CHARBONNEAU – I was wrong about the Site C dam
DESPITE WHAT I SAID EARLIER, Site C is a mistake. The massive dam is being built in the Peace River region of northeastern British Columbia. Dams are not a mistake. [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – One-time handout to the homeless reduces social costs
IT MAY SEEM counterintuitive to give cash to homeless people. Didn’t their poor money skills get them on the street in the first place? The University of British Columbia [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – A reliable postal system is an indication of a country’s democracy
I’VE FOUND THAT YOU CAN determine how well a country functions by how well its postal system works. When I lived in Australia, I could count on letters getting back to [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Ottawa’s plan to force digital giants to pay for news is doomed
YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT in the recent throne speech but the federal government intends to tax the digital giants Facebook and Google (FG). The feds are reacting to [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Someone should let Jason Kenney know the oil peak has arrived
ALBERTA PREMIER JASON KENNEY still dreams that his one-trick scheme of pumping oil out of the ground will save Alberta. Not so, says the energy giant BP. BP predicts that [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Excess weight is not a disease
SOCIETY HAS A BIAS against people who weigh more than ‘normal,’ a bias with attached stigma called “fatphobia”. Doctors are not immune. It’s not that doctors are [Continue]
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