Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – Listen to the science, not necessarily the scientists

July 25, 2024 // 5 Comments

SCIENTISTS ARE SOMETIMES quoted to support erroneous claims. Like everyone, scientists can have flawed opinions. But unlike everyone, their opinions are elevated because they [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The Indigenization industry

July 18, 2024 // 1 Comment

IN AN ATTEMPT to be politically correct, corporate Canada is hiring Indigenous people. Once hired, they become showpieces of their reconciliation efforts. Investigative [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The dirty secret of my Alaska cruise

July 11, 2024 // 2 Comments

I HAD SOME reservations before joining our Alaska cruise last year. Some of my concerns were ethical, some technical. How could I justify boarding a luxury ship when so many [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Anti-greenwashing laws should apply to forestry industry

July 4, 2024 // 3 Comments

IF AN OLD-GROWTH TREE falls in the forest and is turned into sawdust, does anyone one care? Not if the tree is in the B.C interior. If the old-tree was on the coast, there [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Latest poll on bilingualism is cause for worry

June 27, 2024 // 2 Comments

I HOPE IT’S JUST because Canadians are in a bad mood that fewer support bilingualism than in the past. In a recent poll by Leger, only half of Canadians (52%) think it [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Big governments in the West look to success in China

June 21, 2024 // 0 Comments

IN 1978, CHINA LOOKED to the West for industrial policy and implemented capitalism as a method of reform. Now the West is looking to China’s big government model of [Continue]