Wednesday-Night

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 […]

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Starting this Wednesday Night on a different note (!), our very special diva, Susanna Eyton-Jones, and Shem Guibbory will give a brief performance as a warm-up to their in-studio recording the following week. They will present a 13-minute chamber piece for violin and soprano entitled ‘Iglesia Abandonado’, by […]

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We have the great joy of the presence of our son Marc and his brilliant wife Jean from Singapore. Sadly, this is the last week of their summer holiday in Québec. We hope that you will be with us to enjoy their company and observations - no doubt […]

July 23
Dear Diana and David and their faithful readers!
It has been over a decade–more than 13 years in fact since I last wrote the
article re-printed below…describing the Wednesday nights of Westmount,Quebec. It is time for a quick review and certainly time to reflect how years pass by and…”plus ça change plus c’est […]

Last Wednesday will go into the annals as one of the Great Wednesday Nights. Robin Griffiths and Maureen Farrow were a superb dog & pony show, knowledgeable, articulate and dare we say, entertaining… and so was everyone else. Although it was a hard-headed review of many aspects of the global […]

Chil Heward is bringing Robin Griffiths as his guest.
Robin joined Phillips & Drew in 1966, having taken a degree in Economics at Nottingham University. He went on to be a partner at WI Carr, the first British stock broker to have offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Part of this firm […]

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After last week’s fascinating and informative evening on Iraqi Kurdistan, another first. This Wednesday we are delighted to feature three brilliant young women: Anne Sophie Coleman, Katleen Félix and Emma Richez.
Anne Sophie is paying Montreal a brief visit - something to do with the Jazz […]

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Happy Fête nationale to one and all!
This week we are very pleased that Guillaume Lavoie, a seasoned international observer and consultant in government relations has offered to come to Wednesday Night to discuss his recent trip to Iraq, and more particularly, Iraqi Kurdistan.
He “got to […]