CHARBONNEAU – ‘Indigenous’ identity is a vague status
BEING ‘INDIGENOUS’ can mean almost anything. Celebrated author Thomas King made it clear. The author of The Inconvenient Indian had always thought that he was [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Pipeline follies: political theatre picks up under Carney
POLITICAL THEATRE in Canada is picking up under PM Carney. The plot The prime minister of Canada wins over a defensive Alberta premier with a Memorandum of Understanding but [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – TRU administration walks fine line of political neutrality
ADMINISTRATORS at Thompson Rivers University made a political statement in preventing residential school deniers from having a platform to spread misinformation. They [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – America is not coming back for a long time
STUNG BY GLOBALIZATION, led by a president tearing down the global institutions his predecessors helped build, America is not returning to the community of nations any time [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Privately owned property can exist on Indigenous land
DESPITE THE ANGER and panic created over the Cowichan court decision, privately owned property (fee simple) can and does exist on Indigenous governed land. It should be noted [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – BC Hydro rations future electricity use
WHAT A DIFFERENCE a decade makes. Ten years ago, I argued that we didn’t need Site C dam because we had all the electricity we needed. In this column, I quoted Prof. Marvin [Continue]
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