Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s internet remains flat, despite challenges

May 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

CANADA REMAINS a world-leader in keeping our internet equal for all. Challenges to tilt the internet in favour of special interests come from at home and abroad. Last month, [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Online dating and racism

May 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

WHEN MY wife died, I considered online dating as way of meeting people. Hadiya Roderique’s shares her experience with online dating in Walrus magazine (March, 2017). “I [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – It’s too late to decriminalize marijuana

April 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

DECRIMINALIZATION of marijuana should have happened decades ago. Now it would only add to the confusion. Marijuana users are caught in a legal limbo. The government intends [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Please stop treating B.C.’s Interior like it’s a colony

April 20, 2017 // 1 Comment

PREMIER CLARK’s plan for job growth in B.C.’s interior is a failure. Her plan to extract Liquefied Natural Gas from the interior evaporated. She is sending more raw [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Opioid use rises despite crisis; feels like 1908 again

April 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

AM I THE ONLY ONE not surprised that the opioid crisis has worsened? Despite the widespread distribution of naloxone kits to save lives from fentanyl overdose. Despite [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Tax loopholes: the good, the bad and the ugly

April 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE between a tax break and a tax loophole? Tax breaks are legitimate deductions that I make and loopholes are shady tax dodges that others use. [Continue]