CHARBONNEAU – Art imitates life in movie Contagion
THE MOVIE CONTAGION (2011) accurately predicted some aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, the movie is meant to be entertaining and has a happy ending. [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – The coronavirus pandemic is a fact, but it’s also news
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS A FACT. It is also news. The difference between facts and “the news” is that facts don’t always become news, not because those facts [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Coronavirus tests Canada’s character
CANADIANS ARE SEEN AS “NICE” PEOPLE, sensible, proud of Canada but not jingoistic, modest, not fanatically religious. The way we respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Coronavirus gives the virus family a bad name
MOST VIRUSES ARE BENIGN and some are even lifesaving. Only a few cause panic and fear. We are literally immersed in viruses. A UBC professor has discovered that billions of [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The language of the infiltrators in pipeline dispute
INFILTRATORS OF THE PIPELINE PROTEST intend to shut down dialogue and perpetuate the divisions between us. What was once the sole grievance of hereditary chiefs is now a [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Cheer up, climate change could be a lot worse
THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL was remarkable for three reasons: It was a model for international cooperation; it succeeded in reducing atmospheric pollution; and now studies show it [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The Kamloops rental shortage is no accident
THE SHORTAGE OF AFFORDABLE RENTAL UNITS in Kamloops is the result of deliberate government policy starting with the Mulroney Conservatives in the 1990s. Not just Kamloops but [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Rona Ambrose – best leader the Conservatives never had
FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN OUT of federal politics since 2017 and has no intentions for running for leader of the Conservative Party, Rona Ambrose remains popular. Even the [Continue]
FORSETH – New $1 million tourism fund won’t do what government claims
RURAL COMMUNITIES affected by mill closures throughout British Columbia will benefit from $1 million in funding to develop tourism opportunities, creating new jobs for people [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Why capitalists should support the European Union
LIKE MOST CANADIANS, I favour the European Union and have a negative opinion of Brexit. According to a poll by Carleton University, 75 percent of Canadians have positive or [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Kamloops homeless population needs to sleep
KAMLOOPS AGENCIES CARE FOR THE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL needs of our homeless: faith, food, warmth in the winter, air conditioning in the summer. However, there is no place to [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Look to the sea for the internet, not the clouds
OUR CONNECTION to the internet seems so ethereal – it’s as though data materializes out of thin air. This illusion is a result of the final hop of our connection to the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Greta Thunberg gets it wrong on panicking over climate
I SYMPATHIZE WITH Swedish teen Greta Thunberg for her outrage at the mess that my generation has left the world in. We just wanted to create a culture with every convenience [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Who is responsible for the CO2 produced by streaming?
THIS COLUMN MARKS 20 years of writing Eye View. Thanks to former editors of the Kamloops Daily News Susan Duncan and Mel Rothenburger for encouraging me to write, to CFJC [Continue]
