Wednesday-Night

CBC Canada votes  ; The Gazette Decision Canada ; Globe & Mail Federal Election 2008
Wednesday-night.com with Robert Galbraith photos; Waiting for stars to rise - or fall Races of special interest. Some have big-name candidates, others were very tight in 2006 vote;  CBC’s races to watch include: Ahuntsic where BQ MP Maria Mourani stole this […]

Anne Lagacé Dowson : Garneau appuie les cadeaux fiscaux de Harper aux grandes entreprises
Montréal, QC - Anne Lagacé Dowson, la candidate du NPD pour Westmount—Ville-Marie, a répondu aujourd’hui au candidat libéral au sujet de l’économie. Dans d’un communiqué daté du 28 septembre, Marc Garneau avait laissé entendre qu’il appuierait les milliards de dollars en réductions […]

 
Robert Redford Remembers Paul Newman
Both of us were fundamentally American actors, with the qualities and virtues that characterize American actors: irreverence, playing on the other’s flaws for fun, one-upmanship — but always with an underlying affection. Those were also at the core of our relationship off the screen.
Cinema’s everyman: Paul Newman
(The Independent) The secrets […]

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Starting this Wednesday Night on a different note (!), our very special diva, Susanna Eyton-Jones, and Shem Guibbory will give a brief performance as a warm-up to their in-studio recording the following week. They will present a 13-minute chamber piece for violin and soprano entitled ‘Iglesia Abandonado’, by […]

We have purposely not acknowledged the ridiculous debate over the Paul McCartney concert in Québec City. However, we are pleased to offer the National Post editorial on the subject as the final word, noting it was published before the highly successful event.
National Post Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008

If everybody’s quite finished laughing at the […]

With thanks to Professor Paul Quirk of UBC and Foad Mardukhi who maintains an impressive listserv on many topics of interest.

22 June
Higher Learning Adapts To a Greening Attitude
Students Lead Drive Reshaping Curricula
By Susan Kinzie
Washington Post Staff Writer
The environmental fervor sweeping college campuses has reached beyond the push to recycle plastics and offer organic food and […]

This week we welcome two special guests with very different areas of expertise.
Louise Des Trois Maisons will introduce Jean-Claude Marsan, architect, professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Planning of Université de Montréal, writer, city planner, researcher and candidate for Mayor of Outremont in 2007 …, who has […]

Great debates for 2,500 years in Athens
May 03, 2008
Cleo Paskal Special to the Star
Athens–There are some cities that transcend national boundaries.
New York, London, Shanghai, Cape Town, Mumbai, Istanbul, Tokyo and Mexico City, just to name a few, are culturally and economically so dynamic and powerful that in many ways they are essentially modern city-states.
Usually […]

BRAVO to Hans and Janet Black, who co-chaired the very successful McGill Chamber Orchestra’s gala evening at Théâtre Maisonneuve on April 15. The performance by 13-year old pianist Jan Lisiecki under the affectionate direction of Boris Brott was brilliant and the entire evening was a triumph. The Orchestra is indeed fortunate to have Hans […]