Life in Alberta...'I'm new on the team...let me have a couple smacks at him!''

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Life in Alberta...'I'm new on the team...let me have a couple smacks at him!''

Vance Rodewalt was the political cartoonist for the Calgary Herald newspaper. Issue: Provincial politics and economic policy in Alberta; government cost-cutting. In a hockey fight, players named 'Health care cutbacks', 'Education cutbacks', and 'Toxic waste dump' punch a smaller player named 'Alberta', while 'Coach' Alberta Premier Ralph Klein polishes an award and says 'they love me in T.O. [Toronto]'. Original cartoon is in colour.

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Date 1994-11-27

Creator Rodewalt, Vance

Person(s) or Group(s) Klein, Ralph

Genre Photographs

Place Alberta

Subject Alberta--Economic policy, Alberta--Education, Alberta--Politics and government, Alberta--Public health, Alberta--Sports, Caricatures and cartoons, Hockey players, Political satire, Premiers--Alberta

Archival Information

Repository Glenbow Archives

Fonds/Collection Vance Rodewalt fonds

Reference code CA ACU GBA F3016

Link to Finding Aid https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/vance-rodewalt-fonds

Unique identifier CU235476

Legacy Identifier m-9457-30

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Attribution "Life in Alberta...'I'm new on the team...let me have a couple smacks at him!''", 1994-11-27, (CU235476) by Rodewalt, Vance. Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.