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CHARBONNEAU – Turn on, tune in, heal yourself – the return of psychedelics

September 16, 2021 // 1 Comment

WHEN I FIRST TRIED psychedelics in the 1970s, I wasn’t trying to heal myself. I was curious to find out how psychedelics, including LSD and “magic” mushrooms, could [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Doctors’ cozy club limits our health care system

September 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

CANADA DOESN’T HAVE a shortage of doctors; we have a closed shop that prevents foreign-trained doctors from practicing. The medical establishment prevents them from [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The new threat to health care is not privatization, it’s viral

September 2, 2021 // 1 Comment

The COVID pandemic has gone viral. I don’t mean the Delta variant. I mean the mania created by antivaxxers who have whipped up opposition to panic levels. Antivaxxers are [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – How do you feel after starting a disastrous wildfire?

August 26, 2021 // 1 Comment

PEOPLE START MOST wildfires, according to BC Wildfire Service. Few admit it. They must feel awful. Their carelessness caused people to flee for their lives. Livestock and [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Attitude adjustment would solve our homeless problem

August 19, 2021 // 2 Comments

OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS the homeless is a barrier to solving the problem. The old notion that the poor deserve to be so: if people would just apply themselves, they wouldn’t [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The fungus among us: the next pandemic

August 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

I THOUGHT we were friends. You help me make beer, wine, bread and kombucha. We help you spread your spores by clearing land for crops and housing. We warm the climate to make [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Trump’s great idea: rake the forest floors clean

August 5, 2021 // 1 Comment

FORMER PRESIDENT Donald Trump has come up with another great idea. Everyone agrees that the source of wildfires is the buildup of flammable materials on the forest floor, so [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Don’t confuse all the homeless with city’s street menagerie

July 29, 2021 // 1 Comment

A FEW DERANGED, mentally ill and brain-addled addicts on Kamloops’ streets get a lot of attention. But don’t label all the homeless as troublemakers. Kamloops RCMP [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – We are being tested by smoke, fire, heat and disease

July 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

AS WE EMERGE from the pandemic, Kamloopsians expect that summer, especially this summer, will be liberating. After being cooped up all winter, carefully cloistering ourselves [Continue]

CHABONNEAU – I believe you, UFO witnesses

July 15, 2021 // 1 Comment

FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE reason, the pandemic has generated increased numbers of UFO sightings. According to Ufology Research, sightings of levitating discs, erratic spaceships [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The cries of ‘climate change’ depend on the weather

July 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE RECENT HEAT WAVE and subsequent fires have provided an opportunity to remind climate change deniers that it’s real. The incineration of Lytton has captured global [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – BC Housing should value their friends on City council

July 1, 2021 // 1 Comment

CITY COUNCILLORS support public housing but the recent announcement by the B.C. government took them by surprise. In a press release, BC Housing said that they had purchased [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Colonial schools maybe, colonial monuments not

June 24, 2021 // 1 Comment

SOME OF CANADA’s Indigenous people have decided to keep their residential schools despite the fact that they hold so many painful memories. One of those is the largest [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Green is my favourite colour of hydrogen

June 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

WHEN I FIRST MADE hydrogen as a kid, I wasn’t aware that hydrogen came in different colours. Back then, I simply attached two copper wires to my model train transformer, [Continue]