PEREGRINE PULP

A 2021 study out of Denmark estimated the proportion of cases of schizophrenia associated with cannabis use in that country doubled in...

So what is this fluoride panic about? It’s certainly not about the existing evidence.

EVERY EXPERT:  Putin just has nothing to gain from launching a war with Ukraine. He would never do it. ME:  I don’t know about that. ALL...

I’ve been writing for some time about the sudden and curious rejection of our age-old understanding that humans cause much, and in many...

In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting   started with...

Narendra :  They’re not trying to hide anything from you, though. Adrenalina :  Aren’t they? Narendra :  They would if they could. For...

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

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...

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...

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...

In 2011, I wrote an essay about recycling .  I was venting my frustration that, despite many decades of “the three Rs”, tons of emergent...

I've recently written a few rants about cannabis legalization in Canada and harm reduction in BC. Exploring these themes further, I just...

The United States and 21 other countries pledged on Saturday at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai to triple nuclear energy...

Though I bought " A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency " the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now did I finish...

We moved into a new place. The first strata council meeting eventually arrived. My partner had been anticipating the event for two...

I saw a “safe supply” rally yesterday in Victoria. And I read this article about it this morning, titled “ BC mother runs across province...