Wednesday-Night

 
Reckless editing
(Ottawa Citizen) Two incidents of Wikipedia vandalism that seem to come from Canadian government computers raise an important question: Just how involved in the nuts and bolts of new media should public servants be?
Neither of the two incidents in question was an official government action. In one case, an article on the Joint Strike […]

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press ; Reporters without borders ; Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ; Media Research Center (the conservative media watchdog) ; Society of Professional Journalists ; The Media Consortium (network of leading, progressive, independent media outlets in U.S.) ; Media Matters for America
CBC At Issue panel
Is Jon Stewart […]

Gordon Smith* comments on M D Nalapat
The last thing we need is a G12 competing with a G8
We must get beyond summit fatigue to better manage global interdependence
An important article was circulated this week by Xinhua, China’s official news agency, following on the G8/G20 meetings in Canada and the announcement that France will play host […]

Ban urges shift in Africa partnerships
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the time is right for a shift away from aid for Africa toward investments and partnerships. Inflation is falling across the continent and political stability is increasing, Ban told the Gabon parliament. Google/Agence France-Presse (7/1) 
UN report identifies problems with […]

Marc Garneau, Député/MP for Westmount-Ville-Marie
Marc Garneau on Wednesday-Night.com
Digital divide leaves people in virtual cold
‘Word of mouth has become word of web’; Lack of Internet access has some Canadians falling behind, experts say
(CanWest) Data released yesterday from Statistics Canada shows that the gap in Internet use on the basis of socio-economic factors narrowed between 2007 and […]

Related posts on Clean energy
(NYT) After nine years of regulatory review, the federal government gave the green light on Wednesday to the nation’s first offshore wind farm, a fiercely contested project off the coast of Cape Cod … the decision is expected to give a significant boost to the nascent offshore wind industry in […]

October 2008
The Conference Board of Canada has published Canada’s Pathways Toward Global Innovation Success: Report of the Leaders’ Panel on Innovation-Based Commerce, Conference Board of Canada, Report by Guy Stanley
McGill plays important role in new global cancer-research network
International Cancer Genome Consortium plans to sequence 25,000 cancer genomes
A new network was announced today by the International […]

Given  that this  evening’s special guest was Nigel Penney, much of the discussion centered on science and education, a natural follow-on to last week’s discussion of issues related to national policy on education.
The Marianopolis Summer Science Camp
In an attempt to provide a meaningful experience to students from grades three to ten, Marianopolis […]

Links to things and events we discussed at last Salon
Robert Beckwermert (with able assistance from Chris Best) effort to do their bit for Haiti via an on-line fundraiser:
A few interesting facts about Haiti:
only nation, born of a slave revolt - first independent nation in Latin America - proclaimed independence in […]

The English outline (not published) of the op-ed that appeared in La Presses (see below)
Kimon Valaskakis and Angéline Fournier:
WILL CANADA 150 MATCH AYLMER ‘91?
• Kimon Valaskakis is a former Canadian ambassador to the OECD and the President of the New School of Athens focused on the reform of global governance. He was a speaker at the […]