Cartoonists this week
There was no dominant theme this week in cartooning.
This drawing by Côté about non‑standard Covid masks informed me about a recent ruling ordering a company to pay Quebec $46.4 million after supplying deficient masks.
Côté also had thoughts about children who changed history although I don’t think the death of Alan Kurdi on a Turkish beach changed many people’s attitudes toward refugees crossing the Med to Europe. Whether the fate of the nameless boy in the blue hat will soften any MAGA hearts also remains unlikely.
Chapleau has ICE vs. the groundhog and Godin has ICE agents goose‑stepping at the Olympics. Godin also sees Trump winning all the medals.
Côté’s drawing of Pierre Poilievre is trenchant without being mean.
Ygreck draws Doug Ford and Mark Carney at the Plains of Abraham but he also shows the relative unimportance of this bickering to families having trouble buying groceries, while Godin looks at a very small sublet and takes a mild‑mannered dig at the REM.
dwgs 12:16 on 2026-02-01 Permalink
Blue bunny hat boy is Liam Conejo Ramos. A judge ordered yesterday that he and his father should be released immediately. We’ll see if the bastards obey. The judge also said this,
“Observing human behaviour confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency,” he wrote of the detention of Ramos.
Kate 13:27 on 2026-02-01 Permalink
Thank you for naming him. Good quote too from the judge, but language like that makes no dent in the kind of people it describes.
Joey 13:29 on 2026-02-01 Permalink
True, but it might help normal people understand the gravity of the situation.
Kevin 16:54 on 2026-02-01 Permalink
Dwgs
The boy and father are now back home. Or at least in Minneapolis
Anton 15:18 on 2026-02-03 Permalink
I’m confused whether the image shows a kid or grown up peanut.