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October 25, 2006, Comments Off

How long will there be Life on planet Earth? Unless a solution is found within a relatively short period of time, animal ...

October 4, 2006, Comments Off

4 October 2006 Many of you will remember the invitation for Wednesday Night #1273. Now, exactly 10 Wednesday Nights late ...

September 20, 2006, 3 Comments

Last week’s Wednesday Night discussion was overtaken by events and thus focused mostly on local issues, with the e ...

September 6, 2006, Comments Off

The Report The world economy As year-end approaches, there are increasing concerns about the economy with cracks becomin ...

January 11, 2006, Comments Off

RECESS IS OVER! Greetings, salutations and obfuscations to all. Trusting that, having duly enjoyed a period of jollity a ...

October 1, 2005, Comments Off

By David Zweig and Bi Jianhai Foregn Affairs September/October 2005 Summary: Chinese foreign policy is now driven by Chi ...

August 15, 2005, 1 Comment

3 August 2005 The Invitation Thanks to our mutual friend, Peter Ratzer , we are delighted to welcome Margaret (“Ma ...

March 2, 2005, Comments Off

Recognition of recent deaths There was a brief recognition of two recent deaths: Hunter Thompson, the inventor of “ ...

February 16, 2005, Comments Off

See also #1198 on Wednesday-Night.com The Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change has kicked in, Canada has no plan and the U.S ...

September 15, 2004, Comments Off

9/11 Anniversary The past weekend was filled with anniversary stories of the tragedy of September 11, 2001 , while CBC r ...

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Israel, Palestine/Gaza February – July 2023
July 31, 2023, 3 Comments
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
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Alireza Najafi-Yazdi on Wednesday Night #2210July 21, 2024
I’m sure by now all have heard about Biden’s dropping out. Although we all agreed last Wednesday that this was…