Wednesday-Night

The evening opened with a brief video of the presentation of the Lieutenant Governor’s Seniors Medal (Médaille pour les aînés) awarded for volunteer service, to our OWN Herb Bercovitz on May 1st. Peter Trent, who had nominated Herb, was on the stage, beaming with pride. The honorees also included a great number of impressive young […]

Given  that this  evening’s special guest was Nigel Penney, much of the discussion centered on science and education, a natural follow-on to last week’s discussion of issues related to national policy on education.
The Marianopolis Summer Science Camp
In an attempt to provide a meaningful experience to students from grades three to ten, Marianopolis […]

There is a difference between public interest and what the public is interested in. If you are to be tough (as a politician) you can be unpopular.
Canada at 150: Rising to the Challenge –a thought-provoking topic for a trend-setting  21st century electronic discussion of politics and policies in general and Canada in particular.
Half a century […]

Please see the Invitation
Carl Beigie OWN, our friend, the genesis of Wednesday Night and its guiding spirit through the first two decades, died on Thursday, 4 March.
Given the many years when Carl shared with us his views on assorted budgets - sometimes from wherever he had been ‘locked-up’, we cannot overlook the coincidence of his […]

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The evening started on a somber note, as Diana noted with sadness the deaths of Judith Patterson’s husband Jamie Tiller and Julius Grey’s father-in-law, Philippe Casgrain. On behalf of all their Wednesday Night friends, we extend our condolences and deepest sympathies to Judith, Julius and their families.
“A huge gap appeared in the […]

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 […]

Photos and videos
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 […]

Climate Change
There are those who describe a disaster scenario depicting the virtual end of life on earth unless carbon emissions are cut drastically. Others see climate change as inevitable, eternal, slow and incapable of adversely affecting ever-adaptable humans for many generations to come. Still others, pointing to flaws in the initial calculations, believe […]

Special thanks to Margaret Duthie for assiduous note-taking
It seems that almost every week, we celebrate another achievement by a Wednesday Nighter. This week it was the turn of Bruce Kippen  who has just published his first novel Lords of the Frontier.  It is an “under-told” story from an expert on the early development of Alberta’s […]