Wednesday-Night

17 August 2007
New York Times
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
NEW ORLEANS — Six inches.
After two years and more than a billion dollars spent by the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild New Orleans’s hurricane protection system, that is how much the water level is likely to be reduced if a big 1-in-100 flood hits Leah Pratcher’s Gentilly […]

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 […]

4 April 2007
Please let us know if you can be with us - we need to hide the Easter eggs!
As we hear the hippity hoppity of Easter Rabbits advancing along the bunny trail, scattering Easter eggs as they go (is this zoologically possible?), we are happy to welcome Gerald Ratzer back from smog-ridden Shanghai and […]

It’s a bit too early to wish the locals Merry Christmas - we don’t put OUR tree up until the 15th or so. But we can offer a simmering seasonal potpourri for your enjoyment.
We have unwrapped a series of early Christmas presents with the outcome of the Liberal Leadership convention (discussed extensively at last Wednesday’s […]

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, […]

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 […]

COMING TOGETHER AS A FAMILY IN A TIME OF CRISIS

 Hon Lucienne Robillard

In the last couple of weeks, we were all united in the face of the ice storm. I would like to acknowledge and thank all the residents and volunteers who, in the name of solidarity, gave their time to help those in need. Whether […]

My tribute to all those wonderful people who are fighting the storm.
from Harry Mayerovitch
14 January
ICE
Not surprisingly, the subject matter of this Wednesday Night was dictated by the events of the previous nine days. Inevitably, guests swapped stories of their experiences during
THE ICE STORM OF THE MILLENNIUM , described as the worst […]

To: letters@GlobeAndMail.ca
Sir:
“Montreal Readers Burning As Writer Fiddles With The Facts” would be more appropriate. I have long admired Jan Wong as a writer, but this time she got it all Wrong!
A letter to the Editor in today’s paper has already stated the facts regarding Westmount’s power company, so I need not reiterate them.
As a Westmount […]

The Ice Storm: A Beautiful Disaster
by Gary Gallon
reprinted from The Globe and Mail, January 12, 1998
The ice rain was beautiful. It wrapped a lustre around the tree branches giving them the aura of ice queens. I walked the streets marvelling at the crystal arches created by the branches bending under the weight of the rain […]