Wednesday-Night

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 […]

5 November 2007
After a hard-fought campaign in Westmount, the incumbent English Montreal School Board (EMSB) commissioner [and Wednesday Nighter] Ginette Sauvé-Frankel was given a clear mandate by local voters for another four years at the post.
Though marred by low voter turnout across the province, Sunday’s school board elections saw a slightly […]

Photo by Robert Galbraith
By Robert J. Galbraith, exclusive to The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan — This photo essay documents a two-hour patrol by Britain’s Coldstream Guards, in the eastern outskirts of Kabul on Oct. 25.
The patrol of three heavily-armoured and armed Snatch Land Rovers and 15 guardsmen left British Camp Souter to an area known […]

October 28, 2007
Newsletter Update on GGG Activities
Underlining “Wed-Nighters are welcome”, Kimon Valaskakis advises that:
“On the recommendation of our sponsors, given the disruptions caused by the Greek Forest Fires of September 2007, the ATHENS-3 Conference has been rescheduled from November 28th, 2007 to April 2-5, 2008. The conference will once again […]

October 25, 2007
An international conference on long-term strategies to combat climate change got under way last night at the Palais des congrès, bringing together 400 business leaders, scientists and politicians from 13 countries.
The two-day conference, called Climate 2050, Technology and Policy Solutions, will focus on the formidable challenge of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by […]

By Robert J. Galbraith, exclusive to The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan - Mohmad Noman, a 34-year-old member of the Afghan Border Police (ABP), leads his drug-sniffing dog Eirofi around the exterior of a tanker-trailer truck in a courtyard of the Border Police Headquarters in Kabul. Using a series of hisses while motioning with his hand, […]

Artists tip hats to business supporters
The 2007 Globe and Mail Business for the Arts Awards gala brought together 250 celebrators from the arts and business sets last night in Toronto. Now in its 30th year, the awards are presented to businesses that have made a significant contribution to the Canadian arts landscape and […]

20 octobre 2007
LE SOLEIL - RÉFLEXION
Prévenir les génocides, est-ce possible?
Angéline Fournier, Médiateur, consultante et formatrice en médiation, prévention et résolution des conflits
Une photo s’affiche sur le grand écran. Dans la salle silencieuse, des experts venus du monde entier se sont réunis pour la Conférence globale sur la prévention du génocide, organisée par l’Université McGill.
Sur l’écran, […]

Quebec roads under scrutiny
Government creates independent agency to build, maintain and repair bridges and overpasses in province
WILLIAM MARSDEN, The Gazette
October 19
The Quebec government will create a special autonomous agency to build, maintain and repair bridges and overpasses throughout the province, the transport minister announced today.
Fatal Canada overpass poorly built, kept up-probe
By Robert Melnbardis
MONTREAL, Oct 18 […]

Of course the news this week for the inhabitants of this northern realm is all about the Speech from the Throne and the will-they-won’t-they reaction from the Opposition (Liberals above all). Incidentally, we are not overwhelmed by a great feeling of inclusiveness when the full text of said speech published on the Gazette website […]