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Americans, to the extent they are ever interested in Canadian politics, are often quite intrigued by the issue of Quebec separatism. This contrasts quite greatly with Canadians, who are, by and large, thoroughly sick of the topic. We’re so sick, in fact, that we’ve pretty much lost our ability to discuss or analyze the phenomenon in any sort of [...]
In late 2009, a guy named Barry Cooper released a cynical little book about modern Canada entitled It’s the Regime, Stupid. Since I’m quite a fan of such books, which Canada does not produce very often, I wrote a review shortly after purchasing it. But then I experienced some computer problems, and the document was lost forever [...]
In the old days, editorial cartoons were controversial because they expressed contentious political opinions. These days, they’re controversial just for existing.
A surprisingly large amount of people possess some deep-seated need to tell the world that they hate editorial cartoons. For some folks, it’s almost as intense as their passion to tell the world they hate Family Circus, or that [...]
The only thing more annoying than a sore winner is an ignorant one. In the last couple of decades, virtually all the leading voices of right-wing opinion in Canada have steadily become more restrained and moderate, which is to say, steadily more libertarian, yet the libertarians themselves remain in hostile denial of this victory.
My pals [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve made something new for the Filibuster charts section, so here goes:
I made a chart chronicling the presidents of the United States who came before George Washington. If the entire premise sounds like a goofy bit of half-baked, deceptive trivia of dubious veracity… well, it sort of is. Read on with The Presidents [...]
If there is to be a comic book tasked with the awesome responsibility of summarizing life as a directionless 20-something in 21st century North America, we could probably do worse than Scott Pilgrim. But we could probably do better, too.
The six-volume graphic novel series, authored by Ontario-born Bryan Lee O’Malley, released its final chapter this [...]
Whenever I write an article criticizing the parliamentary style of government, I’m surprised at how many American readers rush in to defend the system. I think it really highlights the under-acknowledged American propensity to glamorize the politics of other countries as somehow more calm or rational than their own. Despite their commonly caricatured portrayal as swaggering US [...]
The great dilemma of modern Canadian conservatism has been its struggle to successfully establish some patriotic narrative of national pride and purpose. Since at least the 1960s, the dominant strain of Canadian nationalism has been identifiably leftist in some form or another, whereby patriotism is generally defined as support for the Liberal Party and its various agendas of socialized medicine, multiculturalism, and cultural [...]
Fun fact: My cartoons are now being run on MSNBC’s very excellent political cartoon archive, run by the great American cartoonist Daryl Cagle. If you have any interest in political cartoons whatsoever, I’m sure you’ve already visited the site many times before, but if not, check it out! It’s kind of subdivided into several different [...]
