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CHARBONNEAU – Ottawa’s plan to force digital giants to pay for news is doomed

October 3, 2020 // 1 Comment

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

September 25, 2020 // 1 Comment

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

September 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

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]

CHARBONNEAU – Good memorials, bad memorials of residential schools

September 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

FIRST NATIONS SHOW THE WAY to reconciliation. Protestors with other agendas should pay heed. In a transformative move, Indigenous Canadians have designated the residential [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Get ready to pay a pandemic premium

August 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

IN A SNEAKY MOVE, the Trudeau government has proposed a revised Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) just after they prorogued parliament. Now the opposition has no opportunity [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The rocky relationship between CERB, EI and getting back to work

August 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

WHILE PARENTS WORRY about sending their kids back to school in September, millions will be without work and without government assistance. The Canada Emergency Response [Continue]