Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – Housing affordability has improved for wealthy, worsened for low-income

January 13, 2022 // 2 Comments

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

January 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

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

December 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

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]

CHARBONNEAU – Owners of rooftop solar panels victims of own success

December 23, 2021 // 2 Comments

T’IS THE SEASON for BC Hydro to be jolly, while the days are short and the sun is low on the horizon. The weak sun means that owners of rooftop solar panels won’t be [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – China tries to take the separatist out of Tibetan children

December 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

CHINA COULD LEARN from Canada’s mistaken attempt to “take the Indian out of the child,” as John A. Macdonald put it. Now China is repeating Canada’s folly by trying [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Long battle over prof’s firing continues with new twists

December 10, 2021 // 2 Comments

THE PLOT THICKENS as Steven Galloway’s war drags on. The award-winning Kamloops author never imagined that his career would become mired in a warzone similar to the one [Continue]