Wednesday-Night

The evening opened with a brief video of the presentation of the Lieutenant Governor’s Seniors Medal (Médaille pour les aînés) awarded for volunteer service, to our OWN Herb Bercovitz on May 1st. Peter Trent, who had nominated Herb, was on the stage, beaming with pride. The honorees also included a great number of impressive young […]

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Germaine Gibara on April 21, 2010.
 A successful and respected leader in business and management, Germaine sat on the board of directors of numerous companies and institutions: Sun Life Financial, Technip, Agrium, Cogeco Cable, St Lawrence Cement, and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board.
Previously, […]

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Produced Gala des Étoiles
Set new standards. Became a member of the Order of Canada in 1992
Victor Melnikoff, a lawyer who for a quarter of a century produced the annual star-studded dance show Gala […]

‘Gentle intellectual giant’ was an authority on U.S.-Canada relations
Alan Hustak
Special to The Globe and Mail
Carl Beigie was founding executive director of the C.D. Howe Research Institute, the chief economist for Dominion Securities Pitfield Ltd. and McLean McCarthy Ltd., as well as an adviser to Canadian finance ministers in both Liberal and […]

Quebec lawyer Philippe Casgrain had a natural charm that helped him win in court
‘I’m always anxious for the judge to take his seat in the courtroom so I can put on a show for him,’ he once said
Alan Hustak
(The Globe and Mail) If Philippe Casgrain hadn’t gone into law he might have been actor.
Mr. Casgrain, […]

The night that was! The place as always the Nicholsons’ home and the soirée the Wednesday Night. It was very special by the very fact that the man who gave initial life to these soirées was no longer of this world. He passed away…………March, 2010.I attended the soirée — especially to bring […]

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Carl Beigie OWN, our friend, the genesis of Wednesday Night and its guiding spirit through the first two decades, died on Thursday, 4 March.
Given the many years when Carl shared with us his views on assorted budgets - sometimes from wherever he had been ‘locked-up’, we cannot overlook the coincidence of his […]

Carl Beigie OWN, our friend, the genesis of Wednesday Night and its guiding spirit through the first two decades, died on Thursday, 4 March.
Given the many years when Carl shared with us his views on assorted budgets – sometimes from wherever he had been ‘locked-up’, we cannot overlook the coincidence of his death and the […]

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Carl was a very, very special friend, whom our entire family loved dearly.
Our hearts are very heavy today, lightened only by the many wonderful memories of happy times spent in his company, debating, discussing and sometimes just talking. How he loved to do all three! He was indeed a gentle intellectual giant and […]

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Michael Shenker: Time ever more precious as death nears
Hugh died on Wednesday morning. Somehow, in all this experience with death, there should be a life lesson, something I can take away, a morsel of wisdom I can use to live a little more wisely, more meaningfully, to better appreciate the short-term lease I’ve […]