Wednesday-Night

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We commend the Westmount Independent for their excellent coverage of the arena issue, although we still dislike their PDF format which requires lots of scrolling.
More on the arena project from Don Wedge’s interview with Patrick Martin (PDF, scroll to page 5)
Excellent […]

More on Water and on Wednesday-Night.com Thirst a powerful slide show on water ; Stockholm International Water Institute ; Nanotechnology for clean water ; (IPS files) Troubled Waters ; Economist Special Report on Water
2 June 2000 — Dawn of a thirsty century
The amount of water in the world is limited. The […]

Leonard Cohen Poet-in-residence at Westmount High
With a background of the soundtrack of some of the poet’s wonderful songs, Ginette Sauvé Frankel introduced Jack Locke, poet, founder of the Foundation for Public Poetry, and  editor of “Leonard Cohen You’re Our Man - 75 poets reflect on the poetry of Leonard Cohen.  It is indicative of the […]

Upcoming events
26 January
6:30 - 8:00PM
Book launch for Cleo Paskal’s “Global Warring”
Paragraphe Bookstore 2220 McGill College
16 December 5-8PM
Robert Gervais and a few colleagues “will be slinging drinks in order to raise funds for Multiple Sclerosis and I was hoping you would join us. We will be the bartenders for a 5 à 8 at Ye Olde […]

Jaime Webbe gave birth this Wednesday morning to a fine, healthy baby boy, Sebastian (possibly with an ‘e’ depending on the linguistic circumstance), thus contributing to the growth of the Quebec population and future Wednesday Night attendees. A sleep-deprived Bert telephoned to say that all is well and they are ecstatic.
Guy Stanley’s introduction of Frédéric […]

September 24 3:10AM
I apologize that – given the late hour - this must be a somewhat generic message, but it is none the less a heartfelt thank you to each and every one who made this Wednesday Night #1348 a most uncommon Wednesday Night! What a wonderful evening it was, thanks to superb organization (Roslyn, […]

Update as the talk continues
Michel Kelly-Gagnon: CN route best for region, business
The Gazette recently endorsed the choice of the CP line as the best route for the long-promised train shuttle between Trudeau airport and downtown (”Readers are right: CP route is miles better,” Editorial, April 18). Admittedly, the CP route has some good arguments in […]

Photos  and video
I am still waiting for villains - culprits - somebody with professional standing must have evaluated ABCPs . I think these are people who must be found. Otherwise we think that everybody - or nobody- was guilty and it will go on again. Unless we learn from history, we will repeat it, and […]

See also Marc Garneau on Wednesday-Night.com
Lagacé-Dowson’s orange revolution not over yet  
Dowson thinks the NDP could capitalize and take some left wing votes in Quebec whenever Gilles Duceppe decides to stand down as Bloc Quebecois leader. “Quebecers have shown that they are comfortable with the government assisting the population. This flies in the face of […]

The doom and gloom which naturally surrounded the discussion of the world economy was alleviated by the most welcome return of Vithal Rajan, who has spent a number of years in India building organizations to empower the poor, notably the Dalit or ‘Untouchables’. He is a firm believer in microcredit because it gives the […]