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The evening started on a somber note, as Diana noted with sadness the deaths of Judith Patterson’s husband Jamie Tiller and Julius Grey’s father-in-law, Philippe Casgrain. On behalf of all their Wednesday Night friends, we extend our condolences and deepest sympathies to Judith, Julius and their families.
“A huge gap appeared in the […]

World Economic Forum announces Young Global Leaders 2010

Young leaders from 72 countries are honoured for their outstanding leadership, professional accomplishments and commitment to society
Of the selected young leaders, 38 are from North America
Young Global Leaders are selected from a variety of sectors such as business, government, academia, media, […]

TILLER, Wm. James Godfrey
Jamie died at home Wednesday, February 24, 2010, with his wife, brother, nurse, and dogs at his bedside. Born to Betty and Gordon Tiller of Guelph, on a fine September morning in 1950, he leaves to mourn his wife Judith, his mother, brother Doug, sister Jennifer, brother-in-law Jamie Worling, nephews Andrew and […]

Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it in their mouths, because it smoothes every part of which is rough. - Pliny the elder
Argentina and the Falklands - Oil and troubled waters
There is some concern that irrational greed arising from the discovery of oil under […]

Heward Grafftey on Wednesday-Night.com
 
(Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)
“He made his political mark as a dogged champion of social causes and a fervent egalitarian. He persistently railed against establishment political machinations and often found himself an outsider in his own party for the unquenchable habit of freely speaking his maverick mind.” Hubert Bauch in a May 2008 […]

The hate and the quake … for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building project, launched on January 1, 1804, has failed on account of mismanagement, ineptitude, corruption. Buried beneath the rubble of imperial propaganda, out of both Western Europe and the United States, is the evidence which shows […]

Upcoming events
26 January
6:30 - 8:00PM
Book launch for Cleo Paskal’s “Global Warring”
Paragraphe Bookstore 2220 McGill College
16 December 5-8PM
Robert Gervais and a few colleagues “will be slinging drinks in order to raise funds for Multiple Sclerosis and I was hoping you would join us. We will be the bartenders for a 5 à 8 at Ye Olde […]

 The Internet and the media,  Social networking, Wikipedia …  but first, Mackay Smith presented his new copiously illustrated book - and labor of love -  Memories and Profiles of McGill University, which profiles 141 buildings the university owns or leases on its downtown campus. The author’s choice to self-publish brings both advantages and disadvantages which […]

 
Governor Crist Becomes a Right-Wing Target
A raft of conservative groups, commentators and politicians are supporting a primary challenge to Mr. Crist by Marco Rubio, a telegenic former speaker of the Florida House christened a Reaganite’s answer to Mr. Obama by The National Review.
6 November
David Jones on Election Day USA: Virginia and New Jersey
(The MetropolitaIn) Obama’s […]

Work in progress
The news that David Oliver and his wife Christine are moving in mid-January to North Hatley, where he is to be the Vicar of St. Barnabas was greeted with a mixture of pleasure for him and dismay that his presence at Wednesday Night will be far less frequent.
The politics of religion
Divine will […]