PEREGRINE PULP

The Federal Court of Appeal confirms that the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act was unreasonable and ultra vires [beyond their legal authority], and that it infringed paragraph 2(b) and section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Last summer I was writing about my continuing confusion around pandemic-related matters and my feeling that there remains a serious lack of dialogue around any of it. No one liked that. So, let’s try this again. A TIMELINE - 2020 - January 22 - The WHO convened an emergency meeting about an outbreak of a novel coronavirus called 2019-nCoV. The committee could not reach consensus on declaring a global emergency. J anuary 25 - Ontario confirmed Canada’s first case. British C

Are there questions you cannot ask, have answered, or even work with someone to arrive at an answer to? Around the time of the last federal election I was writing about my shock at taking the CBC Vote Compass survey. This assessment of one's political perspectives was wacky for a bunch of reasons, mostly because it was not designed to assess your political stance; but, aside from that, I was surprised by how, among this huge swathe of seemingly irrelevant topics, there wasn't

A pair of revelations have surfaced relating to the pandemic. I didn't catch these being widely reported when they took place many months ago, they did not land anywhere in my news feeds, and neither were being shared or commented on by anyone I know. Instead, I accidentally stumbled upon one of these long after the fact and then the other while looking for more information about the first. DP (DURING PANDEMIC) In 2021, the US FDA was posting messages on social media and the

Though I bought " A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency " the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now did I finish reading it. ( You should go buy five copies .) Obviously, as the title suggests, it's a book about transforming our society with a reorientation toward a concern for climate and addressing the problems we face. In spelling out just how all this will work, the author starts by quoting Gramsci. * And, well, it goes downhill fast from there. Am

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

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

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

Quinita: Typhoid is rampant.

There's a Vancouver MD named Tyler Black who I've been following for some time. He's an emergency psychiatrist who studies suicide in...

EMERGENCIES ACT COMMISSION EDITION This is a special test. It's a learner-centered knowledge assessment in which studying and marking...

AS I HEARD THEM: So Commissioner Rouleau, for the record, my name is Sujit Choudhry and I’m counsel for the Canadian Constitution...

We heard from many sources that the Emergencies Act needed to be invoked, in part, because authorities could not access the tow trucks...

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,...

On day five of the inquiry, October 19th, we started hearing from executives within local and provincial policing and intelligence...