CHARBONNEAU – Blueberries march north to B.C., then south again
BLUEBERRIES HAVE ARRIVED arrived from Peru in my local store. Next they’ll be coming from Chile, then Mexico. As spring moves north, they will arrive from Florida. Then [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Big Food versus Canada’s Food Guide
THE INTERESTS OF THE FOOD INDUSTRY don’t always coincide with healthy eating. What’s at stake is Canada’s new food guide. It’s a big deal. Canada’s Food Guide is [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – When nature gives you tar sands, make carbon fibres
OIL SANDS crude prices have hit rock bottom. The future could be in the tar -the bitumen. The original name for the deposits, tar sands, should be restored because that’s [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – StatsCan and the politicization of information gathering
STATSCAN NEEDS to update its operating system and reboot. They now operate on a paper system in which only 40 per cent of surveys on spending habits are returned. Those that [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Ten years after the Great Recession, nothing’s changed
A DECADE LATER, the crisis that threatened to take down the global financial order seems like a bad dream. Now it’s business as usual. In 2008, banking institutions creaked [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s Roma have a rich history, including in Kamloops
THE ROMANI PEOPLE of Canada have been met with both fascination and suspicion. For more than a century, Canadians have been fascinated by the colourful bands of “Gypsies” [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Using the future of our planet as a political football
CANADIANS, INCLUDING BUSINESS GROUPS, support Trudeau’s proposed carbon-pricing plan announced Tuesday. So why are some politicians opposed? The short answer is politics, [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Royal Proclamation of 1763 was basis for our constitution
MORE THAN A CENTURY before the confederation of Canada in 1867, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 established a basis of government in North America. Peter Russell, in his book [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The rise of populism in the attention economy
WE ONLY HAVE SO MUCH ATTENTION to give and as such, it’s a valuable resource. Everyone wants our attention: social media, advertisers, politicians, family and friends. [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Three profiles of B.C. opioid users over 139 years
THE FISH-BOWL LIVES of drug users on the streets of downtown East Vancouver provides an easy, but distorted, window to drug use. That picture is as distorted now as it was [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – How Russia uses social media to stir conflict
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has unleashed an army of trolls and bots. His bad intentions go beyond revenge and interference in U.S. elections. Recently, postings from [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Are mysterious ‘fast radio bursts’ from a cosmic event?
THE RADIO TELESCOPE NEAR PENTICTON has detected signals that were sent from some mysterious object billions of light years away, at a time when the Earth was so hot that [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – One power grid solves the green energy problem
SOLAR AND WIND energy suffer from a storage problem. They produce in abundance, often too much, when the wind blows and the sun shines. Storage of that abundance is one [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Normalizing the voices in our heads
HEARING VOICES is often regarded as a sign of mental illness. But maybe voices are just part of a spectrum. Professor T. M. Luhrmann says the idea of a continuum of voices is [Continue]
