Wednesday-Night

This Wednesday, absent startling developments from abroad, we plan on conforming to CRTC requirements and devoting the discussion largely to Canadian content.
It will be remembered that the Gazette carried the story in April a year ago that Pierre Arbour created a Foundation see also Wednesday Night 1286 which launched a scholarship […]

21 March 2007
U.S.
The Federal Reserve, for the sixth consecutive meeting, maintained at 5¼%, a steady course today, but dragged the negative bias, given a weakening economy. The G.D.P. in the fourth quarter was revised down from 3½% to 2.2%, one of the steepest downturns in years, with cutback in business spending as the housing market […]

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WOW and DOUBLE WOW!
The Silver Anniversary was spectacular and our heartfelt thanks go to the Self-appointed committee - and all its helpers - who, with glee and awe, organized an awesome Wednesday Night, not to mention those who came from afar, headed by Marc and Fiona, without whose presence, the […]

14 March 2007
With a population of thirteen million people, the economy grew by five percent last year, led by very strong growth in tourism, solid growth in exports of sugar, tobacco, nickel, fish and farm products.
Tourist income has risen for the sixteenth consecutive year with gross income over ten times that in 1989. It […]

3 Jamuary 2007
The Report (and photos)
The first Wednesday of the year that will see the celebration of 25 years of Wednesday Nights was in many ways a return to the origins of the institution albeit with a special ambiance fueled by Hans Black’s magnificent 1993 Ermitage “Le Pavillon”. The topic, spurred by the doggerel invitation […]

Last week’s fascinating discussion served to remind us that Microcredit is a major tool for social change and Climate Change is real and affecting our lives and the world around us.
The green grass, incipient buds on trees and rose bushes, tender shoots of bulbs just hidden below the damp(!) earth have conspired to delay […]

(Photos)
For several reasons, this was an unusual Wednesday Night.
It was a singularly one-topic evening. Given the level of expertise represented by new guests, Thomas Mulcair and Professor Peter Brown, and the recent events in the National Assembly regarding Mount Orford, it was inevitable that the evening’s discussion concentrate on environmental matters.
The […]

25 January 2006

Dear Group of Seven,
Following intensive deliberations, the Committee of the Whole of the Order of Wednesday Night under the skillful direction of Peter Trent, the most tenured member of the august group, has considered nominations and submitted its recommendations to us regarding the elevation of new members to this unique body.
It […]

2 November 2005
Hallowe’en is past, but witches, ghouls and ghosts are rampant in the news, howling that the world is a SCARY place.
Mixing our metaphors slightly, the four horsemen of the apocalypse continue to roam the globe; from avian flu to Zimbabwe’s failing economy where inflation has soared to an annual rate of 360% and […]

Post Katrina
The news and discussion of the aftermath of Katrina inevitably continue, with outpourings of outrage and scorn for the Feeble Emergency Management Agency and its director, Michael Brown, not to mention Barbara Bush’s statement on a radio interview after touring the Houston Astrodome that ”What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they […]