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 […]

See also:
Why a U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis Is Felt Around the World
WHAT WENT WRONG - The Economy ; What’s next? ; World Economy and related posts on The Economy
29 August 2007
We are NAFTA-ed out! The intense discussion last week was excellent, informative and at points highly entertaining, but it’s time to move on.
Today’s […]

15 August 2007
This Wednesday we will have David Kilgour, long-serving (May 1979 until January 2006) Member of Parliament for the southeastern area of Edmonton, and his wife Laura as very special guests. In addition to serving as an MP (and in the Chrétien government as Secretary of State for Latin America & Africa, later for […]

25 July 2007
Our mental capabilities are exhausted from the intense and challenging conversation of last week’s Salon covering Global Governance, China, Iraq and the Geopolitics of Environmental Change including Canada’s claims to the Northwest Passage
The relevance of our WN topics was confirmed today by the BBC report today that Russia is sending a mini-submarine to […]

This Wednesday we will sadly say farewell to Anne Sophie Coleman, who leaves Montreal for an exciting new post in Washington where she will be dealing with issues relating to China and intellectual property rights. Probably even more challenging than the role she has occasionally had to assume on Wednesday Nights! She will be sorely […]

July 11, 2007
Last Wednesday brought a delightful surprise with the welcome return of Louise Guay, President of My Virtual Model, after a very long absence. She shared with us some of the exciting developments at MVM and news of the 2007 World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization (MCPC) organized in collaboration with […]

4 July 2007
The Invitation
We hope we have not exhausted all the verbal fireworks during last week’s “lively” discussion , which will surely be reviewed and reprised many times. Andrea was a great guest and participation from Right to Left was enthusiastic.
After that demanding exercise in public policy, we turn to a more eclectic collection […]

Terry and David Jones OWNs will be with us this week from Washington, as they are on their annual pilgrimage to Canada (or at least Ottawa and Montreal) to take our pulse, find out whether we are still alive and if so, have we mended our ways and stopped criticizing the Great Neighbor to the […]