Charbonneau

CHARBONNEAU – BC Housing should value their friends on City council

July 1, 2021 // 1 Comment

CITY COUNCILLORS support public housing but the recent announcement by the B.C. government took them by surprise. In a press release, BC Housing said that they had purchased [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Colonial schools maybe, colonial monuments not

June 24, 2021 // 1 Comment

SOME OF CANADA’s Indigenous people have decided to keep their residential schools despite the fact that they hold so many painful memories. One of those is the largest [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Green is my favourite colour of hydrogen

June 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

WHEN I FIRST MADE hydrogen as a kid, I wasn’t aware that hydrogen came in different colours. Back then, I simply attached two copper wires to my model train transformer, [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The graves of Indigenous children cry out for justice

June 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE DISCOVERY of children’s graves at the Kamloops residential school was not a surprise to many. What made the findings so graphic was the stunning detail of the remains [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Why am I getting apprehensive as the lockdown lifts?

June 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

I SHOULD BE THRILLED at the lifting of the pandemic. Instead, I feel a little uneasy. I’m not the only one. In a recent survey of Canadians by the polling firm Leger, 52 [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Why people knowingly share falsehoods

May 27, 2021 // 2 Comments

IT USED TO BE that liars would be embarrassed when caught in their lies. But in our post-truth era, the truth is secondary to beliefs. Lies no longer result in humiliation. [Continue]