Wednesday-Night

G8 Muskoka Official site
Globe & Mail G8/G20 site
G20 history – accounts for 85 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product
CBC G7-G8 video archives - great history
G8 Information Centre and G20 Information Centre  G8 Research Group
Policy Options
Globe & Mail G8/G20 Local View ; National Post Toronto G20 archives - not a very happy picture!
The […]

China
Two Wednesday Nighters who have recently returned from a trip to China sparked the discussion of the signs of seemingly unstoppable development in Beijing and Shanghai with skyscrapers as far as the eye can see - many are condos built (and still empty) in anticipation of the rising middle class market; incredible infrastructure, […]

In Japan, new boss meets same problems as old boss
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan selected Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan to succeed Yukio Hatoyama to lead the party and the country, a move that will thrust him into many of the same problems that have flummoxed several Japanese administrations. Kan […]

More to come
The U.S. Healthcare debate
Throughout much of the world and certainly most of the western world, universal health care is the norm.  The French system has a good reputation for easy access to quality care, but there are many other successful models.  The United States, probably because an acquired dread of “nationalization” fuelled […]

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 […]

A last-minute (but worthy) update from our friend Jim Heffernan, who occasionally blogs on the HuffPost. “Since I believe that even bonus recipients deserve equal time in all this controversy over AIG, I am turning over my blogspace today to one of them.”  Why I deserve my bonus
AIG and corporate bonuses
What makes capitalism moral […]

On the eve of the opening of the Beijing Olympics, we have some very special guests, along with the much-anticipated return of Cleo Paskal from her wanderings (who else do we know who covers the UK, Athens, Faroe Islands and India in what seems like a minute?). Cleo […]

Wednesday Night Goes Global - or at least partially!
On Wednesday April 2, a select group of Wednesday Nighters will gather in Athens on the first day of the New School of Athens (NSOA) Conference Athens-3 organized by Kimon Valaskakis OWN. Jaime Webbe and Cleo Paskal are participating in the Panel on Globalisation and Security: […]

David Mitchell forwarded this piece with the comment that [the] “article ought to be given wider circulation than the Star, otherwise smoke and mirrors will distract everyone”.
One central disturbing image
November 15, 2007
Linda McQuaig
There’s already an energetic campaign by the Conservatives and their supporters to keep us distracted from the central image […]

Canada is raising the limits on pesticide residue permitted on fruits and vegetables, to bring Canadian standards into line with weaker U.S. standards.
Jul 10, 2007 04:30 AM
Linda McQuaig
… [Since] The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) was officially launched by the leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico in March 2005, it’s operated largely under […]