thePodcast: Cartoonist Terry Mosher on the 50th anniversary of the Montreal Olympics

July 26, 2026 • 00:23:21
thePodcast: Cartoonist Terry Mosher on the 50th anniversary of the Montreal Olympics
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thePodcast: Cartoonist Terry Mosher on the 50th anniversary of the Montreal Olympics

Jul 26 2026 | 00:23:21

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Show Notes

For the week of  July 26, 2026: FIFA World Cup 2026 is over. Vancouverites and Torontonians will be wondering for months, maybe years: How much did it cost? Was it worth it? Montreal was not part of it, because of the legacy of the financial disaster that defined the 1976 Summer Olympics.  Montreal Gazette editorial cartoonist Terry Mosher was there and remembers the good, the bad and the ugly of the Games in his 50th anniversary book: “Aislin’s 1976 Montreal Olympic Scrapbook — Jean Drapeau’s Baby.” Mosher, North America’s longest active editorial cartoonist, is Bob Mackin’s guest on this edition […]

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