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Terry & David Jones, the consummate diplomats, are with us from Washington on their annual fact-finding mission which always turns up more facts about Ottawa and Quebec than we can ever unearth. We can, of course, quiz them in turn about the buzz in The Nation’s Capitol […]

10 October 2007
Gerald Ratzer OWN and Tony Deutsch OWN, being responsible members of the McGill Pension Fund Committee, have conducted due diligence on the Tar Sands and are back from Fort McMurray fully propagandized and ready to share their findings.
If this is our only topic (which is unlikely), it will be a fascinating Wednesday Night. […]

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 […]

The Wednesday Night Silver Anniversary
Diana’s version
Prologue
Jeremy Jonas’ brief account sums up a remarkable evening the origins of which started some months before when it was realized that Wednesday Night would soon be twenty-five years young. With Brian Morel taking the lead, a self-appointed committee of valiant souls was formed. In mid-January, Margaret Lefebvre and […]

8 September 2004
Bits and pieces
One guest commented on the cost of putting up a client at the Ritz in London where the charge is now $793 a night, compared to $150 for the Montreal Ritz. Others mentioned that the Montreal Ritz has been going downhill for some time, - the facilities not up to the […]

Born in England, educated in Scotland at Kelvinside Academy and Glasgow University. First degree in Honours Physics. Started graduate studies at the Maths Lab at Cambridge University, England. This included programming EDSAC 2 in machine language, using paper tape!
Awarded an IBM Fellowship and came to McGill University in Montreal, as the first graduate student in […]

The Report (photos and more)
This Wednesday’s invitation advertised “we have Misha Crnobrnja back from a very successful tour at William and Mary and just about to leave again for Macedonia. We look forward to hearing his usual informed opinion regarding the latest thinking in Washington regarding Kosovo, what is most likely to happen […]

31 December 1997
Canadian Politics
Asked for comments on the local political scene, our resident MNA said he felt that people were tired of the separation and sovereignty debate. Due to the “Fatigue Factor” this item was not pursued!
Leadership
Given the sorry state of the political debate, the host suggested that lack of leadership was the root of […]