PEREGRINE PULP

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...

Bob, I am willing to rewrite my proposal, to clarify and rework my project; however, I don’t know where to start. To be honest, I am...

“Body of missing canoeist recovered”, the newspaper headline reads. That can't possibly be what is meant, can it? They didn't find the...

Steve Jobs was responsible for some great things. The impact he had in personal computing, publishing, telecommunications, music, and...

​​​​First, if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth (“King of the Jews”) was the Messiah, or that he awoke from the dead, and that our...

I came across a report put together by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the Business Council of British Columbia. The report clearly defines...

So, let’s talk about recycling. Do you recycle? Of course you do, you're not some kind of barbarian! When Vancouver first implemented its...

Most folks I know, many of whom tend to avoid political discussion most of the time, can get pretty passionate about elections and voting...

In the April 1st edition of Victoria’s Times Colonist, Jody Paterson wrote an article about a horrific sexual assault that took place in...

Cultural heritage is another of those sticky concepts I get hung up on. Having looked over the United Nations Educational, Scientific and...

What I love the most about the Ten Commandments is that those stone tablets, we are told, were the only time God (G-d, Elohim, Yahweh,...

Alas, it was New Year's Eve and, against my keen hermit instincts and all logical reasoning, I had agreed to go out and “party”, whatever...

1) “Jingle bells” was composed in 1857 as a Thanksgiving song 2) Gift giving at Christmas was banned by the Catholic Church for being a...

(Landa went to sleep early, the same way she did every night. She awakes in a hospital room.) Nope. [twelve minute pause] Nope. [eight...

​Defining noise in a truly satisfactory way is a complicated issue. In his book The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of...

It was Wednesday February 7th, 2001, when Munro and I landed in Singapore. We arrived just after midnight, after more than nineteen hours...

Saturday 01.01.2000 CNS, Breathe deeply. Keep your eyes well ahead. Watch the skies and be very careful what you wish for. Stay...

It was the first day of June and the Krauss family had just moved into the neighbourhood. They seemed quite normal – friendly even. After...

My ex and I had been together six years when she was given an offer to do her PhD in Australia, all expenses paid. Though doing a PhD was...

A predominantly true story: “Do you know this game that came out some time ago, called 'Spore'?” Sue asks. Marcus hesitates, adjusting...

Following the style of T.S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, I've attempted to create a dramatic stream of consciousness...