Category Archives: Canadian Counterpunch

Is there still Agent Orange buried at CFB Gagetown?

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Sabina Becker

The story, courtesy CBC: White said he was told at the time what the barrels contained. Experts and activists who have followed the case — and who fought the federal government for compensation for military personnel and civilians affected by … Continue reading →

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Take a hard seat, Tanya.

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Sabina Becker

If you don’t think the above is an accurate summation of Tanya Granic Allen — the far-right embarrassment recently turfed from the Ontario PC party for being too obviously fascist — then you really need to read her white whine … Continue reading →

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No compassion for Andrew Lawton!

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Yes, kiddies, Andrew Lawton said all those nasty things and then some. And now that the shit has finally hit the fan, he’s scrubbing his tweeter and asking us to be forgiving, and compassionate, and just trust him, he’s not … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: One for Milo Yiannopoulos

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Yes, folks, I’m pourin’ one out for Milo — oh sorry, MILO in ALL FUCKING SHOUTYCAPS — today. Because his long-awaited politico-financial establishment sugardaddy, who was supposed to be financing his media-slash-entertainment empire, has kicked the bucket. From a drug … Continue reading →

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U of A is full of oily snowflakes

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Sabina Becker

You would think that an honorary doctorate for David Suzuki — a longtime environmentalist and proponent of science — would be an uncontroversial no-brainer. And in most of Canada it is. But not, it seems, in oil-soaked Alberta, and one … Continue reading →

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What we know (and what we don’t) about Alek Minassian

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Rosemary Barton of the CBC and Phil Gurski, a former CSIS analyst, discuss the cool-headed way in which van-attack suspect Alek Minassian was arrested. It’s a far cry from the way Sammy Yatim, a Syrian Christian immigrant teenager armed with … Continue reading →

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Shania Twain apologizes, but the damage is done.

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Well, how about that? Seems that her little throwaway pull-quote from the UK Guardian the other day didn’t go over that well! Remember this? If she had been able to vote in the US election, she would have plumped for … Continue reading →

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Revenge porn now subject to lawsuits in Newfoundland/Labrador

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Sabina Becker

In light of the cases of Amanda Todd, Rehtaeh Parsons and Audrie Pott, this can’t come too soon (and it really needs to be federal, too). But the best thing to do is to make non-consensual sharing of nudes utterly … Continue reading →

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Bruce McArthur’s 8th victim has been identified

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Toronto police detective sergeant Hank Idsinga gives a press conference in which the identity of a “John Doe”, shown in photos taken from the hard drive of Bruce McArthur’s home computer, is now revealed. The victim is Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, … Continue reading →

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Did a recently caught gay serial killer also kill in the 1970s?

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Sabina Becker

CBC’s The Fifth Estate examines Bruce McArthur and some still “unsolved” killings that took place in Toronto’s gay community as far back as the 1970s. If you think the Seventies were a “swinging” time, you probably got that (largely false) … Continue reading →

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