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CHARBONNEAU – Foreign workers should have a chance for citizenship

September 19, 2024 // 0 Comments

TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS labour in jobs that Canadians won’t. They perform a vital role in our economy, yet they face bureaucratic hurdles in becoming citizens. According [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Music made by nobody for an audience of no one

September 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

MICHAEL SMITH of North Carolina is being charged with the theft of millions of dollars of royalty payments intended for real artists. In an elaborate scheme, he allegedly [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The long journey from George Boole to AI

September 5, 2024 // 1 Comment

IN THE MID-1800s, the mathematician and philosopher George Boole developed a logical system for determining what was true or false. His Boolean algebra eventually became the [Continue]

JOHNSON – Populist politics feeds on the neglected and politically forgotten

September 2, 2024 // 1 Comment

THE RECENT UK shucking of its right-wing extremist Tory government shows how their voters clearly had enough after 14 years of disastrous economic performance and social [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Will Trump play the gender card?

August 31, 2024 // 2 Comments

I FIND IT HARD to understand, but patriarchy is still a substantial factor in American politics. With former U.S. president Trump becoming more ballistic at the growing [Continue]

JOHNSON – Is the Liberal party happy with letting Justin Trudeau fail?

August 27, 2024 // 2 Comments

THERE’S A THOUGHT going around as to why the federal Liberal party in Canada have not pushed for Justin Trudeau to step aside, the same way that Democrats did in the [Continue]