CHARBONNEAU – Convoy brings back memories of ‘Yellow Vest’ movement
AS YOGI BERRAs once said: “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Here we go again with another truck convoy to Ottawa by the misguided fuzzy-thinkers. Three [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – The success of Canada’s legalization of cannabis
THE FACT THAT CIGARETTES were legal but caused cancer, and cannabis was illegal but hadn’t been proven to cause cancer, struck us as grimly ironic in the 1970s. We quipped: [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Make the unvaccinated pay but forget the tax
THE UNVACCINATED are a burden on our health care system. Those who refuse to get a shot against COVID-19 use a proportionally high percentage of health care resources. We, [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Housing affordability has improved for wealthy, worsened for low-income
WITH THE SOARING COST of housing, you wouldn’t think anyone could be further ahead. But for the wealthy, that’s the case. That’s what Prof. Yushu Zhu of Simon Fraser [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s divide with the U.S. will widen in 2022
THE GAP BETWEEN Canadian and American values will grow wider in 2022. We were relatively happy with our neighbours until the arrival of Donald Trump in 2017. Then the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – ‘Supply chain’ should be a contender for phrase of the year
I’M PICKING ‘SUPPLY CHAIN’ as phrase of the year. While there were other strong candidates, the stark frailty of supply chains and its psychological backlash [Continue]
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