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Bird on Sunday October 27th, 2019
October 28, 2019
Holy shit, I’ve been doing this for a year now. CHILEAN PROTEST UPDATE: SURPRISINGLY, GOOD NEWS So last week I wrote about the protests in Chile, and in less...
Bird on Sunday October 20, 2019
October 21, 2019
RIGHT THE ELECTION IS TOMORROW I'm not going to prognosticate overly about tomorrow's federal election here in Canada, mostly because I try to avoid making...
Bird on Sunday - actually Monday - October 14, 2019
October 15, 2019
Sorry for the one-day delay, but it is Canadian Thanksgiving (or as Canadians call it, "proper Thanksgiving, not like Americans have" and yes we say that...
Bird on Sunday October 6th, 2019
October 7, 2019
ONE WEEK IN AMERICA (AND THEN TURKEY A BIT) So since the last time I wrote about Donald Trump, the following has happened: the Oath Keepers, everybody's...
Bird on Sunday September 30th, 2019
September 30, 2019
SEASON FOUR OF "THE IMPEACHMENTALIST" STARRING SIMON BAKER AS THE IMPEACHMENTALIST wellthatescalatedquickly dot gif But seriously, I'm writing this just...
Bird on Sunday September 22nd, 2019
September 23, 2019
THE WHOLE… BLACKFACE… THING So, yeah, this whole Justin Trudeau scandal made it to the level of “international news,” partially because it’s the sort of...
Bird on Sunday September 15th, 2019
September 16, 2019
BOMB BOMB BOMB, BOMB BOMB ABQAIQ On Saturday, Saudi Arabia reported that their oil plants in Abqaid and Khurais had been knocked out by drone attacks. So how...
Bird on Sunday September 8th, 2019
September 9, 2019
THIS WEEK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM PERMANENTLY ENDING ANY REMAINING NOTION THE REST OF US EVER HAD ABOUT IT BEING IN ANY WAY SUPERIOR OR CLASSY So this was...
Bird (not) On Sunday September 1, 2019
September 2, 2019
Nope! There’s no newsletter this week, because it is Labour Day and accordingly I am not labouring. Next week I will labour double-plus-extra to make up for...
Bird on Sunday August 25th, 2019
August 26, 2019
AMAZON AND ON AND ON (OR NOT) If you could get through the news of the Amazon fires without several dozen “oh people were so freaked out about Notre Dame...
Bird on Sunday August 18th, 2019
August 19, 2019
ARE YOU A TRUDEAU OR A TRUDON'T Canada's Ethics Commissioner released its report on the SNC-Lavalin scandal and it is - as I am sure has at least partially...
Bird on Sunday August 11th, 2019
August 12, 2019
KASHMIR SENTIMENT Probably the most important news item this week was India’s meddling with Kashmir, which is important because if you were going to pick the...
Bird on Sunday August 4, 2019
August 5, 2019
THIS WEEK IN BAD CLIMATE NEWS The big piece of bad climate news which you may have already heard about was the big melt in the Greenland ice sheet, since...
Bird on Sunday July 28th, 2019
July 29, 2019
Short version this week due to a packed weekend. Granted, I could have skipped seeing Once Upon A Time In Hollywood earlier tonight, but I felt you would all...
Bird on Sunday July 21st, 2019
July 22, 2019
THIS DEPRESSING WEEK IN CANADIAN POLITICS Granted, every week in politics is a depressing week in Canadian politics, because we really do have an amazing...
Bird on Sunday July 14th, 2019
July 15, 2019
CAMPS, CONCENTRATED (NOTE: this item discusses, in part, concentration camps and the Holocaust, which might be upsetting for some people, and if you don't...
Bird on Sunday June 7th, 2019
July 8, 2019
TREES! A Guardian article about a Swiss research study published in Science on treeplanting as a potential partial climate change strategy got passed around...
Bird on Sunday June 30, 2019
July 1, 2019
NOTHING BUT HEARTACHES (WHICH IS A SONG BY THE SUPREMES SO THIS IS A REFERENCE) The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling this past week in Rucho v. Common Cause is an...
Bird on Sunday June 23, 2019
June 24, 2019
THE REAL PLAN IS NO PLAN The Conservative Party of Canada today announced their Real Plan (tm) on climate change. Since I like digging into plans and policy,...
Bird on Sunday June 16th, 2019
June 17, 2019
TRASH TALKING Indonesia this week returned five container ships’ worth of trash to the United States this week, and following the diplomatic scrap Canada and...
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