Category Archives: Canadian Counterpunch

The Montréal Massacre, and progressive Canada’s unfinished work

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Sabina Becker

I don’t know how many of the women whose names are inscribed on this memorial actually called themselves feminists, or saw what they were doing as in any way feminist. Knowing the tenor of the times I grew up in … Continue reading →

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Dougie’s new top cop is his old Etobicoke buddy…

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Sabina Becker

…and probably one who looked the other way while Thuggy Dougie dealt druggies: Remember how Sinclair Lewis said that fascism would come to the US of Amnesia carrying a cross and wrapped in the flag? Well, here in Ontario, it … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: A friend to the morning light

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Sabina Becker

For all the soldiers, past and present, this Remembrance Day. Lest we forget.

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Just Jordan Peterson, being a crankypants crackpot

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Sabina Becker

And if you thought the above was a lot of crankpottery, here he is, opining for the National Pest: So it’s 2:39 a.m. in Oslo, Norway. I woke up in a too-hot hotel room out of a fitful nightmare, which … Continue reading →

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His name was Dave.

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Sabina Becker

His name was Dave. I’m not sure how his last name is spelled, so I’ll refer to him by his first name and last initial only. That’s what the German media do when identifying the perpetrator of a crime. And … Continue reading →

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Dear Jian Ghomeshi: Shut the fuck up and go the hell away.

Posted on September 20, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Ah yes. Remember THAT infamous Facebook post? The one Jian Ghomeshi posted to try to get out ahead of his accusers, to do pre-emptive damage control before they damaged him? The one that ended up blowing right back into his … Continue reading →

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Dougie’s dic(k)tator move

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Don’t know who made this, but it’s perfect. It sums up the situation quite succinctly. When you have first past the post with nowhere near a majority of the vote, when voters stayed home rather than turn out for democracy’s … Continue reading →

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Proud Boys: Proud to be Nazis?

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Sure smells that way: This post has since been taken down, and little wonder. As a German, I have to say I’m utterly insulted by this shameful bullshit. I am an antifascist, as I said yesterday, for reasons good. I’m … Continue reading →

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Cops Behaving Badly: Toronto Police’s Nazi Nürnberg moment

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Pedant alert: Should read “Die Übermenschen”. The definite article in German is not only singular/plural, but also gendered — masculine, feminine or neuter — and also subject to declension. This concludes today’s free German lesson. (Also, these are not actual … Continue reading →

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Old hash dealer sets up snitch site for prudish parents

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Shades of Mike Fucking Harris’s welfare fraud hotline…and the HarpoCons’ Barbaric Cultural Practices snitchline, eh? Yeah, Dougie thought all that fuckin’ bullshit was a fantastic idea, so now he plans to introduce something similar…for outing teachers who dare to keep … Continue reading →