It's hard to believe that it's now been almost two years since Covid first appeared, and changed our lives forever.
And even harder to believe that even after all we've been through, it's still spreading like wildfire.
So much so that we're probably all going to get it sooner or later.
But on this last day of the cursed year 2021, it seems there is some good news at last.
As the Omicron variant keeps spreading like wildfire, many hospitals in this country are teetering on the edge of collapse.
Burnout and staff shortages have created a dangerous situation, and everyone knows that the only way we avoid straining the system further is by getting more Canadians vaccinated.
Which makes what Erin O'Toole is doing even more disgusting and criminal.
Ever since Erin O'Toole became Con leader he has crawled through a political sewer of his own making.
He has fired off one vile attack ad at Justin Trudeau, he has lied like a thief, he has debased our Parliament and our country.
But something funny seems to have happened to him on the road to Christmas.
He has stopped attacking Trudeau, and is now pretending to be Mr Nice Guy.
It was billed as Erin O'Toole's breakthrough moment. The moments when 62 Con MPs who had voted to keep on torturing LGBT kids, changed their minds.
And voted unanimously to ban conversion therapy.
But I never believed it. I could smell the stench of bigotry.
And I was right.
It's hard to get away from it. The sinking feeling that we've been here before. Two long years ago.
The feeling that all that suffering went for nothing, and that we're back where we began.
Doomed to wear masks, and live our lives remotely, at fifty per cent capacity, if we're lucky. Forever.
So I find it hard to relate to those who are so burned out, so emotionally exhausted, they're ready to throw in the towel, and surrender to this beast...
With the Winter Break just a few days away, Erin O'Toole is getting more and more desperate, and throwing all but the kitchen sink at Justin Trudeau.
He's accusing Justin Trudeau of being responsible for the rise in inflation, even suggesting that Trudeau doesn't care if Canadians starve.
He's blaming him for the collapse of Afghanistan, and has suggested that he's not a real Canadian, like HIMSELF.
He's even blasted Trudeau for not planting enough trees. Can you believe it? From the party that doesn't believe that climate change is real.
It's all deeply disturbing, but this is absolutely INSANE...
It was an amazing sight. Erin O'Toole shaking hand with Justin Trudeau, after the Bill to ban conversion therapy received unanimous approval in the House of Commons.
Staring into the eyes of the man he smears every day of the year.
Some in our shabby media proclaimed that what we were witnessing was the birth of a more moderate Con party, and even suggested that we could trust them again.
Which of course would be a fatal mistake, for the Cons are still the Cons.
And O'Toole is still O'Toole.
It's been 32 years since their young lives ended so suddenly and so brutally.
If they had lived some of them could could be grandmothers today, with daughters attending the same engineering school where they were murdered.
The École Polytechnique, where they were studying, determined to show the world that women could be just as good engineers as men.
Only to have all their dreams shattered, on a snowy evening in Montreal, by an angry man with a gun.
He is an ugly right wing extremist, a cruel bully, and a toxic Trudeau hater of the lowest order.
Once he would say crazy things like "the root cause of terrorism is terrorism."
Now he's the Con shadow Finance Minister, and he's still saying crazy things....
When I woke up yesterday morning, I wasn't sure how long it would be before the torture of LGBT kids would finally be over.
For Erin O'Toole was promising his Cons a free vote on the Bill to ban the horror of conversion therapy.
And goodness knows his party reeks of bigotry.
I vividly remember the scene. Justin Trudeau was addressing a small rally in a field in the Montérégie, back in 2018.
When suddenly a nasty old woman started heckling him in an ugly racist manner.
Trudeau in his usual polite way told her to behave herself, only to have her accuse him of demeaning her, and sue him for $90,000.
Which was totally absurd as you can see in this video.
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.
I was sitting by the lake the other day, enjoying a lovely warm fall day, that almost felt like summer.
But lamenting the fact that I will not be able to make it to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Which is sad, because the summit promises to be quite the show.
But my consolation is that at least I can be sure that our country will be well represented.
Justin Trudeau walked up the drive way of Rideau Hall yesterday, with his wife and a big umbrella, looking very calm and confident.
The Cons, the NDP, and the monkey media had been screaming that he was taking too much time to swear in his new cabinet.
But when Trudeau finally revealed who was in that team, it was clear that the wait was worth it.
For this is some cabinet.
Erin O'Toole is trying so hard to make us believe that he's no longer the monstrous leader who flip flops all the time like a fish out of water.
But it's just not working.
For first he was against a House of Commons vaccine mandate. Then he changed his mind.
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says his party will respect a new ruling requiring all MPs who enter the House of Commons precinct to be fully vaccinated – even though some of his MPs have objected to the policy.
And now the fish is flip flopping again.
Well, Erin O'Toole finally crawled out of the place where he has been hiding, looking like a talcum powdered mannequin.
And in an interview with TVO's Steve Paikin tried to make Canadians believe that he wasn't humiliated by Justin Trudeau.
And that he would have won if Trudeau hadn't bribed people with CERB payments.
I've been waiting to hear from Erin O'Toole, after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Justin Trudeau, left him looking like a zombie from The Night of the Living Dead.
I wanted to know whether he would acknowledge that his relentless smearing of Trudeau got him absolutely nowhere.
And that just about everything his very expensive foreign advisers told him to do, was a total waste of money.
But it seems that neither him nor his loser Cons have learned a thing.
It's Thankgiving Day in Canada. In the place where I live it felt like a warm summer day.
And this year I have so many other things to be thankful for, I don't even know where to begin.
But let's begin with these heroes.
By Canadian standards it's practically a revolution. Tens of thousands of angry Liberal supporters going after our ugly Con media.
They are accusing them of trying to steal the election with their naked bias, and of using the Tofino fake scandal to try to get Justin Trudeau to resign.
The revolutionaries even have a Twitter hash tag #CdnMediaFailed that has been trending for days.
And has so disturbed the media conglomerate, the bullies are complaining that they're being bullied.
As you may have noticed Erin O'Toole has been keeping a low profile since Justin Trudeau whupped his Cons by more than forty seats.
The ghastly little Con hasn't dared say a word, lest he annoy his own supporters and make them even more determined to knife him in the back.
But yesterday he was forced to meet with his caucus, and when he emerged from that meeting he was declaring victory.
It was the shortest fake scandal this country has ever known, and the lamest.
It only lasted two days, before it fell as flat as the waves on the beach at Tofino.
And while Justin Trudeau must have been disappointed by having his well deserved holiday disrupted by the Con media.
Nobody was more disappointed than the Con fluffer David Akin.
It's been more than ten days since Justin Trudeau won the election, leaving his Con and NDP opponents lying on the canvas licking their wounds.
And/or licking each other.
But still some in the loathsome Con media are refusing to accept that the election campaign is over.
And are still looking for fake scandals to try to bring him down.
When I first arrived in Canada as a young boy, those I most wanted to meet were the country's indigenous people.
For even in the misty heart of the Scottish highlands, I was always an Indian never a cowboy.
I thought they were the coolest people I had ever seen, and wished I could live like them.
But then nobody told me about this.
It's hard to believe that it has been a whole week since the monstrous Erin O'Toole and his Con thugs were threatening to tear this country apart.
Mutilate our medicare system, kill the CBC, destroy the plan for a national childcare system, wage war on women and LGBT Canadians, while ending the war on climate change.
It would have been the end of Canada as we know and love it.
But Justin Trudeau and his Liberals had other plans, and that was then and this is now.
For years their images haunted us, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, the two Michaels, trapped in Chinese prisons.
Held hostage for more than 1,000 days by the Chinese government in retaliation for our arrest of the Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou.
But then Meng was set free, and soon after that so were the two Michaels, with Justin Trudeau delivering the good news last night.
It's hard to believe, but days after Justin Trudeau crushed the Cons and the NDP, some of those losers are still claiming that they didn't lose.
They won.
It was Justin Trudeau who is the real loser.
And our grubby Con media is going along with that farce, warning darkly that Trudeau's third term will be short and end badly.
It was a brutal campaign. The Cons and their bought media did all they could to destroy Justin Trudeau.
They smeared him over and over again. They whipped up hatred against him and encouraged violent mobs to attack him.
It was grotesque, it was criminal, it was totally un-Canadian.
But when the smoke cleared, he was still here.
One of the worst things about this ugly election campaign was seeing Jagmeet Singh turn into a real Con monster.
Morph into a vicious toxic Trudeau hater who attacks the decent Justin with a passion that verges on the homicidal.
And my deepest regret is allowing him to get away with murder.
But not any longer.
It must have seemed like a good idea to the Con porker Jason Kenney.
He hasn't had many good ideas in his long and sordid career. So he must have been sure this one would be a winner.
He would lift the Covid-19 restrictions, and proclaim that it would be Alberta's "Best Summer Ever!!!"
But sadly for him, and the people of Alberta, his reckless plan blew up in his face.
I think Justin Trudeau has been stunned by how difficult it has been to get his message across to Canadians.
Stunned by the way violent Con mobs have tried to drown out his words, or attack and kill him.
Disgusted by the way our hideous Con media has lined up against him, and tried to make the grotesque Jody Wilson-Raybould a ballot issue.
But in Montreal yesterday, with his back to the St Lawrence river, he delivered the best political speech I have ever heard.
Ever since the campaign began the Cons have been trying to drown out Justin Trudeau's message to Canadians, anyway they can.
They have directed their monstrous supporters to try to disrupt his rallies, and threaten his life.
With the help of the shabby Con media they they have tried to smear him with one fake scandal after the other.
And now they're attacking him with one of their deadliest weapons.
I was really looking forward to last night's final leader's debate.
I was hoping that Justin Trudeau would finally get a chance to get his message out to Canadians, without having it distorted by the Con media, or drowned out by violent mobs.
So needless to say I was bitterly disappointed.
I watched the second French debate last night, and although by the end of the two hours I was struggling to stay awake, I'm glad I did.
For although I doubt that it will change many minds, especially in Quebec,
It made clear to me how Justin Trudeau could win the election.
And how he could lose it...
But his flip flop on assault rifles is his most outrageous.
I've been warning for a long time that the toxic Trudeau haters were becoming louder and more violent.
I've been warning that normalizing their behaviour would be the death of this country.
Well, now we can all see what those ugly Cons are doing to our Canada.
Erin O'Toole lied to become Con leader, and has been lying ever since like pokey-nosed Pinocchio.
He lies about everything, from his vow to destroy the CBC, to his vow to privatize much of medicare.
So I was really glad to see that during the first French debate he tried to lie about removing restrictions on assault style weapons.
Only to have Justin Trudeau make him look like a filthy liar, and an absolute idiot.
I was planning to write a post about some of the ridiculous polls this campaign has seen so far, or wait to find out what was in the Liberal platform.
But I just couldn't.
Because the only story worth writing about is the way the toxic Trudeau haters are targeting and threatening to kill Justin Trudeau.
For there he was in Sudbury yesterday, and so were the crazies.
Justin Trudeau has lived in the shadow of death for a long time. No Prime Minister has received so many violent threats.
During the last election campaign he was forced to wear a bullet proof jacket under his shirt at a rally in Ontario. Last summer a heavily armed reservist tried to attack him at his Rideau Hall home.
And nobody is smeared by his political opponents as much as he is, day in day out.
But this is the limit.
