PEREGRINE PULP

With a couple of communication degrees, I think of it as my job to comment on media matters. But at this point the relentless barrage of...

Guy : What's been your favourite output from Santa Clara Valley? Maël : I'm pretty into illegal-taxi-company and...

I want to love nuclear. I really do. But there’s so little to like and proponents continually refuse to win me over. Here’s just one more...

Some folks really hate Jared Diamond. And those folks love hating Jared Diamond. As a good polymath, Diamond (with backgrounds in...

MI-CHAEL:  I dunno. It’s like how I play this game. It’s a kind of World War II simulation. The creators have attempted to faithfully...

I don’t know how I got here. Somehow I developed this crazy belief that firefighters fought fires. Crazy, right? My bad.  Per capita,...

Two people are having a conversation over the phone. One is in a typical Singapore apartment complex. Lush green trees are all around....

You read that right. I’m all for burning books, as I'm pretty sure you are. Just because you can conjure a pithy line you heard in a film...

For years we were hearing about the replication crisis in the world of psychology; how so much accepted work in the field had never been...

Thinking about journalism and public perception, I was reminded today that in 1979 Australian journalist John Pilger entered Cambodia....

I haven’t written anything about the encampments, the ones that have sprung up seemingly over night, like springtime mushrooms, on the...

No one finds it the least bit interesting when folks suddenly flip reality on its head and offer up the very arguments they just finished...

Last September the CMHC came out with a study suggesting that for Canada to reach housing affordability last seen 20 years ago “an...

If you’re the chief coroner, hold an executive position in public health, or are the independent representative for children and youth or...

On April 12th, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld sent George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice and email titled “Predicting the Future.” The...

In Canada, any person or entity responsible for moving money around has obligations to help combat money laundering and the financing of...

Deborrah Smallrich — former army intelligence officer, new mother, and her household’s sole breadwinner — decided to leave her husband...

CBC - Federal plan would count rent toward a credit score. Wow. It's almost impossible for me to make sense of the level of detachment...

As the leadership of Hamas has explained publicly, they expected, at the very least, for Iran and her proxies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq,...

Regardless of what happens, what actions are taken or not taken, the same blood libel will be offered up. Israel will be accused of using...

I was thinking about harm reduction and trying to hunt down some more information related to themes from my last output on the topic. In...

The New York Times just published a flashy article on its website accusing Israel of deliberately starving Palestinian children . They...

Early in the new year is when we get the official tally from the BC Coroners Service for the number of overdose deaths the province saw...

This morning NPR landed in my news feed with this astonishing bit of journalism: Why Egypt won't allow vulnerable Palestinians across its...