Every Monday in 2017, the
Montreal Gazette has featured an
Aislin cartoon drawn over the past 50 years, with a backstory for each.
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This 2016 Aislin cartoon features Montreal wearing camouflage pants during a lengthy protest about the provincial government's pension reform legislation. The protest started in 2014. |
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Jack Rabinovitch, creator of the Giller Prize named his dog Lady after his late wife Doris Giller |
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A cartoon drawn on Barack Obama's first foreign trip as US president. |
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A 2015 cartoon illustrates the fact that the U.S. has the world’s highest rate of gun ownership per capita (90 guns for every 100 people). |
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A cartoon from the 1972 Canada-Russia hockey series. |
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Ferguson Jenkins and Bill Lee are two examples of Aislin's long love affair with baseball. |
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Last week for the Aislin: 50 Years of Cartoons exhibition at the McCord Museum. |
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This cartoon of Stephen Harper originally appeared in the Montreal Gazette on April 14, 2006 |
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In this February 6, 1988 cartoon, Nick Auf der Maur and sports writer Tim Burke throw away their Gazette security passes after joining the renegade tabloid the Montreal Daily News. |
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This drawing of a Tanzanian grandmother with a child whose parents had died of AIDS was drawn in 2006.
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This cartoon was presented to Bill Clinton to thank him for helping to raise $1 million for a Montreal children hospital. |
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This is the cartoon Aislin would have rather presented.
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Cover of The Hecklers: A History of Canadian Political Cartooning and a Cartoonists' History of Canada by Peter Desbarats and Terry Mosher. |
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This cartoon of Jean Marchand appeared in Maclean's magazine in October 1970. |
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This cartoon appeared in the Montreal Gazette on September 12, 2001. |
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This cartoon appeared in the Montreal Gazette on May 13, 2010. |
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This cartoon of Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay was published on Sept. 23, 2011. |
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The eight was published on September 4th, 1984. |
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The sixth is a caricature of pope John Paul II published on October 24, 1978. |
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The second is a caricature of Jean Drapeau published in 1974. |
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The first is a caricature of Jacques Parizeau published on September 16, 1988. |
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