PEREGRINE PULP

LIVING AND A LIVING Part of what makes this place so great, aside from the natural beauty and great climate, is that it’s almost...

PRIVACY At the airport. In a lounge between the gates and food court, a young British family alights on a circular couch. Mom is dealing...

A 2021 study out of Denmark estimated the proportion of cases of schizophrenia associated with cannabis use in that country doubled in...

In Canada, any person or entity responsible for moving money around has obligations to help combat money laundering and the financing of...

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.

Jean : You should just start a business. Wendal : I don’t think businesses are a thing. Tyson : Oh, here we go. Wendal : What I mean is that I believe in debt and I believe in disposable income but I don’t believe in the organic, money-making, self-sustaining businesses. Never seen it happen. And I’ve been looking. Tyson : What? Wendal : So, we have the numbers. And you know these. They're irrefutable. Things like:

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

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 e

Recently I read the pot market more than doubled during the pandemic. And yet almost everywhere a weed shop stood in this town in 2018...