Wednesday-Night

A video montage of many of Julius Grey’s most publicized cases served to remind all of his commitment to the rule of law and his fight for reasonable laws governing civil rights and humanitarian issues. Although the freedom of expression, freedom of association along with freedom not to associate cases have been widely publicized, it […]

Overcoming the small annoyance for some of us (Westmount-Ville-Marie residents) of being in our fourth month of elections, with the only one that provoked true enthusiasm being over on November 4, we bravely tackle the important matters largely ignored by the Quebec electioneers.
The economy and world financial crisis would be at the top of our […]

March 26 1997 – what does the date mean to you? You may be forgiven if you do not immediately recall that the news of the Bre-X bubble burst exactly eleven year ago. “It had all the elements of a great novel: a dramatic rags to riches story, a mysterious suicide (or was it […]

T H E  R E P O R T
Tar Sands
At one time, the supply of fossil fuels appeared virtually endless. It was probably Marion King Hubbert who, in 1956, first clarified the finite nature of the world’s petroleum supply, now painfully evident to consumers of petroleum products. Extraction of oil from the Athabaska Tar Sands, […]

24 January 2007
The Report
Introduction
In addition to the welcome presence of Wednesday Night’s favorite geologist and resident expert on aviation and the environment, Judith Patterson, we were joined by John Herity, the Director of IUCN-Canada and former head of the Biodiversity Convention Office of Environment Canada. John’s distinguished career in the Environment field includes over 30 […]

OWNership and the Group of Seven
Under the skillful direction of Peter Trent OWN, the senior member of the Order of Wednesday Night, the Committee of the Whole (all members in good standing) has carefully scrutinized nominations, consulted and submitted to the Chairman and Leader of the Opposition (Mouse) the names of […]

Dr. Judith Patterson, fondly known to Wednesday Night as “Judy Geologist”, is an associate professor in Geology at Concordia University in Montreal.
Her academic training is in the Geological Sciences, with degrees from Queen’s University (B.Sc. Hons.), University of Calgary (M.Sc.), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Ph.D.).
Dr. Patterson’s area of research is modern environments, in particular […]

31 August 2005
While many Canadians are crowing over Ontario’s new-found possibility of becoming a have-not province, Alberta is King.
Pundits and demographers are having a field day analysing the effect of Alberta’s $7-billion energy-generated surplus, raising questions about how the province will use its windfall while not creating jealousy among the country’s cash-strapped provinces, or worse […]