PEREGRINE PULP

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 spending weeks and months and years loudly and aggressively shooting down? That phenomenon occupies me. This sort of behaviour is so frequent at present it could be a weekly show on CBC Radio. Speaking of which, did you catch the recent Front Burner episode on CBC about the keffiyeh? The feature  came about because the Ontario legislature

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...

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 in the previous year. In 2019, our already staggeringly high death count climbed again, approaching 1,000 drug overdoses. That was a level of deaths here in BC that formed what was seen as a kind of last straw for those in public health and advocacy. This caused the province to redouble the harm reduction efforts and make many radical new cha

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

In the summer of 1998, as a teen, I got my first paying job working at a community centre. I had no education or any work or life...

In 2011, I wrote an essay about recycling .  I was venting my frustration that, despite many decades of “the three Rs”, tons of emergent strategies, and so much problem-solving passion to be found, as a society we’ve only ever seemed to make the plastics pollution and single-use situation far worse.

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

I’ve been shocked by the response to Israel’s declaration of war and actions in Gaza. Of course, I’m not talking about the masses making...

I almost fell over reading this story in the news this morning: Indonesia enlists help of experts for ICJ Israel case. The Foreign Ministry has assembled a team of experts to help formulate Indonesia’s arguments in an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory case that seeks to hold Israel accountable for its 'policies and practices' in the occupied Palestinian territories. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2024/01/16/indonesia-enlists-help-of-experts-for-icj-israel-ca