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CHARBONNEAU – Pipeline follies: political theatre picks up under Carney

December 4, 2025 // 1 Comment

POLITICAL THEATRE in Canada is picking up under PM Carney. The plot The prime minister of Canada wins over a defensive Alberta premier with a Memorandum of Understanding but [Continue]

FORSETH – John Rustad’s time as BC Conservative Party leader is over

December 3, 2025 // 1 Comment

LET ME START by saying the following, as someone who has been involved with the BC Conservative Party since 2010, is very hard to say. Regardless of what John (Rustad) has [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – TRU administration walks fine line of political neutrality

November 28, 2025 // 0 Comments

ADMINISTRATORS at Thompson Rivers University made a political statement in preventing residential school deniers from having a platform to spread misinformation. They [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘Voting UNDRIP into law in B.C. was an act of betrayal’

November 21, 2025 // 2 Comments

Excerpt from debate during Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 between Tara Armstrong, MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, and Premier [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – America is not coming back for a long time

November 20, 2025 // 2 Comments

STUNG BY GLOBALIZATION, led by a president tearing down the global institutions his predecessors helped build, America is not returning to the community of nations any time [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Privately owned property can exist on Indigenous land

November 13, 2025 // 5 Comments

DESPITE THE ANGER and panic created over the Cowichan court decision, privately owned property (fee simple) can and does exist on Indigenous governed land. It should be noted [Continue]