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Wednesday Night #1849 with Peter Berezin
Peter Berezin will be with us to talk about the weekly outlook from Bank Credit Analyst (see highlights) – and any ...
The Partition of India 70th anniversary
Partition, 70 years on: Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie and other writers reflect More than a million were killed and man ...
Wednesday Night #1848
Over the past months, we have frequently commented on the grimness of the news, but the confrontation between North Kore ...
Dr. Arthur T. Porter
Arthur Porter: timeline of a corruption scandal 2017 4 August Charges officially abandoned against Arthur Porter, two ye ...
Wednesday Night #1847
We had to wait before posting this to learn who would be the hosts of the ‘new’ National. As devotees of CBC news, w ...
Wednesday Night #1846
We never thought that one of the major news items for a Wednesday Night would be one that dealt with Boy Scouts of Ameri ...
Turkey 2016 – 2017
Turkey’s Erdogan Refuses to Back Down in Feud With Germany (NYT) President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey raised the s ...
U.S. Government & governance 2017 – the first six months
Eight Political Scientists Who Will Make Sense of 2017 Presidential memoranda vs. executive orders. What’s the dif ...
Wednesday Night #1845
The dominant news is of the débacle of the Republicans’ attempt to repeal & replace ObamaCare (see Affordable ...
Wednesday Night #1844
Diana has been felled by a sinus/cold and headache which has seriously damaged her ability to think clearly, so please f ...
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Iran-Israel
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Trump 2.0 April 27 2025-
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G7 Canada 2025
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Airlines & Aviation 2020-
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Israel, Palestine/Gaza February – July 2023
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Climate change, uncertainty & security February 2021- May 10, 2023
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SCOTUS & the US courts December 2020- May 2022
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Wednesday Night #1974
January 15, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1974
This is such sad news, Diana. He was a presence of calm and reason in our discussions which were sometimes…
Re The UN General Assembly Speaker Schedule is Here! I note that whoever will be speaking for Canada this year…
So many memories, particularly of the years as neighbours on Rosemount Avenue, with shared activities, adventures and lively political discussions.…
I’m sure by now all have heard about Biden’s dropping out. Although we all agreed last Wednesday that this was…
Molly Minturn - My family is heartbroken to share that my father died in surgery on Monday, Feb. 10. It…