Category Archives: Canadian Counterpunch

Quotable: Naomi Klein on social change

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Sabina Becker

“If there is one thing I admire about the diagonalists and other denizens of the Mirror World, it’s that they still believe in the idea of changing reality, an ambition that I fear too many on this side of the … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: We won’t let you kill the laughter

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Sabina Becker

I know you’re out there: Tom Cochrane’s immortal, all-Canadian challenge to the far right, at home and abroad — still fresh and relevant.

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Music for a Sunday: Just to see a smiling face again

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Sabina Becker

I know I’ve featured this song in the past, but probably not this older version of it (with the piano instead of a troop of whistlers). Considering that there’s an uptick in recruiting in the Canadian armed forces, doubtless in … Continue reading →

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Charlie Angus kicks Donnie’s ass (and Petey Bunnyfur’s, too)

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Sabina Becker

You know you’ve arrived when Meidas Touch — a fast-growing progressive news channel that’s got Donnie running scared — has deemed a speech from the House of Commons to be newsworthy south of the 49th Parallel. Ladies and gents (and … Continue reading →

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Left coalition wins big in French run-off

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Sabina Becker

Liberté, égalité, fraternité…et la victoire de l’unité? Mais oui! Le voici… Pardonnez mon anglais, but DAMN. That’s some real beauté right there! I was biting my nails on the first round, when it looked like Nazism was going to be … Continue reading →

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Bowtie Boy gets Russia hysterically wrong

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Sabina Becker

So. I guess you must have heard of a certain “journalist” from the US of Amnesia, who recently decided to show all his countrymen how their “leftist” (really, just very lukewarmly liberal) values have ensured the “fall of Western Civilization”, … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Bill Lishman on the environment

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Sabina Becker

“As individuals I have no doubt that we are the most intelligent beings on this planet. All living things strive to influence their environment to satisfy their needs, but all other species are directed by relatively limited and unvarying sets … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: What’s that sound?

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Sabina Becker

Everybody look what’s goin’ ’round…again: This song may be older than I am, but it will never NOT be relevant. Especially in an age of incessant wars and school shootings.

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Old fart rips one at gasbag dinner

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Sabina Becker

Come for the hilarity, stay for the unfunny reality: Yes, that fart-fight at the food-fest was funny…but what’s not funny is the misinformation that Bobby Kennedy Jr. is spreading. And he’s a fucking environmental lawyer! He knows better, or should … Continue reading →

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London Police wrongfully arrested Keffals. Now, she’s fighting back.

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Sabina Becker

Remember when the London (Ontario) Police’s SWAT team swooped down on Clara Sorrenti, AKA Keffals, on the basis of a fake gun threat last year? And how they arrested her and mistreated her while she was in custody? Well, she … Continue reading →

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