CHARBONNEAU – Taxpayers or ratepayers – who pays Hydro’s debt?
FOR DECADES, B.C. governments have hidden the true cost of BC Hydro rates — but especially the BC Liberals. Under the direction of the BC Liberals, the Crown utility used [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Immigration is shaping up to be an election issue
IMMIGRATION COULD BE THE TOXIC ISSUE in the upcoming October federal election. Just the talk of anti-immigration by politicians is enough to trigger attacks on some of [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Netflix confuses entertainment with culture
THE VIDEO-STREAMING giant Netflix recently told a panel reviewing Canada’s Broadcast Act that “market forces” should determine the programs that Canadians watch, not [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – China ‘understands’ the developing world
CHINA IS TAKING A PAGE out of the American playbook in its massive global investment called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). “Belt,” is short for the Silk Road [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – How Russia could determine our next prime minister
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT the Canadian commandos who slipped into the Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine in 2016? The commandos were targeting the new Republic which, [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Donald Trump takes on the military-industrial complex
U.S. PRESIDENT TRUMP’S GOAL of pulling troops from the Middle East threatens the established order that has dominated the American economy and foreign policy since the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Canada will become more multilingual this year
THE TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT intends to enact the Indigenous Languages Act before the next election in October this year. The act will recognize the use of Indigenous languages as [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Ditch the stoner image of cannabis users
NOW THAT CANNABIS is legal in Canada a more accurate picture of users is emerging. Cannabis users are coming out into the daylight and they don’t look like what’s [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Blueberries march north to B.C., then south again
BLUEBERRIES HAVE ARRIVED arrived from Peru in my local store. Next they’ll be coming from Chile, then Mexico. As spring moves north, they will arrive from Florida. Then [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Big Food versus Canada’s Food Guide
THE INTERESTS OF THE FOOD INDUSTRY don’t always coincide with healthy eating. What’s at stake is Canada’s new food guide. It’s a big deal. Canada’s Food Guide is [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – When nature gives you tar sands, make carbon fibres
OIL SANDS crude prices have hit rock bottom. The future could be in the tar -the bitumen. The original name for the deposits, tar sands, should be restored because that’s [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – StatsCan and the politicization of information gathering
STATSCAN NEEDS to update its operating system and reboot. They now operate on a paper system in which only 40 per cent of surveys on spending habits are returned. Those that [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Ten years after the Great Recession, nothing’s changed
A DECADE LATER, the crisis that threatened to take down the global financial order seems like a bad dream. Now it’s business as usual. In 2008, banking institutions creaked [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s Roma have a rich history, including in Kamloops
THE ROMANI PEOPLE of Canada have been met with both fascination and suspicion. For more than a century, Canadians have been fascinated by the colourful bands of “Gypsies” [Continue]
