Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – One-time handout to the homeless reduces social costs

October 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT MAY SEEM counterintuitive to give cash to homeless people. Didn’t their poor money skills get them on the street in the first place? The University of British Columbia [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – A reliable postal system is an indication of a country’s democracy

October 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

I’VE FOUND THAT YOU CAN determine how well a country functions by how well its postal system works. When I lived in Australia, I could count on letters getting back to [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Ottawa’s plan to force digital giants to pay for news is doomed

October 3, 2020 // 1 Comment

YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT in the recent throne speech but the federal government intends to tax the digital giants Facebook and Google (FG). The feds are reacting to [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Someone should let Jason Kenney know the oil peak has arrived

September 25, 2020 // 1 Comment

ALBERTA PREMIER JASON KENNEY still dreams that his one-trick scheme of pumping oil out of the ground will save Alberta. Not so, says the energy giant BP. BP predicts that [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Excess weight is not a disease

September 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

SOCIETY HAS A BIAS against people who weigh more than ‘normal,’ a bias with attached stigma called “fatphobia”. Doctors are not immune. It’s not that doctors are [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Good memorials, bad memorials of residential schools

September 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

FIRST NATIONS SHOW THE WAY to reconciliation. Protestors with other agendas should pay heed. In a transformative move, Indigenous Canadians have designated the residential [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Get ready to pay a pandemic premium

August 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

IN A SNEAKY MOVE, the Trudeau government has proposed a revised Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) just after they prorogued parliament. Now the opposition has no opportunity [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The rocky relationship between CERB, EI and getting back to work

August 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

WHILE PARENTS WORRY about sending their kids back to school in September, millions will be without work and without government assistance. The Canada Emergency Response [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Tearing down and vandalizing statues is barbaric

August 14, 2020 // 1 Comment

NOW THAT WE ARE ENLIGHTENED, we clearly see the errors of the past. Such is the case with every generation. Regrettably, that enlightenment doesn’t seem to distinguish [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Russian COVID misinformation part of pre-election strategy

August 7, 2020 // 1 Comment

JUST AS IN THE LAST U.S. presidential election, the Russians are stirring up the electorate in advance of November’s presidential election. It’s all part Prime Minister [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – COVID-19 is more costly to humanity than climate change

July 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has changed the way I regard climate change. Don’t get me wrong: climate change is real and it’s man-made. But it is not the “the greatest threat [Continue]

McQUARRIE – The rapid spread of the stupidity contagion – can it be stopped?

July 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

“THE COVID VACCINE is designed to microchip us,” states a recent post on Facebook; which once again proves we have yet to invent a vaccine that eliminates the rampant [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Fears of out-of-town workers spreading virus are unfounded

July 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

SOME KAMLOOPSIANS WORRY that the 50 pipeline workers from out of town will bring the Cov2 virus into our community. That number of workers will swell to 600 by August. The [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Even with rain, it’s a summer to celebrate, not fret about

July 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

REMEMBER LAST SUMMER when we rubbed shoulders at concerts and live theatre; cheek-to-jowl at our favourite restaurants and watering holes? Remember when we mingled in crowds [Continue]