Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – Smith’s win will make it harder for Alberta to recruit workers

October 21, 2022 // 1 Comment

‘ALBERTA IS CALLING,’ is the province’s marketing campaign. It hypes lower taxes, housing affordability, shorter commutes and proximity to the Rocky Mountains. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – B.C. municipalities: get out of the way of low cost housing

October 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

KAMLOOPS IS AN EXCEPTION but too many B.C. municipalities are not approving enough housing for population growth. City councils find all kinds of reasons to stall affordable [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Pierre Poilievre’s new voodoo economics

September 29, 2022 // 2 Comments

PIERRE POILIEVRE has gripped the Conservative Party in a way that no other Conservative leader has since Stephen Harper. But if he wants to seize power of the government of [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – It’s getting easier for cryptocurrencies to be green

September 23, 2022 // 1 Comment

IT’S NOT EASY for cryptocurrencies to be green. They use a colossal amount of energy in writing transactions into digital legers. But one of the cryptocurrencies is [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Fast Radio Bursts: closer to identifying but still mysterious

September 15, 2022 // 1 Comment

THEY’RE CALLED Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) simply because they are fast: they last only a few thousandths of a second and because they are radio waves: they are part of [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Mentally ill street people need institutional health care

September 8, 2022 // 1 Comment

WHILE I DON’T WANT to see a return of the warehousing of mentally ill patients, some institutional care facilities need to be built to care for the mentally ill people [Continue]