Archive for January, 2010

Michel Taschereau R.I.P.
January 30, 2010, Comments Off on Michel Taschereau R.I.P.

The Globe & Mail Saturday January 30, 2010 MICHEL ALEXANDRE TASCHEREAU JULY 26, 1932 ­ JANUARY 22, 2010 Peacefully, ...

Conrad Black
January 28, 2010, 2 Comments

Conrad Black addresses McGill students via prison phone Conrad Black has published a thousand-page biography of Richard ...

Wednesday Night #1456
January 27, 2010, 2 Comments

The hate and the quake … for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building ...

Wednesday Night #1455
January 20, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1455

Photos and videos Kimon reintroduced a most welcome face from the past, Concordia Associate Professor (Communications St ...

U.S. post 20 Jan 2009
January 20, 2010, Comments Off on U.S. post 20 Jan 2009

 Next week, the speech will be pretty much forgotten, and people will scratch their heads to remember a single quote fr ...

Yemen
January 18, 2010, Comments Off on Yemen

CIA World Fact Book U.S. Department of State Background Note BBC Country profile The reputed home of the Queen of Sheba, ...

Wednesday Night #1454
January 12, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1454

On 13 January 1898, Émile Zola’s letter J’accuse was published.  Wikipedia notes that “As a result o ...

Wednesday Night #1453
January 6, 2010, 1 Comment

Leonard Cohen Poet-in-residence at Westmount High With a background of the soundtrack of some of the poet’s wonder ...