Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – Facebook should be treated like other Canadian utilities

May 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

SO MANY CANADIANS use Facebook that it should be regulated like any other Canadian utility. No broadcaster or telephone company would operate in Canada without government [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Canadians look beyond America to the outside world

April 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

FOR THE FIRST TIME in decades, Canadians are more likely to hold a negative view of the U.S. than positive. According to a survey by the Environics Institute, it’s the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Being first doesn’t necessarily mean we do it best

April 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

WE ARRIVED in North America, in what is now Canada, 16,000 years ago. Within a few thousand years, three quarters of the continent’s large animals were gone. By “we,” I [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Basic income in the new world order

April 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

A BASIC INCOME has been promoted from the left and right for years but nothing has come of it. Maybe new leaders and a new world order will change that. Sometimes called a [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – In defence of Facebook

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

I LIKE FACEBOOK but I’m not an apologist for the social media giant. Facebook has done things wrong. They failed to prevent Cambridge Analytica from gathering detailed [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The titans of technology have feet of clay

March 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

TECHNOLOGY SEEMS unstoppable. The accumulated wealth of the Big Five: Apple, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon, have a combined value of $4 [Continue]