Wednesday-Night

The amazing Oscar Petersen 15 August 1925 - 23 December 2007
is mourned around the world.
The last Wednesday Night of 2007 falls on Boxing Day - a frenetic commercial activity that is a horrid distortion of a medieval charitable custom. We believe that a return […]

This Wednesday we will sadly say farewell to Anne Sophie Coleman, who leaves Montreal for an exciting new post in Washington where she will be dealing with issues relating to China and intellectual property rights. Probably even more challenging than the role she has occasionally had to assume on Wednesday Nights! She will be sorely […]

June 25, 2007
Just a quick note from here in London. My Chatham House Briefing Paper “How climate change is pushing the boundaries of security and foreign policy” has just been released. Thought you might find it interesting. Cleo Paskal
June 26
I have been officially dubbed a foreign policy wonk by The Guardian.
I can retire now and […]

(Copyright National Post 2003)
Australia the next best thing to being at home
by Cleo Paskal
published Jan 25, 2003

AUSTRALIA - I love Canada. It is a special place. Unique. Grand. I have been known to grumble dangerously when mentions are made of the 51st state. But I have to admit I made a mistake. Canada is not […]

11 April 2007
Hoping that your Easter/Passover holiday was pleasant and the Easter eggs were not all frozen in the snow banks, we remind you that there is no holiday for busy Wednesday Night minds.
Last week, Cleo Paskal helped us to focus throughout the evening on the issues surrounding  climate change and the need to distinguish […]

4 April 2007
Please let us know if you can be with us - we need to hide the Easter eggs!
As we hear the hippity hoppity of Easter Rabbits advancing along the bunny trail, scattering Easter eggs as they go (is this zoologically possible?), we are happy to welcome Gerald Ratzer back from smog-ridden Shanghai and […]

It’s a bit too early to wish the locals Merry Christmas - we don’t put OUR tree up until the 15th or so. But we can offer a simmering seasonal potpourri for your enjoyment.
We have unwrapped a series of early Christmas presents with the outcome of the Liberal Leadership convention (discussed extensively at last Wednesday’s […]

May 11, 2005
As so often happens, events (or the stars) are aligning to ensure an exciting Wednesday Night this week. With the Tories claiming the Liberal minority government could fall as early as Tuesday after the Speaker of the House ruled that a motion calling on the government to resign is in order, the visit […]