PEREGRINE PULP

Starting on November 1st, we began hearing testimony from the convoy organizers. Once again I was surprised by what came out. As the...

The Emergencies Act Commission heard many hours of testimony from key figures within Ottawa and Ontario policing between October 21st and...

Days six and seven offered us more illuminating inquiry. The people running police operations in Ottawa knew what was coming,...

On day five of the inquiry, October 19th, we started hearing from executives within local and provincial policing and intelligence...

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...

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...

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...