Wednesday-Night
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All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson
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
Leonard Cohen Poet-in-residence at Westmount High With a background of the soundtrack of some of the poet’s wonder ...
Canada & the world II
G8 Summit July 8-10 2009 ; Canada & the Arctic Is Security Council Seat a Tory Priority? (Embassy August 2009) Exper ...
Canada after 2008 election
Our Democracy is Broken: How do we fix it? CPAC’s Peter Van Dusen moderates a head-to-head debate between Maclean’s ...
Wednesday Night #1452
market likely to be better in 2010 T H E I N V I T A T I O N The last Wednesday Night of the Oughties decade (or what ...
The airline industry
Virgin: the world’s best passenger complaint letter? Here we reproduce a complaint letter sent to Sir Richard Bran ...
Wednesday Night #1451
The outcome of the Copenhagen conference, although disappointing, was certainly predictable. To be valid and enforc ...
UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (Copenhagen)
Reuters FACTBOX: Who Is Going To Copenhagen? UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Host country site) Telegraph U.K ...
Copenhagen's unresolved issues
Dot Earth Climate Talks Make Way for a Design Show Andrew Rivkin: Out with climate talks, in with home-design trade show ...
Wednesday Night #1450
Climate Change There are those who describe a disaster scenario depicting the virtual end of life on earth unless carbon ...
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G7 Canada 2025
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Canada – U.S. 1 May 2025-
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Iran-Israel
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Trump 2.0 April 27 2025-
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Quebec Liberal Party June 2025-
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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…