PEREGRINE PULP

We all know plastic pollution is ubiquitous, present in the soil, water, and air. At minimum it’s gross and all this plastic seems to be disgustingly persistent in the environment, too. But all over the place and for many years now we’ve been hearing that the situation is far worse than we imagined. Microplastics! Those petroleum-based fragments, and their infinitesimal nano off-spring, appeared to be far more problematic than a wayward Ziploc bag or pop bottle cap. And yet,

I’m declaring 2026 the year of the moral panic. We’re really going all-in, here. Aren’t we? To me, the following is quickly becoming Canada’s Epstein files: replete with the wildest allegations accompanied by a shocking paucity of evidence and a growing international furor all due to reporters, journalists, and editors showing no willingness to ask the most obvious questions or offer readily available data while, of course, delivering outlandish headlines. — Now, what follows

Nicholas Kristof — The New York Times Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington. The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health car

I've recently written a few rants about cannabis legalization in Canada and harm reduction in BC . Exploring these themes further, I just came across three new papers investigating mental health emergencies induced by cannabis consumption. All super interesting. The first study is titled Association between non-medical cannabis legalization and emergency department visits for cannabis-induced psychosis. Led by Dr Myran , a family physician with the Ottawa Hospital Research I