Wednesday-Night

An idea whose time - in our opinion - should not have come!
 
Wheel and deal your way to a fortune even faster using debit cards instead of cash! All it takes is a card swipe for money to change hands. Now you can collect rent, buy properties and pay fines - with the touch of […]

By Robert J. Galbraith, exclusive to The Suburban  - link is unfortunately dead
Kabul, Afghanistan — This photo essay documents a two-hour patrol by Britain’s Coldstream Guards, in the eastern outskirts of Kabul on Oct. 25.
The patrol of three heavily-armoured and armed Snatch Land Rovers and 15 guardsmen left British Camp Souter to an area known […]

31 October 2007
Hobgoblins, bats, black cats and jack o’ lanterns may not be present, (depending on your views of the other habitués of Wednesday Night) but there will be a steaming brew of stimulating thought in the company of David Kilgour, Kimon Valaskakis, Hans Black, and Beryl […]

THE International Monetary Fund is to get a new boss on Thursday November 1st. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former French economy minister, will take over as its new managing director. He has admitted that the body’s “very existence” as the world’s leading financial institution might be at stake and has touted himself as the candidate of […]

How to design a future-proof nuclear waste bunker
Every now and then, we find an item that intrigues and/or amuses us but does not fit easily into a category. The delightful and thought-provoking piece from The Economist is one such, reminding us of the opening of the  cult science fiction book of the late ’50s […]

30 October 2007
National Post
Apologies, but I am a semanticist and a pedant. It genuinely irks me that flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. Technically, to indicate that something would not burn one would have to label it “uninflammable.” And so it is with the term “reasonable accommodation.”
The debate over just how much newcomers need […]

Oct 29th 2007
A UN agency struggles with climate change
NAIROBI is the third base of operations for the United Nations, after Geneva and New York. It is home to two UN agencies: Habitat, which deals with urban planning, and the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, which has had a mandate to “save the environment” since its […]

BRAVO! A wonderful initiative from a Québec icon. Interesting that the announcement was not made in conjunction with the forthcoming Montreal Millennium Summit

October 29, 2007
Cirque founder drops $100 million for clean water
The founder of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté, pledged $100 million to fund a new foundation that will help provide fresh water to the […]

Hong Kong, Jordan, and Estonia Debut Among the Top 10 in Expanded Ranking of the World’s Most Globalized Countries
Singapore Remains in Top Spot, United States Falls Four Places Despite Continued Strength in Technology
Foreign Policy
November/December 2007
For the seventh year, FOREIGN POLICY partners with A.T. Kearney to measure countries on their economic, personal, technological, and political integration. […]

October 28, 2007
Newsletter Update on GGG Activities
Underlining “Wed-Nighters are welcome”, Kimon Valaskakis advises that:
“On the recommendation of our sponsors, given the disruptions caused by the Greek Forest Fires of September 2007, the ATHENS-3 Conference has been rescheduled from November 28th, 2007 to April 2-5, 2008. The conference will once again […]