Wednesday-Night

2 January 2008
Oh Come all Ye Faithful
Pedant and Insightful
Oh Come Ye, Oh Come Ye to Wednesday Night.
Come and be clever, on your fav’rite subject
Come comment on the world scene, oh, come share the news you hear
Come comment on the world scene , come allay our fear.
We had planned for a lighthearted look at […]

20 December 2007
The Economist
The Olympics put China on the international stage
IF THIS is to be the Asian century, future historians might pinpoint 2008 as the year it truly began. Curiously, the event that will symbolise this is rooted deep in Western tradition: China’s staging of the Olympic games in Beijing next August.
As with Berlin in […]

Do see last week #1345 - a wonderful evening with Marc Garneau - good conversation and great photos by Robert Galbraith
If two weeks ago our theme was Let it Snow, this week should likely be Winter Wonderland. However, we confess that after digging ourselves out of the house (resisting the temptation to hi-bear-nate), aching […]

November 11, 2007
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Last Tuesday, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican — the first audience ever by the head of the Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch. The Saudi king gave the pope two gifts: a golden sword studded with […]

3 October 2007
We will continue our high-tech education this week in the company of Guy Stanley OWN, newly-appointed Director of the Technology and Innovation unit of the Canada Conference Board. Last week’s introduction to the work of the NRC through the eyes of new Council member, Margaret Lefebvre OWN, was not only enlightening, but […]

BBC page on Burma Protests
See also Burma on David Kilgour’s website and on Wednesday-night.com
Satellite images corroborate eyewitness accounts of human rights abuses in Burma, AAAS reports
A new analysis of high-resolution satellite images — completed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — pinpoints evidence consistent with village […]

11 April 2007
Hoping that your Easter/Passover holiday was pleasant and the Easter eggs were not all frozen in the snow banks, we remind you that there is no holiday for busy Wednesday Night minds.
Last week, Cleo Paskal helped us to focus throughout the evening on the issues surrounding  climate change and the need to distinguish […]

Last week’s Wednesday Night discussion was overtaken by events and thus focused mostly on local issues, with the exception of conspiracy theories. This week we are faced with such world turmoil, we are hesitant to point to specific topics as possibilities, but let us try out some of the more flagrant headlines and see how […]

G reetings Courtiers Of Wednesday Night
# 1066 (and all that)

Peter 1 of Prestwich (Peter the bald) Lord High Admiral RCN
(Usurper of Count David Of Westmount’s fiefdom)
You my loyal (and any disloyal) Courtiers are hereby commanded to attend The Court to be held on Wednesday 7th August […]