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Today, we ask you to spare a thought for the Canadian snowbird: the tanned, two-legged avian whose annual pilgrimage to warmer climes has been thrown into chaos.
You may have read about the unjustness of their plight in publications across the land in recent weeks. It’s enough to make me want to put myself in their gilded wings, so to speak, if just for a moment.