Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – Empty pipelines make good monuments and spill no oil

June 8, 2018 // 1 Comment

THE KINDER MORGAN pipeline should be built for the same reason as the pyramids – as a national monument. The pyramids employed workers but served no practical purpose other [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – More reasons for reduced guilt while flying

May 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

I FEEL LESS guilty flying on vacation now that I’ve compared flying with driving by car. Both contribute to global warming about the same. Comparisons between the two are [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Homoeopathy debate re-ignited by two recent events

May 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

QUESTIONS ABOUT the practice of homoeopathy have been re-ignited by two recent events. One has to do with a homeopathic rabid-dog-saliva treatment and the other about the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Anonymity is not enough for security on apps

May 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

YOU CAN SET your privacy settings on apps so that personal data is not shared. But even anonymous data can threaten security. Take the case of the fitness tracking app [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – New doctors need to give up their sense of entitlement

May 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

ThERE ARE MORE doctors than ever before; yet two million Canadians can’t find one. An estimated 30,000 Kamloopsians don’t have a family doctor, although only about [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Facebook should be treated like other Canadian utilities

May 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

SO MANY CANADIANS use Facebook that it should be regulated like any other Canadian utility. No broadcaster or telephone company would operate in Canada without government [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Canadians look beyond America to the outside world

April 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

FOR THE FIRST TIME in decades, Canadians are more likely to hold a negative view of the U.S. than positive. According to a survey by the Environics Institute, it’s the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Being first doesn’t necessarily mean we do it best

April 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

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]

CHARBONNEAU – Basic income in the new world order

April 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

March 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

February 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

February 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

February 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

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]