Category Archives: Canadian Counterpunch

L’affaire Hollande: What “sophistication” costs a woman

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Bit of mood music, maestra: Zut alors! You think François Hollande is in hot water, thanks to his affair with an actress? Bof. He’s doing just fine. His consequences, personal and political, will be minimal, thanks to his adroit cowardice, … Continue reading →

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Ecuador wins Canadian case against Chevron Texaco

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Big Polluting Oil just lost a major judgment in the last place I expected it to: right here, in Harpolandia. How about THESE apples? Pablo Fajardo, attorney for the Union of Those Affected by Texaco Operations, announced that the group … Continue reading →

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Tories have wrecked Canada’s refugee system

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Damage to a downtown Vancouver neighborhood by the racist Asiatic Exclusion League, September, 1907. In the last hundred or so years, it’s astonishing how little has changed, at least in the way our government treats non-white immigrants. If you ever … Continue reading →

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Time for Robbo to go to jail

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Sabina Becker

What I’ve long suspected (and said as much, here and elsewhere) is now official: Anthony Smith (at left, flipping the bird) was murdered over the Rob Ford crack-smoking video. The notorious crack video of Mayor Rob Ford was the motive … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Unsettling Goods

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Singer-songwriter Tony Quarrington makes the case for boycotting Israeli settler goods. Be sure to watch to the end, so you know what to cross off your holiday shopping lists.

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Rob Ford, the movie

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Sorry for all the preponderance of Robbo lately, but I just had to post this: So much has been made lately about the resemblance between Robbo and the late Chris Farley (who shambled offstage before Robbo bumblefucked in from stage … Continue reading →

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Jon Stewart does it again

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Once more, here is why Jon Stewart is the king of late-night comedy, and why The Daily Show is better at reporting the news than the “real” news media are. Can I nominate HIM for mayor of Toronto?

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There is no joy in Leamington tonight.

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Sabina Becker

It’s been a sad day in Canada’s ketchup town…although no doubt some corporate titan in a head office far away was just putting his wingtips up and blowing smoke rings on his fat cigar over this: In Leamington, Ont., a … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Dr. David Suzuki on the biosphere

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Sabina Becker
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Did the CBC do propaganda-for-pay?

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Sabina Becker

I dunno…you tell me: I always did find that particular Mansbridge “report” awfully Harpo-friendly (and uncharacteristically so). And conveniently timed, too, as the above video says, with Pooty-Poot laying his own claims to the North Pole’s seabed and all that … Continue reading →

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