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Bird on Sunday January 31st, 2021
February 1, 2021
A BRIEF HISTORY OF STONKS It is very likely that you managed to hear this week about the GameStop stock kerfuffle. I mean, it went to the level of Saturday...
Bird on Sunday January 10th, 2021
January 11, 2021
SO, THAT HAPPENED (USA EDITION) Regular readers know that I generally try to brush past American politics as much as possible for two reasons: firstly, a lot...
Bird on Sunday December 13, 2020
December 14, 2020
PROTESTS ONE: INDIA The Indian farmers’ strikes have been going on long enough now (three weeks) that Western media is starting to notice it. The very online...
Bird on Sunday November 22nd, 2020
November 23, 2020
THE BIGGEST NEWS OF THE PAST TWO WEEKS! The biggest news of the past two weeks probably isn’t the ongoing Covid crisis. It is, let’s be honest, barely news...
Bird on Sunday November 8th, 2020
November 9, 2020
THE ELECTION WHATNOT Per my last update, I noted that there were three ways the US election could go: first, a large Biden win, second, a small Trump win,...
Bird on (well) Monday November 2, 2020
November 2, 2020
Just a short entry this week because, really, All Of The News is going to start happening on Tuesday with the American election. Basically, there are three...
Bird On Sunday October 18th, 2020
October 19, 2020
NON-AMERICAN ELECTION NIGHT SPECIAL Beyond all the hubbub of the modern pandemic-and-Trump-wracked world, a few elections worth mentioning. First off is New...
Bird on Sunday October 4th, 2020
October 5, 2020
So, my my this has absolutely been a week, hasn’t it? I mean, Trump’s tax returns getting leaked and it turning out he’s basically broke, then that Melania...
Bird on Monday September 21st, 2020
September 22, 2020
LET’S START OFF WITH SOME GOOD ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS FOR ONCE A couple of bright spots about climate change, coming from the corporate world (of all places)....
Bird on Sunday (okay, Monday) August 7th, 2020
September 8, 2020
Yes, I’m back. I decided to take the month of August off entirely, because August is the worst month of the year in Toronto. Possibly in other places as...
Bird on Sunday July 26th, 2020
July 27, 2020
WE THE PEOPLE The WE scandal ate up column inches for the past two weeks in Canada, mostly because it is a pretty easy-to-understand scandal in many respects...
Bird on, uh, Tuesday July 14th, 2020
July 14, 2020
Yes, I know it's Tuesday, which is later than usual, but you try posting a newsletter when one of your canine teeth breaks off over the weekend and you have...
Bird on Sunday (okay, Monday) June 29th, 2020
June 29, 2020
So it has been a couple weeks as usual since my last missive and, man, shit just keeps getting crazier in the United States, doesn’t it? I mean, yesterday,...
Bird on Sunday June 14, 2020
June 15, 2020
If you follow me or my wife elsewhere on social media, you know it's been a rough couple of weeks for us, as our niece passed away just after the previous...
Bird on Sunday May 31st, 2020
June 1, 2020
MELTDOWN MAY HITS A NEW HIGH (OR LOW) Well, it certainly has been a week, hasn’t it? America appears to be completely melting down so much that we all forgot...
Bird on Sunday (okay, Monday) May 17th, 2020
May 18, 2020
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING IN BELGIUM? If, like me, you keep the Worldometers page for covid-19 cases by country open in a tab pretty much all the time now,...
Bird on Sunday May 3rd, 2020
May 4, 2020
So I missed last week, mostly because last week was a comparatively slow week in news around the world, mostly because there's only so many iterations of...
Bird on Sunday April 19th, 2020
April 20, 2020
SO WHEN IS THIS ALL OVER Given that in the past week we've seen an increasing number of protests from dumb and mostly well-off white suburban people...
Bird on Sunday April 12th, 2020
April 13, 2020
...nothing this week, sorry. We were busy on Easter Sunday and, to be honest, this week has been slow for news and policy developments, because that's how...
Bird on Sunday April 5th, 2020
April 6, 2020
HOLD ON AMERICA AIN'T IT THE TRUTH If pandemics have theme weeks, this is probably the week where the USA jumped the shark. Okay, "jumped the shark" is...
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