Wednesday-Night

5 September 2007
The tragic news of Jim Wright’s death makes it difficult for us to focus on topics for this week. Of all his many accomplishments and services to the community, we particularly admired his dedication to the Sauvé Scholars and can only guess at the enormous void that is left in the hearts of […]

Forcing change on the weak
Economists’ shock therapy harms many, Naomi Klein says
PAT DONNELLY, The Gazette
Naomi Klein, of No Logo fame, has come out with a sweeping analysis claiming that extreme capitalism, methodically enforced upon disaster-stricken countries by global corporations, is a threat to us all.
In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Klein brings […]

21 August 2007
By LYDIA POLGREEN AND HOWARD W. FRENCH
The courtyard in front of the Zambia China Mulungushi Textiles factory is so quiet, even at midday, that the fluttering of the ragged Chinese and Zambian flags is the only sound hanging in the air.
The factory used to roar. From the day it opened more than 20 […]

This Wednesday we will sadly say farewell to Anne Sophie Coleman, who leaves Montreal for an exciting new post in Washington where she will be dealing with issues relating to China and intellectual property rights. Probably even more challenging than the role she has occasionally had to assume on Wednesday Nights! She will be sorely […]

18 July 2007
By Isabel Chimangeni IPS
Lusaka
Votes cast for presidential contender Michael Sata in the recent election suggest a growing discontent among Zambians over the effects of increased Chinese involvement in their country.
President Levy Mwanawasa won the Sep. 28 poll, but Sata received an overwhelming majority of votes in the capital — Lusaka — and […]

February 7, 2007
This message of dribs and drabs makes no claim to any sort of thematic coherence (much like many Wednesday Nights). We would welcome other offerings, should you wish to suggest them, provided you stay away from the U.S. presidential candidates - it’s too early to take anyone seriously; and the arrest of astronaut […]

8 October 2003
On the eve of Thanksgiving (1), let us give thanks for our many blessings:
- Jean Chrétien & Paul Martin - we could have had George Bush
- We don’t live in California - we could have had recalls, chads and Arnold
- We have the Fed’s Radwanski rather than Tyco’s Kozlowski
- We suffer from […]