No newsletter this week

Sorry folks, but there’ll be no cartoon review from the past week. Perhaps it’ll come next Saturday.

I’m on a Canadian-places-I’ve-never-been-to-before trip and this weekend I’m in Winnipeg, Manitoba. For Canadians like me who have spent lots of travel time and expenditure exploring the U.S. - and I’ve been to a lot of places in the U.S. in recent years from San Francisco to Phoenix and Miami, Dallas, Nashville, Chicago and Philadelphia to name a few - I’m devoting now and the next 3 and a half years to explore my own country.

Take a wild guess why.

I flew over the Great Lakes yesterday, making it the perfect opportunity to revisit the subject of the master of diversion and his water diversion scheme. Cartoon in the Hamilton Spectator: