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CHARBONNEAU – Affordability is one of the keys to buying an electric vehicle

July 10, 2025 // 3 Comments

AFFORDABILITY is one of the keys to buying an electric vehicle but other barriers are growing. I would buy an electric vehicle if the price was comparable to a gasoline one. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – U.S. Congress squeaks up on the Big Beautiful Bill

July 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

THE AMERICAN CONGRESS has been silent as a church mouse up until now. I’ve been wondering how long Congress would remain silent as President Bluster blows hard in daily [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – After the peace dividend, the defence dividend

June 26, 2025 // 1 Comment

CANADA HAS LONG benefited from the peace dividend but those times are over. With the Orange Man threatening NATO countries which don’t arm themselves to the extent that [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The shortage is of family practitioners, not doctors

June 19, 2025 // 2 Comments

CANADA HAS MORE doctors than ever before but fewer of us (including me) have a family doctor. How can that be? What are they doing if not treating the 6.5 million Canadians [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Few long-term jobs from AI data centers in Kamloops

June 12, 2025 // 1 Comment

THERE ARE OBVIOUS advantages for the builders of AI data centres to locate in Kamloops. But they don’t create that many long-term jobs. Job creation is a routine part of [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Proposed Tk’emlúps biomass fuel refinery gets Trump bump

June 5, 2025 // 2 Comments

PRESIDENT TRUMP has, perhaps advertently, given a break to North American biomass fuel producers. In his war on sanity, Trump is not known to help former friends. Trump’s [Continue]