Wednesday-Night

We welcome two new faces this week, guest experts, who bring knowledge of at least three extremely pertinent topics to the table.
Danny van Gelder will introduce his cousin, Mark Kruger, an economist by training, who serves as Minister Counselor/Head of Section (Economics and Finance) of the Canadian Embassy in Beijing and key link between the […]

Guy Stanley was recently named to the post of Director, Technology and Innovation, at the Conference Board of Canada. He also teaches the NAFTA course and Global Competitiveness at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. He is the author or co-author of five business books, three major federal government reports, and many articles in […]

3 October 2007
We will continue our high-tech education this week in the company of Guy Stanley OWN, newly-appointed Director of the Technology and Innovation unit of the Canada Conference Board. Last week’s introduction to the work of the NRC through the eyes of new Council member, Margaret Lefebvre OWN, was not only enlightening, but […]

From: Guy Stanley [mailto:guy.stanley@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:56 AM
Hi Diana,
Always sorry to miss a WN, but the biotech subject line made this one
especially appealing. Not sure if I ever sent you the biotech TRM [”The Canadian Biopharmaceutical Industry Technology Roadmap“] I edited. It came out earlier this year.
My main reason for absence […]

22 August 2007
As we prepare for #1329, we offer the following indispensable addition to the Wednesday Night lexicon:
The word outsight, defined as “A statement believed by the person who utters it to be an important or profound insight, but which is in fact regarded by its audience as so obvious or elementary that it […]

Thought you might appreciate this if you haven’t already seen it–the
RFE-Radio Liberty website, currently engaged in countering jihadist
propaganda, is full of interesting information that provides a new look at
the forces unleashed by the fall of Saddam (as well as the history of the
region etc.)
Specifically, attached, is their recent report on the propaganda within Iraq […]

3 Jamuary 2007
The Report (and photos)
The first Wednesday of the year that will see the celebration of 25 years of Wednesday Nights was in many ways a return to the origins of the institution albeit with a special ambiance fueled by Hans Black’s magnificent 1993 Ermitage “Le Pavillon”. The topic, spurred by the doggerel invitation […]

Almost every Wednesday there is mention of the children who have left Montreal … Québec… and Canada, and what we can do to entice them home again.
This week it is our great joy to have Fiona, our daughter, with us for a brief visit from Regina where she has been with the […]