PEREGRINE PULP

To me, the entire grade-school situation appears, by design, impossibly fragmented. Where, more so than at school, are people and ideas...

Our year of teacher education has only begun and already we have been introduced to so many knowledgeable instructors, inspiring mentors,...

​​​If you know me then you know that I hate Remembrance Week (as it is currently constructed and observed.) This here is my annual...

Just so we’re all on the same page, a “belief” and a “hope” are two very different things that should not be confused. I might hope, for...

We actually hear a lot about tuition fees. (Of course we don’t tend to do much about the problem of tuition inflation, but it is talked...

Rex Murphy is a Canadian icon: a Rhodes scholar, an author, a popular voice in newsprint and on national television and radio. But I...

I think I tend to be a bit of a contrarian and skeptic simply because so much of reality is innately counter-intuitive and our built...

Earth Hour, an annual event organized by the folks at The World Wildlife Fund, attempts to raise awareness of environmental issues by...

Last Sunday I walked in to my local grocery store where I was offered a sample of wheatgrass juice and some related promotional...

I love books but hate reading. Growing up I struggled to read and always found it dreadfully boring. Not much has changed since then....

We seem to have bet the farm, the whole town and county too, on $100 per barrel oil. Why is that? Nobody thinks this is a terrible idea?...

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...

So there’s this thing: this nagging confusion I have that has been with me for as long as I can recall. The first time this confusion...

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...

From: Journal 2002 The October phone bill arrived. Almost the entire bill was charges you incurred: $80 of the $98 total. When I gave you...

People sometimes ask if I think of myself as an optimistic person or as a pessimistic one. To be honest, I don’t think of myself either...

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...

Recently I had some money I wanted to put away and, really, never think about again. I was convinced to talk to someone at my credit...

You may or may not have noticed that owning a car is one of the entry points to respectable society. And if you turn on the television or...

I was standing in the checkout line at my friendly neighbourhood grocery store when I noticed a display of homeopathic remedies above the...

In 2008 Leila Janah, an attractive, young, globetrotting Harvard graduate founded a not-for-profit called Samasource. She introduced the...

The findings of Canada’s Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences (or “the Massey Report”, if you...