On any given day thousands of young people call the streets of Canada home.
And about twenty to thirty percent of them are LGBT kids.
Thrown into the street by their own parents, or running away from so-called conversion therapy, a series of fraudulent treatments supposed to make them "normal."
Which never works, is nothing more than the torture of young people and drives some of them to take their own lives.
In the last few days Erin O'Toole and his ugly Cons have been going practically wild, trying to stop the government from bringing back a hybrid Parliament.
And it has been a brutish spectacle. O'Toole is now so desperate he couldn't care less about protecting others from his possibly pestilential Cons.
He just wants to have enough of his Cons in the Commons so they can turn it into a monkey house or a fascist circus.
So he has been going after Trudeau like a bat an ape out of hell.
Or at least he was...
It was a magic moment. And a very Canadian one.
Mary Simon, our new Governor General, reading Justin Trudeau's Speech from the Throne, in English, French, and Inuktitut.
And the speech too couldn't have been more Canadian..
But sadly that magic moment didn't last.
For when Erin O'Toole and his Cons returned to the House of Commons, they turned it into a monkey house.
Erin O'Toole has been pumping out pictures of himself jogging, no doubt to show Canadians that he's ready and fit for today's return to Parliament.
And he says his Cons are fit too, fully vaccinated, and if not have medical exemptions.
But sadly, I'm finding that hard to believe, because O’Toole is such a serial liar.
His Cons are such an ugly bunch.
All through the campaign the Con Propaganda machine bombarded us with images portraying Erin O'Toole as a mighty warrior.
A strong brave leader, a freedom fighter, who isn't afraid of anything or anyone, especially Justin Trudeau, who he is on a mission to totally DESTROY #!!@!!
But sadly, now we find out, he's just a cowardy custard. A man so scared of all those anti-vaxxers, religious fanatics, and other kooks in his own caucus, he felt he had to fire Denise Batters, or people might think he was one of THEM!!!
But now he's worried what the kooks and Batty Batters might do to him...
It's finally happened. Somebody has finally stuck a pin into Erin O'Toole's Con balloon.
I knew it was going to happen. The writing has been on the wall since the night O'Toole lost the election.
A loser, is a loser, is a loser.
But who knew it would be Batty?
I've landed in Glasgow, the old city by the river Clyde, many many times. But I usually never stay long.
After an hour or two I'm usually on a train heading for beautiful Edinburgh and the highlands up north where my family lives.
But this weekend as the COP26 climate summit wrapped up, my heart was in Glasgow.
For they have a wonderful slogan: "People Make Glasgow."
I have never had much respect for Scott Moe, the brutish slack jawed Premier of Saskatchewan.
I have always considered him more of an American politician than a Canadian one, and way too Con and too dumb to govern.
I have been horrified by the way he almost destroyed his province's health system by putting his foul ideology before the needs of the people of his province.
And now I have even less respect for him, if that's possible.
Ever since he returned from the place where he had been hiding, Erin O'Toole has looked a lot like a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
And who can blame him? So many problems, so much criticism, so much losing.
Yesterday, he tried to put a new face on his government by finally unveiling his shadow cabinet.
But sadly for him, that only made matters worse.
For it's a shadow cabinet from Hell.
For almost two months Erin O'Toole has been keeping a very low profile, avoiding the media and not doing any interviews.
I thought he was just pulling a Harper, and trying to recover from the beating Justin Trudeau gave him.
But now it seems that O'Toole wasn't just hiding from the Liberals.
He was hiding from his own Cons.
Ever since the COP 26 summit began, Erin O'Toole has tried very hard to pretend that it isn't happening. Not saying anything, not even tweeting a word about it.
No doubt because he didn't want to remind Canadians that many of his Cons don't believe that climate change is real.
Or draw attention to Justin Trudeau's brilliant performance at the summit.
But yesterday he finally broke his silence to smear our new Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, calling him a dangerous radical who wants to destroy Canada.
Justin Trudeau is on his way home after three action packed days at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. And it's a fitting end to an amazing year.
He led his country through the darkness of a pandemic that killed so many Canadians and frightened so many others.
He fought off the ugly Cons, and the grubby Con media, and a Zombie army of toxic Trudeau haters, to win a third straight general election.
But I wouldn't be surprised if fifty years from now, he will be remembered above all by future generations for what he did at the Glasgow summit.
It was Halloween in my neighbourhood, and although I didn't have the time or the energy to carve a pumpkin this year, I had a big pumpkin in the sky shining down on me.
And my friends and I had a lot of fun.
But sadly, poor Erin O'Toole who was hoping to dress up as a winner, had a horrible Halloween.
