October 20, 2015

Thanks!

It’s been five months since Humans vs Harper took to social media to express our frustration and concern about the direction Harper was taking our country.

Since then, we posted over 100 articles and saw over 45,000 hits and 25,000 visitors to our blog. But we were just a small part of an unprecedented wave of anti-Harper sentiment on-line. Songs, Facebook pages, blogs, twitter handles, videos, photo posters, signs, stickers, and endless conversations among Canadians, all of which had the common goal of getting rid of Stephen Harper. Facebook pages with names like Heave Steve, Shit Harper Did, Stop Harper, Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper, and Women Against Stephen Harper illustrate the depth of anger and frustration.

This on-line movement fed on itself, expanded and exploded. As the reception grew, it’s momentum supported a fierce desire for change, for a new government. And that’s what we got. Even if we might have preferred a different result we celebrate the fact that through raising our voices we defeated a vile government.

Thanks to everyone who read our blog, who commented, who liked us, who signed up, who shared, who retweeted and favourited us. You kept us going all these months and you defeated Harper. In the coming months, we’ll all see what we can make of this new beginning.

VOTE! You Know You Want To

It’s Election Day. This post is going live at midnight in Newfoundland, so if it is still October 18 where you are reading it, go to bed. You have work to do in the morning.
We have two videos for you, one serious and one funny. That’s how divided we are after this endless campaign. We hope we come out laughing, but only after the serious work of voting is done.
Here’s the first one. Under 90 seconds, a couple of hundred words, and great graphics.

And here’s one last song to sing on your way to the polls, by Paul Kolinski.

When you go to vote, be sure to take some ID with photo and address (e.g., driver’s licence) OR two pieces of ID, one with photo, one with address. Remember: You don’t have to be registered to vote. More information here and here.
So go vote. Vote as if your future depends on it. Believe us  ̵  it does.

Stealin’ All My Dreams

Blue Rodeo slams Stephen Harper.

The last few months we’ve seen an amazing collection of pointed and sometimes hilarious tunes from boundary-breaking music makers who know it’s way past time to break up with the tone deaf Harper government. Be sure to check out our other great anti-Harper songs.

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Babies: Voting with Their Hearts and Minds on October 19

Let’s just state the obvious: Only Stephen Harper would try to suppress the baby vote.

As we might imagine, the babies and puppies were easy to influence, so they – and we – owe a big debt of gratitude to the kittens. One rallied the troops by looking at Harper with a dead-eyed who-the-hell-do-you-think-you are stare. That’s all it took.

This is a crew of highly enthusiastic voters, especially once their needs are met.

With a dry diaper and a warm bottle, baby voters will go anywhere. The puppies always want to do it all, but they can leash that loveable tendency for the time it takes to mark their ballot.

While the concept of a leader is unimaginable to the kitten voter, she does have curiosity on her side and can be counted on to get the whole picture before she graces the polling booth with her presence. Noting that resentment does fuel the kitten vote; kittens and cats still feel bitter that Harper used them as a humanizing prop.

The top issues for these avid first time voters start with – no kidding – protection of the environment. Beyond that, their collective list of demands include onesies for all, free bite-sized jerky, subsidized pet dental care, and a national strategy to infuse everything with catnip.

Meanwhile, these voters have all pledged to vote against Harper. So, when you run into them at your polling station, make sure to give them a celebratory thumbs up!

Humans vs Harper Final Slide Show – Focus: Bye Bye Harper

As the election draws ever closer, Humans vs Harper will soon begin packing up our blog, so it’s a great time to bring you our final HvH slide show. While we still have a few more posts coming, here’s a trip down HvH  Memory Lane showing many of the images that accompanied our posts. Since every picture says – at least – a thousand words, the slides  will bring you thousands of reminders of why so many Canadians so immediately understood that we must stop Harper once and for all.

Harper’s Gone – It Was the Beer

In our fantasy world, Harper has been fired from his job as prime minister because he is, well, incompetent. Read the secret letter that exposed his considerable failings.

A report prepared by his evaluation committee brought to light Harper’s involvement in a scheme to save his skin. Hubris, duplicity, revenge, and sex all make their appearance in The Tailings Pond Beer Saga. Read the story no one is talking about on the campaign trail.

Harper: Show Us the Deal!

What are you afraid of Mr Harper?

•  Afraid we’ll find out about your record of trade deficits?
• Afraid we’ll ask you to show us the so-far-unseen benefits of the other 39 agreements you have signed?
• Afraid we’ll clue in to the vast privileges being awarded the corporate world?
• Afraid we’ll find out that corporations can sue governments for interfering with their profits, when, for example, we increase the minimum wage or legislate environmental protections?
• Afraid we’ll be reminded that under NAFTA Canada has already paid out over $200 million in so-called fines to corporations?
•  Afraid we’ll find out you’ve given away 20,000 well-paid jobs in the auto parts sector?
•  Afraid we’ll find out that we have to give up subsidies for our cultural products?
•  Afraid you won’t get re-elected?

Don’t worry. You won’t be re-elected so you might as well show us the deal.

Do something for us before you go.

Canada Spirit–A Super Hero for Our Time

O Prime Minister Steven

Mike McKenna Jr writes a letter in song to Prime Minister Harper. Nothing escapes his attention: Harper’s mistreatment of aboriginal people and veterans, his hatred of science, his destruction of the environment, his cynical dismantling of our democracy, all these and more in a powerful song and a haunting voice.

Mike McKenna is from Cape Breton. You can find more of his songs here.

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Collector’s Edition: Confessions of a Stephen Harper Troll

The sad truth is that federal election campaign demands overcame us here at Humans vs. Harper and we never found the time to check in with the Troll. We were able to verify that the Troll and SpinDog, fractious, but ever-loyal companions, did get out of remand. And, the other day someone messaged us to say they spotted the Troll hammering in pro-Nipper signs on an especially lovely front yard in an upscale Edmonton neighborhood. They didn’t think to take a photo, so that sighting sits in our Unconfirmed Rumors file. We have no update on SpinDog and we would never want to speculate on his doings. So this collected version of Troll stories marks our farewell to these boon companions, a pair of characters we will always hold dear.
Click here for your copy of the complete Confessions of a Stephen Harper Troll. 

Hey Con Party – Don’t Stop on Your Way Out

Here we decided to echo all the  wonderful STOP Harper messaging that has criss crossed the country for years by naming all the top rank Tory candidates we all want to STOP  – the elite of what we now call the Con Party.  We know them collectively as We Who Obey and individually as MPs and cabinet ministers who never did and never intended to do a good job for all the Canadians they were sworn to serve. And, since honesty is always the best policy, we’re gladly confessing that we want to STOP every single Conservative who is running for federal office from sea to sea to sea. That sure would be one hell of a shining moment!

I Used to Vote Conservative

Humans vs Harper has noticed that a new kind of Twelve-Step program has sprung up all over the land. Harper-No-More offers support groups for people who used to vote Conservative, but now deeply understand they’ve hit bottom and need to change their ways.

While Canadians of all ages are joining the Harper-No-More groups, there were a lot of white hairs at the meeting we attended. Over 50s who have voted Conservative for 30 or more years have an especially hard time kicking the habit.

Behind The TPP Curtain: Harper’s Secret Free Trade Deal

Here at Humans vs. Harper, we have not read the text of the secret Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. We’re willing to bet that you have not seen the highly complicated thousand-page-plus text either.

Obviously, the 12 governments negotiating the deal have the text. And, it’s highly likely that the dozens and dozens of corporate lobbyists working to make sure the deal immensely strengthens corporate power internationally have also seen the text. It’s worth noting that the full text of the 1988 Canada – U.S. free trade agreement – our first ever free trade agreement – was publically available for months before the deal was finalized.

Meanwhile, the TPP may well be the greatest corporate gravy train ever, but, once underway,

Duffy Lives: Reviving Harper’s Most Painful Memory

Oddly, we often have short memories when it comes to the Harper government’s scandals. Of course, a 77-day election campaign is its own distraction.

No doubt, Harper’s Conservatives are grateful that the NDP and the Liberals are out promoting their candidates and campaign policies on their endless search for voter support. They haven’t forgotten the Duffy scandal; they just don’t have a minute to think about it.

However, election time is always a good time to remember. So, Humans vs Harper will take a moment to remind you of the worst federal government scandal in Canadian history, one your sitting Prime Minister apparently knew absolutely nothing about for a very long time.

New Crimes Added to Bill C-24

In June of this year, the Harper government passed a law that allows the government to revoke Canadian citizenship from dual citizens who are convicted of terrorism, high treason, or other serious offences. Harper said recently he would add other crimes to the list.

We at HvH think that Harper overlooked some equally serious crimes that should be included in Bill C-24. Furthermore, we feel these crimes are so serious they should apply to all Canadians, not just dual citizens.

Finally, revoking someone’s citizenship is no job for a minister. We think an objective outsider should decide, someone like President Putin.

Singin’ the Harper Blues: 13 Songs

An amazing number of Canadians have pulled out the stops to produce witty and pointed songs decrying Harper and his minions. We’ve been publishing them regularly and decided in the last gasp of the election campaign to gang 13 of them together in this play list. Enjoy!

Harper Hates You

KDilla’s thing is “whitewater with a side of hip-hop” but here’s their thing about Harper.

“If you read the news–Harper hates you.

Pay union dues?–Harper hates you.

If you don’t bleed blue–Harper hates you.”

“If you’re old and grey–Harper hates you.

If you’re openly gay–Harper hates you.

Make minimum wage–Harper hates you.”

“If you speak your mind–Harper hates you.

Don’t toe the line?–Harper hates you.

If you’re not his kind–Harper hates you.”

“Whether you grow crops, or maybe don’t vote lots, or if you’re not old stock–Harper hates you.”

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Job Hunting Harper Needs Reboot on People Skills

While some voters still worry that the Conservatives might win the election, Stephen Harper is already firing up his job hunt. Yes, our soon-to-be ex-prime minister is just one of the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who will hit the unemployment lines in October.

Knowing his day of reckoning is coming,  he’s decided he must  get moving on manufacturing a new and even more prestigious career. Turning to the Internet, he searches under careers and finds dozens of options, most of which promise career joy. Since he’s always been a joy doubter, he ignores those. Then he lights on what looks like a no-nonsense site: Career Counselling for Economists and Statisticians (CCES). He calls the 1-800 number.

He waits though the endless directory options, another new experience for him. Finally, he presses zero and a human comes on the line, with a cheerful hello.

Where’s Harpo?

Conservative Candidates don’t show up for all-candidates meetings in ridings all across the country. Someone orders them not to attend. Do the orders come from Harper himself, or is someone else pulling the strings?

Not showing up, however, is a prime ministerial tradition that Mr. Harper started all by himself. Here are some of the places we would expect leadership from the prime minister, but Harper just didn’t show up.

Bye-Bye Mr. Harper, Good-bye

“Bye-bye, Mr. Harper, Good-bye, with your psychopathic ways and your evil eye.”

It’s Helen Austin singing recently on Vancouver Island. Another Canadian singer-songwriter tells some plain truths wrapped up in a familiar tune. Sing it loud!

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Thanks to our friend Marilyn for sending us the link to Helen’s song.

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The Tailings Pond Beer Saga in 5 Episodes

In case you missed the saga, here are all five episodes: The Tailings Pond Beer Saga

Head Butting Harper Desperate for a Buzzer Beater Win

A politician, a political marketer and an aging former hockey great walk into a television studio – let’s call them Curly, Moe, and Larry. As they’re settling in, Moe says that Buster will be coming a bit later.

Just 30 Seconds

Zunera Ishaq

Federal Courts have confirmed a woman’s Charter Right to wear a veil during her citizenship ceremony. The Harper government thinks that Zunera Ishaq should voluntarily sacrifice that right by removing her veil for the ceremony. But only for 30 seconds – just 30 seconds – that’s how long they say her sacrifice will take.

Since Harper thinks that sacrificing one’s rights is so easy and so quick, perhaps he’d like to make a few sacrifices for his fellow Canadians. Humans vs Harper has drawn up a list for him. They’ll only take 30 seconds each. We don’t care if he covers his face. (Actually, we’d prefer it.)

What’s Up Canada?

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Everybody Knows

Not such an upbeat song as we usually feature on Humans vs Harper. It’s Leonard Cohen singing, so what do you expect? New video by James Stewart.

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Everybody knows “the poor stay poor, the rich get rich.”

Everybody knows what’s in the secret report on women.

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Harper’s Secret Women’s Report Has No Secrets:

“Hello Friends, my name is Secret Women’s Report, but you can call me SR for short.

“Right now I’m sitting in the Humans vs. Harper green room waiting for an interview. Usually, I’m at the Ottawa office called Status of Women Canada. It is always really nice and quiet, the very best environment for secret reports. However, it is nice to get out to an open environment from time to time. My Mama always said being an SR didn’t mean we couldn’t explore.

“You probably don’t know my Mama was a celebrated SR when life for SRs was really hard. Back then governments were so deeply ashamed of SRs that no SR ever saw the light of day. The best SRs came in humble never feeling proud of who they were, let alone of what they did for Canada.

Harper’s Surplus

Who Wants to Be Prime Minister?

Mr. Harper: Are you Having a Really Hard Time?

At Humans vs. Harper we believe  that when a political party’s internal campaign problems start leaking out to the public, that party is having a really hard time. No one likes having a really hard time during an election campaign.

One reason it’s especially hard is that everyone inside the campaign gets really mad at the party people who are harming the campaign with their revealing talk to the media. Then the talkers get mad at the campaign insiders because they won’t face up to the fact that the campaign could be going off the rails.

I’ll Dance on Stephen Harper’s Grave

John Muller’s going to build a sailboat, and name it “Stephen Harper’s Grave.”

And who wouldn’t want to join him for a drink and a dance on the deck?

Here’s another in our series of songs by Canadians who are tired of Tired Old Steve and ready for a change.

If you or your group have a performance you’d like us to feature, let us know via the “Contact Us” button at the top of the page.

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Boutique Tax Cuts for the Overprivileged

In this endless election campaign at Canadians’ expense, Harper’s daily announcements of boutique tax cuts to appeal to his base made us wonder about the boutique items he might not be telling us about: Perhaps some under-the-table cuts that could help out some of his more compromised friends?

Here are a few deductions we’ve heard whispers about:

• Conservative MP Dean Del Maestro and Senators Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, and Patrick Brazeau, have spent thousands on legal fees to defend themselves against fraud charges. They have also served the Conservative Party well, raising millions for the party’s coffers. What better way to reward them than by permitting them to deduct their legal fees? Under the table, of course.

Update: Eleven Things Stephen Harper Does Not Ever Do

Humans vs Harper is updating our Ten Things post to add an 11th point on women along with a bonus video (see below) on Harper’s record on women’s issues. Everybody gets that, right?

In our first Ten Things post, we wrote:  Here it is September and we’re moving into the last six weeks of the election campaign. Well, now it’s October and there are  just four days left.  And, as he worked his way through September, Harper kept on doing the kind of things that have always appalled so many Canadians. In less then a month, Harper

Sought to deport a convicted terrorist by misusing that person’s dual citizenship as a rationale for the deportation thereby introducing the notion of “two-tiered” citizenship to our country. Noting, that provision of Bill C- 24 is unlikely to survive a Charter challenge.

Sought to violate the Charter rights of a women seeking to vote while wearing a niqab. The courts twice ruled the government moves illegal. His campaign against the niqab sparked violence against Moslem women and  led many in the Moslem community to charge that Harper was targeting them to win votes. Many thought it racist.

Taken his greasy fear campaign to some B.C. and Ontario ridings warning those communities they will be overrun by drug addicts and dotted with brothels if another party is elected. Harper has no concern for Canadians who suffer from addiction, and, no surprise, we see that his rhetoric about protecting sex workers because they are victims is as thin as his conscience.

1. He does not fill us with wonder.
2. He does not respect the value of First Nations cultures, heritages and languages and the justice of their land and self-government rights.
3. He does not forge genuine relationships between Aboriginal peoples and other Canadians to fight against the attitudes that inspired the Indian residential school system and perpetuated its racist norms.
4. He does not act as if all communities, families and individuals deserve an equal opportunity to be strong and secure.
5. He does not govern as if he has a duty of care and compassion to people who seek refuge from persecution and violence.
6. He does not warn us that global warming is a critical and urgent problem now verging on a catastrophe for the planet.
7. He does not support women’s equality.  In November 2006: Harper removed the words “equality,” “advocacy,” and “action” from the mandate of Status of Women Canada, the most important government department on women’s equality.
8. He does not understand the necessity or value of truth telling and ethical conduct.
9. He does not value nuance, respect for others, collaboration and cooperation.
10. He does not foster free speech, open parliamentary and public debate or equal citizen access to justice and information.
11. He does not make us proud of our country’s policies and actions or of our government’s commitment to public accountability.

Stephen Harper Hates Me Too

One song just didn’t have enough verses for Cathy Cook, so here she is, back with more of her anti-Harper blues.

And maybe Stephen Harper hates you too?  

Cathy’s original version of this song Stephen Harper Hates Me was the first in our popular series of pointed and often hilarious tunes from boundary-breaking music makers who know it’s way past time to break up with the tone deaf Harper government.

If you or your group has a performance you’d like us to feature, let us know via the “contact us” link at the top of the page.

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I Knew Him Well, Horatio….

Today we are visiting someone who knew Stephen Harper as a callow youth—his old English teacher.

Mr. Falstaff, like most Shakespeare scholars teaching high school, has become philosophical. He remembers his former pupil well.

“I remember Stephen in his salad days when [he] was green in judgement—better at multiple choice questions, or fill-in-the blanks. Not so good at, and troubled by, the essay questions that asked him for nuance, balance. Actually, never good at

New Photos in the Harper Gallery of Vanity

Have you heard about the Conservative lobby room in the House of Commons? Elizabeth May saw it and here’s how she described it:

“Every available space has a photo of Stephen Harper – in different costumes, in different settings, dressed as a fireman, in Hudson Bay looking for polar bears, meeting the Dalai Lama, even the portrait of the Queen had to have Stephen Harper.”

Farewell Stephen Harper

It’s been a great week for witty, tuneful and truthful songs about Steve. (Seems to be a bumper year!) Humans vs Harper are happy to share the bounty.

Here’s Mike Palecek saying farewell to Harper. “We’re gonna have a party when you fall.”

Sing it on your way to the polls.

If you or your group have a performance you’d like to share, let us know by clicking on the “Contact Us” button above.

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Harperman, Second Verse

A few weeks ago we posted a link to “Harperman,” a song by well-known Ottawa folk singer, Tony Turner. It seems to have become the anthem of the movement to get rid of Harper and the Conservatives. Many of you liked the song, and shared it from our blog to Facebook and Twitter.

Well, Tony Turner is back in the news again.

Stephen Harper: The Speculation Mugger

“I don’t speculate, and I particularly don’t speculate on my own actions.”

So said Stephen Harper, playing coy with reporters at a media conference about when he would call an election.

Goodbye to Endangered Species

Humans vs Harper was surprised by another leak from the first draft of Harper’s post-election Speech from the Throne.

Page 704 of the draft, whose grandiose title is The Most Magnificent Harper Throne Speech Ever, reveals more of what Harper has up his sleeve if he wins the October election. Apparently, he intends to stay tucked under the covers with the mining and resource development sector, while continuing to bend the rules to benefit his corporate bosses.

Who Will Save Our Waters?

Tell me, who will save our waters?

Save them for our great granddaughters?

Save them for our great granddaughters’ sons?

Would it be Stephen Harper?? NOT!!

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Haida Raid 3: Save Our Waters is a puppet activist animation video produced by K’alts’idaa K’ah, song by Kinnie Starr, with animation by Haidawood (Gwaai Edenshaw, Jaalen Edenshaw, Ken Raj Leslie). It won Best Music Video at the 2014 ImagiNATIVE Film Festival.

If you or your group have a performance you’d like us to highlight, please use the Contact tab above to let us know about it.

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Steve and Arthur and Every Breath You Take – Ten Questions

Humans vs. Harper keeps learning more and more about Stephen Harper and his right wing evangelical gun-toting posse. We’ve recently learned that his official Conservative Party lawyer is a fellow evangelical by the name of Arthur Hamilton.

Arthur and Steve have been together since the founding of the Conservative Party in

Tailings Pond Beer Takes Harper Down

As we reported in last week’s episode, small towns across Canada were elated at the promise of Tailings Pond Beer refineries and bottling plants and the jobs that would come with the new factories. Harper himself was rubbing his hands in anticipation of a fifth election win. But to curb competition from other tailings pond owners and to keep the price down, Harper authorized Temporary Workers to be discretely introduced across the country in the Harper Beer Company factories.

No one noticed in the cities but, before long, the people in the towns noticed the TWs in their midst and rose up in anger at this blatant attempt to cheat them of employment. Soon recall petitions

Take Back This Land

Chilliwack and friends recorded and perform “Take Back This Land” as a non-partisan encouragement to participate in the 2015 federal election. It is intended to be shared freely and widely, so please enjoy and share.

We Humans vs Harper are thrilled with the many groups both famous and local who are putting out the “Stop Harper” message with such energy and passion.

More songs. 

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Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? Say Hello to Harper’s Cover-up Gang

L-R Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright and Stephen Harper

Humans vs. Harper introduces you to a very special group of people, all of whom played a starring role in the Duffy scandal. Best HvH can tell, these unelected people own the corridors of power in Ottawa. Political scientists and others call this governing from the centre and consider it problematic.  We call it owning the centre.

Confessions of a Stephen Harper Troll – Chapter 11

So, me and Spindog finally get out of our cells and get to go to the yard cept it’s not a yard anymore.

It’s a fresh air room – four fucking huge concrete walls with no roof. Guess what, they don’t give out umbrellas.

We’re hanging for maybe five minutes and this little guy comes over and starts yakkin at us.

Tailings Pond Beer Failure

HvH has received leaked information about Harper’s recent dismissal. Documentation supporting his firing has surfaced enumerating in great detail the lies, corruption, and deception that led up to that fatal day.

Election Junket

We zoom in on a conversation between Joseph and Mary, two investigators from the Organization for Security and Economic Co-operation (OSEC) in Europe.

Mary: Did you read the e-mail on our next assignment?

Joseph: Yeah. They’re sending us to Canada. What’s up with that?

Mary: You haven’t heard about what’s going on in Canada?

Joseph: No, haven’t heard. I’m looking forward to a little junket. Maybe a stop over in New York on the way, maybe a side trip to Montreal. I’m thinking the guys in admin finally noticed the good work I’ve been doing and decided to reward me by not sending me to the Ukraine. Either that or you slipped them a couple of bills –

Humans vs. Harper Exposes Post-election Tory Throne Speech

Breaking News: When an anonymously sourced attachment popped up in HvH’s Comment Box revealing that the Conservative Party is already busy drafting its first post-October election Throne Speech, we confess they surprised us again.

Titled The Most Magnificent Harper Throne Speech Ever, page 103 of a 1000 page document, reveals just one of the opening moves Harper would take if he wins the October election. Apparently, he intends to continue with his relentless attempt to extinguish democracy in Canada.

October 20, 2015

Thanks!

It’s been five months since Humans vs Harper took to social media to express our frustration and concern about the direction Harper was taking our country.

Since then, we posted over 100 articles and saw over 45,000 hits and 25,000 visitors to our blog. But we were just a small part of an unprecedented wave of anti-Harper sentiment on-line. Songs, Facebook pages, blogs, twitter handles, videos, photo posters, signs, stickers, and endless conversations among Canadians, all of which had the common goal of getting rid of Stephen Harper. Facebook pages with names like Heave Steve, Shit Harper Did, Stop Harper, Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper, and Women Against Stephen Harper illustrate the depth of anger and frustration.

This on-line movement fed on itself, expanded and exploded. As the reception grew, it’s momentum supported a fierce desire for change, for a new government. And that’s what we got. Even if we might have preferred a different result we celebrate the fact that through raising our voices we defeated a vile government.

Thanks to everyone who read our blog, who commented, who liked us, who signed up, who shared, who retweeted and favourited us. You kept us going all these months and you defeated Harper. In the coming months, we’ll all see what we can make of this new beginning.

Humans vs Harper Final Slide Show – Focus: Bye Bye Harper

As the election draws ever closer, Humans vs Harper will soon begin packing up our blog, so it’s a great time to bring you our final HvH slide show. While we still have a few more posts coming, here’s a trip down HvH  Memory Lane showing many of the images that accompanied our posts. Since every picture says – at least – a thousand words, the slides  will bring you thousands of reminders of why so many Canadians so immediately understood that we must stop Harper once and for all.

To activate the slide show, click on any image.

Below an excerpt from Sandy Cameron’s poem, We Need A New Map http://sandycameron.vcn.bc.ca/2012/we-need-a-new-map.

We Need a New Map – Excerpt

Drawing a new map

is like singing.

Voicehandler asked Loon

why she talked so much

and Loon replied,

“Well, Sir, I’m not just talking

to my own ears.

The spirit-beings tell me

they have no place to live.

That’s the reason I keep talking.”

Loon sings the sacred

into the world

and creates a new map.

Sing your song, friend.

Tell your story.

The map we inherited

isn’t any good.

The old roads mislead.

We need a new map.

Sandy Cameron (1931-2010) was a poet, teacher, logger, and prospector who wrote beautiful poetry and worked for social justice. He helped people understand the history of our struggles so they would be encouraged and he was a true nature lover. He lived  for many years in the DTES and most everything he wrote was published in the Carnegie Newsletter. This intro borrows from a tribute by Jean Swanson, a long time friend and DTES activist. 

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Image from HvH post: The Tailing Pond Beer Gets Caucus Approval – also see collected edition.

Image from HvH post: Humans vs. Harper Exposes Post Election Tory Throne Speech.

Image from HvH post: Liberate Canada: Defeat Stephen Harper on October 19th

Image from HvH post: Notice of Termination of Employment

Image from HvH song post: Crime Minister by Kanada Day

Image from HvH song post: Who Will Save Our Waters by Kinnie Starr

Image from HvH post: Canada’s Armed Forces: Biologically Wired for Sexism

Image from HvH post: Arms Sales and Saudi Silver Linings

Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day

Image from HvH post: Medal of Irony, first awardeded to Pierre Poilievre and then to Harper.

Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.

Image from HvH post: Election Fraud Fix – Carding the Conservative Party’s Candidates

Image from HvH post: Ten Country Songs We Would Like to Sing to Harper

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day .

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day

Image from HvH song post: Well, This Ain’t Canada by scrunny@hisTOYBAND

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from HvH slide post: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from slide show HvH post: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from HvH slide showHvH post: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day

Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day

Image from HvH post: Tailings Pond Beer a Failure – also see collected edition.

Image from HvH post: The Dogster is IN

Image from HvH post: Confessions of a Stephen Harper Troll (Now available as a complete series)

Image from slide show HvH post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.

Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from HvH song post: It’s time to Put Your Crown on the Shelf, by John Roby

Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day

Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.

Image from HvH post: Is Stephen Harper a Narcissist?

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day

Image from HvH slide show: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from HvH post: Harper Doesn’t Care About You, pictured, veterans advocate, Jenny Migneau

Image from HvH post: My Boss the Fact-resistant Human

Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day

Image from HvH post: Headbutting Harper Desperate for a Buzzer Beater Win

Image from HvH post: Upside Down is Easy

Image from HvH post: Who is Stephen Harper

Image from HvH post: Which Rat Will Jump Next

Image from HvH post: Harper’s Video Streaming Goes Blockbuster

Image from HvH post: Advice to the Harper Base

Image from HvH post: Harper’s Advance Team Surfaces in Iraq.

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.

Image from HvH post: Dear Public Servants.

Image from HvH post: New Terror Vaccine Promises Instant Fix for Democracy

Image from HvH post: Harper Lays the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Rest.

Image from HvH post: Is Stephen Harper a Control Freak?

Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.

Image from HvH post: About HvH – Who We Are.