PEREGRINE PULP

You’ve likely noticed Progressives in America all atwitter with talk of what is being called the Green New Deal. And, as the nation that...

I've been looking for a new pair of shoes. For more than a year. I decided I wanted to find some running shoes because none of the...

Over the years I learned fairly little about my grandfathers' experience of war. He never spoke a word, at least to me, about WWII. I...

Nothing happened 2,018 years ago on the first day of January. Bizarrely, Pope Gregory XIII, who gave us our modern calendar back in 1582,...

I brought with me a little souvenir from my Nile trip: malaria. Despite being paranoid and always being covered up (only ever wearing...

While I had no jet lag of any kind it has been a slow and steamy transition from -32 Calgary to feeling comfortable in equatorial Africa....

I just heard about Aziz Ansari. I worry you won't read the victim's words and just assume this case to be like most of the others. It is...

A favourite statement regularly heard repeated in recent months is that “people don't lie about abuse.” This is sometimes modified to...

On this day in 1944, D-Day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade landed on Juno Beach in Nazi-occupied...

I wish you could see what I'm seeing. I've now had three friends, in three very different situations, living in three different...

​​​The following is just the sort of thing I see that stops me in my tracks almost every day. Today I was walking past a large corporate...

(First published by the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation) Like most thirty-somethings I've worked in many different fields: from...

And so it was, the year of their Lord, two-thousand-six-teen. And there was a Queen, with a large jaw, and a Duke, with a pale-face,...

There exists a silly cliché that says “we live in a visual culture”. In fact, this is a loosely veiled insult. It’s heard mostly in...

“I think we have to make a decision about our nature, our human nature” Carla declared. “What do you mean?” I said, figuratively holding...

I was recently given a report called Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities. The work was produced...

Some say that Remembrance Day is a time when we get to celebrate our freedom, a freedom hard-won by the brave veterans who fought and...

So there was this news story a while back. It caught my attention as the top news item of the day on my newsfeed. The article was about...