Wednesday-Night

May 22
MDA working with Mars spacecraft
(The Gazette) MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said yesterday its engineers are supporting the Phoenix Mars spacecraft, expected to land Sunday on the red planet.
Engineers from MDA’s information systems group are working with the weather and robotics systems on NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft, which was designed and built by the Lockheed […]

See also the UN page on Wednesday-night.com and the latest on Maxime Bernier and other topics on Canada
May 22
Canada’s bid for a seat at the table is worth saving
Robert Fowler
Special to Globe and Mail Update
Last week, The Globe and Mail reported that the Canadian government was considering withdrawing its bid to seek election to […]

More on Beryl Wajsman and on Wednesday-night.com
The Métropolitain: A Healthy (Bilingual) Corrective to Self-Censoring Quebec Media on Sensitive Issues
(The National Post Full Comment) As we all are being told, newspapers - the kind that leave your fingers a bit inky, that is - are in decline. Readers and advertisers are […]

More on carbon on Wednesday-night.com see also Carbon trading at Montreal Exchange
The interrelated topics of Energy, the Economy, Environment and Food are on the agenda. It seems that there are none of our panoply of topics that one, if not all of these, does not affect directly or indirectly.
Carbon emissions trading (for the uninitiated […]

Related: Canada in the world ; The Arctic and Canada’s Foreign Policy
May 20, 2008
More than ever, we need able diplomats and negotiators to ensure that Canada is heard and listened to in international fora and diplomatic circles.
Canada’s declining role in Foreign affairs is closely related to the decline in prestige […]

Talking Themselves to Death
It hasn’t been a good year for talk radio. In spite of their blustering and arm flailing right wing talk radio hosts failed in their efforts to undo John McCain’s quest for the Republican nomination. Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos,” a mischievous effort to drive registered Republicans to Hilary Clinton in order to […]

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“Israel for ever” Magnificent Photos
Israel through my lens: Sixty Years As a Photojournalist
by Shimon Peres (Foreword), Ruth Corman (Contributor),
David Rubinger (Photographer)

The June 10, 1967 iconic David Rubinger photo above of three Israeli paratroopers who had reached the Western Wall has very special significance to us. David gave us a […]

A lecturer at McGill in International Development, Desirée McGraw frequently advises students to “take something you love and combine it with what you’re good at.”
More on Désirée McGraw
May 15, 2008
Citizen engagement
By Neale McDevitt, McGill Reporter
At 38 years of age, Désirée McGraw has a CV of someone twice her age. As a high school activist, the […]

Last Wednesday Night’s discussion encompassed lunar-based solar technology, reports by Kimon of exciting developments in the New School of Athens global governance initiative, the environment, the economy and, of course, acclamation of the publishing achievement that has given birth to The Metropolitain. It was a full and challenging evening which we […]

As Home and Resort Development Cools,
Conservationists Snap Up More Land
By JIM CARLTON
(Wall Street Journal) There’s a green lining to the real-estate cloud: Developers are dropping plans to build on some choice pieces of land and instead are selling [them] for such uses as public parks and nature preserves.
One of the big beneficiaries is Trust for […]