PEREGRINE PULP

There exists a silly cliché that says “we live in a visual culture”. In fact, this is a loosely veiled insult. It’s heard mostly in...

So there’s this thing: this nagging confusion I have that has been with me for as long as I can recall. The first time this confusion...

I was recently given a report called Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities. The work was produced...

Some say that Remembrance Day is a time when we get to celebrate our freedom, a freedom hard-won by the brave veterans who fought and...

People sometimes ask if I think of myself as an optimistic person or as a pessimistic one. To be honest, I don’t think of myself either...

So there was this news story a while back. It caught my attention as the top news item of the day on my newsfeed. The article was about...

Recently I had some money I wanted to put away and, really, never think about again. I was convinced to talk to someone at my credit...

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...

“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...