Wednesday-Night

May 30, 2007
After three weeks of stimulating and highly informative environment and energy (including nuclear) focus, we return to other thoughts.
We are suffering from election blues and that’s not a reference to any political preference.
At this writing, we have no idea how the deal-cutting between Premier Charest and the PQ is working out, but […]

John Curtin is congratulated on winning two Golden Sheaf awards at the 60th annual Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival on May 26 for his wonderful documentary on Terry Mosher (Aislin): Dangerous When Provoked
His next undertaking is a production for CTV, “To Hell with Manners: the decline of civility”. It is profoundly hoped that he […]

23 May 2007
A very interesting evening last week, which was a continuation of the previous week’s discussion of nuclear energy, this time in the company of John Jonas and Peter Ferst, along with the Lightfoot family enterprise. Meanwhile, Diana was launching the Year of the Dolphin in Washington while making sure that Tony Blair […]

May 23, 2008
America needs to lean much harder on Afghanistan’s President Karzai
IN CONVENTIONAL wisdom it is the “good war” that was neglected to wage the bad one in Iraq. Afghanistan’s Taliban regime had provided al-Qaeda with a haven and refused after the attacks of September 11th to give its leaders up. When America invaded there […]

May 16, 2007
This week, in the absence of Diana, who will be in Washington with colleagues from the UN Convention on Migratory Species, the agenda is all David’s and there will be no controlling influence from the left end of the table. Be warned!
Following last Wednesday’s (#1314) in-depth exploration of Nobody’s Fuel, Douglas Lightfoot will […]

May 9, 2007
Douglas Lightfoot will be with us this Wednesday to discuss his newly-released video Nobody’s Fuel which carries the intriguing and controversial subtitle ‘Energy supply is more important than climate change’. He explains: “Climate change and global warming are very important issues… it is clear that most people have no idea how much energy […]

West Wing of Wednesday Night (WWW)
Alexandra Tcheremenska-Greenhill OWN writes from her new home in Vancouver: “I have started to seriously plan out the WWW - West Wing of Wednesday nights - gathering and it’s amazing how things seem to line up: we are renting a large house where there is enough space to have the […]

May 2, 2007
Although some might say “BE AFRAID, be VERY AFRAID” (Triskaidekaphobia) of this double-thirteen Wednesday, we prefer to think of 13 as a significant numeral and often one of good fortune. Thus we consider ourselves to be doubly blessed this week with the return of John & Holly Jonas from their sojourn in Australia.
As […]

(Copyright National Post 2003)
Australia the next best thing to being at home
by Cleo Paskal
published Jan 25, 2003

AUSTRALIA - I love Canada. It is a special place. Unique. Grand. I have been known to grumble dangerously when mentions are made of the 51st state. But I have to admit I made a mistake. Canada is not […]