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Sweep Stakes

The subtleties of geopolitics

Black Power in Montreal

The ideas, leaders and pain behind the Sir George Williams riot

Christopher Hume

Christopher Hume was previously an art critic and urban affairs columnist at the Toronto Star.

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Sketch and the City

The Muddy York that could July | August 2025
Complain all you like about the state of Canadian media, but the brilliance of its political cartoonists is beyond dispute. In addition to the likes of Aislin, Michael de Adder, Patrick Corrigan, David Parkins, and Ed Franklin, there was the late, great Duncan Macpherson, whose extraordinary draftsmanship bordered on genius. Now the former Globe and Mail editorial jester Brian…