Wednesday-Night

The 2008 Canadian Constitutional Affairs Conference – organized by a group of students from the Laval and McGill Faculties of Law (headed by Adam Daifallah and Hugh Meighen) – aims to bring together constitutional experts and student delegations from all of Canada’s law faculties to debate and discuss the evolution of the Canadian […]

Uneasy Neighbo(u)rs:
Canada, […]

December 27, 2007
Keeping aircraft flying safely is a $43-billion global market. ACTS CEO Chahram Bolouri wants to make his company the leader in the Americas for maintenance, repair and overhaul
ROBERT GIBBENS, Freelance
When ACTS’s CEO Chahram Bolouri looks toward Dorval from his sparse office in St. Laurent’s Technoparc, he’s thinking of a $43-billion global market for […]

A bit of dignity
Fondation de la Rue… a la Réussite
By P.A. Sévigny, The Suburban

Pierre Anthian, Brian Morel, Sue McDougall and Serge Fournier

While thousands of homeless continue to wander the streets of Montreal and hundreds wonder what can be done about it, some know what it takes to make the difference between a life well lived […]

December 3 - 14 2007

United Nations Climate Change Conference - Bali, 3 - 14 December 2007
The thirteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 13) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and third Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 3) opened on Monday morning. […]

No Limits, a wonderful story of the Wurtele twins, pioneers on the Canadian ski scene. Conceived by Wednesday Nighter Ron Walker as a gift to his dear friends Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, and written by Byron Rempel, the book is launched on November 7, 2007. The glowing review by Wednesday Nighter William Weintraub says […]

Pierre Obendrauf, CanWest News Service
Tullio Cedraschi, head of the Canadian National Railway’s pension fund, in his CN office in Montreal. His strategy has always been to invest with a long-term horizon in a basket of good, solid companies. …

What a delight to read Sean Silcoff’s profile of our friend Tullio, and to see in […]

21 November 2007
There are the obvious topics that have dominated the news over the last few days:
The OPEC Summit and what may or may not have been resolved in that wonderfully inclusive forum where the presidents of Iran and Venezuela railed against the U.S. and then everyone came together for a (relatively) warm and […]

From: Robert J. Galbraith [mailto:eyewitnesstowar@yahoo.com]
Sent: November 19, 2007 12:24 PM
To: David Nicholson; Diana Nicholson
Subject: Insight into the mind of this freelance journalist/Rob in Kandahar
Hello David and Diana, you may think it kind of strange that I send you these personal e-mails for you and all our friends to […]

OLP’s Raine Maida wants you to save the world
Heather Adler, Dose
November 09, 2007
Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida took a long look in the mirror recently and saw a man who was fed up with the world’s consumer-bred apathy, political corruption, forgotten victims and inability to find passion in the face of celebrity-obsessed culture and […]