PEREGRINE PULP

I imagine that it is as true for you as it is me that almost everything I thought I understood from prior education turned out to be far from the whole story or even entirely wrong. Occasionally this occurrence is innocent and happens because we’ve learned more over time or because the author or teacher felt they needed to simplify for their learners. At other times the person who wrote the book or taught the lesson simply didn’t know what they were talking about or never loo

We moved into a new place. The first strata council meeting eventually arrived. My partner had been anticipating the event for two months, was eager to go, and I was thrilled for her to represent. I was also happy to opt out. She reported back that I was the only one not in attendance, that she explained my absence to the group as “He doesn’t like meetings,” and that the secretary noted this in the Council’s minutes. I thought all of that was funny. I recounted it to friends

Today I was reminded that I had this weird conflict with my friends. We decided we wanted a stamp made to brand some paper bags for our...

This week, authorities have given us things like: “July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history.” “July isn't even over and it's projected to be the hottest month humanity has ever experienced.” “The North Atlantic just reached its highest temperature in recorded history just two days after the Mediterranean Sea reached its highest temperature in recorded history.” I love this. These folks consistently tell us how passionate they are about precision

I’ve been looking at commercial and residential real estate numbers pretty regularly since 2016. When I was in Calgary at that time and exploring commercial real estate, I kept coming across nonsensical numbers all over the place. As someone new to the city and with no background information the figures were ludicrous. As I started looking into it ("Can that possibly be correct?") I learned a lot, mostly about how rampant and significant the level of fraud seemed to be. Since

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

In order to have a civilization we need to have trust in our institutions. I think that’s irrefutable. But are those institutions and the professionals entrusted with sustaining them helping this cause? That’s a question that seems worth asking. At the moment there’s a curious phenomenon of experts vociferously spouting off across the news and social media in defence of their colleagues, the managerial class and the institutions those folks run, and the popular media who also

Oliver Stone just put out a new film promoting nuclear energy, titled Nuclear Now: Time to look again. So, just as he asks, let’s...

As with every fire season in recent memory, we’re being told this one is unprecedented. Fires in Alberta and Nova Scotia are said to be...

The killer whale is the largest known species of dolphin. This exposes its common name as a rather silly one. (Silly, just like so many others, such as the: mantis shrimp [not a shrimp or a mantis], electric eel [not an eel], starfish or cuttlefish [not fish], sea cucumber [not a vegetable, though it sure looks like a disembodied rectum], king cobra [not a cobra], horny toad [not a toad, maybe horny], red panda [not a panda], koala bear [not a bear], maned wolf [not a wolf]..

BC’s Chief Coroner, Lisa Lapointe, came out in defence of “safe supply.” Safe supply being the tack recently adopted by the province to...

For eighty years humans have lived under the threat of a nuclear exchange between superpowers, intended or unintended. Despite the elapsed time, many still consider this threat to be at the top of their list of global concerns and something that continues to keep them up at night — and much more so as of late. Others have never learned or largely forgotten that their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents rigged the whole of the northern hemisphere with these highest o

More than 155,000 public servants under the Public Service Alliance of Canada have set up picket lines across the country. On the service...

I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...

Though this was clear to anyone paying attention, we now have some details from behind-the-scenes of the rampant, wide-spread,...

An article about housing affordability popped up in my news feed. From Business in Vancouver, it was titled British Columbians need to...

So, Canadian real estate. Yeah. The prices in Canadian residential real estate went from an already obscene high in 2020 to a peak 40% higher in 2022. (By contrast, Australia, another one of the hottest housing markets on the planet, only grew by 25% at this time.) Such a large jump in such a short period resulted in wacky valuations — within the context of a supremely screwball marketplace built on insane valuations. As a result, the credit ratings giant Fitch Ratings has es

I began hearing about faulty braking as the cause of the train derailment in Ohio starting on February 8th. More specifically David Sirota, Julia Rock, Rebecca Burns, and Matthew Cunningham-Cook published a piece in The Lever titled Rail Companies Blocked Safety Rules Before Ohio Derailment. It starts: