Wednesday-Night

Wednesday Night Goes Global - or at least partially!
On Wednesday April 2, a select group of Wednesday Nighters will gather in Athens on the first day of the New School of Athens (NSOA) Conference Athens-3 organized by Kimon Valaskakis OWN. Jaime Webbe and Cleo Paskal are participating in the Panel on Globalisation and Security: […]

Dear Diana and David,

Greetings from Athens. We are having our Athens-3 Conference starting this Wednesday 2 April until Saturday 5th of April at the Latsis Foundation Headquarters at Pallas Athena. I am enclosing the final program NSOA Programme which includes the underlying problematique. You might also be pleased to know that Wednesday Night will […]

Rising temperatures will damage even strong economies and pose a global threat to security, top officials say.
Extreme climate conditions provoked by global warming could lead to “unprecedented” international security threats, with “serious security risks” even if climate change is contained within the European Union’s target of a temperature rise of 2°C above pre-industrial levels, […]

We had promised that Beryl would be with us last week to talk about the new publication, The MetropolitaIn, that he will launch next month. He was unavoidably detained, but assures us that he will be present tomorrow night.
As always, we have the U.S. presidential campaign on the Agenda and certainly this week we cannot […]

There is now widespread scientific consensus that human-produced carbon emissions are contributing to global climate change. It may not be the only cause, and global feedback mechanisms (like the release of huge of the greenhouse gas methane from the melting permafrost) could be too far advanced to stop, but the political reality is that there […]

It seems we are stuck in a topic rut and not only in terms of frequency, quantity and quality of snowfall. The news appears to be same old - same old, with one outstanding exception (see below).
There are the U.S. economy (tanking) and the markets, which are looking for any excuse to rejoice and […]

Fibs, Frauds and Whoppers

How the debate over global warming ever became an angry partisan affair, I will never know. Somehow it has become a hard right talking point that global warming is […]

February 27, 2008
(Westmount Examiner) Local clinics merge to form Queen Elizabeth Family Medicine Group
Health professionals and elected officials from Westmount are hailing the accreditation and merger this week of four medical clinics into a single family medicine group as an important step towards improving local access to health services which are available through medicare.
Under terms […]

BRAVO BRIAN! More on Brian
We are truly delighted by the news that Brian Mitchell has been appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC — and dismayed that the Minister’s office did not list Brian’s […]

February 22
James Heffernan, Huffington Post
You don’t give up easily, do you?
Earlier this week, just before the primaries in Wisconsin and Washington, you charged Barack Obama with plagiarizing a passage from a speech given by Deval Patrick, the Governor of Massachusetts. Though your charge fizzled (Obama won both of those primaries), you tried it again […]