Wednesday-Night

Last week we gave you a heads-up to circle Wednesday, September 1 in your calendars for the one-and-only Westmount/Montreal/Canadian book launch for Robert Landori-Hoffman’s latest oeuvre “Havana Harvest” See  Book reviews and much more on Wednesday-night.com about the newest page-turner from our favorite WN spook.
Thus this Wednesday will […]

Dick Cavett: Real Americans, Please Stand Up
I’m genuinely ashamed of us. How sad this whole mosque business is. It doesn’t take much, it seems, to lift the lid and let our home-grown racism and bigotry overflow. We have collectively taken a pratfall on a moral whoopee cushion.
Surely, few of the opponents of the Islamic cultural […]

Background: Flight to Canada: The refugee process
(March 2010) Canada to reform refugee system: Kenney
Proposed reforms to Canada’s refugee system would increase the number of refugees accepted into the country and provide more funding to help them integrate into society and find jobs. Citizenship & Immigration Backgrounder
Points system fails immigrants and Canada

In a Bangkok apartment, Tamils […]

G8 Summit July 8-10 2009 ; Canada & the Arctic

For foreign policy-making, don’t look to Foreign Affairs
(Ottawa Citizen) … So what then is the policy role of Foreign Affairs — in Afghanistan or, potentially, anywhere else? What becomes of the Afghan Task Force when the Afghan war ends? Will it wither away — a highly […]

See also Wednesday-night.com on Burma
Elections and Opportunity in Myanmar
(Council on Foreign Relations Expert Brief) … Myanmar has become increasingly important, as rivalry between regional powers increases. Myanmar sits in a strategically vital location in Asia and possesses some of the region’s largest reserves of oil and gas. As a result, its future path is critical […]

Lessons from the Green Revolution ; Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing? ; Agriculture & Food ; (International Food Policy Research Institute) Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen ; Global Treaty on Climate Change ; Climate Change (that is, Global Warming) and Sub-Saharan Africa (2005)

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Genome breakthrough heralds new dawn for […]

Background: Ranking the Politics of Supreme Court Justices
Four of the five most conservative justices since 1937 are on the bench today
Just how conservative is the Supreme Court, anyway? It’s a question that has dogged constitutional scholars for years, as they’ve tried to parse the opaque language and muddled writings of judges moving through the confirmation […]

AGRA works to achieve a food secure and prosperous Africa through the promotion of rapid, sustainable agricultural growth based on smallholder farmers.
Oxfam, a British aid agency, warned that Niger faced disaster due to persistent flooding.
(BBC) Oxfam issued its warning as nearly eight million people, or half the population, are already facing hunger because of failed […]

How We Ranked the World
In NEWSWEEK’s first-ever Best Countries special issue, we set out to answer a question that is at once simple and incredibly complex—if you were born today, which country would provide you the very best opportunity to live a healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous, and upwardly mobile life? Many […]

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 […]