CHARBONNEAU – B.C. denies the mentally ill their constitutional rights
“UNLIKE MOST OF THE COUNTRY, B.C.’s legislation does not provide a lawyer for people with mental illness facing involuntary detention,” says Jay Chalke, B.C.’s [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Non-fungible tokens could help artists make a living
I DIDN’T REALIZE MY ART WAS NON-FUNGIBLE but that was because I didn’t know what the word fungible meant. Until recently, fungible was rarely used outside legal circles. [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Agreement with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs was either crafty or naive
OVER A YEAR AGO, governments rid themselves of a political problem and passed it on to the Wet’suwet’en people of B.C.’s northern interior. Governments had to “do [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – One big grid is the solution to secure electricity
PROFESSOR MICHAEL D. MEHTA of Thompson Rivers University makes a number of good points in his recent article regarding a secure electrical system. However, he’s thinking in [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Animals organize to take back cities
I’M SITTING ON THE BANKS of the North Thompson River, not far from my house in Westsyde. People walk along the river, not far away, but they seldom notice me high on the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Facebook’s ham-fisted response to paying for the news
WHILE GOOGLE’S RESPONSE to plans by the Australian government to force social media giants to pay for news has been nuanced, Facebook’s response has been provocative. [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The new climate deniers surrender to wishful thinking
THE NEW CLIMATE DENIERS no longer deny that climate change is happening. It’s become too obvious that it is. It used to be that climate change deniers could ridicule the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Revenge of social media traders shakes Wall Street
USERS OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA FORUM REDDIT organized last Wednesday to save the game retailer GameStop from being driven into bankruptcy by hedge fund managers. Wealthy hedge [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Trying to slow the exodus from Canada’s big cities
CANADA MORTGAGE AND HOUSING Corproation (CMHC) is attempting to curb the outflow from big cities. Toronto saw a net loss of 50,375 last year as people moved to surrounding [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Donald Trump’s big-tent coalition of the deluded
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ASSEMBLED a ragtag rabble of misfits into “Trump’s Army”. The disgraced president was able to unite marginalized groups in a way no other president [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Young people have suffered much from the pandemic
YOUNG CANADIANS HAVE BEEN BLAMED for being irresponsible during the pandemic for going to parties and bars. But there’s more hype than truth to these accusations. The [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The death and rebirth of sun at Christmas is solemn occasion
CHRISTMAS IS A TIME OF WONDER; a time for festivity and lights; a time for gathering together with friends and family in celebration. In the shelter of our warm houses, the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Drug prohibition was a mistake but decriminalization not an answer
HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE because of a half-baked idea from a century ago? It all started at the turn of the 20th century when concoctions of opium were commonly found [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Future generations will regard TMX as a curious monument
THE TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE may be redundant. If it remains empty, future generations will wonder why it was built. It’s a distinct possibility that the TMX pipeline, [Continue]
