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CHARBONNEAU – When nature gives you tar sands, make carbon fibres

November 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

OIL SANDS crude prices have hit rock bottom. The future could be in the tar -the bitumen. The original name for the deposits, tar sands, should be restored because that’s [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – StatsCan and the politicization of information gathering

November 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

STATSCAN NEEDS to update its operating system and reboot. They now operate on a paper system in which only 40 per cent of surveys on spending habits are returned. Those that [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Ten years after the Great Recession, nothing’s changed

November 8, 2018 // 1 Comment

A DECADE LATER, the crisis that threatened to take down the global financial order seems like a bad dream. Now it’s business as usual. In 2008, banking institutions creaked [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s Roma have a rich history, including in Kamloops

November 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE ROMANI PEOPLE of Canada have been met with both fascination and suspicion. For more than a century, Canadians have been fascinated by the colourful bands of “Gypsies” [Continue]

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]