Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – The success of Canada’s legalization of cannabis

January 27, 2022 // 1 Comment

THE FACT THAT CIGARETTES were legal but caused cancer, and cannabis was illegal but hadn’t been proven to cause cancer, struck us as grimly ironic in the 1970s. We quipped: [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Make the unvaccinated pay but forget the tax

January 20, 2022 // 4 Comments

THE UNVACCINATED are a burden on our health care system. Those who refuse to get a shot against COVID-19 use a proportionally high percentage of health care resources. We, [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Housing affordability has improved for wealthy, worsened for low-income

January 13, 2022 // 2 Comments

WITH THE SOARING COST of housing, you wouldn’t think anyone could be further ahead. But for the wealthy, that’s the case. That’s what Prof. Yushu Zhu of Simon Fraser [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s divide with the U.S. will widen in 2022

January 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

THE GAP BETWEEN Canadian and American values will grow wider in 2022. We were relatively happy with our neighbours until the arrival of Donald Trump in 2017. Then the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – ‘Supply chain’ should be a contender for phrase of the year

December 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

I’M PICKING ‘SUPPLY CHAIN’ as phrase of the year. While there were other strong candidates, the stark frailty of supply chains and its psychological backlash [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Owners of rooftop solar panels victims of own success

December 23, 2021 // 2 Comments

T’IS THE SEASON for BC Hydro to be jolly, while the days are short and the sun is low on the horizon. The weak sun means that owners of rooftop solar panels won’t be [Continue]