Wednesday-Night

December 1, 2007
Study of oilsands damage is called ‘eye-popping’
MICHELLE LALONDE, The Gazette
Government leaders meeting next week in Bali, Indonesia, for international climate change negotiations will receive copies of Gazette journalist William Marsden’s new book on the environmental devastation being wreaked by Alberta’s oilsands projects.
ForestEthics, an environmental group dedicated to protecting endangered forests in Canada, the […]

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 […]

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 […]

If you didn’t see the following from American Diplomacy on 6 November, it may be of interest.
DTJ

The author, who has been published frequently by American Diplomacy, returned recently from a visit to Easter Island and discusses below some of the theories about that mysterious South Pacific isle. He seeks to […]

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 17, 2007
The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan - Six years after the Taliban’s horrendous bombing of the fabulous Buddha complex at Bamiyan, Afghanistan’s greatest national treasure and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, efforts are being made by the Canadian government to save another great piece of Afghan heritage from death by neglect.
Last week it was announced that […]

FREE TRADE IN WASHINGTON:
ALL POLITICS, ALL THE TIME
David T. Jones

If all politics are local, then in Washington, all trade is politics. Twenty years after the FTA and 15 years after the NAFTA, former US diplomat David Jones looks at the results and prospects for free trade from Washington, where lobbyists and […]

During the years Rick Sindelar served as Economic Consul at the US Consulate General in Montreal, he was a frequent participant at Wednesday Night, always a provocative and entertaining thinker.
Syria/Lebanon example offers alternative for Iraq
By RICHARD SINDELAR
SPECIAL TO THE [DesMoines] REGISTER
October 11, 2007
The presidential candidates face a dilemma. They want to articulate an Iraq policy […]

The author, James Heffernan, is Professor of English Emeritus (Dartmouth) and a friend of Diana Nicholson since undergraduate days at Georgetown. In what is laughably called retirement, Jim has taken to blogging, frequently indulging his passion for politics, and often shares the results with Wednesday Night. In turn, we are delighted to […]

From: Guy Stanley [mailto:guy.stanley@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:56 AM
Hi Diana,
Always sorry to miss a WN, but the biotech subject line made this one
especially appealing. Not sure if I ever sent you the biotech TRM [”The Canadian Biopharmaceutical Industry Technology Roadmap“] I edited. It came out earlier this year.
My main reason for absence […]