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THis is an editorial cartoon by Michael de Adder . Michael de Adder was born in Moncton, New Brunswick. He studied art at Mount Allison University where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing and painting. He began his career working for The Coast, a Halifax-based alternative weekly, drawing a popular comic strip called Walterworld which lampooned the then-current mayor of Halifax, Walter Fitzgerald. This led to freelance jobs at The Chronicle-Herald and The Hill Times in Ottawa, Ontario. After freelancing for a few years, de Adder landed his first full time cartooning job at the Halifax Daily News. After the Daily News folded in 2008, he became the full-time freelance cartoonist at New Brunswick Publishing. He was let go for political views expressed through his work including a cartoon depicting U.S. President Donald Trump’s border policies. He now freelances for the Halifax Chronicle Herald, the Toronto Star, Ottawa Hill Times and Counterpoint in the USA. He has over a million readers per day and is considered the most read cartoonist in Canada. Michael de Adder has won numerous awards for his work, including seven Atlantic Journalism Awards plus a Gold Innovation Award for news animation in 2008. He won the Association of Editorial Cartoonists' 2002 Golden Spike Award for best editorial cartoon spiked by an editor and the Association of Canadian Cartoonists 2014 Townsend Award. The National Cartoonists Society for the Reuben Award has shortlisted him in the Editorial Cartooning category. He is a past president of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists and spent 10 years on the board of the Cartoonists Rights Network.

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday July 9, 2025 Canada’s cancellation of the Digital Services Tax may look like a concession to Donald Trump, but it was a pragmatic step to scrap flawed policy and preserve crucial trade talks. Carney Folds a Bad Hand at the Right Time As Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government announced the eleventh-hour cancellation of Canada’s long-planned Digital Services Tax (DST), many critics—predictably—rushed to frame the move as a capitulation, a humiliation, a sign of diplomatic incompetence. Robyn Urback, writing in The Globe and Mail, likened Carney’s posture to a “chicken dance,” accusing him of flapping and folding in the face of Donald Trump’s latest trade tantrum. The dominant narrative from opposition benches and comment threads alike is that Canada blinked, and that the Prime Minister sold out our integrity. But this breathless critique misses the point—and badly overstates both the importance of the DST and the value of standing one’s ground for its sake. Yes, the optics were less than ideal: a tax announced under the previous Trudeau government, long delayed and then abruptly cancelled the night before collections were to begin. Yes, it came in response to Trump’s inflammatory declaration on Truth Social that all trade talks with Canada would be suspended. But if you’re trying to conduct serious negotiations with an impulsive U.S. president who thrives on public shows of dominance, the smarter move isn’t to dig in—it’s to duck and deflect. That’s not cowardice. It’s strategic realism. Opinion: The digital services tax was bad policy, but killing it now makes us look terribly weak https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-digital-services-tax-bad-policy/ Even if you support taxing big tech—and many Canadians do—the DST was deeply flawed policy. It would have added a mere $1.4 billion annually to government revenue, while inviting retaliat