Wednesday-Night

Kilgour and Matas Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
David Kilgour and David Matas, two Canadian human rights crusaders, have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their work related to the investigation of organ harvesting crimes against Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Infinithéâtre takes home the MECCA for best production
For the 2008-2009 Production of Blessed Are […]

AGRA works to achieve a food secure and prosperous Africa through the promotion of rapid, sustainable agricultural growth based on smallholder farmers.
Oxfam, a British aid agency, warned that Niger faced disaster due to persistent flooding.
(BBC) Oxfam issued its warning as nearly eight million people, or half the population, are already facing hunger because of failed […]

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Afghanistan, McChrystal and the media - role and responsibility 
The Rolling Stone story The Runaway General that precipitated General Stanley McChrystal’s dismissal provided fodder for discussion of the role of the media in reporting and interpreting news.
The New York Times’ masthead logo, “All The News That’s Fit to Print,” like Jack […]

Chatham House Briefing Paper - Cleo Paskal: How climate change is pushing the boundaries of security and foreign policy ; More of Cleo’s publications ; Global Warring website;  International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Climate Change and Security ; The Regional Impacts of Climate Change ; Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Cleo Paskal’s Global Warring […]

Background on UN Convention of Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
Real Climate - Climate science from climate scientists Arctic & Antarctic

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Global warming accelerated by Arctic ice loss
recent reports by climate scientists state that global warming may be getting more critical than usual. It is known globally by everyone that the temperature […]

The warmly-applauded opening announcement concerned Herb Bercovitz who has been proposed by Mayor Peter Trent as a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s award for volunteerism.
Victoria Kiyatkina introduced Ian Branum, a multi-talented U.S. Naval Reserve Officer recently returned from being USN’s point-man in Bangladesh and soon to go to Iraq, while Diana introduced Marc Garneau’s Riding […]

Council on Foreign Relations Global Governance Monitor: The Oceans
I tell you naught for your comfort,
Yea, naught for your desire,
Save that the sky grows darker yet
And the sea rises higher.
– G.K. Chesterton
Strange case of the disappearing islands
By Cleo Paskal
(New Zealand Herald) Because the convention [on the Law of the Sea] didn’t take environmental change […]

The hate and the quake … for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building project, launched on January 1, 1804, has failed on account of mismanagement, ineptitude, corruption. Buried beneath the rubble of imperial propaganda, out of both Western Europe and the United States, is the evidence which shows […]

Leonard Cohen Poet-in-residence at Westmount High
With a background of the soundtrack of some of the poet’s wonderful songs, Ginette Sauvé Frankel introduced Jack Locke, poet, founder of the Foundation for Public Poetry, and  editor of “Leonard Cohen You’re Our Man - 75 poets reflect on the poetry of Leonard Cohen.  It is indicative of the […]

market likely to be better in 2010
T H E  I N V I T A T I O N
The last Wednesday Night of the Oughties decade (or what Paul Krugman terms The Big Zero) and amidst all the ponderous year-end reviews, our favorite comes from Josh Freed, who muses on […]