PEREGRINE PULP

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...

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,...

I only made it through the first season of Mad Men. As a television series set in an advertising firm at the end of the 1950s, I found it...

The Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Collins, produced and long and insufferable video diatribe on physician-assisted suicide. His...

I was sipping a delicious Trappist beer at my neighbourhood bar when two young couples pulled up at a table next to me. A newly married...

An interesting study came out the other day. It was an internal government research report comparing wealth accumulation trends by...

Wow, this Valizedeh shit just won’t stop. In case you don’t know, Daryush Valizadeh (aka “Roosh”) is an American writer known (but mostly...

Downplaying the Islamic State shows not only our lack of courage and compassion but also our failure to learn from the past. ​ I think of...

If you told me, clearly and specifically, that you went to Hawaii to swim with the dolphins and turtles I would say you had swimming or...

Racism is a very serious allegation and we should be very harsh in our condemnation of acts of racism – even more so than we are today....

It has been said my entire life that schools strongly favour boys while making a sport out of either passively neglecting or actively...

It's not like we haven't been up against ecological catastrophe many times before in my short life. But in the past we just did it...

Hamilton, Ontario. June 28, 2015. It's Sunday. Early. Summer warmth, richly saturated light, and the Carolinian morning chorus fill the...

Tommy Douglas is widely considered one of the greatest ever Canadians. The story most of us know is that, as a social-democratic...

I thought the deal was that “privately owned productive enterprises, in a highly competitive marketplace, will produce ever-better...

In the last few weeks the media has been full of reports about the gender pay gap. Now, this issue has always bothered me, for its...