Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – Re-humanizing work a major challenge in high-tech world

April 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

MACHINES DO MANY THINGS BETTER THAN HUMANS – except being human. Advances in technology have always generated anxiety. Workers during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – How flower power and the computer age let me down

March 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

AS SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED IN ELECTRONICS all my life, I had high hopes for the digital age. But it turned out to be yet another disappointment. The first was when flower [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Wilson-Raybould: a uniquely Canadian scandal

March 15, 2019 // 1 Comment

SCANDAL IN BRITAIN brought down the Conservative government in 1963 when it was revealed that model and nightclub dancer Christine Keeler had slept with British and Russian [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Threat from Huawei gear is overblown

March 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

ALL NATIONS SPY on each other and they don’t need Huawei equipment to do so. The U.S. has targeted the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei for potential spy software [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Mexico could ease Canada’s cannabis problem

March 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE PLAN TO DRIVE illegal cannabis growers out of business is going slowly. The problem is supplying enough legal cannabis to lower retail prices. Eventually illegal sellers [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Taxpayers or ratepayers – who pays Hydro’s debt?

February 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

FOR DECADES, B.C. governments have hidden the true cost of BC Hydro rates — but especially the BC Liberals. Under the direction of the BC Liberals, the Crown utility used [Continue]