Wednesday-Night

21 April 2004

CANADA
Bank of Canada Monetary Policy Report presented last week, indicates that real G.D.P. growth in the first quarter is likely to be just below 3%, close to 2¾% annual rate in the first half and will accelerate to approximately3 ½% in the second half of the year. For the year 2004, it […]

April 21, 2004
While our dear Comrade Harry’s chair will be unoccupied, this is not an evening of tribute to him, although we are very pleased to welcome members of his family. Our tribute is in planning an evening that he would enjoy. We look forward to your help in making sure of that.
Kimon […]

Appropriately, the symbol of Wednesday Night [designed by Harry Mayerovitch] is a glowing candle, as much a symbol of the warm, candle-lit atmosphere of Wednesday Night, as of the flame of wisdom, sparked by the many fine minds that are so much a part of these unique evenings.
ALAN HUSTAK
THE GAZETTE
Harry Mayerovitch, architect, ranconteur, illustrator […]

14 April 2004
We hope the Easter Bunny was kinder to you than to many politicians - on the first anniversary of Jean Charest’s government, the basket seems loaded with rotten eggs; Paul Martin’s government still struggling with sponsorship scandals, Air Canada crises, poor poll results, and now surely the decision to […]

CANADA
As expected, the Bank of Canada eased monetary policy for the fifth time since July, 2003 in order to stimulate domestic demand as “the economy is adjusting to the stronger Canadian dollar that prevailed in the first quarter and the intensive international competition as the global economies and commodities are recovering.” Exports had weakened in […]