Cartoonists this week
Chloe began the week with a special on the COP30, while Côté simply took delight in the early snow.
But the growing unpopularity of François Legault was the theme of the week, Godin giving him an eye test and Ygreck putting him in the net when the doctors met at the Bell Centre. Ygreck returned bluntly to the theme later in the week, Côté linked it up with a popular movie revival in the news and Godin pictured him melting away.
Chapleau offered solidarity to the transit strikers (but see comment analysis below), but Godin was tired of the strikes by the end of the week
With lumber tariffs soaring, Legault advised forestry workers to get jobs with Hydro‑Quebec, which gave Chapleau an idea for a drawing. In turn, Jean Boulet gets in trouble with his anti‑union law.
Ygreck wins the week with his measles cartoon.
MarcG 11:12 on 2025-11-16 Permalink
Can someone decrypt the Chapleau ‘So-so-so-solidarité !’ comic for me please?
Kate 11:22 on 2025-11-16 Permalink
I don’t think there’s anything complicated. In a way, Chapleau seems to be saying that passengers are forced to offer solidarity, whether they want to or not, but by his making a drawing of it, he himself is offering solidarity.
MarcG 11:24 on 2025-11-16 Permalink
Thanks Kate. How about the significance of megaphone with footprints leading away from it?
Blork 12:24 on 2025-11-16 Permalink
Hmmm. I interpreted that as a sarcastic comment on the strikers expecting solidarity while greatly inconveniencing the very people who they want support from. The discarded megaphone in the snow symbolizes the passenger’s throwing away whatever support they had to give once the weather turned bad.
Blork 12:27 on 2025-11-16 Permalink
Actually, I think the discarded megaphone is from the union, who threw it down and left when they realized they had no support from the inconvenienced (and cold/wet) passengers.
MarcG 13:07 on 2025-11-16 Permalink
I think I figured it out, thanks for the ideas. The “solidarité !” is sarcastic – the union isn’t showing solidarity with the transit users (when the weather turned bad the union exited the frame and left them in the cold).
MarcG 10:05 on 2025-11-18 Permalink
Opinion piece in the Toronto Star today by Timothy Caulfield expounding on the subject of that last comic.