The Montreal Olympics are turning 50 this year.<\/p>\n
And to mark the anniversary, The Gazette\u2019s own Terry Mosher, a.k.a. Aislin, has returned with a new book titled Jean Drapeau\u2019s Baby, a visual memoir of the Montreal Olympic Games, featuring his favourite cartoons from this exciting time in Montreal\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
The longest-running continuously working political cartoonist in North America joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week\u2019s episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to look back on the memorable cartoons of the era and the larger than life people who inspired them.<\/p>\n
Of course, there was no character bigger than mayor Jean Drapeau. It\u2019s hard to imagine in this day and age a mayor lasting for 29 non-consecutive years like Drapeau.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe point to be made here is that in the 1960s Jean Drapeau, progressive mayor, could do nothing wrong,\u201d Mosher said. \u201cHe built the m\u00e9tro, he built Place des Arts. Then Expo 67 and he brought in the Expos. He walked on water. But then with the Olympics, he bit off more than he could chew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the lasting legacy of the Olympics and the costs associated with it, Mosher still bestowed Drapeau the title of Mr. Montreal upon his death.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was Mr. Montreal,\u201d Mosher said.<\/p>\n
Another politician Mosher enjoyed drawing was former premier Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque. Aislin talked about his famous cartoon of L\u00e9vesque saying \u201cO.K. Everybody take a Valium\u201d after winning the 1976 provincial election, the first time for the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used to drink with him in Chinatown, back before he was in politics,\u201d Mosher said, before fast-forwarding to a few years later.<\/p>\n
\u201c At the National Newspaper Awards dinner where I got an award, I gave him a Valium as a joke. That sonofabitch swallowed a 10 mg Valium and his speech began to slur. I take full credit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Corner Booth is also available on The Gazette\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a> and on Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Olympics are turning 50 this year. And to mark the anniversary, The Gazette\u2019s own Terry Mosher,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[205352,205351,49,48,204571,205350,2338,205349,205354,205355,205348,205353],"class_list":{"0":"post-520375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-aaron-rand","9":"tag-bill-brownstein","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-dave-sidaway","13":"tag-jean-drapeau","14":"tag-montreal","15":"tag-montreal-olympics","16":"tag-rene-levesque","17":"tag-snowdon-deli","18":"tag-terry-mosher","19":"tag-time-in-montreal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}