In a cost-cutting move, the Vancouver Sun has laid off Roy Peterson, probably Canada’s best editorial cartoonist and one of the world’s best.
Peterson, 73, had been with the Sun for 47 years. During that time he won seven National Newspaper Awards for his work, the most in the history of the awards in any category, and in 2004 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Besides being axed, the Sun also killed his final cartoon… makes me wonder if they also did the escort-out-the-door (with a guard) business that U.S. newspapers seem to employ.
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