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Satcan's Finale
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Satcan's Finale

The Satire Canada media study tracked the content and context of Canada's satirical media from September 21, 2008 to April 11, 2009.

Satcan's Finale

It's the end of the road for Satire Canada.  Cormex Research's weekly round-up of the country's satirical media coverage began in September '08 and ran until April '09.  During that time the Satcan site produced a weekly top-ten list of the most satirized figures in the country, a weekly round-up of the top-five national stories, a weekly analysis of the context (local, national, international) of Canadian satire, along with special analysis of provincial, federal, and U.S. election coverage.   While following the work of our country's amazing satirists and writing and thinking about their impact was always a reward unto itself, the cost of a weekly analysis of this scope (30 daily editorial cartoons along with the two weekly CBC satirical news shows) just became too much to bear in the midst of this bearish economy.

Although we will no longer be updating the site on a weekly basis, we may fire up the analysis engine from time to time to cover certain satire-rich events.  But in the meantime, please have a look at our archives, as over the course of our study we followed a number of memorable satire events. 

Canada witnessed the re-election of Stephen Harper,  the prorogation saga,  the emergence of a three-headed opposition monster, the retirement of the much satirized Stephane Dion, the coronation of Michael Ignatieff, and a series of Tory flip-flops.

South of the border, satire-legend George W. Bush rode off into the sunset.  And despite a wonderful parting gift in the form of Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, our satirazzi remain somewhat confounded by satirical challenge posed by the surprising emergence of Barack Obama.

But despite all these momentus political events, the biggest story we followed over the course of our tenure was the one that eventually did us in:  the economy.  And if the bearish economy has got you feeling down, we can offer no better advice than to hang in there and to keep on watching the funny pages. 

Sincerly,
SatCan
Sat Stats:
Harper, Mulroney, and the Conservative Party all made the top-ten list this week, as the Canadian satiriazzi enjoyed some good old-fashioned political in-fighting.
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Satire Canada has been tracking the country's satirical media for five months now. In celebration of this milestone we offer five "Top 5" lists of the most satirized figures in the country.  > See more
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