All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

Wednesday Night #1635 with Mitch Joel
July 3, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1635 with Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel as the evening’s headliner brought out a capacity crowd of tech and tech-wary friends, almost all with inte ...

Teaching the world to prevent genocide
June 26, 2013, Comments Off on Teaching the world to prevent genocide

Humanitarians unite to combat mass atrocities By Kyle Matthews and Zach Paikin MIGS Director Frank Chalk (at right) list ...

Wednesday Night #1634
June 25, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1634

The good news is that Montreal again has a mayor  (our third in seven months) – the bad news is that it isn’t N ...

Roger E. Baker R.I.P.
June 25, 2013, Comments Off on Roger E. Baker R.I.P.

BAKER, Hon. Roger The Honourable Justice Roger Baker passed away peacefully, at home, on Sunday, June 23, 2013. Beloved ...

Wednesday Night #1633
June 19, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1633

The Scribe’s reflections This week`s salon witnessed a sad discussion on the depth and breadth of emphasis on rela ...

Wednesday Night #1632
June 12, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1632

An exceptional occasion as neither Herb Bercovitz, the faithful scribe, nor Diana, the editor of these accounts, was pre ...

The Future of the State of Africa
June 10, 2013, Comments Off on The Future of the State of Africa

George Monbiot: Corporate Carve-Up Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramb ...

Wednesday Night #1631
June 5, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1631

As promised, our good friends, former US diplomats, authors and keen Canada watchers David and Terry Jones will be with ...

Wednesday Night #1630
May 29, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1630

Sixty-five years ago this Wednesday, on May 29, 1948, officers were sent to monitor the truce established following the ...

Draft Discussion Document on Quebec Universities
May 23, 2013, 1 Comment

Among adults aged 55 to 64, Canada ranks fourth in the OECD, but by 2010, university attainment rates for the 25 to 34 a ...

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