Wednesday-Night

Last week we gave you a heads-up to circle Wednesday, September 1 in your calendars for the one-and-only Westmount/Montreal/Canadian book launch for Robert Landori-Hoffman’s latest oeuvre “Havana Harvest” See  Book reviews and much more on Wednesday-night.com about the newest page-turner from our favorite WN spook.
Thus this Wednesday will […]

It was noted that Herb Bercovitz is celebrating his 86th birthday on Wednesday 1486, which explains his absence. All present expressed warm wishes to Herb for many more years of health and enjoyment of life.
The question was raised of celebration of WN #1500 - due in 14 weeks - what is planned? What is the […]

Opening the evening, Diana announced that 33, home to Wednesday Night since 1982 - and to the Nicholsons since 1971 - is officially on the market. As to the future, there are only two criteria for their next home: it must accept the dogs, and offer welcoming accommodation for Wednesday Night.
The Centre Greene on Greene […]

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A very celebratory night with some long-time absentees and some very welcome new faces. Among the former, Robert Landori who presented his latest spy/political thriller (book) “Havana Harvest“, to be in Canadian book stores on September 1. It sounds wonderful. Adding to the paprika flavor was Tony Deutsch […]

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Daniel Léger was introduced and spoke briefly about his doctoral subject,  “Neo-conservatism and the philosophical, moral and political differences between it and realism”,  mentioning that Bill Kristol had sat on his committee. A lively debate explored whether the neo-cons’ view of the world is more common-sense based vis à vis the […]

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Ron Meisels was warmly congratulated on the recent announcement of the Caldwell Meisels Canada Fund (formerly the Caldwell Canada Fund), reflecting “the recent hiring of prominent technical analyst, Ron Meisels, President of Phases & Cycles Inc., as a consultant to the Fund”.
The Census Brouhaha (more on Canada 2010: The census debate)
Prior […]

Banning the Burqa (and the niqab)
See the Economist “Banning the burqa — A bad idea…whose time may soon come in parts of Europe” for an even-handed discussion of the two sides of the argument, much of which was iterated this evening
As several European nations, in particular France, debate banning the burqa, Wednesday Nighters were […]

Musings on the media and the sale of the Montreal Gazette
Update: No surprise — Gazette to go Web only on Sundays
Montreal has, in some ways, developed into a microcosm, its Anglophone population, a relatively small population within an important multicultural community. Until recently CanWest owned the one Montreal based English language daily, […]

As we approach the second decade of the twenty-first century, the changes, or reluctance to change, on the part of governments and business, becomes more evident, not always to the benefit of the majority of citizens.  A cynic’s point of view might be that we have been invaded by local native Martians.
The Russian spies
Espionage may […]

China
Two Wednesday Nighters who have recently returned from a trip to China sparked the discussion of the signs of seemingly unstoppable development in Beijing and Shanghai with skyscrapers as far as the eye can see - many are condos built (and still empty) in anticipation of the rising middle class market; incredible infrastructure, […]