Wednesday-Night

January 22, 2008

Masdar City will be constructed in the desert on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. The aims are to use only renewable energy sources, and to eliminate 99% of the waste stream. This artist’s impression shows wind turbines on the edge of the city and public transport links running through.
(Reuters) ABU DHABI - Gulf […]

January 18, 2008
Cleo Paskal
No country is ready for natural disasters. In fact, some of the world’s richest nations are the worst prepared. Cleo Paskal presents a guide to mitigating the huge human and security cost of our changing climate.
Environmental change is a sustained and pervasive attack on the status quo. Nothing can be taken for […]

Train comes full circle, back into vogue
Airport transit line, high-speed T.O. link suddenly feasible
ANDY RIGA The Gazette
January 15, 2008

CREDIT: JOHN KENNEY THE GAZETTE

Bumper-to-bumper traffic on Highway 20 near Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport last night

To understand why two long-mulled train megaprojects are suddenly in vogue again, visit Dorval at rush hour.
Streams of cars arrive and […]

$4B Montreal budget targets roads, water pipes
November 28, 2007
(CBC News ) Montreal promises not to raise property taxes but some may end up paying out more next year under the city’s new $3.97 billion budget, released Wednesday.
Property tax rates won’t go up but property values in some areas will rise under the city’s valuation […]

31 October 2007
Hobgoblins, bats, black cats and jack o’ lanterns may not be present, (depending on your views of the other habitués of Wednesday Night) but there will be a steaming brew of stimulating thought in the company of David Kilgour, Kimon Valaskakis, Hans Black, and Beryl […]

Quebec roads under scrutiny
Government creates independent agency to build, maintain and repair bridges and overpasses in province
WILLIAM MARSDEN, The Gazette
October 19
The Quebec government will create a special autonomous agency to build, maintain and repair bridges and overpasses throughout the province, the transport minister announced today.
Fatal Canada overpass poorly built, kept up-probe
By Robert Melnbardis
MONTREAL, Oct 18 […]

See also:
Why a U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis Is Felt Around the World
WHAT WENT WRONG - The Economy ; What’s next? ; World Economy and related posts on The Economy
29 August 2007
We are NAFTA-ed out! The intense discussion last week was excellent, informative and at points highly entertaining, but it’s time to move on.
Today’s […]

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 […]

March 16, 2005
Bernard Ebbers
It seems only normal that Bernard Ebbers, former C.E.O. of WorldCom, be a topic at Wednesday Night, not so much because of the magnitude (eleven billion dollars) of the fraud, nor of the adverse effect on employees, pensioners and shareholders alike, but because of the exceptionally pertinent case study that it […]