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How I Got Corrupted

Posted on January 10, 2021November 29, 2022 by admin

Satirists, or writers of any kind perhaps, have to see the world a little differently. Askew perhaps. Recently I turned 40, well 41 actually, and I guess I started thinking back on my life and I was trying to figure out how I became a satirist – how I became corrupted … in the best…

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Once Removed

Posted on July 14, 2020September 16, 2020 by admin

I’m excited to announce that my new novel Once Removed (2020, Turnstone Press) is available now! Ask for it at your local independent bookseller! An affectionate pastiche of small-town Mennonite life, replete with duty, folly, irreverence, and joy. —David Bergen Hilarious as Schitt’s Creek, sinister as Hitchcock, Once Removed gives us Timothy Heppner, the quintessential non-resistant Mennonite, in a comic…

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Humour in Dark Times

Posted on March 14, 2020November 29, 2022 by admin

Last night, after a long semi-stressful day–one of the craziest that I can recall in recent memory–my wife and I decided we needed to wind down with a movie.  Even though Erin, no doubt, would fall asleep within a few minutes, she rebuffed my suggestion of The Blob. Too scary. Night of the Living Dead was a…

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Highlights of 2019 by Daily Bonnet Author Andrew Unger

Posted on December 30, 2019November 29, 2022 by admin

I started the Daily Bonnet on a whim, really. Back in 2016, I wrote one article about Steinbach city council moving the entire community to the Mennonite Heritage Village and posted it on my website. After a few days I noticed that thousands of people had read it and I figured, “hey, people seem to…

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Brian Mulroney Cartoons: My First Attempt at Satire

Posted on August 19, 2019November 29, 2022 by admin

In the spring of 1992, my father accepted a pastoral position in Calgary and our family moved from Manitoba to Alberta, heart of Reform Party country. I think I had an interest in politics before then, but it really ramped up when I arrived in Calgary at the height of Preston Manning mania. Ahh, yes,…

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Teaching Satire: Resources for Educators

Posted on July 31, 2019August 19, 2019 by admin

From about the age of twelve to fourteen, I filled Hillroy notebooks with poorly-drawn, occasionally funny, political cartoons. Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister at the time and it was fun to exaggerate the length of his chin while offering my Junior High critique of his tax plan. I can’t say this type of writing was…

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So Who Writes The Daily Bonnet Anyway?

Posted on April 9, 2019July 31, 2019 by admin

Hello. I’m  Andrew Unger, a church-going Mennonite pastor’s son from Steinbach. Surprised? Well, some of you know me as Andrew J. Bergman, the pen name I used from 2014 until now. I used the pen name for two years before starting the Daily Bonnet, the name selected as a tribute to my grandfather, an amateur…

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When People Think Satire is Real…

Posted on November 3, 2018April 10, 2019 by andrewunger

Recently I wrote a satirical article for The Daily Bonnet with the headline “Canada Pays Off Entire Federal Debt One Day After Marijuana Legalization.” Surprisingly the post went viral and actually became the most read post ever on The Daily Bonnet. If I could write a post like that every day I would, but one…

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