CHARBONNEAU – Decline of mainstream media hurts democracy
DEMOCRACY DEPENDS on an informed citizenry. Without it, as we have seen in the U.S., tyrannical leaders can emerge. An informed citizenry depends on professional journalists. [Continue]
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IN THE HOUSE – ‘ Prime minister pours more fuel on the fires of inflation’
Excerpt from Oral Questions (Question Period) in the House of Commons on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024): Frank Caputo (Conservative) Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, BC Mr. Speaker, [Continue]
FORSETH – NDP may be putting our great-grandchildren into debt
I’LL FREELY ADMIT IT – there’s something about the NDP’s Ravi Parmar that just rubs me the wrong way. And the following just further reinforced that. Forests [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Trump’s health tzar plans to remove fluorides from water
PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health. Kennedy has an ambitious agenda, one of them to remove fluoride from water. [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – America and the triumph of the oligarchy
IIT’S BEEN YEARS in the making but with the arrival of president-elect Trump, America’s oligarchy is near completion. The transformation from a democracy to an [Continue]
JOHNSON – Thanks to discovery of a huge oil reserve, Antarctica is on edge
RIGHT NOW, there is a construction boom taking place in perhaps the most unlikely part of the world … Antarctica — the coldest, windiest, driest and somehow wettest [Continue]
