1926! Holy Cow. Mr. Potter was prescient, because I swear that has to be Rene Levesque riding that western pack mule.

Sad how the same issues that were prominent way back then are still the same ones we have today in this country. Does not say much for any of the politicians we have had rulling us.

Randy:
Not only is that Mr. Levesque, P.E.T. is sitting up in the tree... that particular comic is from about 1976. The _series_ at Glenbow dates back as far as 1926. (Yes, I was a bit confused at first too.)

1976 was a key year.

Election of the PQ
Lougheed was riding high in Alberta
Alberta was really propsering with energy and the beginning of the Heritage Fund was around then.

However, Kate I have to disagree with you. I dont think things are the same. Some of the same statements get made but I think the reaction is different.

Ontario doesnt dominate economically like it did. Quebec has fallen to about just 20% of the population from over 25%.

And correspondingly you notice that there is less a reaction out of ROC in general to the thought of seperation. Personally I dont find Quebec's demands as strident, the voices are there just not as numerous.

I truely believe the "storm" has passed and more importantly it wouldnt matter so much if they left, which means they wont.

Things have changed dramatically. The next "crisis" will be when Quebec's population drops below 20%. The loss of influence will be a shock and will be a problem justifying 3 Supreme Court Judges and their guaranteed 75 seats will fall as percentage wise to being unable to make a government.

It is true today that mathematically a majority government can be formed without Quebec, but barely and only if ROC is really behind one leader. The next census and electoral redistribution will bring real significant changes.

What will be as interesting is when the majority of Saskatchewan residents are native. Probably around the same time.

Merry Christmas to you all!

The west has been exploited and politically marginalized, like the depiction, since before 1926....the Levesque caricature was just one of the many cartoons that followed the famous 1915 "milch cow" cartoon.

http://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/online/libhtm/milch.htm

As you say Kate little has changed judging by the banter at the last equalization talks..... you have to be a fool to believe it can go on like this without some political upheaval.

Don't worry leftists, liberals & moonbats. Jean Creitien is back on the job for Maurice Strong, with his Chinese backers. Human rights need not be mentioned or even thought of.

The liberals are back to sucking chinese butt. Old Jean just made it official foreign policy for leftist libs.

I wonder when Dion the puppet of this Moronic mobster with his "Strong" Chinese anti-American allies in power Corp? Wakes up to find what a shill he's become, for these pro dictatorship loving crooks?

Probably nothing considering he's French to the bone. Corruption is Mother milk to these Liberanos.No doubt his only question will be "whats my take".

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Levant_Ezra/2006/12/24/2968573-sun.html

These cartoons are a marvel. Most things have not changed. Canadians still do not take most things in a serious manner. We bitch and belly ache, but we don't really do anything.

From my old chair the sins of indifference to real issues and our inabilitiy to have learned discussion on most subjects dooms us to live in the past.

I watched a short piece about Canada that showed the last time Canadians took an issue and demonstrated openly across the land in protest. It was about the price of choclate bars in 1947.
Since I was in those demonstrations I can tell you folks were mad. Not about corruption, wars, National Unity,the price of gas or helping others.
I believe that demonstrating about chocolate bars and not much else tells us something about how seriously folks take our Nation and it's problems.
I would hope some brave teacher would use these cartoons as a teaching aid.

Excellent commentary on Mackenzie King, the most over rated PM in Canadian history.

"What do you want? A hand or a fist" (Page three half page down) What a hoot!The more things change the more they stay the same.
Merry Christmas all.

yep. spittin image of rene levesque.

we need to pay more attention to the editorial cartoonists.

check out the the little Peeair Truedough in the top right corner looking like a buzzard to pick over the bones of the west.

A friends daughter just returned from 3 wks in Pakistan,(she is with some medical team) and she is certainly glad to be a cdn. One of her problems was that the men over there do nothing but stare at the nurses and others, and there is nothing one can do. In canada they would be charged with harrassment. But, as she said, all the women over their are covered from head to toe, including their face. These guys have never seen women before. Someone commented on another thread that the 72 virgins waiting for them when they kill others are Wendy Cukkoo clones. I think they are more likely clones of Judy Rebick and Libby Davis. She also said it is common knowledge over there that if a woman appears uncovered in public she is asking to be raped, so her group never travelled alone or without the male members of the team. And, like she said, in uniform, etc, only their face and hands were showing.

Did anyone else catch Question Period today?

Duceppe claiming the adherance to Koyoto was a regional issue, that Quebec had easily met their share of the commitments and that any federal dollars devoted to further actions were subject to Quebec getting their share.

He stumbled once but recovered to tell Taber that Quebec will not be held accountable for Alberta's environmental bills.

Am I the only one with a profound sense of irony?

Syncro

I once saw some cartoons one showed AL GORE yammering and waving his arms at BILL CLINTON while they sit in one of those large balloons bill clinton say MORE HOT AIR AL another one shows AL GOREW holding a sign reading HUG A TREE and a woman has her arms around gores waiste and even another shows a burglar clawling into the window of a home while the caption reads ANOTHER SUPPORTER OF A 7 DAY WAITING PERIOD