CHARBONNEAU – Netflix in Canada, reconsidered
I WAS A LITTLE hard on Netflix in an earlier column. The video-streaming giant had told a panel reviewing Canada’s Broadcast Act that market forces should determine their [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Re-humanizing work a major challenge in high-tech world
MACHINES DO MANY THINGS BETTER THAN HUMANS – except being human. Advances in technology have always generated anxiety. Workers during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – How flower power and the computer age let me down
AS SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED IN ELECTRONICS all my life, I had high hopes for the digital age. But it turned out to be yet another disappointment. The first was when flower [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Wilson-Raybould: a uniquely Canadian scandal
SCANDAL IN BRITAIN brought down the Conservative government in 1963 when it was revealed that model and nightclub dancer Christine Keeler had slept with British and Russian [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Threat from Huawei gear is overblown
ALL NATIONS SPY on each other and they don’t need Huawei equipment to do so. The U.S. has targeted the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei for potential spy software [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Mexico could ease Canada’s cannabis problem
THE PLAN TO DRIVE illegal cannabis growers out of business is going slowly. The problem is supplying enough legal cannabis to lower retail prices. Eventually illegal sellers [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Taxpayers or ratepayers – who pays Hydro’s debt?
FOR DECADES, B.C. governments have hidden the true cost of BC Hydro rates — but especially the BC Liberals. Under the direction of the BC Liberals, the Crown utility used [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Immigration is shaping up to be an election issue
IMMIGRATION COULD BE THE TOXIC ISSUE in the upcoming October federal election. Just the talk of anti-immigration by politicians is enough to trigger attacks on some of [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Netflix confuses entertainment with culture
THE VIDEO-STREAMING giant Netflix recently told a panel reviewing Canada’s Broadcast Act that “market forces” should determine the programs that Canadians watch, not [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – China ‘understands’ the developing world
CHINA IS TAKING A PAGE out of the American playbook in its massive global investment called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). “Belt,” is short for the Silk Road [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – How Russia could determine our next prime minister
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT the Canadian commandos who slipped into the Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine in 2016? The commandos were targeting the new Republic which, [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Donald Trump takes on the military-industrial complex
U.S. PRESIDENT TRUMP’S GOAL of pulling troops from the Middle East threatens the established order that has dominated the American economy and foreign policy since the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Canada will become more multilingual this year
THE TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT intends to enact the Indigenous Languages Act before the next election in October this year. The act will recognize the use of Indigenous languages as [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Ditch the stoner image of cannabis users
NOW THAT CANNABIS is legal in Canada a more accurate picture of users is emerging. Cannabis users are coming out into the daylight and they don’t look like what’s [Continue]
