Wednesday-Night

An unexpected treat … Chil Heward will be bringing his son Geoffrey, Senior Vice-President and Director of G.F.G. Heward.
Geoff began his investment career over 25 years ago working in London England as an Equity Dealer on the London Stock Exchange for Cazenove and Co, returning to Canada with Merrill Lynch […]

More on carbon on Wednesday-night.com see also Carbon trading at Montreal Exchange
The interrelated topics of Energy, the Economy, Environment and Food are on the agenda. It seems that there are none of our panoply of topics that one, if not all of these, does not affect directly or indirectly.
Carbon emissions trading (for the uninitiated […]

More and Photos on Wednesday-Night.com
BRAVO! BRAVISSIMO! to Beryl Wajsman and the team - including Wednesday Nighters Anthony Philbin, Robert Galbraith, Julius Grey and Brigitte Garceau (the latter we presume is tasked to keep them out of trouble) - of The Metropolitain. The speed with which the concept has become a […]

Before doing our usual tour d’horizon of news and events around the globe, we would like to call to your attention much pleasanter local happenings: the Octet Plus (with Holly Jonas and David Oliver) concert on Saturday, 26 April; the Infinitheatre fundraiser (John Mavridis) on Tuesday 29 April - featuring […]

No one should miss Alex Shoumatoff’s piece on the Arctic Oil Rush
In addition to a wealth of information about the Russian expedition and the attitudes of interested nations towards UNCLOS and other treaties (”(Basically, the U.S. doesn’t ratify anything that cramps its style. It has still not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which Russia has, […]

 See also Tibet and The Olympic Protest Primer

April 24
China to clear out students, refugees before Olympics
Beijing - China plans to order all foreign students to leave the country before the Olympic Games in August, strictly regulate the issuing of business and tourist visas, and deport refugees, sources said on Thursday (April 17).
‘Even if you have […]

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 […]

U.S. firm lays claim to ‘potentially vast’ Arctic oil resources
Randy Boswell, The Ottawa Citizen
Friday, March 21, 2008
A U.S.-based company that has controversially laid claim to nearly all of the Arctic Ocean’s undersea oil said yesterday that new geological data suggest a “potentially vast” petroleum resource of 400 billion barrels.
That figure is backed by a respected […]

21 March 2008
Are sovereign funds a threat?
The Bush administration somehow extracted promises from the governments of Singapore and Abu Dhabi (one of the United Arab Emirates) that they would not use their multi-billion-dollar investments in American companies for so-called “geopolitical goals.” So no, Abu Dhabi will not be trying to make Citigroup collapse in […]

March 5
Environmentalists win landmark Kearl Tar Sands lawsuit
Ecojustice lawyer Sean Nixon was in court in January on behalf of the Pembina Institute, Sierra Club of Canada, the Toxics Watch Society of Alberta and the Prairie Acid Rain Coalition.
“This is a huge victory,” said Nixon. “The Court accepted our position that the environmental assessment was flawed, […]