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Here is the wonderful  Montreal City Weblog that does 99.9% of our Montreal-focused work for us. It is full of current news and information, along with some excellent links and several years’ worth of weekly archives. The latter make entertaining if discouraging reading as one is reminded how many are recurrent and unresolved topics. Grateful […]

Photos and videos

Kimon reintroduced a most welcome face from the past, Concordia Associate Professor (Communications Studies) Scot Gardiner, whom he had first known at Cornell when both were graduate students. Scot has taught, written books - as each of my courses evolves into a book, I become more obsolescent - , traveled the planet […]

Upcoming events
26 January
6:30 - 8:00PM
Book launch for Cleo Paskal’s “Global Warring”
Paragraphe Bookstore 2220 McGill College
16 December 5-8PM
Robert Gervais and a few colleagues “will be slinging drinks in order to raise funds for Multiple Sclerosis and I was hoping you would join us. We will be the bartenders for a 5 à 8 at Ye Olde […]

More on Wednesday-Night.com ;
[Paul G.] Kirk Heads to Senate With Brief, Crucial Mission
Given the myriad other roles Paul G. Kirk Jr. has played for Senator Edward M. Kennedy — strategist, divorce lawyer, master of ceremonies at the senator’s memorial service, executor of his estate — his appointment Thursday as the interim appointee to the Senate […]

People want to be led
As President Obama was giving his address to Congress on health care just before Wednesday Night convened, our Chairman - who had taped the speech - introduced the topic by asking those gathered around the table what they would say, if they were in his place.  Beryl Wajsman led the […]

More on Maxime Bernier

Just when you think you can finally archive an item …
Censored documents show Bernier jeopardized security: Opposition
Copies of heavily censored classified documents that Maxime Bernier, as foreign minister, left at his ex-girlfriend’s house in 2008 show the security breach was far more serious than the Harper government ever admitted, opposition MPs say. […]

Montreal matters
Beryl has produced a Manifesto - “A Freer, Fairer, Richer Montreal” - in pamphlet form, which builds on his recent editorial in the Suburban and calls for a reduction in government spending and intervention. It is Beryl at his polemical best - most Wednesday Nighters do not always agree with him, but no-one […]

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Wednesday Nighters were intrigued by the cover story in The Suburban trumpeting Wajsman for Mayor, and brought by the Man of the Cover. He assured all that the story was for real and that, tired of nanny-state mentality, he was calling for an […]

Photo by Alan Hustak

Affaire Wajsman: Paradis persiste et signe
«Le Parti libéral n’a définitivement rien appris du scandale des commandites vivement dénoncées par la commission Gomery. Il accueille à bras ouverts dans son équipe de proches conseillers un des acteurs-clés du scandale des commandites», affirme le ministre Paradis dans ce communiqué.
28 February
Beryl Wajsman’s return to the […]