PEREGRINE PULP

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...

Perhaps the most important lessons I learned in university were not part of any curriculum or found in an assigned reading. They also...

Someone once asked: If I’m not mistaken, you are arguing for humanity banding together to protect ourselves from a plethora of potential...

This is a list of films I'd like you to watch. Some of these will blow your mind or lift your spirit; some are more like a pleasant...

It's easy to find folks promoting organic. Abundant are claims that organic farming reduces environmental pollutants and greenhouse gas...

Go listen to episode five of The Trojan Horse Affair podcast; or even just episode five, titled A Study in Scarlett . This is some of...

Food and nutrition fads come and go all the time. We often hear folks excited about learnings they've had around what to eat and what to...

What is up with this attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) fad sweeping North America? Are you also seeing this everywhere you...

My question is: Has there been an international moratorium established to prevent the sharing of negative images, video, or audio of...

I’m politically, epidemiologically, and personally opposed to effectively everything even tangentially related to the Ottawa convoy and...

I’m not in Ottawa and have no idea what happened or is happening with this 'trucker convoy' thing. I don't know who’s involved or not,...

What is going on with the water situation in this country? For more than ten years now I’ve been hearing about serious drinking and...

[A SOCIALLY DISTANCED PANDEMIC PUB QUIZ] 1) COVID-19 will: A) Soon be forgotten B) Decide to disregard natural and anthropogenic...

I know very little about past outbreaks and pandemics (other than a few half-anecdotes about some notable events like the 1854 Broad...

Conversations about carbon dioxide and energy have been unavoidable within environmental circles and are increasingly so in the media. In...

Someone shared with me an article by a senior lecturer in sociology from Lund University, Roland Paulsen . Therein Paulsen offers a...

I was having an argument with someone about how we report our COVID cases, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths. My issue wasn’t...

Acquaintances of mine share video after video, post after post, and slogan after slogan that, as far as I’m able to discern, rewrite all...

We act as though seeking or divulging one’s vaccine status is simple and no big deal. I feel like it’s very complicated, more like a...