JJ McCullough
JJ McCullough is a Canadian cartoonist, political columnist, and YouTube personality.
Career[edit]
McCullough was born in Vancouver.
He drew political cartoons for many years and his drawings appeared in several editions of Portfoolio: The Year's Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons, published by McArthur & Company Publishing.
From 2008 to 2009 he lived in Saitama, Japan where he taught English. Upon returning to Canada he began political writing online, and later as a columnist at Huffington Post Canada. As McCullough's career grew he began appearing on various media outlets to discuss Canadian politics. McCullough served as a regular pundit for CTV and Sun News until 2015.
In 2017 JJ created the Canada Guide through Kickstarter, an educational website about Canada history, politics, and culture.
McCullough began his YouTube channel in 2015, focusing on apolitical cultural and civic issues. He currently has over 300,000 subscribers of subscribers. New videos are released on a weekly basis.
In 2020 McCullough began a Kickstarter campaign for Canadamon, a parody of the popular Pokémon franchise. The book features pun-based creatures related to Canadian culture. The book will be written and drawn by McCullough, and is expected for release at 2021.
Since 2017, JJ has written a weekly column about Canadian politics for the Washington Post “Global Opinions” section.
Politics[edit]
JJ identifies as a Conservative and has appeared in the past as a “conservative” guest on TV panels. [1]
He has also served as a spokesperson in the media for the activist group Citizens for a Canadian Republic.
Controversy[edit]
In 2017 McCullough was formally denounced by the Quebec national assembly for suggesting in a column that English Canadians regard Quebecers as “noticeably more racist than the Canadian norm.”[2]
The escalating controversy surrounding these statements led to unanimous to formally denounce McCullough on February 8, 2017 A similar vote was attempted, but failed in the Canadian House of Commons.
In 2016, McCullough made controversial statements about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments about the death of Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro, creating a Twitter hashtag “#trudeaueuologies” that other journalists and politicians used in an attempt to embarrass Trudeau. [3] The popularity of the hashtag was considered consequential in Trudeau’s decision to not attend Castro’s funeral. Later that year, McCullough also made a popular hashtag “#quantumgate” to raise doubts about the authenticity of a viral answer about quantum computing Trudeau gave at a press conference at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ "How to speak 'uncomfortable truths' to the Canadian status quo". CBC.
- ↑ "Quebec legislature condemns Washington Post story that calls province most racist in Canada". The Star.
- ↑ "Justin Trudeau not attending Fidel Castro funeral following backlash". Global News CA.
- ↑ "Quantumgate: Skeptics question authenticity of Trudeau's quantum computing explanation". CA Finance.
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