Category Archives: Canadian Counterpunch

Smart on crime means tough on Tories

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Don’t know who made this video, but I can totally get behind it. It’s bang-on…on every point.

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Fascism Without Swastikas, Guns, Guns, Guns, Law-Law Land, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, Sick Frickin' Bastards, The "Well, DUH!" Files | 2 Comments

Honduras: “Clean” elections officially a fraud

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Sabina Becker

The Real News explains it clearly and in great detail. Less than 40% participation is NOT a flood of support–it is massive abstention!Shame on Graeme Clark for falling for the sham. Shame, too, on anyone who gave this farce a … Continue reading →

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Remembering the Montréal Massacre, 20 years later

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Sabina Becker

The fatal victims of the Montréal Massacre of December 6, 1989. Top row, left to right: Anne-Marie Edward, Anne-Marie Lemay, Annie St.-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Daigneault, Barbara Maria Klucznik, Geneviève BergeronBottom row: Hélène Colgan, Maryse Leclaire, Maryse Laganière, Maud Haviernick, … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, If You REALLY Care, Uppity Wimmin | 5 Comments

Yes, we CAN…haz torture inquiry

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Sabina Becker

If you wanna know why I’m happy, read what Jack Layton sent me today: Parliament passes NDP motion for an Inquiry on torture allegationsThank you for your email concerning the recent allegations of prisonertorture in Afghanistan. I am providing this … Continue reading →

Posted in Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind, Canadian Counterpunch, If You REALLY Care, Law-Law Land, The War on Terra | 4 Comments

No great harm without some gain

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Well, it looks like Amy Goodman’s run-in with our meshuga border goons has not been a total bust. Her book, which she was in BC to promote, is now a bona-fide bestseller, if this note from her publisher (Haymarket) that … Continue reading →

Posted in Artsy-Fartsy Culture Stuff, Canadian Counterpunch, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, Uppity Wimmin | Comments Off

A big embarrassment for my home and native land

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Amy Goodman talks to the CBC about her unexpected detention at the border. See Raw Story for video of the whole interview with CBC’s Kathy Tomlinson.I’m rarely ashamed to be a Canadian, but today is different. Today, one of my … Continue reading →

Posted in Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind, Canadian Counterpunch | 6 Comments

The day Mississauga became a ghost town

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Since I’m on a Gordon Lightfoot kick today, I might as well include another apt song of his to introduce this entry and set the emotional tone:Thirty years ago today, the local nighttime news was filled with some of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Artsy-Fartsy Culture Stuff, Canadian Counterpunch, Good to Know, If You REALLY Care, Uppity Wimmin | 2 Comments

The gales of November came early…

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Sabina Becker

A well-made tribute to the 29 sailors who went down 34 years ago in the most famous Great Lakes wreck of all time–that of the Edmund Fitzgerald. They all came from the US, but because they went down in Canadian … Continue reading →

Posted in Artsy-Fartsy Culture Stuff, Canadian Counterpunch, Filthy Stinking Rich, Good to Know, If You REALLY Care, She Blinded Me With Science | 3 Comments

Ti-Jean tells it like it is

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Actually, I call shenanigans* on dis–the lol-maker forgot to put de h’apostrophes on all de haitch-words, h’as Ti-Jean would.(Everything else, ‘owever, h’is correct!)*Or should dat be “Shawinigans”?

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Morticia! You Spoke French! | 4 Comments

Uruguay: Pepe Mujica wins, but…

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Sabina Becker

…something still smells like the same old, same old all over again: The candidate for the Broad Front, who won 47% of the votes yesterday but could not become president and must now fight a second round, criticized the elections … Continue reading →