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A very celebratory night with some long-time absentees and some very welcome new faces. Among the former, Robert Landori who presented his latest spy/political thriller (book) “Havana Harvest“, to be in Canadian book stores on September 1. It sounds wonderful. Adding to the paprika flavor was Tony Deutsch […]

Couchiching 79th Annual Summer Conference, August 5–8, 2010
The sessions
News coverage
Anne Golden: Canada’s innovation malaise: The cure’s in our culture
Anne Golden is president and CEO of the Conference Board of Canada. She spoke about innovation on Friday at the Couchiching Conference on public affairs.
Ideally, we’d combine our traditional sense of caution with a stronger dash […]

Income Trusts on Wednesday-Night.com
Four years later
Flaherty offers apology for income trust hurt
Jim Flaherty may have faced down the financial crisis, but he was forced on the defensive by a feisty senior yesterday at a policy conference, where he issued a public apology for the hardship inflicted by his decision to tax income trusts nearly […]

T H E  R E P O R T
John Mavridis introduced his friend Jean  Lalonde, CEO of Pleio Health Support Systems, Inc.—which has pioneered a system for helping people with newly-diagnosed conditions to adhere to medication regimes.The original way in which Jean put together the initial concept of the company could be an inspiration to […]

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April 30 marks the hundred-day countdown to the Beijing Olympics - has everyone seen the news that China plans to clear out students and refugees from Beijing before the Games? Nothing being left to […]

Margaret Lefebvre will introduce her colleague and good friend, George Kesteven, president of the Canadian Association of Income Funds (CAIF) - an organization with dwindling membership in the face of the Conservatives’ taxation policy with regard to income trusts.
Director of Investor Relations for PrimeWest Energy Trust since 2001, George is in a unique position […]

Margaret Lefebvre advises that the government commission on: The living conditions of seniors a social issue that is the responsibility of all Quebecers, is anxious to hear from seniors on matters that include, but are not necessarily limited to healthcare. The Minister has scheduled a special session to take place in Dorval […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dame Margaret Lefebvre
Whereas, with the approval of the assembly of Wednesday Night Wise Persons, we are pleased to appoint you honorable recipient of the Order of Wednesday Night
In recognition of your perceptive contribution to reasoned discourse, whether in your own guise or that of others, your ability to perceive and inject humour in self-righteous […]