Barry Blitt was talking about politics on CBC radio a few minutes ago. He was interviewed on their "Sunday Magazine" program. Here's a quick range of his New Yorker covers as collected by Google: https://25problems.com/images/barry-blitt-covers.jpg

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Wow, hundreds of people attended the "Elbows Up" rally at city hall yesterday -
www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6694930

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