''The Daily Bonnet'' is a satirical

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website, known as ''The Unger Review'' as of 2023. It was created by Andrew Unger and launched in May 2016. It features news stories and editorials, with the structure of conventional newspapers, but whose content is contorted to make humorous commentary on Mennonite and

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issues. The Daily Bonnet has been cited in the

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and used as an example of Mennonite

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in the Canadian

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in support of a bill to create a Mennonite Heritage Week. A number of viral posts including "Mennonite Biker Gangs Clash with Hells Angels at Sturgis" and "Canada Pays Off Entire Federal Debt One Day After Marijuana Legalization" were fact-checked and listed as "satire" by

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and

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. The site has been visited by millions of people every year since its inception. In 2021, a collection of Unger's Daily Bonnet articles called ''The Best of the Bonnet'' was released by Turnstone Press. In 2023, Unger renamed the website ''The Unger Review'', with ''The Daily Bonnet'' becoming a section of that website.

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