CHARBONNEAU – Being first doesn’t necessarily mean we do it best
WE ARRIVED in North America, in what is now Canada, 16,000 years ago. Within a few thousand years, three quarters of the continent’s large animals were gone. By “we,” I [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Basic income in the new world order
A BASIC INCOME has been promoted from the left and right for years but nothing has come of it. Maybe new leaders and a new world order will change that. Sometimes called a [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – In defence of Facebook
I LIKE FACEBOOK but I’m not an apologist for the social media giant. Facebook has done things wrong. They failed to prevent Cambridge Analytica from gathering detailed [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The titans of technology have feet of clay
TECHNOLOGY SEEMS unstoppable. The accumulated wealth of the Big Five: Apple, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon, have a combined value of $4 [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Canadian beavers weren’t always such hard workers
THE BEAVER exemplifies what it means to be Canadian. Rachel Poliquin puts it this way: “Humpbacked and portly, with an earnest and honest charm, beavers epitomize the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The rise and fall of globalization
AS THE SUN sets on globalization, what will a new day bring? The new era will face challenges of rampant parochialism, environmental destruction, inequality and greed. The [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – New drug will make medically assisted death easier
A NEW DRUG in Canada will make medically assisted death easier. It can’t come soon enough. If I had a terminal illness that made my life a living hell, I would want [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The future of blockchain mining in B.C.
BLOCKCHAIN MINES look nothing like copper mines. They are banks of computers that toil away at solving complex calculations. Blockchain is the digital ledger used by many [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – His and hers health – drugs don’t affect sexes the same way
MEDICATIONS affect women differently than men but you wouldn’t know it from prescribed drugs. Take the sleep drug Ambien, for example. After the drug had been placed on [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Failure of NAFTA could be good for our creativity
IT’S A TOSS-UP on whether the North America Free Trade Agreement will survive. The fifth round of discussions has concluded in Mexico and Foreign Affairs Minister [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Blockchain could improve food security
THE FUTURE of cryptocurrencies such as the bitcoin might be unclear but the technology behind it is solid. Blockchain is the digital ledger where bitcoin transactions are [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – A multi-tent government might have stopped Site C
BIG-TENT parties are standard in politics but in government, they rule from a small room. Getting as many voters into your tent ensures a win in the first-past-the-post [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Climate-change denial is not about science
THE MINDS of climate-change deniers won’t be changed with scientific facts. For them, the real issue isn’t science. There’s a temptation to think that if all the facts [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Doctors beware: this opioid is not listed
DOCTORS RELY on Canada’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Act as a guide in prescribing drugs. Tramadol is not listed there but that could change soon. Tramadol is a sneaky [Continue]
