Editorial cartoon: November 20, 2013

Britt Santowski is the Sooke News Mirror's editorial cartoonist

Editorial cartoon: November 20, 2013

Britt Santowski is the Sooke News Mirror's editorial cartoonist

Nov. 20, 2013 10:00 a.m.
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