PEREGRINE PULP

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 ha

The New York Times just published a flashy article on its website accusing Israel of deliberately starving Palestinian children . They tell us, “Obtaining enough to eat had already been a struggle for many in the blockaded Gaza Strip before the war. An estimated 1.2 million Gazans had required food assistance, according to the United Nations, and around 0.8 percent of children under the age of 5 in Gaza had been acutely malnourished, the World Health Organization said." They

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

NO CEASEFIRE November 1st Hamas official Ghazi Hamad stated that Hamas would “repeat the October 7th attacks time and again until Israel...

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]..

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

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:

This is a curious phenomenon I’ve been following for more than a decade now. It happens around everything from environmental issues (such...

IS THIS HELPING ANYTHING? ​ • The “Doomsday Glacier” Is Irreversibly Melting, Researchers Say “It could fall apart quickly, in decades.”...

Once again, it seems that every day of inquiry will present surprising facts seemingly contrary to everything I was led to believe about...

Starting on November 1st, we began hearing testimony from the convoy organizers. Once again I was surprised by what came out. As the...

The Emergencies Act Commission heard many hours of testimony from key figures within Ottawa and Ontario policing between October 21st and...

Days six and seven offered us more illuminating inquiry. The people running police operations in Ottawa knew what was coming,...

Much has been learned in the opening days of the Emergencies Act inquiry. Many surprises have come out, too. I’m so glad I wrote about...

I'd gotten a text message from a friend telling me I should listen to this podcast from someone named Ezra Klein. I didn't know the...

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,...

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...