Wednesday-Night

9 January 2008

Welcome back to all who have enjoyed protracted holidays in exotic, or not-so-exotic habitats! We have missed you and once again extend warmest greetings and good wishes for the coming year, as we look forward to many more enlightening evenings of quiet discussion and/or passionate debate.
There’s little doubt that the Iowa and […]

Do see last week #1345 - a wonderful evening with Marc Garneau - good conversation and great photos by Robert Galbraith
If two weeks ago our theme was Let it Snow, this week should likely be Winter Wonderland. However, we confess that after digging ourselves out of the house (resisting the temptation to hi-bear-nate), aching […]

We are very pleased to have Marc Garneau, the Liberal candidate for Westmount-Ville-Marie, with us this coming Wednesday. While it is highly improbable that he is unknown to you, we would remind you that Dr. Garneau holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from London’s Imperial College of Science and Technology, and that in addition […]

Oh the weather outside is frightful
And the news is not delightful
The pundits’ll trumpet our woes
While the country is clearing the snows.
Pierre Marc’s at the meeting in Bali
And there’s taekwondo in Cali
(We had to reach for that)
Chavez is wiping his tears
While Putin’s stoking all the world’s fears
At home, rates and loonies are […]

14 November 2007
A few weeks ago, Tony Deutsch suggested as a topic the subject of the New York Times article “The Prize That Even Some Laureates Question“. It seems that a number of Nobel economics laureates take issue with the kind of work that has often been honored.
Complaints about prize winners generally fall into one […]

7 November 2007
It’s a very mixed and quite bleak bag this week, with the crisis in Pakistan dominating the international news, along with seemingly concurrent violence in Afghanistan (See also) In Pakistan the opposition centers around Judge Iftikhar Chaudhry, who after refusing to ratify General Musharraf’s order suspending the country’s constitution, warned the […]

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. […]

26 September 2007
This is National Biotechnology Week which we would have expected to produce great chest-thumping from our city, given that Montréal is [not only] a highly regarded biotechnology R&D centre, [but also] home to the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) of the National Research Council (NRC) . Absent the expected municipal chest-thumping vaunting the region’s […]

19 September 2007
While Montreal lives up to its aspirations as an international city this week with two major conferences underway, we are as always dismayed by how little the average - or even above-average - citizen knows about the UN presence here. If pushed, some outside the aviation fraternity might be able to identify ICAO, […]

5 September 2007
The tragic news of Jim Wright’s death makes it difficult for us to focus on topics for this week. Of all his many accomplishments and services to the community, we particularly admired his dedication to the Sauvé Scholars and can only guess at the enormous void that is left in the hearts of […]