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Wednesday Night #1841 with Akaash Maharaj
June 21, 2017, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1841 with Akaash Maharaj

Join us in celebrating the Summer Solstice – from here on the days get shorter. Thanks to Gerald Ratzer and other ...

Wednesday Night #1840
June 14, 2017, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1840

There are weeks when we are inundated with new news, events, facts, commentary and hypotheses, some of which reinforce p ...

Wednesday Night #1839
June 7, 2017, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1839

Kudos to Cleo Paskal. Wednesday Nighters who attended her “Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific” were enthusiastic about ...

Wednesday Night #1838
May 31, 2017, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1838

While the Trump tsunami continues to assault our eyes and ears, Canada is contributing its own political drama to the he ...

Wednesday Night #1837
May 24, 2017, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1837

In 1837 there were uprisings in both Upper and Lower Canada against the conservative minority in power.  Change that to ...

Wednesday Night #1836
May 17, 2017, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1836

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MONTREAL! On May 17, 1642, the city was founded by Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, who led French mission ...

Wednesday Night #1835 with Peter Trent OWN
May 10, 2017, 2 Comments

Wednesday Night welcomes back its premier OWN in poetry and verse May 10, 2017: A very special guest was greeted by an e ...

Wednesday Night #1834
May 3, 2017, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1834

It has been an eventful week and we are sure that none of you needs to be told that the world has now survived Donald Tr ...

Wednesday Night #1833
April 26, 2017, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1833

On Tuesday night, we were at Place des Arts for the premiere of the French version of the splendid documentary Expo 67: ...

Wednesday Night #1832
April 19, 2017, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1832

The Atlantic Daily newsletter frequently bears an alliterative heading like “Flip-Flops and Force” as a clue ...