Patrick Corrigan's cartoon depicts Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's balancing act

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Toronto Star · collected 2026-10-10 · by Patrick Corrigan

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Patrick Corrigan, an editorial cartoonist based in Toronto and contributor to the Star, has created a cartoon depicting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith trying to balance various political interests. The article does not provide further details about the content of the cartoon beyond this description.
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Story summary

Patrick Corrigan, a Toronto-based editorial cartoonist and freelance contributor for the Star, created a cartoon illustrating Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's political balancing act. The cartoon aims to capture the complexities of her role in managing various interests within her province. The article mentions that readers can follow Corrigan on X (formerly known as Twitter) at @startoons, where he shares his work and insights regularly. However, accessing additional details about the specific content or context of the cartoon requires subscription to a newsletter provided by the Star.

Written for “Alberta Politics Cartoons” on 2026-10-10, grounded in this article and the 0 other(s) covering the same event.
Why this leaning score
This article does not take a side on a contested political question, so it has no leaning score. That is an answer rather than a gap: a match report or a rescue can be warmly or critically written without being left or right, and scoring it anyway is how approval of a subject gets recorded as a political position.
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📰 Alberta Politics Cartoons
Politics · 1 article(s) covering the same event.

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Who wrote this

Patrick Corrigan
3 article(s) here · 0 carrying a prediction
Also by Patrick Corrigan
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Patrick Corrigan PERSON · 1× Star ORG · 1× Toronto GPE · 1×

Narrative

Patrick Corrigan is a Toronto-based editorial cartoonist and freelance contributor for the Star.
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