Wednesday, September 23, 2015

A Match Made in Ottawa

Young boy                                                                                
The press misspelled your name 
Then the daggers emerged  
And the guilty assigned blame 
Our leaders dismissed our total and utter shame, 
Canada was once a sanctuary 
With prestige and acclaim 

Seeing young Alan Kurdi on the beach, lain! 
When it's our laser guided missiles 
That are trained 
On targets using CF-18
Jet fighter planes;
It's our bombs showering down   
Like torrential rains, 
Adding to Syria's collective pains;
An ill thought out mission by Conservative brains!                    
A McDonnell Douglas/Boeing 

Many sought the refuge 
That many were denied 
It wasn't by choice 
How little Alan died
For a 3 year old boy, 
For once, 
The whole world cried;
As our leaders tightly clutched,
Their lonely, false pride;                                                                                     
Now the truth cannot be decried,
No camera angle can hide 
Our adult, human eye spied

Only a dead toddler  
Can inspire press fodder!
A dead mother or a brother 
Gets a "why bother"
The press snatch the story 
Then abscond like a robber 
Beat us with it, daily 
On our heads with a clobber 
Their glazed over eyes,
And chins covered in slobber!

Mention housing refugees
Like someone with cat allergies, 
Is bound to break a sneeze 
From the spotlight Harper flees
Like someone cut the cheese
Then he puts on the squeeze 
On those with the loudest pleas!

Mister Harper, please!
You treat people like a disease 
You want the downtrodden 
On their knees 
What the heck's with these, 
Undemocratic, policies?

Immigration Minister 
Mister Christopher Alexander 
Your phallic must be                                                                                                   
A limp salamander;
Your talking points suddenly lost all their candour 
A big thanks to you 
Conservatives look blander
On Mansbridge prime time 
Our PM declined
As a way to save his behind
To allow victims of war crime,
Those fleeing Syria to find 
A home to lay their head 
But really what he said, 
Was he'd much rather instead 
Turn ISIS blood red 

Form a Military Corps
Support protracted war                                                                              
Trudeau takes aim at
government's citizenship
rules during Islamic conference
While you do your best to ignore 
Dead babies washed ashore

Harper wants boots on the ground 
Now how does that sound?                                                      
Was endless revenue found?
It's not so profound
Yet continues to astound

The tired old fight 
For elusive world peace
Taxpayers, still getting fleeced;
Politics in the West                                                              
Hasn't changed in the least 
Promotion of war, refuses to cease

Does Canada want a government, 
Always hitting a foul ball?
Are we Duffy's "kids in short pants down the hall"?
For some, Stephen Harper's words seemed to enthral
For others it didn't mean a damn thing at all!

Stephen Harper explains
 'old-stock Canadians' comment
Harper said of Canadians in the last leaders debate 
There's three stratified categories he could relate; 
Currently in Canada that we know of to date;
I'll make my point soon, 
So just patiently wait!
I think we already know 
Who he considers second rate

Hmm...OK...let's see
In what category could you possibly be?                                                 
So here are the three:
"New, and Existing and Oldstock Canadian"
Which are you?                                                                                                         
Old stock Scot, French, Irish or Brit                                                              
Which Right-wing Strategist
Inspired Harper's 'Old Stock'?
Cracking the coded message
 within Tory leader's
debate comment.
Come on now get with it, 
Maybe you're New-
Syrian, Tamil or Russian Jew 
Or Existing-Black, Polish and Asian too
If you were excluded what can you do?
Our government's not sure where you fit
It would seem in fair old Canada 
There's an ethnicity split!

In any case 
The fact remains 
Canada's Prime Minister 
Is pulling the reins 
Towards total control over our lives 
It'll be Conservative austerity 
If our future survives
We could all get a Greek case                                                                      
Universal drug plan?
Docs say it would save
money, help Canadians

Of the economic hives 
When deeper global recession arrives
When Harper's failed marriage with big oil collides
It'll be like making divorce payments 
To two of his wives!

Canadian society has some really big issues!
Mental health needs more funding 
Not a bloody box of tissues!
Transit in Canada got stuffed in a drawer 
The TTC and Miway are a huge dinosaur                                    
Why are there ballooning police budgets, 
With dropping crime rates?
In a numbers game just nudge it              
Conservatives must fudge it 
Gain our trust, we take the bait                                                   
Canada is officially the fifty first state!

Canada keeps building more super jails
An unproven model that miserably fails!
Conservative policies and spending 
Only ousting them curtails;                                                
This runaway government train
Has gone off the rails!

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Our Lives are Insignificant Obstacles to Power


Who's ever in power,                                                          
Paul Martin says
Stephen Harper
is the ‘king of deficits’
Must take the full blame;
Ridicule should find them
Like a moth to a flame:
Today's leadership,
Turned our lives into a game
Parliament play politics,
We get more of the same!

Who do politicians think they're fooling?
"I know you lie,
Cause your lips are moving"
Few are approving, of what you say?
Actions speak louder anyway!                                                                      
Politicians are good liars
'because they convince
 themselves they are
 telling the truth',
 study reveals


Ah yes the diabolical plan;
Is the disaffected voter,
You're a gift to the man
Worse than a floater
One hundred mill' to Japan
Means more cars for Toyota
Or jobs fly south of Dakota

The cost of living is soaring;
With Conservatives ignoring,
Canada's financial pain;
To them that topic is boring;
Has Ottawa gone soft in the brain?
Canada's Feds are snoring;
It's economic terrorism, all the same
Canada's press ain't underscoring
Why our PM's shirking the blame

Over balanced government budgets                                                                
DEBT: CANADA’S
BORROWING BINGE
In deep: The high risks of
Canada’s growing
addiction to debt
Canadians pout and fret
But we're mere hypocrites
For carrying high personal debt;
2008!
How soon we forget;
When Wall Street bankers,
Hedged their dastardly bet!

If housing prices be any indication
We're in a state of economic threat;
Then record profits
Need condemnation
But it's greater profits,
The chosen few get!
No job from no corporation
If you're green or behind your ears wet!

There's a convenient mechanism,                                                                        
The world this week:
Global economy
has a great fall
Government calls it free trade;
Done under the guise of fairness, open markets and aid
It tells workers to feel lucky,
That you even got paid
Corporate tactics are used
To make top wages fade;
Creating cheap foreign labour, and domestic wage slaves

Moving capital and jobs off of our shores
So manufacturing is drudgery,
For bumpkins and boars;
Like a kiddie allowance
For doing your chores
A cunning little measure used to persuade
Workers to feel fortunate
Instead of betrayed!

A condition better known as Conservative catachresis
Is like calling Intelligence
An outfit named CSIS                              
Because a "socialist" label
Is something that reaches
Conservatives need history lessons
But rather privacy breaches

Students were told
Get an education                                                                                
Get a good job
Pay down good debt
Network and hob knob
We got out of school
Student debt collection to
ramp up, according to
government documents
Documents suggest Harper
government more interested
 in image than dealing with
 student debt, says Bilan Arte
Remaining ever the fool
To find a degree,
No hidden jewel;
But we sure found,
The job environment cruel!

People are forced to forego
Government won't pony up dough!
For vital medication,
Even though,
Uniform coverage
Would cost Canada less to bestow;
On the masses that have
A tough row to hoe
Oh but alas
The press gave Conservatives a pass
They failed to make unaffordable medication,                                                            
Hamilton supports national pharmacare strategy
A voter preoccupation!

Insufficient Fed dollars granted
Conservatives all but abandoned
Big cities transit!
Toronto's half measures
On no front pages splashed
The press let 'em get away
With doing things half-assed!
Why does TTC momentum,
Always run out of gas?
They only halfway adopted
The Presto pass!                                                                                          
Toronto needs transit funding,
 not more talk, from
 Ottawa this federal election

Why is Canada's largest city,
Content in being superficially pretty?
For foreign investment silly!
Isn't it a pity!

People sit for too long in traffic
Rush hour scenes are way too graphic
Canada's payed it lip service for years!
After the vaunted HOV lane, nobody cares
Few people moved by cars is a crying shame
Supporting failed industry is our crying game
While fuel prices fuel our overall pain

Autos are a failed industry                                                                              
A constant public purse drain
Why is corporate welfare,                                                                              
High on the government food chain?
Canadian courts still want jail,
Canadian taxpayers lose
 $3.5-billion on 2009
 bailout of auto firms
For Mary Jane!

Harper and the press
Fear monger about ISIS
While our economic stress
Is Canada's real terror crisis!

Under employment
Is a huge source of annoyment
No available, affordable housing
Another terror that's been arousing

The only real way to kill our jobs                                                                  
IS TOM MULCAIR HIDING
 IN THE WEEDS ON POT?


Is to vote back in power the same old slobs
Oh heck let's legitimize the wack attack ad!
Who can boast,
The Conservative track record really ain't bad?

Huh? So what if you do?
Look at me when I'm talking to you!
Whatever you're sniffing
Smells like glue!
And don't say you're sniffling, from the flu
Wait till Harper's done runnin' us through!

"Government deficits, by definition, create private sector wealth,
While surpluses drain it"
Why You Should Love Government Deficits
Said John T. Harvey of our fiscal health
Conservatives think only of power for them-self
Wealth is no good by itself
Working poor are filed away,
On government's shelf
The weak dollar makes Canada wimpy like an elf

The only job growth,
We've had in nine years,
Is part time, and precarious
Does that allay your fears?

Do we want a federal government that hordes all the cash?
Isn't that tantamount to a dine and dash?
Running out before paying the bill
Big business tax cuts,
Is a wealthy hand in the till!
When do Canadian's get their tax break fill?                              
Bruce Campbell, executive director
 of the Canadian Centre for
 Policy Alternatives,
says the national think-tank
is "advancing a platform as
 an actionable blueprint
for moving forward.”
Income splitting for most is zero or nil

Truth be known
Conservatives had their chance
Now that it's been blown
Their anti social policies
Is like doing a dance
Another term will only clone
Their lackadaisical stance;
While Canadians are left to suffer alone
In the economic danger zone!

After 10 years of Conservative groan
There's nothing new for Canada to be shown
How Canada’s oilsands are
 paving the way for
driverless trucks —
and the threat of big layoffs
Any other party could run the country
But current food prices,
May see us go hungry!                                                                                            
Canada's a pariah,
On the environmental world stage
Dirty oil keeps us in a carbon cage
All our economic eggs
Stuck in the industrial age,
In a filthy oil sands basket;
A climate disaster away,
From a closed casket!
                                                                                             
Cost of living climbing,
StatsCan says
Food prices offset
break at fuel pump








Sunday, June 7, 2015

Monitor the Monitors


Take the dubious case of Hydro1
Number one with a bullet                                                              
The confrontation between City News
 reporter Shauna Hunt and fans
 at Sunday’s Toronto FC game featured
 several bystanders mimicking a
viral trend seen across North America,
 in which on-air reporters are
 harassed with the phrase,
“F--- her right in the p----.”
And a smoking gun
Let's state your case
You be the one
If the press is the place
Freedom's on the run!

Shawn Simoes
Beat up in the press
Hydro One knows
It's an ugly game of chess

But who'll monitor Hydro One?
Certainly not the Ombudsman;
With him, they're just having fun;
How many Liberal messes, must we shun?
                                                                                                             
Andre Marin says his office was
flooded with 10,700 complaints
from Hydro One ratepayers about
over-billing or estimated bills.
(CP File)
Swear your oath of loyalty,
On the capitalist bible.
Off duty employee,
Recently gone viral;
Like the Senate appointee,
Flushed down the "pishadoo" spiral;
Surely, not us,
No, we're not in denial!

Top level men, willfully obstruct,
Laws that regulate them; they purposely destruct.
Along with codes of conduct, ethics and trust;
Nigel Wright, fills many with disgust!

The press hide him,                                                                                    
Why Mike Duffy is facing charges,
 and Nigel Wright isn't
Jonathon Gatehouse explains how
 it might be a criminal act
to take that 90,000 cheque-
but not to write it Jonathon Gatehouse
July 17 2014
Like a Russian defector;                                                        
Now a corporate god,
Who drinks of the nectar.
That's why Hydro One,
Set off our bullshit detector!
Not your usual thievery,
Of the average bill collector!

The high and the mighty
Say minorities blame whitey
Their immense love of money,
Rivals, that of Aphrodite!
It's not their survival,
Our matters taken lightly,
‘We are at risk of turning into
a surveillance society’:
Alok Mukherjee
Their ethics need revival,
Officials come off flighty!

Monitor the monitors,
Of social conformity                                                                
Keep you in line
Like corporate uniformity;
A social experiment
Not the first of its kind;
Only works well,
On the double blind!

Concerned Citizens to End Carding
 demand end to controversial
 policing tactic'
The message has been received,'
 said Mayor John Tory in response
Wait for it;
The unethical part,                                                                  
His livelihood;
Publicly torn apart.
Hydro One eviscerated,
Shawn Simoes's heart;
It beat in their hand,
Like a ghastly work of art!

Oh don't go yet,
It gets even better!
Did your mouth water,                                                                
And make you get wetter?
Ontario Tories ask police to investigate
 allegations Hydro One misled government
The Progressive Conservatives asked
the OPP for a probe after the
ombudsman complained he
was lied to by Hydro One officials.
Meet the CEO
A lean, mean, go getter
That's Mr. Carmine Marcello to you
He'll make Ontarians a debtor!

One Hundred Thousand billing errors!
This is prior to Hydro One's private terrors;
Liberals at the helm of bad news bearers
Ontario Hydro rates, sure ain't getting fairer!

NDP say privatization,
Means an increased Hydro rate;
Liberals act like it's their realization,
Ontarians can handle the weight!
Yet the Ombudsman still got, thousands of complaints
Hydro One's more like Satan, than a modern day saint!

Who is Hydro One to judge,                                                                    
Toronto Mayor
John Tory calls for end to
 cardingCalls controversial
 police practice 'illegitimate,
disrespectful and hurtful'
CBC News Posted: Jun 07,
 2015 2:19 PM
ET Last Updated: Jun 07,
2015 6:35 PM ET
Employee behaviour as of late?
When Hydro One tried to fudge
Paying out customer rebates;                                                                        
It took bad publicity to nudge
Them, into fixing erroneous rates;
Now consumers hold a grudge
Over threats to their power cut fate!

Andre Marin likened it to; "Wrestling with a slippery pig".
Block out this painful reality,
Have yourself a healthy swig,
Spare us your childish mentality
If payoff beer is what you dig
Stop pretending it's only formality
And this issue, really ain't big!

Ontario opens sales of beer to grocery stores
A Provincial Liberal led monopoly,
A Hydro One oligopoly;
They're selling it off so sloppily,
Even Provincial Conservatives,
Could have done it more properly!

Old, blackouts, keep on rollin' ♫♪♫♫♪
Mississauga moon won't you keep on shinin' on me...  ♫♪♫♫♪
Is a Canadian take on a Doobie Brothers' hit
Mixed in with a bit of "Weird Al" wit
Wait till the lights go out,
You won't see shit!
Freeze in the dark!
Or pay for it!

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

War on the Poor: The Legacy of Chief Bill Blair, the Press and Canadian Apartheid

Now that it's out in the open
Blair in the press
His future plans spoken;
Like he's a success
A legacy broken
He will egress,
A Liberal token,
Another political chief,
Good grief!
Are Canadians willing to settle for less?

Will we ever tire of the politician cop?
You say Blair will be different!                                                      
Come, come, now, stop!
Once a police - never can you swap
Always a police - it's a one stop shop!                                                                  
Justin Trudeau, Bill Blair
 defend record over
 handling of G20 protest


Blair's predecessor Julian Fantino
Threw temper tantrums,
Like a hungry bambino;
Julian Fantino, a controversial cop
Another Conservative, who's been a big flop
Fantino's behaviour, no stroll in the park
He roughed up our vets
Like on his beat after dark.
Back when he was a brass to the narcs
When Toronto police were circling like sharks
Illegal wiretapping and robbing drug dealers
With Julian Fantino pulling the levers
Ombudsman Andre Marin slams SIU
 over pro-police bias in Michael Eligon
caseThree investigators are disciplined
 for wearing police insignia and
offering premature conclusions
 to a TV crew.

By: Curtis Rush Police Reporter,
 Published on Fri Apr 27 2012

Convenient heads stuck in the sand
The political flames, Bill Blair fanned
Police corruption during G20
Civil rights violations reported aplenty
After women were violated by Toronto's Finest
Ontario Liberals, showered Blair with kindness
Do we have to ask how Bill Blair will lead?
His minions made Adam Nobody bleed!


No charges laid in Rob Ford's scandal                                
Blair's flat feet
Couldn't fit Ford's sandal!
A whitewash, where Blair
Could never hold a candle
Like the Toronto Police Services Board
Can never seem to get a handle;
Similar to Ontario's justice vandals
OIPRD and the SIU,
Two expendable cover up panels
Man wins lawsuit against
Toronto police board after
'carding' incident

Bill Blair's legacy gave Toronto carding                                         
It's not white people cops are bombarding 
Nor minority safety, that cops are guarding
It's the role of the villain
Where the press have Blacks starring

Bill Blair's legacy is colonialism
Every Western nation
Is plagued by this schism
Apartheid ideology, has once again risen
Located in the penal system
Of the North American prison;
Economically, socially and psychologically driven                            
Known to police:
Toronto police stop
and document black
and brown people
 far more than whites
     

The White Man's Burden
Like the Battle of Verdun                                                                
Is a doctrine for certain
To pull the wool over your eyes, like a blackout curtain!

Toronto's carding of visible minorities                                     
Reeks to high heaven of colonial priorities
It fails to seriously address, root cause
By imposing a set, of fake, draconian laws

What came first the chicken or the egg?
In this case the chicken, break us off a leg
Cowardly carding of the law abiding
Came before the truth
The pusillanimous press is hiding
Amid police justifications coinciding
And a lily-livered leadership that isn't even chiding

You either believe in people or you don't
Does Toronto want to elevate people, or is it that they won't?
Toronto's carding regime hysteria
Flies in the face of
Neighbourhood Improvement Area

Pathetic officials say what needs doing                                                              
Julian Fantino


To pacify interests they're persistently wooing!
Then suddenly the momentum just stops
And from the news cycle
The story just drops!

It's the city of Toronto
A class action, should start suing
If you're no immediate suspect 
The police are pursuing;
Carding is the controversy Toronto's got brewing
We must fight for our rights,
Before another police shooting!












Sunday, April 19, 2015

La Nostra Cosa Grasso



Mike Duffy trial: Key players and likely witnesses
From left to right
starting at the top:
 Irving Gerstein,
Donald Bayne,
Nigel Wright,
Ray Novak,
Carolyn Stewart Olsen,
 Marjory LeBreton,
David Tkachuk,
Benjamin Perrin.
The PMO said "we're good to go"                    
G2G, on a need to know                
Keep family business on the low
Keep up appearances, just for show

And-away-we-go politico
Conservatives love to hit below-
The belt even though, the PMO
Had deniability;
Now that there's nowhere for them to go;
Maybe they'll claim senility.

We do, after all,
Have an aging population,
Who Conservatives attempt to woo,
With insincere adulation.

The 90G question, come to call
Did "the kids in short pants down the hall"
Allow a political heavy weight to take the fall?                                  
The path to Mike Duffy's day in court
Mr. Wright's actions, got little appall
Mr. Fixit man's still walking tall!

13th Chief of Staff,
Public sector, sociopath.
Unafraid to get his hands bloody,
Shielding his boss, got his knees muddy
Wright's tax write off, of private money
In hindsight is kinda funny.

Had him a soft landing at Onex Corporation
A public post for a private host,
Was an error in delegation,
Government needs less lawyers                                                            
And more human adoration
We get the government we deserve
One shot at a healthy nation.
Suspended Senator
 Mike Duffy is sketched
sitting in court during
 his fraud and bribery trial.
 (Greg Banning)

Is the suspended senator from PEI
Really a stand-up Ottawa guy?
Everybody deserves a fair trial
But how long will voters remain in denial?

If the Senate iceberg tip was Mike Duffy
This sonofabitch is gonna be puffy
Why only Duffy took the fall,
When senate malfeasance was wall to wall and
Liberals and Conservatives have the gall
To pretend this kangaroo court isn't meant to enthrall?

Nobody thinks the Ol' Duff will see a day in jail
30 slaps on the wrist
Plus 1 kick in the tail
Conservative asses are there for voters to nail                                                      
Camembert is named for
 the Normandy village
 where it was first made.
When it comes to justice, the ol' courts continuously fail

No senate reform is the real issue here
Conservative promises just disappear
Conservative legislators made Canada worse!
On Canada the Conservative Party's a curse!

Senator Nancy Ruth, didn't care
For free broken crackers and cold Camembert
Someone give Rosedale Nancy
Something else free she won't fancy,
Like a bucket of Main Street chicken
And a can of warm beer!
Because a Conservative feminist strikes many as queer!
No public inquiry, is still cavalier

Canada used to be a country that was fair
How will we pay for pensions and healthcare?
Sgt. Greg Horton of the RCMP
 arrives at the Ottawa courthouse
 for day 8 of the Mike Duffy trial.
Horton was lead investigator
 on the Duffy case. (CBC)
Universal pharmacare is part of it too
When Canadians can't pay,
They're told to make do.

Bad legislation, is a burden on the system
There is no such thing as political wisdom
How will we help families dealing with dementia,
When our leadership is done mostly in absentia?

Who will create jobs for our youth
When Feds are busy politicking
And economically uncouth?

What about issues facing our environment?
It's time to put these Feds into early retirement!
Canadian voters have much to consider
Lest Canada be bankrolled by the highest foreign bidder!                            
Feb. 11, 2013Duffy sends email
to prime minister's chief of staff
Nigel Wright apparently containing
advice from his lawer. It outlines certain
scenarios for repayment of the expenses
 and the "assurances" he would require.