PEREGRINE PULP

Much has been learned in the opening days of the Emergencies Act inquiry. Many surprises have come out, too. I’m so glad I wrote about...

A short story by Lew Roeg-Roeg, recomposed and enShortened further still for modern sensibilities– It was a year. 2021, I think. France,...

The job would be monitoring a threatened polar bear population. Most of us new recruits were well-educated and comfortable out of doors...

Sometimes you fall apart. Sometimes you pass out. And you can break down or log off just any old time. Apparently. This is what the...

I'd gotten a text message from a friend telling me I should listen to this podcast from someone named Ezra Klein. I didn't know the...

David Suzuki used to have this metaphor he'd use when talking about climate change. He likened the problem and our inaction to a car...

Margaret's grandmother, Florence, and great-uncle, Noel, built a small cedar cabin on a little lake in British Columbia’s Interior back...

With all this talk about museums, I'd like to review our publicly owned Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project (read: interprovincial...

We may have reached peak nonsense; that, or I'm suffering a catastrophic stroke. Today I awoke and the first two things I read were from...

Folks of all temperaments and occupations keenly share their belief that the Information Age is uniquely foolhardy and strident. They...

After America's most recent and notable mass shooting, Heather Cox Richardson , professor of nineteenth-century American history at...

Twenty-nine months into this pandemic I'm still running into folks who think that being immunized means they're immune to infection and...

I've been writing about this for twenty years and it's as excruciatingly tiresome as it is bleak, like watching a slow motion immolation....

As someone with little understanding of the region, beyond the occasional news article and reading Applebaum's excellent Red Famine, I’ve...

I'm seeing mostly egregious war reporting and from every channel. Regarding the situation in Ukraine, ludicrous claims are continuously...

I’m sure we can all agree about much on the humanitarian side of this Russia/Ukraine thing. The attacks on civilian infrastructure,...

It’s always a mistake to read the news. Reading local news tends to be worse still. I know this and yet I do it anyway. Here’s just one...

There have been a bunch of human trafficking cases in the news here in Canada in recent weeks and months. As ever, reading all these...

Perhaps the most important lessons I learned in university were not part of any curriculum or found in an assigned reading. They also...

Someone once asked: If I’m not mistaken, you are arguing for humanity banding together to protect ourselves from a plethora of potential...

This is a list of films I'd like you to watch. Some of these will blow your mind or lift your spirit; some are more like a pleasant...

It's easy to find folks promoting organic. Abundant are claims that organic farming reduces environmental pollutants and greenhouse gas...

Go listen to episode five of The Trojan Horse Affair podcast; or even just episode five, titled A Study in Scarlett . This is some of...

Food and nutrition fads come and go all the time. We often hear folks excited about learnings they've had around what to eat and what to...