-04:00Tattered Sleeve<p>“If you're after getting the honey
<p>Don't go killing all the bees"<p>
<i>-- Joe Strummer (1952 - 2002)</i></p></p></p>Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.comBlogger298125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-40910664660637494082023-05-23T01:02:00.016-04:002023-11-21T08:03:54.036-05:00To the Honourable Anthony Housefather<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_B_hJtmqCIV5Mw53EmuMvQXwkfyooJ1I_lKT4ogNT9oPfu4YEOu5ot4ihLx1GfByjBw8U4brNfWXvKL7xyXnBzxlQ3A2gL5lznAXt5ZlFePUatEtlOctE-6lOoVf_RR7wkx48Bgacf_wGY6P5wdbkwDiY4N17TF4H1LV2-Koe-0BmJR6MA/s1008/Resized_20210822_174005.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="756" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_B_hJtmqCIV5Mw53EmuMvQXwkfyooJ1I_lKT4ogNT9oPfu4YEOu5ot4ihLx1GfByjBw8U4brNfWXvKL7xyXnBzxlQ3A2gL5lznAXt5ZlFePUatEtlOctE-6lOoVf_RR7wkx48Bgacf_wGY6P5wdbkwDiY4N17TF4H1LV2-Koe-0BmJR6MA/s320/Resized_20210822_174005.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br />Hello! I just donated to your riding association, although I happen to live in the PM's riding. I wonder what he is thinking?
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I did this to reward your courage in standing up for the constitution and voting against inexplicable party lines on Bill C-13. I am no lawyer, but it does seem dubious for a federal law to cite a provincial law that is itself still under judicial challenge as a possibly unconstitutional piece of legislation. I hope this small gesture helps the Liberal party understand the folly of incorporating the dishonest, cynical Quebec language law into Bill C-13, which I was impressed to see you voted against. Meanwhile others in your caucus chose either to put water in their wine as they answered the whip, or step down (such as the honourable MP for NDG-Westmount, Marc Garneau).
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I was born in Sherbrooke and now live in Montreal, with two children educated in the CSDM and a third (as well as a grandchild) educated in English school boards (in a half-half English/French curriculum). I have never lived outside of Quebec, yet have always felt less than fully welcome here, but also not quite at home in any other province I have visited - the classic anglo-Quebec conundrum, eh? I am afraid my French is good but not great. Meanwhile I am proud that my kids' French is as easy for them as their mother tongue. I imagine this is a similar story to others you have heard over the years, from more than a few of your own constituents.
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Learning French to the level required for much of this province's employers' needs is a great challenge for so many Canadians who are also English-speaking Quebecers; we try to learn and understand and speak and use French well enough to fit in. We hope to not only find our place, but to thrive in this environment that is becoming more and more unforgiving to those who cannot claim to be fully francophone.<div><br /></div><div>So the last thing we need is for Ottawa to abandon the vision of a bilingual country.</div><div>Proficiency in one of the two official languages (but not the other) must not mean lowered expectations from our fundamental Charter rights if it is the "wrong language" of the two for the province in which they reside. I appreciate that you get this, and that you are (bizarrely) alone in the Liberal caucus in trying to maintain the integrity of the Charter in this way.
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I recall my own MP, Justin Trudeau, celebrating the Charter's anniversary in earlier years as LPC leader, and I am gobsmacked that today he doesn't seem to understand the importance that his own father - and every other preceding LPC leader since - had placed in the inviolability of the Charter.
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The Charter is the culmination of everything our ancestors built to distinguish us as a polity and it should be revered across the land, full stop. Allowing it to be degraded, and legitimizing its degradation by enshrining a provincial law that brazenly and even seditiously undermines it, is an abomination to the document signed in 1982 by QEII, and puts us subservient to any lickspittle Canadian-opportunist to wriggle their way up from the muck, be they a Bloqist or a Pollievre.
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I attach here a picture of my great-great-great grandfather, Norman Murray, taken somewhere around what is now Cookshire, QC. He was a Scotsman by birth, pushed off his ancestral land by British loyalists; he and others of my ancestors from Ireland, Scotland and England all found their way to the Eastern Townships of Quebec, not necessarily as Empire Loyalists, but as people hoping to find a future in a fair and just new world, where the weight of old grievances about heritage might be shed, in favour of building a fresh future in a new world of egalitarian hope.
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He did just that. My whole family line did, in fact: McCallums, Hodges, Richardsons, Stevensons, Cowans and others that landed in the Eastern Townships in the 18th and 19th centuries. My wife is a French Canadian with at least one family name of Scottish descent, but raised bilingual and comfortable in both the English and French communities - or if you will, our common, unlabeled, community. My 9-year old daughter's best friend, meanwhile, is a Nigerian immigrant who is striving to learn French (his Mom too) and adapting in an environment that sadly tells him systemic racism isn't a thing in Quebec, at least, according to the Premier.
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In short, I don't want my kids or theirs to have to bear labels that render them somewhat less free than their fellow citizens. Listening to you in the local media, I feel that inherently you know how to make this case within your caucus, in a way that escapes the criticism of being hyperbolic or alarmist.</div><div><br /></div><div>I hope you know there are many more Montrealers and Quebecers that applaud you and hope that we can keep the Charter inviolable (and indeed, restore the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms to its own original expression of collegial high-minded clarity), as all individual rights ought to be in a free and democratic society such as ours. </div><div><br /></div><div>To see our rights subjected to blanket use of the notwithstanding clause - used so cravenly by the CAQ in Bill 96 - is not becoming of a supposedly modern constitutional monarchy. And if the constitution part is left to the whims of any populist government that comes along, then all we are left with is the other part. Now, I beg your pardon, but I don't believe King Charles III is at all up to the task, leaving us with a political black hole of gravitational heft to suck us all into itself. So my contribution to your riding association is meant both as a thank you, and to foster a little more oxygen for the fire in your belly.
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As the Honourable Clifford Lincoln said, "rights are rights." Mr. Trudeau, copied here, I know you have bravely stood up for many politically difficult but important principles, and for that I remain a supporter. But how could you forget the Charter!? Mr. Housefather is right on this one.
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Godspeed!
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Scott in Montreal</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>ADDENDUM </b></div><div>Here on the 20th November, 2023, I now find myself rather at odds with Mr. Housefather - but on another matter.</div><div><br /></div><div>Turns out he is a turncoat to justice, happy to make common cause with the fascistic Conservatives informed by their evangelical Christian doctrines that seek to bring upon the Apocalypse, and undermine the message of the Canadian Prime Minister, who is working to forestall genocidal treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza by the completely off-leash Israeli government under the criminal Netanyahu.</div><div><br /></div><div>If Anthony Housefather had an ounce of integrity he would hold Netanyahu to the same smell-test as his own party leader.</div><div><br /></div><div>The fact he has flown to Israel to support this criminally overblown, inhumane, response and its nakedly genocidal tendencies that level-headed<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-19/israel-hostages-gaza-bombing-civilians-genocide-holocaust-studies"> Jewish scholars find they need to call out</a>, leaves me heartbroken. What Hamas did on October 7 was absolutely horrific, but I don't want to live in a world where this overblown response from Israel is in any way justified. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is the 21st Century. There is no supremacy of any race, creed, religion or mother tongue.</div><div><br /></div><div>Enough!+</div><div><br /></div><div>E</div><div><br /></div><div>FUCKIN</div><div><br /></div><div>NUFF</div><div><br /></div><div>- 30 -</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-18204809546402473022022-12-05T15:14:00.003-05:002022-12-05T23:39:01.759-05:00Oh, Carey<p><i>(apologies to Steve Perry)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>You shouldn't have <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CltiUvFuwtE/" target="_blank">posted</a></p><p>Knowing how Montrealers feel</p><p>And you should've known</p><p><a href="http://randboro.blogspot.com/2009/12/sad-anniversary.html" target="_blank">Dec. 6 and what it means</a></p><p>Oh, I must've been a dreamer</p><p>And I thought you were someone else</p><p>'Course you're livin' in a bubble!</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, Carey, regarding guns</p><p>Hold on, hold your fire</p><p>Oh, Carey, "poly" means</p><p>Lionizing Lepine</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh I want to let go</p><p>You'll go on hurting this city</p><p>You'd be better off alone</p><p>If you can't see the misogyny</p><p><br /></p><p>But you know that there're clauses</p><p>Oh, that you can still own guns for hunting game</p><p>Can't you feel we're hurting?</p><p>On and on</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, Carey, regarding guns</p><p>Hold on! Hold your fire!</p><p>Oh, Carey, the CCFR?!</p><p>WTF?! They're using you!</p><p><br /></p><p>But I should've seen this one</p><p>Long ago, far away</p><p>And you should've been resting</p><p>We hear you've got</p><p>Such gimpy knees</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, Carey, regarding guns,</p><p>Hold fire, on this day</p><p>Oh, Carey, get some PR</p><p>That was tone deaf</p><div><br /></div>Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-84714818163035464782022-11-07T23:40:00.004-05:002022-11-08T07:12:56.642-05:00Project: The Good People Network<p>Maybe if we can just all be there for each other</p><p><br /></p><p>Kay?</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: It's up to all of us to kick the shit out of this life while we're still here.</p><p>The dead wouldn't have it any other way, wot?</p>Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-26814361830999845212020-09-20T14:50:00.001-04:002020-09-20T14:52:08.912-04:00Worries and worts<p>"We'll inherit the Earth, but we don't want it!"<br /></p><p> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZkXQMfZi34</p><p><br /></p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD7TxGTPsV4</p><p> "Thought the eighties were bad enough..."</p><p>"Free speach got stolen by a pack of thieves...</p><p>"Silence is death"<br /></p><p> </p><p>The voices of dissent <br /></p><p><br /></p>Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-59378807613545345232020-03-03T23:17:00.000-05:002020-03-03T23:31:58.274-05:00It's the Econom... I mean, Senate, Stupid!<i>For my younger audience, note that the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign was driven by the message: It's the Economy, Stupid! (internally only).</i><br />
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So...<br />
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Super Tuesday results are coming in and I see three things:<br />
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1) Being unjustly targeted by Trump is turning out to be a very good thing for Joe Biden.<br />
2) Being a candidate with long coattails to help Senate races is a good thing for Joe Biden.<br />
3) Being a better candidate for President is useless now that we know the silly 'merican republic can somehow lurch along for three-plus years with a knob that is exponentially more DOOFUS than POTUS in charge of the executive branch (not unlike some big-ass U.S. corporations I have had the misadventure of working for, I might add).<br />
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There are something like a hundred amazingly progressive pieces of legislation the Democratic Party controlled House of Representatives has passed (least of which, Impeachment of Preznit Donald J. Trump) that the Rethuglican Senate Majority Leader fucker (and I use that term graciously) Mitch McConnell, palpateenishly relishes stonewalling in his chamber. I have a friend who is a very very smart and very very good man, thinking very very hard about urban ecology and doing very very good things with this knowledge to help society not collapse.<br />
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He is an American who today lives in Portland, OR, and was in Montreal for a year, and will soon return for good (hopefully) if no asteroids destroy us on or about the 29th of April, 2020.<br />
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While I have incredibly good instincts about Canadian politics at times, my take on the shit south of this border is way wobblier, which was proven in 2018 when I sadly told my friend that I predicted BOTH houses of Congress would surely turn to the control of the Dems (huzzahs all around)!<br />
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Not so, he thought, knowing far better than I the peccadilloes of the individual races and their respective states where they were being fought. I was struck by his sadness about the matter. It came from a man with a heart that cares deeply about far more than his own kin, who understood the bigger picture, and the SCOTUS appointments, and the many other federal judge appointments, that would all hinge upon the control of the United States Senate. There have been many. The good people at wikipedia have made a comprehensive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump" target="_blank">list</a>. These judges make a myriad of judgments, and you can be damned sure they aren't going to come down on the side of the people who don't pull the Rethuglicans' strings (very, very, rich people, of course, and no others).<br />
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I have since learned that something like 70% of Senate power is in the hands of voters from rural areas, due to the two Senators per state allocation, coupled with extremely high population differences between individual states. I feel this may have made sense in 1776, when 13 states came together to form a union, as they put it. But in contemporary USA, it creates a huge imbalance of influence; unlike us in Canada, where our Senate is an upper body with much less say-so on matters that matter. I daresay our Canadian parliamentary system has better built-in bulwarks (imperfect, I admit) against such oligarchical control manifesting itself.<br />
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What we lack is a federation that can protect provinces from despotic premieres like Ford in Ontario, Kenney in Alberta, and Legault here in Québec, from fucking us over, since the provinces control so much more of what affects our daily existence, such as Health, Education, and Natural Resources. But that is a topic for another day.<br />
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Back to my point: Elizabeth Warren, in an earlier USA, would be a gobsmackingly perfect and unbeatable candidate, looking at her knowledge, policies and political talents. But when it's the Senate, Stupid, a guy like Joe Biden - who has been a Senator for a bazillion years, and who presided over it as Vice-President for eight of the last eleven years - is your obvious man if your Big Strategy is to wrest control of that most powerful chamber from the Rethuglicans.<br />
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Democracy is what brought this about. The best of all imperfect modes of government. May they actually have an honest election come November. This Canadian is doubtful, and morosely so.<br />
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- 30 -Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-91370769638641198632019-12-06T09:48:00.001-05:002019-12-06T09:48:17.548-05:0030 years ago but never to be forgotten<span style="font-size: medium;">Geneviève Bergeron (1968-1989)<br />Hélène Colgan (1966-1989)<br />Nathalie Croteau (1966-1989)<br />Barbara Daigneault (1967-1989)<br />Anne-Marie Edward (1968-1989)<br />Maud Haviernick (1960-1989)<br />Maryse Laganière (1964-1989)<br />Maryse Leclair (1966-1989)<br />Anne-Marie Lemay (1967-1989)<br />Sonia Pelletier (1961-1989)<br />Michèle Richard (1968-1989)<br />Annie St-Arneault (1966-1989)<br />Annie Turcotte (1969-1989)<br />Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (1958-1989)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">May they rest in eternal peace. And may they ever remind us of the need to eradicate violence against women, and indeed, hate in general.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">- 30 - </span>Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-37875517032002885622019-10-16T23:31:00.002-04:002019-10-16T23:31:25.507-04:00This Andrew Scheer guy is not a good guyAll day, Liberal candidates, such as Marc Garneau, have been tweeting and re-tweeting a little snippet of Canadian political history that really underscores Andrew Scheer's deep disrespect for this country and its most valued institutions:<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/MarcGarneau/status/1184468914123751424?s=20" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/MarcGarneau/status/1184468914123751424?s=20</a><br />
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1184468914123751424<br />
<span style="opacity: 0; position: absolute; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/MarcGarneau/status/1184468914123751424?s=20</span> <span style="opacity: 0; position: absolute; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/MarcGarneau/status/1184468914123751424?s=20<a href="https://twitter.com/MarcGarneau/status/1184468914123751424?s=20" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/MarcGarneau/status/1184468914123751424?s=20</a></span><br />
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from Wikipedia.org:<br />
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"<b>O Canada</b>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <span lang="fr" style="font-style: normal;">Ô Canada</span>) is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_anthem" title="National anthem">national anthem</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>. The song was originally commissioned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Quebec" title="Lieutenant Governor of Quebec">Lieutenant Governor of Quebec</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Robitaille" title="Théodore Robitaille">Théodore Robitaille</a> for the 1880 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Holiday_(Quebec)" title="National Holiday (Quebec)">Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day</a> ceremony; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calixa_Lavall%C3%A9e" title="Calixa Lavallée">Calixa Lavallée</a> composed the music, after which, words were written by the poet and judge Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe-Basile_Routhier" title="Adolphe-Basile Routhier">Adolphe-Basile Routhier</a>. The original lyrics were in French; an English translation was published in 1906.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DCHOCanada_1-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Canada#cite_note-DCHOCanada-1">[1]</a></sup> Multiple English versions ensued, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stanley_Weir" title="Robert Stanley Weir">Robert Stanley Weir</a>'s version in 1908 gaining the most popularity, eventually serving as the basis for the official lyrics enacted by Parliament.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DCHOCanada_1-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Canada#cite_note-DCHOCanada-1">[1]</a></sup> Weir's lyrics have been revised three times, most recently when <i>An Act to amend the National Anthem Act (gender)</i> was enacted in 2018.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BBCGenderNeutral_2-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Canada#cite_note-BBCGenderNeutral-2">[2]</a></sup> The French lyrics remain unaltered. "O Canada" had served as a <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> national anthem since 1939, officially becoming the country's national anthem in 1980 when Canada's <i>National Anthem Act</i> received <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">royal assent</a> and became effective on July 1 as part of that year's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Day" title="Canada Day">Dominion Day</a> (today's Canada Day) celebrations...<br />
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"There are no regulations governing the performance of "O Canada",
leaving citizens to exercise their best judgment. When it is performed
at an event, traditional etiquette is to either start or end the
ceremonies with the anthem, including situations when other anthems are
played and for the audience to stand during the performance."<br />
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When Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger perished on August 15, 2016, his modest bill to de-gender the lyrics of the english version was still two years from seeing Royal Assent, held up on Scheer's say-so by the Conservatives in the Senate. But at least the Right Honourable Mauril Bélanger lived to see his bill pass third reading, wherein Andrew Scheer pointedly (and uniquely) stayed seated while all his fellow Parliamentarians stood and sang the anthem's newly female-inclusive lyrics.<br />
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(Again, from wikipedia.org):<br />
"On May 6, 2016, consideration of Bélanger's bill to make the national anthem gender neutral was blocked when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Conservative Party of Canada">Conservative</a>
MPs used up the hour of debate time and refused consent to two motions
backed by both the Liberals and the NDP to extend debate and allow time
to hold a vote to send the bill to committee.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:2_13-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauril_B%C3%A9langer#cite_note-:2-13">[13]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:3_14-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauril_B%C3%A9langer#cite_note-:3-14">[14]</a></sup> As Bélanger's health was deteriorating, Liberal MP <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Fergus" title="Greg Fergus">Greg Fergus</a>
described the Conservative's procedural delay tactics as an attempt to
prevent Bélanger from seeing the bill passed, while Conservative MPs
insisted that they were debating an important issue and had followed
parliamentary procedure.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:2_13-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauril_B%C3%A9langer#cite_note-:2-13">[13]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:3_14-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauril_B%C3%A9langer#cite_note-:3-14">[14]</a></sup> Fellow Liberal MP <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lapointe" title="Linda Lapointe">Linda Lapointe</a>
gave up her timeslot for private member's business on May 30 to allow
Bélanger's bill to be heard and go to a vote for it to be sent to
committee the following day.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauril_B%C3%A9langer#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> In June 2016, the bill passed its third reading with a vote of 225 to 74 in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Canada" title="">House of Commons</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauril_B%C3%A9langer#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup> In July 2017, the bill was in its third, and final, reading in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_of_Canada" title="Senate of Canada">Senate</a>;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauril_B%C3%A9langer#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> the bill was passed on January 31, 2018 and received <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">royal assent</a> on February 7, 2018 to change "in all thy sons command" to "in all of us command", after Bélanger had already died."<br />
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I wonder how many other Canadians feel a little sick to their stomach to see Scheer's churlish, petty behaviour in this moment. It has been haunting me all day.<br />
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I hope this anti-Canadian dipshit does not become our Prime Minister next week. It would be a horror story of Trumpian proportions.<br />
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Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-87030812490832766962019-10-06T22:09:00.001-04:002019-10-18T20:27:07.210-04:0010-18-2019 UPDATE: Scott wrote to his Green Party candidate<b>*** 10-18-2019 UPDATE:</b> after waiting 12 days for a response from Mr. Daniel Green, (also after having voted in the advance polls for his Liberal opponent, Rachel Bendayan - oh well) today, at 3:10 pm, I received the following response:<br />
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<i>Hello Randboro,<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Thank you for your email. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />We
at the Green Party of Canada understand that you were troubled by a
recent story on the Green Party of Canada’s stance on abortion.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Rest
assured it is, and has always been, the Green Party of Canada’s policy
that all women must have timely access to safe, legal abortions. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Although the Leader does not have the power to whip votes, <b>all Green Party Members of Parliament must endorse the Green Party’s values</b>,
including a firm support of a woman’s right to choose. There is zero
chance an elected representative of our party will ever reopen the
abortion debate.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />We vet all candidates to ensure they agree the abortion debate is closed in Canada. Any who disagree are not allowed to run.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />We hope that we can continue to count on your support. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Best,<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Kat Lorimer</i></div>
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<i><br clear="none" />--<br clear="none" />info@greenparty.ca</i><b> </b><br />
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So... I guess I wasn't wrong at all, was I? How can anyone know how their MP would vote on any issue before them, given this canned response from the Party HQ?<br />
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<b>*** END of 10-18-2019 UPDATE (original post below) ***</b> <br />
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Given the nature of the Green Party of Canada, and their leader's stance that all votes will not be whipped, I decided that I would reach out to my local GPC candidate, Daniel Green, to understand his own positions:<br />
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Mr. Green,</div>
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As
a committed humanitarian and former GPC financial officer for the
riding of Papineau, (but mostly because of my devotion to the
continuance of life on this planet) I voted for you in the recent
by-election and was pleased to see you came in a strong third.</div>
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I did not know then about your party's position on not whipping votes.</div>
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That said, I feel the Green party platform is insufficient for me to
determine whether or not my vote should go to you again on the 19th of
October. I find your bonafides on environmental issues to be
substantial, however it behooves me to ensure your stances on other
contentious issues would not leave me crestfallen should you come to
represent me and the others in Outremont riding in the HoC.</div>
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For
this reason, when Justin Trudeau speaks clearly about women's right to
choose on the decision of abortion, I rest confident that your rival,
Ms. Bendayan, will not let me down. When he speaks about any other
policy, I feel confident in voting for my Liberal candidate, even if the
policies they put forth today are less than the climate crisis demands.
Because they give me confidence they will be what they portend to be,
as a government. As of now, they have my vote.</div>
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Am I wrong? </div>
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Sincerely,</div>
Scott MurrayScott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-66713884594992672982019-10-04T09:11:00.000-04:002019-10-04T09:12:18.977-04:00Top Ten Other Things Andrew Scheer Didn't Lie About, But Was Never Asked<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"I've never tried to hide that (I am a dual US-Canadian citizen)," he said in a scrum with reporters
in Halifax. "I've never been asked about it by Canadians. My father has
always been open about where he comes from. I haven't been asked about
it."<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scheer-has-american-citizenship-1.5307986" target="_blank">--Andrew Scheer</a></blockquote>
10. Being a vampire.<br />
9. Didn't wear underwear as House Speaker. Not even once!<br />
8. <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Still waiting for that peach fuzz to break out into an actual beard.</span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">7. </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Has promised Faith Goldy's firstborn to a little man known for spinning straw into gold, who also came up with enough last minute votes to magically give </span><span class="r-18u37iz">him </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">the CPC leadership!</span></span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">6. </span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Underwent conversion therapy to seem human-like to Earthlings.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">5. L</span></span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">ikes to do his toenails with manly black polish - just like Gene Simmons!</span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">4. </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Forever pestering buddy Jim Vallance to jam out a song he wrote called Summer of 2003</span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">3. </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">As Prime Minister, plans to create a ministry of Reminding Folks he was Down With Brexit Before It Was Cool.</span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">2. </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Likes to call various world leaders out of the blue to request they investigate Donald Trump's political rivals, offering saskatoon berry jam for the favour.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">And the Number One Other Thing Andrew Scheer Didn't Lie About, But Was Never Asked:</span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">1. </span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Has been secretly meeting with Jason Kenney for years in a totally normal and extremely heterosexual way, just to chit-chat and play rock, paper, scissors, okay?! Jeesh, you guys!!</span><br />
<br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">- 30 - </span> </span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></span></span>Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-55234061444109723532019-09-26T13:32:00.001-04:002019-09-26T13:32:16.303-04:00Montreal: March for Climate Action 09-27-2019When I hear Greta Thunberg damning the world at the UN...<br />
<br />
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2019/sep/23/greta-thunberg-to-world-leaders-how-dare-you-you-have-stolen-my-dreams-and-my-childhood-video<br />
<br />
...I am reminded of exactly where I was when I wrote No Healing: <br />
<br />
https://soundcloud.com/randboro/no-healing-rough-draft<br />
<br />
Lyrics:<br />
<br />
Messing around<br />
Digging up tarpits<br />
And we'll burn it all away<br />
<br />
Mining that gold<br />
Exporting asbestos<br />
Trade the future for today<br />
<br />
We don't know why<br />
But I've got a feeling<br />
It could be a long time<br />
Before we start the healing<br />
<br />
Frack that shale<br />
Strip that mountain<br />
Extract it all away<br />
<br />
Drain all brains<br />
With the freshwater<br />
Rape the future for today's gain<br />
<br />
And I've got a feeling<br />
It'll be a lifetime<br />
Before we staunch the bleeding<br />
<br />
Hiding your crimes<br />
Building more prisons<br />
Disregard the scientists<br />
<br />
Mute all truths<br />
Reason is treason<br />
Ruled by ideology<br />
<br />
And I know I've<br />
Got a sickening feeling<br />
Could be a long time<br />
And there won't be no healing<br />
<br />
<br />
They are expecting 300,000 in the streets of Montreal tomorrow. Hope to see you there. Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-44742107315510976412019-09-04T22:43:00.002-04:002019-09-05T09:07:12.120-04:00Bollocks, Bollocks, and... what else? Ah yes, more BOLLOCKS<i>They are lying to you. Deliberately. Methodically. They use a <a href="https://www.azquotes.com/author/5626-Joseph_Goebbels/tag/propaganda">playbook</a> that was written by a maniac who believed so strongly in his own accidentally assigned tribal genome that he fatally poisoned his entire brood to prove his horrifically misguided point.
<p><p>
That is the usual end-game for the fools who look no further than skin colour or tribe.</i>
<p><p><p><p>
Dear readers,
<p><p>
Once upon a time, there was a thing we called bandwidth.<p>
It was limited, and precious. You had to own a segment of it, and it was doled out by the CRTC.<p>
<p><p>
If you rated...<p>
If you could prove yourself worthy to the<p>
Public Body<p>
Responsible to the Elected Representatives<p>
Owing their authority<p>
To a free and fair Democratic vote of their<p>
Constituents<p>
(You and Me)<p>
That<p>
Gave<p>
Them<p>
the Power<p>
to Decide<p>
If<p>
Those<p>
Who<p>
Wanted this bandwidth<p>
To persuade other constituents with<p>
Merited it<p>
Based upon their commitment<p>
To the Betterment of the audience by broadcasting important and <p>
<p><p>
Truthful information
<p><p>
Over these channels<p>
Given to them<p>
In Trust<p>
By The People<p>
To ensure faithful communication of<p>
True<p>
Facts<p>
And of opinion<p>
Based on <p>
True<p>
Facts<p>
<p><p>
Nowadays<p>
We can all publish<p>
Whatever rubbish<p>
We wish<p>
Not unlike the American homicidal maniac (TM)<p>
Holding onto his 2nd Amendment rights<p>
<p>
In God We Trust<p>
American you say??<p>
<p>
Why yes, because these platforms are <p>
<p>
All.<p>
<p>
AMERICAN:<p>
(ABC = Google + this blog on blogger, and the notoriously easy to push stupid crap anyone made up youtube)<p>
(Twitter)<p>
(Facebook + Instagram)<p>
<p>
<b>MEANWHILE</b><p>
Here in Canada, we created this thing called the <a href="https://www.cbsc.ca">Canadian Broadcast Standards Council</a>, but that does not have the slightest bearing on any crap we have from social media sites like those I mentioned above.<p>
<p>
So we are impoverished of fact-based, multi-sourced information if we fail to go to the sources that abide by those standards.
<p><p>
Please, with a federal election on the horizon, avail yourselves not so much of:
<p><p>
- blogs such as mine...<p>
- whatever BS you find in your FB newsfeed (or other social media "viral" crap)
<p><p>
and go here, where there are controls in place:
<p><p>
cbc.ca<p>
globalnews.ca<p>
CTVnews.ca<p>
thestar.com<p>
lapresse.ca<p>
<p>
and anyone else beholden to Standards that you may call BULLSHIT on and expect a level of fact-checking decency
<p><p>
Now, don't expect them to get it all right all the time. Journalism is an art of imperfect humans, mind.
<p><p>
But do try to not get pulled in by the shit-spewers inspired by the likes of Goebbels.
<p><p>
It does you ill.
<p><p>
As it does us all
<p><p>
Good day, and peace and good (critical) reading to you all.
<p><p>
- 30 -
Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-76304151779378916222019-02-02T11:18:00.001-05:002019-02-02T11:28:22.236-05:00The Hate -- Original Song #38<i>As we approach the sad 30th anniversary of a brutal hate crime that left a stain on my beautiful city, I find to my surprise this song of mine, written many years ago, absent from the history of this blog. No longer. RIP, Joe</i><br />
<br />
Well you know something's been eating me<br />
Concerns something that fell from your mouth last week<br />
I heard you say, "He's one of <i>those</i>"<br />
Made me think of a youth named <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Prejudice+pride+forgotten+murder+Rose/9619291/story.html">Joe Rose</a><br />
<br />
They killed him on a bus you see<br />
Along with their humanity<br />
And I doubt this song will change a thing<br />
But maybe I'll feel better if I sing<br />
<br />
I don't know why they hate so strong<br />
But it just keeps going on<br />
<br />
Rose's dad doesn't understand<br />
He loved his son like any man<br />
But the boy was gay so they hated him<br />
In this city whose <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(C)#concordia_salus">motto</a> means live and let live<br />
And it's wrong to think all bird are doves<br />
But those who hate can also love<br />
And if there's one thing I can't trust<br />
It's when you separate folks into them and us<br />
<br />
I don't know why they hate so strong<br />
But it just keeps going on<br />
I don't know why they hate so strong<br />
But it just keeps going on<br />
I don't know why they hate so strong<br />
But it just keeps going on<br />
I don't know why they hate so strong<br />
But it's gone on far too long<br />
<br />
- 30 -<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-89842340007452501352018-12-04T01:14:00.001-05:002018-12-04T10:16:43.627-05:00My grand-daughter was born December 3, 2018She will not reach 12, apparently, before life on this planet is doomed to be inhabitable for humanity.<br />
<br />
I take that very seriously. As soon as I became a father, that kind of thing started to matter - vibrantly; excruciatingly. Until then, it served as ...what? An excuse for nihilism? Bottoms up!<br />
<br />
With my wife, I share a four-cylinder, gas-guzzling SUV, but at least we live in a highly energy-efficient condo in Montreal, heated (and powered) exclusively from renewable hydro-electric power, thanks to Robert Bourassa and other prescient Quebec politicians. We use public transit as much as possible, walk, or use shared services to economize, and understand that our gas costs more if we fill up on the island of Montreal, so we only take the car when we really have to.<br />
<br />
And I expect this will be the last internal combustion vehicle we own - and appropriately so. Energy usage will not decline, but here in Quebec, I feel that we really understand that reality as a fundamental concept, alongside the practicality of maximizing our facility to harness whatever renewable energy resources we can access.<br />
<br />
I have listened to the voices telling us the oil in Alberta and Saskatchewan will replace higher carbon-footprint coal used in China currently (to manufacture products we buy to assuage our Dollar-store need to consume, consume, consume extra plastics to make our lives more fulfilling - and yes, that rabbit-hole I have plunged myself into on many occasions myself). I call bullshit on that "need" to get the tarsands product to tidewater. Justin Trudeau is nominally championing that in order to (lamely) show he is not like his dad; as if he could somehow square that policy with being on the right side - i.e.: the non-suicidal side. <br />
<br />
What to do?<br />
<br />
I like JT because he espouses ideals that are high-mindedly progressive towards correction of bias and prejudice generally. But for all our sakes, this is the time to realise there is a bigger, more pressing crisis that requires his leadership. Time to stop playing nice and put his clout to the one issue that merits war-like attention: arresting climate change.<br />
<br />
After all, what planet does he presume his kids and mine might inhabit?<br />
<br />
- 30 -Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-88922870059034881722018-06-28T14:34:00.000-04:002018-06-28T14:34:54.701-04:00Every Canadian should read Bob Rae's column in the WalrusIt is all about Canada-USA relations, and in particular, this uncomforting reality: <br />
<br />
"It’s time we understood just how far apart our two countries are and act accordingly"<br />
<br />
The whole text is <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=15731543#editor/target=post;postID=8892287005903488172" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Interestingly, it comes just hours after the publication of this warning for the EU from the Guardian:<br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/27/eu-must-prepare-for-worst-case-scenarios-under-trump-top-official-warns?CMP=share_btn_tw" target="_blank">EU must 'prepare for worst-case scenarios' under Trump, top official warns</a><br />
<br />
From that article, from European Council president, Donald Tusk:<br />
<br />
<i> “More and more people are starting to believe that only strong-handed authority, anti-European and anti-liberal in spirit, with a tendency towards overt authoritarianism, is capable of stopping the wave of illegal migration.”<br /><br />“If people believe them, that only they can offer an effective solution to the migration crisis, they will also believe anything else they say. The stakes are very high. And time is short.”</i><br />
<br />
Time for all of us to stop ignoring the painful truth. If you're not with Trump, you're not only against Trump,...<br />
<br />
you're at war<br />
<br />
- 30 - Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-2490519060788015482018-06-20T12:33:00.000-04:002018-06-20T12:39:01.778-04:00Stoke the Fire / Untermenschen (repost)<a href="http://randboro.blogspot.com/2005/09/original-song-2.html" target="_blank">Stoke the Fire</a> (performed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggRGizsiQLs" target="_blank">live circa 2011</a>)<br />
<br />
Caught in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/opinion/the-devil-and-tom-donohue.html" target="_blank">machinations</a><br />
<a href="http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june-2018/canada-is-turning-its-back-on-central-american-refugees/" target="_blank">Beyond your power</a>?<br />
Busy earning a living<br />
You stoke the fire<br />
<br />
And you wonder how they<br />
Could let it happen<br />
No time to question<br />
How big is your picture?<br />
<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111" target="_blank">Successive generations</a> will be quick to damn us<br />
Maybe <a href="https://twitter.com/Emma4Change" target="_blank">they</a>'ll understand us<br />
<br />
Recipe for murder:<br />
Divide the horror<br />
Give the people a scapegoat<br />
Then point the finger<br />
<br />
Gain complicity<br />
Reward efficiency<br />
Give the people procedures<br />
They'll die to please<br />
<br />
Perhaps the question to ask is: Does it really matter<br />
Who pulled the trigger<br />
Who filled the gas tanks<br />
Who stoked the fires<br />
That burn us<br />
<br />
<br />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://randboro.blogspot.com/2006/02/original-song-22-untermenschen.html" target="_blank">Untermenschen </a><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-10408667809348623672018-06-18T09:58:00.001-04:002018-06-18T11:43:08.771-04:00I'm with Lloyd - the USA is not a safe third country right nowI enjoyed another fantastic Father's Day in the company of my children, but all the while I fought back tears whenever I heard more of the sordid tales of asylum seekers' treatment at the hands of the US Department of Homeland Security. It's full-on psychological torture to the parents and to the kids to whisk them away from the only thread of security they know: one another.<br />
<br />
So when a great humanitarian like Lloyd Axworthy has had enough of this to speak out forcefully, I believe all Canadians must listen.<br />
<br />
Here is the entirety of his and Allan Rock's opinion piece from <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/opinion/article-lets-ensure-our-border-remains-a-beacon-of-hope/?__twitter_impression=true">The Globe and Mail</a>: <br />
<br />
<blockquote>
</blockquote>
<i><br /></i>
<div class="article-body__text">
<i>Canada and the United States added a new
dimension in 2004 by agreeing to regard each other as, in effect, safe
havens. Each barred asylum-seekers arriving from the other at official
points of entry, reasoning that no credible claim of persecution could
be made in either.</i></div>
<div class="article-body__text">
<i>But things have
changed. Donald Trump’s administration’s harsh approach to migrants has
created fear and uncertainty among asylum-seekers in the United States.
Sadly, the United States no longer offers them a safe haven. Beyond
demonizing migrants, Mr. Trump’s appointees have adopted inhumane
practices.</i></div>
<div class="article-body__text">
<i>Asylum-seekers are being
detained at astonishing rates in the United States, often in deplorable
conditions. Despite having no criminal record, many are jailed while
their applications for asylum are pending, mostly in private prisons.
Human Rights First reports that three-quarters of asylum-seekers in U.S.
immigration proceedings are detained at some point, compared to 16 per
cent of refugee claimants in Canada. Recent reports about the treatment
of migrant children, in particular, demonstrate just how unsafe the U.S.
immigration system has become: U.S. officials recently admitted that
they “lost track” of nearly 20 per cent of the children formerly in the
custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.</i></div>
<div class="article-body__text">
<i>Despite
this fiasco, Attorney-General Jeff Sessions recently announced a policy
of separating asylum-seekers from their children, some as young as
toddlers. The United Nations calls this an “arbitrary and unlawful
interference in family life, and a serious violation of the rights of
the child.”</i></div>
<div class="article-body__text">
<i>Consider Ms. L, an
asylum-seeker who fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo with her
seven-year-old daughter. After they were detained upon arrival in the
United States, Ms. L’s daughter was taken from her and sent to a
facility more than 2,000 miles away. They were jailed across the country
from each other for four months. Ms. L. fled brutality only to have her
daughter taken from her arms by U.S. officials: Who could blame her if,
feeling unsafe, she wanted to cross into Canada to seek protection?</i></div>
<div class="article-body__text">
<i>And
those fleeing from the United States to Canada have good reason to fear
harm if the United States returns them to their countries of origin.
The vast majority are from war-torn states with high levels of violence
and human-rights violations. Most are at serious risk of persecution and
torture in their native lands. In fact, more than 50 per cent of the
refugee claims made by persons who enter Canada irregularly are granted.</i></div>
<div class="article-body__text">
<i>Some
Canadians have demanded that the “safe third country” prohibition on
entry be extended to cover the entire border, not just official entry
points. But surely that is the wrong approach. It would seal off any
chance to escape for those many who are being mistreated and put at
grave risk of return by a U.S. administration with vastly different
policies from the one we dealt with in 2004.</i></div>
<div class="article-body__text">
<i>In our view, a much better solution would
be to suspend the “safe third country” arrangement until conditions in
the United States change. The United States is no longer “safe” for
asylum seekers. And, unlike 2004, we can no longer regard our duty to
them as met simply because they are within U.S. jurisdiction. Just as
our government responded with strength to Mr. Trump’s absurd trade
sanctions, we should make crystal clear that we will not be complicit in
his mistreatment of refugees.</i></div>
<div class="article-body__text">
<i>Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau and his government have earned Canada a
well-deserved reputation as a humane refuge for the forcibly displaced.
And Canadians, in communities across the land, have opened their hearts
and their homes to sponsor and support refugees. Let’s make sure that
our policies at the border reflect “the Canadian way” and are worthy of
the values we cherish.</i></div>
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Canada is a huge land. Stinkin' huge. We have ample space, resources, and no reason to turn people away who need refuge. I know we are lucky here. The people whom we welcome are my neighbours and co-workers and children's best friends. They are not at all unlike my ancestors who fled potato famine or religious intolerance or economic destitution just a handful of generations ago. We can always welcome a few more. We are one humanity, and we need to act like it.<br />
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- 30 -Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-83116209355910310832018-03-30T15:59:00.001-04:002018-03-30T19:11:08.006-04:00Preying on Me - Original Song #37<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<br />
<br />
I was living in the Mile End<br />
Lovely place to find a friend<br />
Course you know no one there<br />
Is just like me<br />
<br />
English, French, Greeks<br />
Indigenous and artists<br />
Lots of folks I call the blister-hearted<br />
And that includes the Hasids<br />
<br />
They’re always doing lots of prayin'<br />
They gotta do a lot of prayin'<br />
Gotta do a lot of prayin'<br />
For sinners like me<br />
<br />
And meanwhile on the internet<br />
Trolls are spinning <br />
Dark dark webs<br />
They’re telling all these scary tales <br />
Once upon a lie <br />
<br />
They spread hate to create bigots<br />
Then they churn and circulate all that made-up shit<br />
Like that ain’t what toilets are for<br />
<br />
The trolls are doing lots of preyin'<br />
Yeah they’re doing lots of preyin'<br />
They’re out there doing lots of preyin'<br />
On the young and the weak<br />
<br />
Now morons out there in the war rooms<br />
Making plans to cloud us in mushrooms<br />
They can't believe they can't play with<br />
All their nuclear toys <br />
<br />
They're doing lots of playing<br />
Armageddon games they're playing<br />
And Christ, it never ever stops preying<br />
Preying on me<br />
<br />
Now that brings me back to those Hasids<br />
They aren't too caught up in our consumerist greed<br />
And they may not be your creed<br />
But I think they seem to know what we need<br />
<br />
We need to do a lotta prayin'<br />
There ain't nothing left but prayin'<br />
I'm really down with all the prayin'<br />
<br />
<br />
- 30 - <br />
<br />Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-15121549241728688422017-07-25T14:29:00.003-04:002017-07-25T14:32:00.020-04:00Requiem for the Hangover of a Canadian Immigrant - Original Song # 36<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Eleven months in<br />
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Still finding your place</div>
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You cheer for the Habs </div>
Watch The Amazing Race
<br />
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<br /></div>
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The kids have made friends</div>
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Learned some French, ate Subway</div>
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But you cannot find work</div>
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And you have just four weeks’ grace</div>
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<br /></div>
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Lo and behold</div>
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It’s Canada Day</div>
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The PM looks lost touring a tipi in the rain</div>
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The natives around you</div>
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No flags do they wave</div>
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Just beers and grilled beef</div>
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And a look of disdain</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i>CHORUS</i></div>
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<i>Don’t fly your flag so mighty</i></div>
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<i>So high</i></div>
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<i>Don’t mix bloody Caesars </i></div>
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<i>With ginger and rye</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i>Know that at the root</i></div>
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<i>Of every symbol is some lie</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Don’t mix bloody Caesars </i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>With ginger and rye</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The cure for your hangover</div>
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If you haven’t yet clued-in</div>
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Comes from filtered Florida OJ,</div>
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Picked by Mexican migrants</div>
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Mixed with Brita-filtered water</div>
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(Thanks to the Germans)</div>
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And a Samsung-brewed coffee</div>
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Picked by Indonesian kids</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CHORUS</span></div>
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</div>
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If the Maple Leaf still means</div>
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Anything worth a fight</div>
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It’s writ ‘tween the lines</div>
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Of that Charter of Rights</div>
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<br /></div>
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So don’t hang your patriotism</div>
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On a populist rant</div>
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On a tax-payer’s gripe</div>
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Or an immigrant’s back</div>
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<br /></div>
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- 30 - </div>
Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-33743035898036805612017-04-17T10:17:00.000-04:002017-04-17T11:00:03.094-04:00Amazing CHéAmazing CHé<br />
How sweet the sound<br />
Of Habs fans leaving their seats<br />
<br />
In the K, he was lost<br />
But with the CH, was found<br />
We give praise to Bergevin<br />
<br />
'Twas Captain K that taught<br />
The PP to click<br />
Leko and BBQ, my fears relieved<br />
How precious did that CHé appear<br />
The OT I first believed<br />
<br />
Through many Rangers, and Arrogant Fuckface <br />
Our boys have already come<br />
'Tis TFS that brought us play-offs thus far<br />
And CJv2 will lead us CHome<br />
<br />
Lord Stanley has promised a Cup to the team<br />
That 16 playoff wins secures<br />
It will the CH goal and passion be<br />
As long as the game endures<br />
<br />
When we've been there in 24 other years<br />
Parades shining in the June sun<br />
We've measured days left to ride TFS's saves<br />
Boys, now, let's get it done<br />
<br />
Amazing Shea<br />
How sweet the sound<br />
Of Rags getting soundly checked<br />
For PFK, we had love<br />
But now, BBQ and CHé <br />
And the return of SuperPleXXX<br />
<br />Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-62484067220150531962017-03-16T21:22:00.000-04:002017-03-16T21:22:22.632-04:00If Y(emelin) Should Fall From Grace with Claude (apologies to the Pogues)<span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">If Y Should Fall from Grace with Claude</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">After being cleanly beaten</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">If Y’s muscled off the puck</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And his passes fail completely</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Let him sit Claude, let him sit Claude</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Let Y sit up with the press where the hotdogs come with fries</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">This Cup was always ours </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Was the pride of Montrealers</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">It belongs to the Habs</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Not to any of Buttman’s fuckers</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">It’s coming back here boys, coming back here boys!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Dump the Buttman in the south where the hockey fans run dry</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Keep GCHuck at C</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Let those Forum ghosts direct him</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">If he shoots from open ice</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">KidA or LB will deflect them</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Into the goal boys, into the goal boys!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Win this town a twenty-fifth Cup</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Where the Frenchmen used to fly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">If Y Should Fall from Grace with Claude</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">After being cleanly beaten</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Harley’s raring to go</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And he passes pretty cleanly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Let him sit Claude, let him sit Claude</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Let Y sit up with the press where the hotdogs come with fries</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">POGUE MAHONE!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">GYFHG</span>Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-35503404134420681482017-03-14T12:51:00.000-04:002017-03-16T12:53:59.084-04:00Winter's Coming (apologies to Arcade Fire and their Neighbourhoods #1 (Tunnels)<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And if the snow buries my CH neighbourhood</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And if Che is flying</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Then he'll saucer a pass</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">From his stick blade to PatCHes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Yeah, a pass, from his stick blade to PatCHes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">KidA has climbed out of the cellar</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And skated up the middle</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The middle of the ice</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And since there's no one but the goalie around</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">He'll stay in the blue paint long</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And forget how how he used to blow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And then his skin gets thicker</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">From spraying that goalie with snow</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">You changed all the lead</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">In that rebuilt hand</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">As the puck comes in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">KidA shovels it right in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Then Julien tried to fix our PK</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Cuz</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> Price had forgotten the way to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The way to shut teams down</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">But somehow, TFS remembered his goalposts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And how to cover his five-hole</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And his catlike trapper hand</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Then, the D remembered how to skate strong</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And how to cover the man</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">MB changed all the smurfs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Getting knocked around</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">As the trades came in</span><br />
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<span style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;">King and Thor came thundering</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Purify the CHolours, beef up the 4th line</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Purify the CHolours, put scorers in the top two lines</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And spread the ashes of Arrogant Fuckface</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Over this CHeart of mine!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">GOHABSGO</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">- 30 -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-4306648374949022192017-01-17T02:01:00.002-05:002017-01-17T02:11:53.720-05:00Yes we are all going to dieNATO is not something that can be brazenly referred to as obsolete in a brief missive by the PEOTUS in the days before assuming office. The shockwaves of uncertainty generated from't (especially lacking any spark of contextualization) are far greater than the capacity of the planet to withstand. Geo-politically speaking, war has been declared on the very basis of international relations. The most extraordinary buffoon since Fyodor Karamazov now holds our collective fate in his ignorant, tweet-happy hands. And yet here we are.Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-86665389546754339232016-02-05T08:56:00.000-05:002016-02-05T09:19:01.666-05:00Stand Down Therrien (apologies to the English Beat)I said I see no goals<p>
I see only losses<p>
I see no chance of a play-off tomorrow<p>
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So stand down eMTy<p>
Stand down please<p>
Stand down Therrien<p>
I say stand down eMTy<p>
Stand down please<p>
Stand Therrien<p>
<p><p>
You tell me how can it work <p>
With this “process” of yours<p>
All these chip-ins aren’t working, <p>
We want a third goal scored<p>
Stand down eMTy<p>
Stand down please<p>
Stand down Therrien<p>
<p><p>
I sometimes wonder <p>
If I'll ever get to say<p>
Come with me my children <p>
To the Stanley Cup parade<p>
Our hopes seem desperate in your dump and chase plans<p>
Would you give a second thought<p>
Would you ever change the process, I doubt it<p>
Stand down eMTy<p>
Score!<p>
Everybody shout it<p>
Stand down eMTy!<p>
<p><p>
DDD, cut his power play time<p>
More gCHuck at Centre<p>
We score<p>
Score, score, score, score, score<p>
Score, score, score, score, score<p>
Score, score, score, score, score<p>
Score, score, score, score, score<p>
Score, score, score, score, score<p>
<p><p>
Stand down please<p>
<p>
Stand down EMTy<p>
Stand down please<p>
Stand down Therrien<p>
<p><p>
I say stand down EMTy<p>
Stand down please<p>
Stand down Therrien<p>
<p><p>
Stand down EMTy<p>
Stand down please<p>
Stand down Therrien<p>
Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-35331521052327507742015-10-14T21:29:00.000-04:002015-10-21T09:12:37.247-04:00Harper not about to have sex with sheep. Nope nope nopeThat appears to have been the gist of the point made to the CBC news camera of a Harper-Con supporter at today's Conservative campaign event. Point taken. And lo and behold! The Ford brothers - even the crack-cocaine smoking one - are trotted out to help rally the faithful in a Toronto riding the Conservatives are desperately hoping to hang on to in the dying days of their uber-ugly campaign.<p><p>Hey, everybody, let's sing:
<p><p><i>The wheels of the bus fall off, off, off; off, off. off; off, off, off...</i>Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15731543.post-75096552632212629652015-10-08T10:53:00.001-04:002015-10-08T10:53:23.541-04:00Election theme song from Hey Rosetta! & Yukon Blonde Land You Love
<p><p>
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/140990026" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/140990026">Land You Love - Hey Rosetta! & Yukon Blonde</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/philmaloney">Phil Maloney</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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This brings a tear to my eye everytime I play it. Thank you, Hey Rosetta! and Yukon Blonde.<p><p>Share! Share! Share!Scott in Montrealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10702697033209213403noreply@blogger.com0