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Arctic Ice Retreat May Be Harbinger of Climate Change
By Alex Morales
Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) — The shrinking of Arctic sea ice to its second-smallest size on record signals greater changes in the […]

We are still recovering from two events last Wednesday Night. Beryl Wajsman’s inimitable entry for the Just For Laughs Festival – his account of the fallout from the disaster at St Catherine and Peel and the bumbling attempts of assorted authorities to attack the problem left us rocking with laughter, while decrying the attitude best […]

Article published in The MetropolitaIn of Sep. 4
Earlier in the campaign season, once Democrats and Republicans identified their presidential candidates, respectively Senators Obama and McCain, the next question for the chatterers was “Who will be the Veep (Vice President).” This exercise qualified as fun for everyone with prognosticators pondering over the […]

Welcome home to all the summer’s happy wanderers. We have missed you - and you have missed some fascinating evenings - and look forward to catching up with your news, along with your thoughts on The News as it unfolds.
Speaking of unfolding,-  or more accurately, unravelling -, the Republican Convention will surely go down in […]

More on West Wing
We look forward to welcoming you again to that delightful monthly evening of great discussion – next week Wednesday Sept 10th 6:30PM and to our new guest participants – welcome! 
For the September edition, how appropriate that we examine our views on one of the topics we have been […]

Following last Wednesday Night’s Canada-focused (healthcare, the NDP and environment) evening, we are looking forward to reviewing matters beyond our borders in the company of Carole and Rodrigue Tremblay. Dr. Tremblay, an economist, is a former Quebec Minister of Industry and Commerce, and  has published 27 books, most of them dealing with finance and economics while […]

We are delighted that Anne Lagacé Dowson, the NDP candidate in our by-election will be joining us this Wednesday. As all of you who have not been hibernating (what would be the summer verson of hibernating?) in the woods, absent all forms of print and telecommunications news, the race in Westmount-Ville-Marie is […]

Gathering Storm of Expectations in Nairobi Slum
NAIROBI, Aug 20 (IPS) - For the first time in its 60 years of existence, there is a ray of hope for the one million inhabitants of Kibera, one of the world’s most densely-populated slums. After spending most of his life on opposition benches — or in prison — […]

17 August
Russia’s Arctic ambitions challenged
With rich oil and gas reserves at stake as the Arctic ice thins, US and Canadian ships are teaming up to conduct a seismic survey of the Beaufort seabed north of the Yukon-Alaska border
16 August 2008
Russia leads scramble for Arctic
(The Telegraph) With the polar icecaps melting, and oil prices at […]

August 15, 2008
David Jones . Don’t kid yourselves, Canada
Citizen Special
Sometimes one wonders why a politician marches into a swamp clearly marked, “Here lie alligators.” Is it hubris — the conviction that water walking is not confined to Biblical characters? Is it an effort to float a lead balloon by someone confused as to whether lead […]