Wednesday-Night

December 18, 2007
Mandatory rules on greenhouse gases might be needed
Governments give only lip service to sustainable development
HENRY AUBIN The Gazette
As the planet approaches what could be a climate-change tipping point, it was encouraging to see the interview of McGill University environment professor Peter Brown in Saturday’s Gazette. He dared question the wisdom of measuring progress […]

January 2, 2008
Jeremy Kinsman: Diplomatically Speaking
While most of us are making New Year’s resolutions we likely won’t keep, policy planners and intelligence folk in foreign ministries are agonizing over their own kind of annual predictions.
They will surely counsel their political bosses that, in 2008, surprise will once again be the norm. It’s the safe, professional […]

This is a great story and we certainly endorse the thought. In fact, we have been doing this for several years . All of the organizations mentioned in the Gazette article are extremely worthy and deserving of support. However, we would like to call attention to one wonderful NGO that has a special relationship […]

7 December
Westmount-Ville-Marie Liberal Association Site not ready
Famous, Should be famous and Infamous Canadians
Marc Garneau graduated from the Royal Military College in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics. Three years later, he received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England. In 1974, Garneau […]

The rich, famous and influential prepare to hear the secret to climate-safe energy
By Andy McSmith
24 November 2007
A discovery that could give the world access to vast quantities of energy with minimal damage to the climate will be shown off for the first time at a glittering gathering of the famous, rich and influential next Friday […]

Iraq: Positive Signs
November 13, 2007 2036
By George Friedman
The latest reports concerning the war in Iraq suggest the situation is looking up for the United States. First, U.S. military and Iraqi civilian casualties continue to fall. Second, there are confirmed reports that Sunni insurgents controlled by local leaders have turned on al Qaeda militants, particularly […]

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 […]

We applaud the ideas in this column and hope that our own Wednesday Night School Commissioner and her colleagues will read and think about the recommended approach for all kids - can we call it “benign streaming”? Westmount High, thanks to a dedicated principal, teachers and parents, looks to us like […]

ROME, Oct 29 (IPS) - Shrinking newsrooms, declining sales and audiences, vanishing foreign correspondents, concentration of ownership, shrivelling papers…is journalism imploding? Can independent journalism survive?
“Yes,” says Chuck Lewis, founder of the Centre for Public Integrity, and one of the most respected voices in journalism today. And the answer is non-profit journalism.
Lewis is a former producer […]

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