Graeme MacKay
@mackaycartoons.bsky.social
Afflicting the comfortable with insights here and there on daily events through drawn work featured in southern Ontario dailies—but who knows for how long? https://linktr.ee/mackaycartoons2
My cartoon in The Hamilton Spectator on Canada’s National Day of Truth & Reconciliation: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...
Dirty gold on offer thanks to the USAs dirtiest President www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
nytimes.com
My cartoon in the Sept 28 edition of The Toronto Star: www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...
Graeme MacKay: In this Graeme MacKay’s cartoon, Canada is carefully planning for a worst-case scenario
Click here to view this article from www.thestar.com.
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Great time at the Association of Canadian Cartoonists gathering in Niagara Falls! Proud to receive the Rex Babin Award, presented by Clay Jones, Scott Burns, and John Auchter. Congrats to honorary Canuck Clay Jones and Townsie winners Guy Badeaux and Rod Emmerson!
Yes, it has come to this. My editorial cartoon in the Sept. 25 Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...
Let this sink in: “When pressed on whether he took Mr. Trump’s threats to make Canada a 51st state seriously, Mr. Carney suggested that he had carefully examined the possibility of U.S.-led military action, but declined to discuss in detail what that involved.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/w...
Mark Carney Interview: Canada’s Leader Lays Out Vision for Breaking Reliance on U.S.
In a wide-ranging interview, Prime Minister Mark Carney described a tense, evolving relationship with President Trump.
nytimes.com
There’s no justification for shooting at any religious temple anywhere. It’s called terrorism. My cartoon in the Sept 23, 2026: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...
Oh look, here comes “nasty” Canada coming to the USA’s aid on the potash shortage: www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Canada and U.S. should form self-reliant bloc for fertilizer, Carney suggests
Prime Minister voiced proposal after Trump toyed with switching to Belarus as a supplier of potash, a major ingredient in helping crops grow
theglobeandmail.com
There goes Trump, claiming a ‘massive deal’ to buy fertilizer from Putin’s vassal state, Belarus, all to spite Canada. Too bad the cupboard is empty, eh? 🤣: thehill.com/policy/inter...
Belarus says no potash left after Trump claims massive deal for fertilizer
Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that there are no available volumes of fertilizer to send to the U.S. This came after President Trump announced that he was working o…
thehill.com
So delighted with this recognition from my newspaper, The Hamilton Spectator. Thanks again, @aaec-cartoonist.bsky.social #RexBabinAward www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
The Spec's Graeme MacKay recognized for local cartooning
Much of MacKay’s recent satirical work focuses on lampooning Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
thespec.com
My cartoon in the Sept 21 edition of The Toronto Star: www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...
Graeme MacKay: In Graeme MacKay’s latest cartoon, Trump pushes Canada toward the EU
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So delighted to find out tonight that I won the Rex Babin Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning at the convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in Sacramento CA! (photo credit: Eric Shansby)
Delighted to have a cartoon included in this week’s Politico Cartoon Carousel: www.politico.com/gallery/2026...
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...
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Thanks to Andy Donato's cousin, I have Andy's final editorial cartoon that was rejected by The Toronto Sun, resulting in Andy resigning from the paper after 55 years. www.torontomike.com/2026/09/andy...
Andy Donato's Final Comic Rejected by Postmedia
On Wednesday I shared the sad news that Andy Donato had passed away at the age of 89. Until very recently, Andy was still getting published in The Toronto Sun, a Postmedia-owned newspaper. I attached ...
torontomike.com
“Satire has existed for millennia in one form or another. The urge to mock incompetence and corruption will exist as long as we can maintain a society which values free speech and its corollary, political humour.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Irrational lampoon: Our absurd, polarized world is killing satire
Today’s satirists are as talented as ever, but our increasingly divided culture has eroded our capacity for irony and subtlety
theglobeandmail.com
Airport privatization? I haven’t the slightest idea if this is good policy or not but in the first whiffs it reeks: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Carney government will allow private ownership of Canadian airports
The federal government will allow private ownership of four major airports — including Toronto's Pearson, Canada's busiest — in a move that breaks with a decades-long arrangement that saw them
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