Wednesday-Night

Yes, we watched the debates. In fact, last Wednesday, in another break from tradition, we watched almost the entire Leaders’ Debate live. 
And of course, we watched the Biden-Palin show, although that hardly qualifies as a debate, but certainly stirred up a lot of chatter and we are told, drew a greater audience […]

TO PARAPHRASE JAMES CARVILLE: IT’S THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, STUPID – IT’S ALSO POLITICS, FOREIGN POLICY, ENERGY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND, OH YES, ELECTIONS, TO NAME A FEW.

We are on overload of analysis, information and opinion on all of the above. And we haven’t even mentioned such close-to-home topics as arts funding. Then, […]

Guided as usual by the events of the week, our topics will likely be limited to the financial crisis and proposed bailout in the U.S., the elections in Canada and the U.S. and/or anything crucial that happens between now and Wednesday Night. Please see this page and/or www.wednesday-night.com for updates.
As promised previously, we again pose […]

Where is money safe today? Where should the investor be? Cash? What currency? To whom can you turn for advice that is not tinged with self-interest? What institution can you trust? We have heard that even proverbial Swiss banks may not be that safe (ex.UBS) …. One Wednesday Nighter suggests that we should start each […]

New battle over Arctic oil plans
(BBC) The grey waters of the Arctic Ocean are the scene for a new battle over plans for a huge expansion in the drilling of oil and gas far beyond the Alaskan shore.
The governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, in her speech accepting her nomination as Republican Party candidate for vice-president […]

Welcome home to all the summer’s happy wanderers. We have missed you - and you have missed some fascinating evenings - and look forward to catching up with your news, along with your thoughts on The News as it unfolds.
Speaking of unfolding,-  or more accurately, unravelling -, the Republican Convention will surely go down in […]

Following last Wednesday Night’s Canada-focused (healthcare, the NDP and environment) evening, we are looking forward to reviewing matters beyond our borders in the company of Carole and Rodrigue Tremblay. Dr. Tremblay, an economist, is a former Quebec Minister of Industry and Commerce, and  has published 27 books, most of them dealing with finance and economics while […]

We are delighted that Anne Lagacé Dowson, the NDP candidate in our by-election will be joining us this Wednesday. As all of you who have not been hibernating (what would be the summer verson of hibernating?) in the woods, absent all forms of print and telecommunications news, the race in Westmount-Ville-Marie is […]

Wednesday Night’s West Wing holds its fifth session August 13th. Alexandra and James have set up a beautiful new website  for our Wednesday Night sibling and even better news, Alex will be with us next week!
Russia & Georgia
Media Scout had the best headline Opening Ceremonies, Open War for its daily roundup of Canadian media takes […]

On the eve of the opening of the Beijing Olympics, we have some very special guests, along with the much-anticipated return of Cleo Paskal from her wanderings (who else do we know who covers the UK, Athens, Faroe Islands and India in what seems like a minute?). Cleo […]