Wednesday-Night

As many Wednesday Nighters are out of town taking advantage of school holidays and others were glued to the Olympic hockey game (Russia vs Canada), it was a small group that enjoyed a wide-ranging, sometimes lighthearted and sometimes intense conversation.
Diana introduced the beautiful book Memories and profiles of McGill University, written and published in […]

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Kimon reintroduced a most welcome face from the past, Concordia Associate Professor (Communications Studies) Scot Gardiner, whom he had first known at Cornell when both were graduate students. Scot has taught, written books - as each of my courses evolves into a book, I become more obsolescent - , traveled the planet […]

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 […]

 The Internet and the media,  Social networking, Wikipedia …  but first, Mackay Smith presented his new copiously illustrated book - and labor of love -  Memories and Profiles of McGill University, which profiles 141 buildings the university owns or leases on its downtown campus. The author’s choice to self-publish brings both advantages and disadvantages which […]

Hug a Central Banker
This time last year capitalism died for 48 hours
The central bankers of the G20 stepped up to the plate
and they put things back in place.
Niall Ferguson started off the evening (on the monitors) declaring that “the technical recession may be over, but the engine of growth is clearly not the United States.” […]

Work in progress

The politics of religion
Divine will is clear.  A morally pure life will be rewarded, a sinful life punished in the afterlife.  In the end, the world will be cleansed of sinners and only the just shall survive.  The problem lies with those mortals who interpret the ground rules to their own […]

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Professor Paul Shrivastava, Director and Distinguished Professor of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at the John Molson School of Business was introduced by his colleague at Concordia, Felix von Geyer, who, in outlining Paul’s many interests and activities mentioned that he had recently turned down an invitation to […]

On the eve of Lord Mayor Peter Trent’s return to that office (he is to be sworn in at noon on Thursday), the evening started with the award of OWNs to Wanda Potrykus and Sam Stein, whose faithful participation in Wednesday Night dates back to the early years.
The economy and the dollar
Canada can’t have it […]

Jaime Webbe gave birth this Wednesday morning to a fine, healthy baby boy, Sebastian (possibly with an ‘e’ depending on the linguistic circumstance), thus contributing to the growth of the Quebec population and future Wednesday Night attendees. A sleep-deprived Bert telephoned to say that all is well and they are ecstatic.
Guy Stanley’s introduction of Frédéric […]

In response to the video news summaries, there were several negative reactions about the way news is presented.
In a non-technical statement, our favorite technician reminds us that business reports and economic analyses carried on the nightly news are retrospective.  The average viewer is discouraged by the reports, believing that we are in a recession/depression, rather […]