Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – You’re wrong Premier Smith; B.C. will win the war on addiction

February 2, 2023 // 0 Comments

YOUR CHIEF OF STAFF says B.C. has a “drug legalization agenda,” Premier Danielle Smith. He adds that B.C. invests in treatment on a “very small scale.” Those are [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Provinces come to their senses on healthcare money

January 26, 2023 // 0 Comments

ORDINARILY, provinces only want one thing from the feds – money. So when the feds offer money in exchange for something, provinces are reluctant to accept. All that has [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Will Ontario’s plan to boost surgeries at private clinics work?

January 20, 2023 // 0 Comments

IF DOUG FORD’S doing it, it can’t be good so the thinking goes. But his idea deserves examination. Private clinics can work if they are run by non-profit societies. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The depth of Freedom Convoyers’ discontent is misunderstood

January 12, 2023 // 1 Comment

IT’S EASY TO DISMISS motives of supporters of the Freedom Convoy that paralyzed Canada’s capital last January. Their grievances seem so inchoate, like a primal howl. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The pandemic changed how we view external threats

January 5, 2023 // 0 Comments

WE HAVE BECOME nonchalant about viruses for too long. The war on viruses was declared over in 1969 according to one quote: “it is time to close the book on infectious [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Look out Google, here comes chatbot

December 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

WARNING: NOT ALL of this article was written by a human. Google was a game-changer when it first came out. I started using the browser in 1998. I was hooked on Google from [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Use of “gaslighting” stretches beyond original meaning

December 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

MERRIAM-WEBSTER picked ‘gaslighting’ as Word of the Year for statistical reasons only. Merriam-Webster saw a staggering 1,740 percent increase in searches for [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Provinces don’t want/want to meet with feds over health care

December 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

PROVINCES ARE SENDING mixed messages. First they meet but reject previously negotiated terms. A month later, they want to meet but are unwilling to negotiate. Make up your [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Smith is an amateur at separation compared to Quebec

December 8, 2022 // 1 Comment

ALBERTA’s PREMIER Danielle Smith is desperately trying to appeal to her populist base by introducing her loony sovereignty act. Smith is trailing NDP leader Rachel [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Poilievre repeats misinformation about the drug supply

December 1, 2022 // 1 Comment

I JUST WATCHED Conservative leader Poilievre’s tacky video set in front of a tent city in Vancouver. For dramatic effect, his video is interspersed with drive-by shots of [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Is the 1.5C target on climate emergency still possible?

November 24, 2022 // 1 Comment

I’D LIKE TO FEEL OPTIMISTIC that we can limit the amount of carbon we are pumping into the atmosphere but a number of things are conspiring against a target of 1.5 C. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Mentally ill Canadians deserve the right to die with dignity

November 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

MENTALLY ILL Canadians have been excluded from medical assistance in dying (MAID) but that is about to change in a few months. When that option arrives in March, 2023, Canada [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – For occupiers, ‘it was Woodstock.’ For Ottawans, not so much

November 10, 2022 // 1 Comment

THEY CAME, THEY SAW, they partied. The Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa in January with the goal of raising a ruckus and having fun. One of the organizers, Pat King, told an [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Musk buys Twitter to promote a populist agenda

November 3, 2022 // 1 Comment

THE TWITTERVERSE is atwitter after Elon Musk purchased the world’s largest bullhorn for $44 billion. Right-wingers are crowing at the return of Twitter as a platform for [Continue]