Wednesday-Night

27 December 2006
We have written, sent and posted our seasonal end-of-year Message and invite anyone we have inadvertently left off the Send List to savor the page, the photos and the sentiments therein.
It is difficult for the author to decide on the theme for this evening’s missive. Saccharine sentiment has overwhelmed us these past […]

28 December 2006
Today, China’s grasslands, the world’s third-largest, are turning into deserts. In just five years, from 1994-99, the Gobi Desert expanded by an area larger than the Netherlands, according to the U.N. Environment Program.
ON THE ALASHAN PLATEAU, China - Shatar the herdsman squinted into the twilight on the ruined grasslands where Genghis Khan once […]

Last week’s fascinating discussion served to remind us that Microcredit is a major tool for social change and Climate Change is real and affecting our lives and the world around us.
The green grass, incipient buds on trees and rose bushes, tender shoots of bulbs just hidden below the damp(!) earth have conspired to delay […]

It’s a bit too early to wish the locals Merry Christmas - we don’t put OUR tree up until the 15th or so. But we can offer a simmering seasonal potpourri for your enjoyment.
We have unwrapped a series of early Christmas presents with the outcome of the Liberal Leadership convention (discussed extensively at last Wednesday’s […]

Introduction
The crowded room was pervaded by an atmosphere of genial good humour in contrast to the proposed discussion of the ‘dismal science’. Using the presence of Peter Trent as the perfect segue, Diana mentioned that during the first week of January, Infinitheatre will perform Prescription for murder set in Westmount and cleverly featuring cameo appearances […]