It's now been two years since Alexandre Bissonnette walked into a mosque in Quebec City and opened fire.
He killed six people, and wounded five others, as 35 other worshippers including several children looked on in horror.
The next day Bissonnette told police he had attacked the mosque, because he was worried refugees would come to Quebec and kill his family.
And later we found out that his views on Muslims were heavily influenced by the far right in Canada and the United States.
And that he worshipped Donald Trump.
Donald Trump likes to say that he's really good at numbers. You know, the best.
Just like he says he knows more about science than the scientists.
But whatever he says about Global WAMING, after the long government shutdown, more and more Americans now believe he either doesn't know what he's saying or doing.
Or he's cuckoo.
Or both...
He's been waiting like a spider waits for a fly, to make the border issue the centrepiece of his election campaign.
So he can appeal to the lowest instincts of Canadians and use racism and xenophobia to try to destroy Justin Trudeau.
So I can only imagine how happy he felt when he saw this story.
And sure enough, he went for it, like a hungry spider, or a desperate Trumpling...
Donald Trump remember what happened yesterday for a long long time, maybe even forever.
For by the time the day was over, he must have felt he was trapped in a bad Batman movie, and they were calling him The Joker and The Toddler.
First Robert Mueller arrested his old buddy, the grubby old Penguin Roger Stone.
Which as you can see left Trump trembling with anger, and paranoia.
Then he was humiliated by Nancy Pelosi. Again.
It's not hard to imagine how Donald Trump must be feeling like today. It couldn't be easier.
All you have to do is read this hysterical tweet:
This is what he is complaining about.
It was like the trial scene in Alice of Wonderland. With Andrew Scheer as the Red Queen, poor old John McCallum in the prisoner's box, and the Con media as his eager executioners.
For they couldn't make enough of this story.
They blew it up like a balloon. They made it sound like the biggest story in the world. They suggested over and over again that McCallum had done something REALLY bad.
And they gave the ghastly Con Andrew Scheer all the time he wanted to spout reckless nonsense for crass political purposes.
You can see the fear in Andrew Scheer's eyes.
His creepy smile has gone, and with every passing day he looks and sounds more and more desperate.
And while his regular pornoCon propaganda is as disgusting as ever.
Now it's more like what you might expect from an alt-right extremist.
The U.S. government shutdown has now being going on for more than a month, with no end in sight.
Almost a million government workers are struggling to make ends meet, with some forced to resort to food banks to feed their families.
The U.S. credit rating is threatened, and planes are threatening to fall out of the sky.
But Donald Trump is still bellowing " build my wall !!!"
And apparently, bellowing something else as well.
It was a scene that for some reason reminded me of the original Planet of the Apes.
When the apes first talk talking, and everyone gasps in shock.
For there was Doug Ford at the snooty Economic Club of Canada, pretending to be an economist.
And claiming that Justin Trudeau's carbon tax plan will plunge us into a recession.
Andrew Scheer was no doubt hoping to show Justin Trudeau that he could perform at a town hall as well as Trudeau has shown he can.
And that like the prime minister he could answer any tough questions without losing his cool, and in the process get a lot of badly needed publicity.
But unfortunately for Scheer it didn't work out that way, and the event was a near total bust.
In my last post I looked at how Andrew Scheer had been caught accusing the United Nations and Justin Trudeau of trying to erase Canada's borders.
With what turned out to be a neo-Nazi meme.
But it's worth recalling that he wasn't the first Con to go after the U.N.
The ugly redneck MP Larry Miller got there first.
Ever since Andrew Scheer and his ex-Rebel campaign manager Hamish Marshall set out to destroy Justin Trudeau, they have been pumping out a steady stream of the most disgusting attack ads this country has ever seen.
Depraved yellow and red tinted political pornography that demonizes Trudeau over and over again.
And has some of the yellow vested members of their base in such a fevered frenzy, they are calling him a traitor and demanding that he be executed.
The first time I saw Andrew Scheer ranting and raving about the U.N. Global Compact for Migration, I couldn't understand what he was talking about. Or where he got that bizarre idea from.
Especially since the Compact, which was endorsed the other day by almost all the countries in the world, is not legally binding and does not affect our sovereignty in the least.
So I thought it was just the latest attempt to whip up racism and xenophobia by the increasingly desperate hate mongers in the Con propaganda department.
But now it seems the idea came from an even darker place.
Toxic masculinity is one of the greatest curses of humanity. It turns boys into beasts and bullies.
It demeans women, and kills them in horrifying numbers. It drives men to murder each other all over our bloody planet, in one senseless war after the other.
It was largely responsible for Donald Trump's victory, and it's what the ghastly Andrew Scheer is trying to use against Justin Trudeau.
And since I hate bullies of any kind with a passion.
I really like this video.
Yesterday I wondered why Andrew Scheer hadn't condemned his yellow vested supporters for calling Justin Trudeau a traitor, and threatening to kill him.
But I forgot how much Scheer hates Trudeau, and how excited he was at the thought of joining a massive truck convoy and driving all the way from Alberta to Ottawa, to let him know how much others hated him.
Because trust me, he was practically giddy with excitement.
And I mean giddy...
In my last post I looked at the way Canada's yellow vest movement has been taken over by alt-right extremists, and how many of them are calling Justin Trudeau a traitor.
And some are even demanding that he be executed.
And I noticed that wherever there are signs accusing Trudeau of treason, there are also signs denouncing the United Nation's Global Compact for Migration, claiming it would erase our borders.
And since the two are clearly related, and that claim is false, I wondered why Andrew Scheer was encouraging those extremists.
We are told that we shouldn't judge them too harshly. That they are just the Canadian, or the Alberta version, of the yellow vests in France.
But their crude signs send out one ugly message after the other. Bigotry is good, the U.N. is bad, immigrants are a menace, Justin Trudeau is a traitor.
All over the internet these yellow bellies bellow and howl for him to be tried or hanged for treason.
Justin Trudeau has done many town halls, but the one in Regina the other day seems to have resonated with Canadians to an extraordinary degree.
And not just with those who support him, but also with some of those who don't, and even with some of his enemies in the media.
For while this tweet of mine was extremely well received.
I was flipping through the TV channels last night, on my way to watch the CBC News, when I came across a live broadcast of Justin Trudeau's town hall in Regina. And I couldn't stop watching it.
Not just because it was riveting TV. Trudeau in enemy territory, holding off the hostile hordes.
But also because, as much as I tried not to, after all those death threats, I couldn't help worrying about whether somebody would try to kill him.
It pains me to say this, but I have to admit I was wrong about Maxime Bernier.
I always knew the man known as the Bobo from the Beauce was a Con clown, obsessed with the dairy cartel.
But I thought he was essentially harmless.
And sadly I was wrong.
For more than two years I have been fighting the toxic Trudeau haters, and their murderous messages.
They include the bigot Cons, the human scum at the Rebel, some dirty old men in our own blogosphere.
And more recently the so-called Yellow Vests, or as I like to call them, the cowardly yellow bellies.
For they have taken toxic Trudeau hate to a whole new level.
As you may know, I have struggled for years to try to determine what makes Donald Trump tick.
And so far my diagnosis includes extreme narcissism with a touch of paranoia, possibly aggravated by early onset dementia.
But it seems I may have overlooked a critical psychological factor, the Dunning Kruger effect.
Which makes him more dangerous, than even I had imagined.
It's the nightmare that should be keeping us awake at night. The real nightmare at the border.
Not the asylum seekers who are harmless, but the sinister right-wingers of America, whose toxic hate is leaking across that border, poisoning our politics.
And threatening to turn our country into a jungle.
But as least more Canadians in this hopelessly complacent country seem to be wakening up to the monster in their midst.
Trying to get Canadians to agree to a carbon tax must be for Justin Trudeau like trying to roll a massive boulder, or Doug Ford, up a steep hill.
The country is hooked on oil, many Canadians love their cars, or their big shiny trucks, almost as much as they love their children.
A Con cabal of climate change deniers is doing all it can to sabotage the Liberal government's carbon tax plans, and drive them from power, by whatever low means necessary.
And as we all know, Andrew Scheer is apparently planning to make the carbon tax issue, THE issue of the election campaign.
In my last post I looked at the way Andrew Scheer has been bombarding Canadians with anti-carbon tax propaganda.
And lying like only a climate change denier and Con clown could, over and over again.
I suggested that enough was enough.
And that since our useless media were doing nothing to expose Scheer's disgraceful Trump-like behaviour.
We should send our truth squads after him.
It's a measure of Andrew Scheer's desperation that he couldn't even give himself a break on New Year's Day.
But was spotted at a Giant Tiger store, apparently owned by one of his Cons.
Surrounded by a small and decidedly unenthusiastic crowd.
Bashing Justin Trudeau. Again.
Donald Trump has been holed up in the White House for days, in cold grey Washington, when he'd much rather be in sunny Florida playing golf.
He's still clinging feverishly to the hope that by shutting down the U.S. government he can force the Democrats to give him billions to build the Great Wall of Trump.
But he's getting nowhere, he's running out of time, the Democrats take over half of the Congress tomorrow. And as this tweet makes only too clear:
He's slowly going crazy.
