PEREGRINE PULP

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....

Here's a question: Who are toilets for? No, seriously. Toilets are something I very rarely hear anyone talking (or, more appropriately,...

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...

[For DJL] Who designed the dial on the paper towel dispenser? You know, that round dial with the two tear drop depressions, in a kind of...

We know why we sneeze. Sneezing (or sternutation) typically happens due to foreign particulate getting inside you and agitating the cilia...

"You're not like the other boys", a voice said from over my left shoulder. That had to be the cheesiest pickup line ever, I thought as I...

Since 2016 there's been much said about Nazis. Yet, somehow, despite all the talk and tweeting and counter protesting I feel we've...

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

iTunes – that place billions of people acquire and consume their music, movies, podcasts, and such – is essentially unusable, as far as I...

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

​​Today is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. All week CBC has been flush with related articles, reports, videos, and...

In August 2016 I shipped my belongings from Ontario to Alberta on Greyhound. The shipment was in two parts with two separate tracking...

We’ve spent two years getting a worker-owned co-op from conception to construction. The business is a for-profit bakery in the heart of...

​​​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...

It was July 29, 2016 when I came across an amazing article written by Carl Zimmer, my favourite science writer. The piece, titled...

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

Also known as white poplar, golden aspen, mountain aspen, quaking aspen, or Quakies, Populus tremuloides is a truly amazing organism. It...