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CHARBONNEAU – Using the future of our planet as a political football

October 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

CANADIANS, INCLUDING BUSINESS GROUPS, support Trudeau’s proposed carbon-pricing plan announced Tuesday. So why are some politicians opposed? The short answer is politics, [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Royal Proclamation of 1763 was basis for our constitution

October 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

MORE THAN A CENTURY before the confederation of Canada in 1867, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 established a basis of government in North America. Peter Russell, in his book [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The rise of populism in the attention economy

October 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

WE ONLY HAVE SO MUCH ATTENTION to give and as such, it’s a valuable resource. Everyone wants our attention: social media, advertisers, politicians, family and friends. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Three profiles of B.C. opioid users over 139 years

October 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE FISH-BOWL LIVES of drug users on the streets of downtown East Vancouver provides an easy, but distorted, window to drug use. That picture is as distorted now as it was [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – How Russia uses social media to stir conflict

September 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has unleashed an army of trolls and bots. His bad intentions go beyond revenge and interference in U.S. elections. Recently, postings from [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Are mysterious ‘fast radio bursts’ from a cosmic event?

September 13, 2018 // 1 Comment

THE RADIO TELESCOPE NEAR PENTICTON has detected signals that were sent from some mysterious object billions of light years away, at a time when the Earth was so hot that [Continue]