Wednesday-Night

16 August 2000
The SUMMONS
Thoughts from Couchiching
The single most significant determinant of health is the inequality gradient between the have and have not populations in a society.
Sir Michael Marmot University College, London
The American political system makes it virtually impossible for the general population to directly influence public policy . The Canadian system has […]

9 August 2000
T’was the night before Wednesday and all through the house
Not a four-foot was stirring, only The Mouse.
Papa with his headset was ready to zap
The latest report by that old CBC chap.
Then from downstairs rang a loud wail of despair
“I can’t think of a subject. You’ll have no topic to Chair!”
We’ve done Israel, Kosovo, […]

Almost every Wednesday there is mention of the children who have left Montreal … Québec… and Canada, and what we can do to entice them home again.
This week it is our great joy to have Fiona, our daughter, with us for a brief visit from Regina where she has been with the […]