All posts in Wednesday Nights

The accounts of Wednesday Night Salons in chronological order appear below. The task of archiving them is on-going . As stated elsewhere, it was not until the early 90s that we began to keep weekly records of discussions, therefore, there are, unfortunately, major gaps in the earlier chronicles.
Most, but not all, accounts until 2014 were written by our Scribe, Herb Bercovitz, and edited as required, by Diana, however a number of other Wednesday Nighters also contributed their note-keeping talents on occasions when Herb was absent. Since Herb was no longer up to the task, the entries for Wednesday Night consist only of the “Prologues”. Chatham House rules prevail!

Katrina Update: A Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Still at Risk
August 17, 2007, 1 Comment

   By JOHN SCHWARTZ NEW ORLEANS — Six inches. (New York Times) After two years and more than a billion dollars s ...

Wednesday Night #1328 – Postscript: In the Hole to China
August 15, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1328 – Postscript: In the Hole to China

  August 8, 2007 Uncle Sam, Your Banker Will See You Now … In the Hole to China By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Early t ...

Wednesday Night #1328 – with Hon. David Kilgour
August 15, 2007, 7 Comments

15 August 2007 This Wednesday we will have David Kilgour, long-serving (May 1979 until January 2006) Member of Parliamen ...

Wednesday Night #1329 What's good for birds is good for economies
August 10, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1329 What's good for birds is good for economies

Globe & Mail Report on Business NEIL REYNOLDS August 10, 2007 OTTAWA – John Kenneth Galbraith was perhaps the ...

Wednesday Night #1327 – Lyda from Russia & Nino from Georgia
August 8, 2007, 4 Comments

Lyda Letacq has recently returned from Russia and has agreed to debrief at Wednesday Night on the highly topical subject ...

Wednesday Night #1326 – Postscript: the Laurel Comment
August 1, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1326 – Postscript: the Laurel Comment

The Laurel Comment “…this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end ...

Wednesday Night #1326
August 1, 2007, 4 Comments

1 August 2007 It is indeed the Dog Days of Summer and we feel appropriately listless (despite Peter Trent’s avowal ...

Wednesday Night #1325
July 25, 2007, 1 Comment

25 July 2007 Our mental capabilities are exhausted from the intense and challenging conversation of last week’s Sa ...

Wednesday Night #1324 – Postscript: China & Africa
July 18, 2007, 1 Comment

Hope, Concern Greet China’s Growing Prominence Inter Press Service (Johannesburg) 23 July 2007 By Michael Deibert ...

Wednesday Night #1324 – Anne Sophie, Cleo & Kimon
July 18, 2007, 7 Comments

This Wednesday we will sadly say farewell to Anne Sophie Coleman, who leaves Montreal for an exciting new post in Washin ...

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