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Bird on Sunday June 9th, 2019
June 10, 2019
STRONG THRONG IN HONG KONG Hong Kong is, legally speaking, "kind of weird." (That is a direct quote from an international law professor from my law school...
Bird on Sunday June 2nd, 2019
June 3, 2019
THE ENVIRONMENT: IT SUCKS Let's see how much bad environmental news we can fit into a news items! Okay, so social media had a bit of fun mocking Jason Kenney...
Bird on Sunday May 26, 2019
May 27, 2019
ELECTION FEVER, PART ONE The European elections are just finishing up and overall, it is one of those results where journalists are left wondering how to sum...
Bird on Sunday May 19, 2019
May 20, 2019
THE TORONTO ISLANDS ARE FLOODING AGAIN For the second time in three years, the Toronto Islands are flooding. It isn’t as bad yet as it was in 2017 (although...
Bird on Sunday May 12th, 2019
May 13, 2019
PARTY LIKE IT’S PERIODIC NUMBER 2 American retail chain Party City announced this past week that they were planning to close 45 stores due to “a global...
Bird on Sunday May 5, 2019
May 6, 2019
CUTS, CUTS, CUTS A month ago, one of the big stories was cuts to education employment funding, which the government claimed weren’t cuts to education...
Bird on Sunday April 28, 2019 - it's a skip week!
April 29, 2019
Hey ho, news-kateers: my wife and I got back from Avengers: Endgame Sunday night and I had already been feeling poorly and now I'm just kind of down with a...
Bird on Sunday April 21st, 2019
April 22, 2019
MUELLER? MUELLER? Okay, I’ve been putting off talking about the Mueller Report for a long time now so here we go. I am first working under the assumption...
Bird on Sunday April 14th, 2019
April 15, 2019
WARNING FOR NON-ONTARIO PEOPLE: BUDGET BUDGET BUDGET Although this week’s edition does have non-Ontario-related content, the simple truth is that this week’s...
Bird on Sunday April 7th, 2019
April 8, 2019
This week will be shorter than usual, just because this past weekend was WrestleMania weekend and accordingly I have spent the entire weekend watching pro...
Bird on Sunday March 31, 2019
April 1, 2019
WHEN IN DOUBT, RELY ON QUEBEC TO GIVE YOU A STORY GUARANTEED TO GENERATE HATE-CLICKS Quebec has tabled a bill that would let the province prevent provincial...
Bird on Sunday, March 24th 2019
March 25, 2019
SPOUSE OF MOUSE So Disney bought 21st Century Fox this past week, and this... is bad news! I know a lot of Marvel movie fans are probably all "what are you...
Bird on Sunday March 17th, 2019
March 18, 2019
NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT A MASS SHOOTING New Zealand is probably my favorite place in the world - we would probably move there if it weren't for the small...
Bird on Sunday March 10th, 2019
March 11, 2019
BUTT FLICKA There are protests in Algeria against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, following his declaration to run for President for a fifth consecutive...
Bird on Sunday March 4th, 2019
March 4, 2019
THAT MOMENT THIS PAST WEEK WHEN MANY OF US THOUGHT "HOLY SHIT IS THIS WORLD WAR THREE" If you didn't think that, lucky you! Because you either missed the...
Bird on Sunday February 24th, 2019
February 25, 2019
MAN IT’S KIND OF A SLOW WEEK Well, it is. Mostly this past week was a lot of “stuff I have written about previously continues,” so this will be a lighter...
Bird on Sunday February 17, 2019
February 18, 2019
It is Family Day Weekend here in Ontario, and thus far this long weekend we have cooked a whole turkey dinner, made a lot of turkey soup, cleaned the...
Bird on Sunday February 10th, 2019
February 11, 2019
I WANT A NEW DEAL, ONE THAT WON'T NOT BE GREEN The American media have been losing their collective shit nonstop for the past week over Alexandra Ocasio-...
Bird on Sunday February 3rd, 2019
February 4, 2019
I WAS HAPPIER WHEN THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE WAS BASICALLY OVER It looks very much like the USA and Russia will both withdraw from the Intermediate Nuclear...
Bird on Sunday January 27th, 2019
January 28, 2019
THE NEW MESS WE ARE SURPRISINGLY IN: VENEZUELA The problem with most discussion about Venezuela is that it is insanely politically charged. Conservatives...
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