Wednesday-Night

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Zero Growth
Zero growth is a theory that all economic activities and policies should be oriented towards achieving a state of equilibrium. It asserts that the continuous growth model is inherently unstable resulting in a “boom/bust” cycle, and that continuous growth in […]

VISION, PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITY IN LEADERSHIP
Remarks by Hon. David Kilgour, J.D.
Queen’s Canadian Leadership Conference 2009
Queen’s University, Kingston
24 January 2009
Congratulations to Queen’s on this conference. Also for using it to support the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which is doing much to ease the pain of the HIV/AIDS pandemic among our sisters and brothers in Africa.Your […]

January 18, 2009
Bon vivant was a magnetic charmer and great cook
‘He would talk up anybody, and if you happened to be an elegant woman, so much the better’
By ALAN HUSTAK, The Gazette
Donald Barwick was a bon vivant who ate lunch at the Ritz-Carlton hotel so often that his initials were embroidered in gold on […]

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Several very promising Wednesday Nighter ventures were given airtime.
Bert Revenaz gave a brief update on the new company, Ecometrica, that he and some colleagues have started up. The  head office is in Edinburgh and as soon as the necessary investment was acquired, the North American office, […]

A better life for children no longer remote
Schoolhouses are now being built in remote communities thanks to numerous charitable contributions, led by James Gulkin

By: TONY WALTHAM
Bangkok Post
Mae Hong Son province is remote, but whether you travel 16 hours from Bangkok by a tour bus or take the best part of three hours by […]

Jean Pelletier a été élu maire de Québec en 1977. Il remplira trois mandats avant de quitter la vie municipale en 1989. Il avait remplacé son ami Gilles Lamontagne à la tête du Progrès civique. Ici, Jean Pelletier en novembre 1987.
«Mes plus belles années se sont passées à Québec»
Louis-Guy Lemieux
Le Soleil … En plus […]

Rob Wright, Canada’s Deputy Minister of Finance, announced the appointment of Chris Ragan as the 2009-2010 Clifford Clark Visiting Economist in the Department of Finance, effective Jan. 5, 2009.
The post, established in 1983, honours the late Dr. Clifford Clark, who served as Deputy Minister of Finance from 1932 until his death in 1952. Occupants of […]

Not so fast!
Trouble in Trump town as tycoon’s fortune dwindles
After years as perhaps the most recognisable face of capitalist success and excess, Donald Trump is suddenly bogged down in a string of legal and financial battles across his property and entertainment empire.
In Scotland, where he fought for two years to be allowed to build a […]

We return to some semblance of normality this Wednesday after last week’s back-to-back evenings, with the happy and historic events of  Tuesday’s Election Night followed by Wednesday Night ’s more traditional – and certainly more sober – discussion of the economy, along with the huge challenges facing President-elect Obama. One […]

See also Moral Economy Project,  The sustainable economy  and Peter G. Brown
With an impending strike at the Gazette, we decided  to reprint the entire article below, adding a few links, rather than relying on a potentially useless link to this story on our much-admired friend, Professor Peter G. Brown (photo)

Time for a green bottom line
The […]