Wednesday-Night

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We have the great joy of the presence of our son Marc and his brilliant wife Jean from Singapore. Sadly, this is the last week of their summer holiday in Québec. We hope that you will be with us to enjoy their company and observations - no doubt […]

Dedicated Wednesday Nighters celebrate 25 years
By Martin C. Barry
A quote by former CBS News president Fred Friendly helped mark the 25th anniversary of Wednesday Night. Describing the task faced by broadcast news reporters, Friendly — who is considered a towering figure in the history of journalism — once said that the job “is not to […]

The Wednesday Night Silver Anniversary
Diana’s version
Prologue
Jeremy Jonas’ brief account sums up a remarkable evening the origins of which started some months before when it was realized that Wednesday Night would soon be twenty-five years young. With Brian Morel taking the lead, a self-appointed committee of valiant souls was formed. In mid-January, Margaret Lefebvre and […]

7 September 2005
Post Katrina
The news and discussion of the aftermath of Katrina inevitably continue, with outpourings of outrage and scorn for the Feeble Emergency Management Agency and its director, Michael Brown, not to mention Barbara Bush’s statement on a radio interview after touring the Houston Astrodome that ”What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, […]

Wednesday Night, the Spicer Commission and Water
As we pulled into the parking lot of our hotel in Saint Augustine one evening, the car phone rang and it was Marc, then a student at Concordia University, and holding the Wednesday Night fort in our absence, asking us what we knew about somebody named Spicer and […]