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Wednesday Night #1283 – with Stéphane Dion
October 4, 2006, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1283 – with Stéphane Dion

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

Wednesday Night #1281
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 ...

Wednesday Night #1280
September 13, 2006, 3 Comments

13 September 2006 As we began to write this week’s invitation we could not help a slight tremor – what would ...

Wednesday Night #1279
September 6, 2006, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1279

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

Wednesday Night #1266
June 7, 2006, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1266

7 June 2006 Writer’s block is the phenomenon in which a writer temporarily loses the capability to continue writin ...

Wednesday Night #1262 – Invitation
May 7, 2006, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1262 – Invitation

10 May 2006 Amidst the cacophony of the chattering classes debating the pros and cons of the Conservative budget, Pierre ...

Wednesday Night #1246
January 18, 2006, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1246

18 January 2006 In case you haven’t noticed, we have an election looming. The campaign has not been pretty. We wer ...

Wednesday Night #1245
January 11, 2006, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1245

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

Wednesday Night #1235
November 2, 2005, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1235

2 November 2005 Hallowe’en is past, but witches, ghouls and ghosts are rampant in the news, howling that the world ...

Ralph Nader on civic action
August 17, 2005, Comments Off on Ralph Nader on civic action

A brief summary of Ralph Nader’s lecture at the Festival citoyen Prologue  First of all readers should be warned ...