“I think the interesting part was – because he’s such a well-known figure and his likeness is a kind of a pop-culture sensation in Canada right now – trying to keep that likeness as accurate as possible and actually have his personality shine forth,” award-winning Toronto-based cartoonist Ramon Perez. “You don’t want to have just like stiff phototrace image, you want to have that twinkle in his eye.”

Creating Trudeau as a comic book character “felt like an idea that was just sitting on table to be grabbed,” said Edmonton-born artist and writer Chip Zdarsky who was approached by Marvel to write an Alpha Flight story.

"Now that the energy sector is no longer a major economic driver, a healthy housing sector is even more essential," says Will Dunning. "It would be tragic to unnecessarily impair this key economic force. Such errors have the potential to cause a sharp downward adjustment of prices."

Pam Joliffe says some parents have trouble keeping their children fed during summer when school lunch and breakfast programs are not available.

last wishes for homeless men

“If you look at trade as a drawbridge, it’s not like Canadians want to blow up the bridge, or not like they want the sentries to pull it back up over the mote,” Shachi Kurl said. “But what they do want is to have a conversation as to whether or not having that bridge down is really benefiting them in their everyday life.”

Carmel Kilkenny speaks with psychologist Beverly Beuermann-King about what's known as "summer stress syndrome"

Brian McKenna and his documentary on the tragic slaughter of the Newfoundland Regiment in WWI

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“We feel that these impacts won’t be major in Canada but you can’t ignore them,” Pedro Antunes said. “If this uncertainty lasts rather than days and weeks, months and, perhaps, quarters, that could have some real implications for growth in Canada.”