All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

English-speaking seniors in Quebec
November 19, 2013, Comments Off on English-speaking seniors in Quebec

Seniors Action Quebec Getting services in own language can be a battle for Quebec’s rural English-speaking seniors (Gl ...

Andrew G. Kniewasser R.I.P.
November 16, 2013, 2 Comments

KNIEWASSER, Andrew Graham O.C. September 9, 1926 – November 8, 2013 Passed away peacefully in his 88th year after a ri ...

Wednesday Night #1654
November 13, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1654

The return of Susan Hoecker and John Drysdale  of Concordia and American Universities to Wednesday Night this week offe ...

China’s Cities
November 10, 2013, Comments Off on China’s Cities

The Law of Unintended Consequences Sim Chi Yin for The New York Times Dissatisfaction and Dysfunction in a Model for Chi ...

The Ghost of the West, under Globalization
November 8, 2013, Comments Off on The Ghost of the West, under Globalization

The Ghost of the West, under Globalization By Roberto Savio* Other News October 2013 Much has been written about U.S. br ...

Wednesday Night #1653
November 6, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1653

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus With the foreshadowing of end of the year and the anticipation of winter, one can ...

Montreal seeks a Mayor
November 5, 2013, 1 Comment

Bravo to Mélanie Joly and her team for coming out of nowhere (politically speaking) to run a really effective and innov ...

Egypt 2013
November 4, 2013, Comments Off on Egypt 2013

Robert Fisk: As Mohamed Morsi goes to trial, General Sisi should remember –Egypt is a dangerous place to rule The ...

Wednesday Night #1652
October 30, 2013, 2 Comments

An intimate gathering of Wednesday Night ‘regulars’ made for a very focused discussion, led off by Catherine ...

Wednesday Night #1651
October 23, 2013, 1 Comment

Photo by Alan Hustak As was expected, a very large (SRO) and highly participatory crowd came to meet the three political ...