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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 late 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. Once Herb was no longer up to the task, no-one volunteered to execute the task with such absolute fidelity. Then COVID invaded our weekly gathering and pushed us to ZOOM, where we remain, and since then, the entries for Wednesday Night consist only of the “Prologues”. Chatham House rules prevail!

Wednesday Night #1320 – with David & Terry Jones OWN
June 20, 2007, 1 Comment

Terry and David Jones OWNs will be with us this week from Washington, as they are on their annual pilgrimage to Canada ( ...

Wednesday Night #1320 Conference Board Report Comment
June 20, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1320 Conference Board Report Comment

A thoughtful reaction from Blake Sutherland on the Conference Board of Canada Report: How Canada Performs: A Report Card ...

Wednesday Night #1318 Postscript – Canada's Nuclear Waste
June 15, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1318 Postscript – Canada's Nuclear Waste

Canada Approves Plan To Bury Its Nuclear Waste June 15, 2007 — By David Ljunggren, Reuters OTTAWA — Canada said ...

Wednesday Night #1319
June 13, 2007, 1 Comment

Isn’t the summer weather lovely? So lovely in fact that we are having a very hard time concentrating on serious ma ...

Wednesday Night #1318
June 6, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1318

 Preface There was a welcome influx of new (and much younger) faces, including three from Europe – lending fresh ...

Greener by miles – locally-sourced food debate: Comment
June 3, 2007, Comments Off on Greener by miles – locally-sourced food debate: Comment

A contribution from Douglas Lightfoot to the on-going debate on climate change 03/06/2007 Conscientious consumers are be ...

Wednesday Night #1317
May 30, 2007, 2 Comments

May 30, 2007 After three weeks of stimulating and highly informative environment and energy (including nuclear) focus, w ...

Wednesday Night #1316
May 23, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1316

23 May 2007 A very interesting evening last week, which was a continuation of the previous week’s discussion of nu ...

Wednesday Night #1315
May 16, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1315

May 16, 2007 This week, in the absence of Diana, who will be in Washington with colleagues from the UN Convention on Mig ...

Wednesday Night #1314: ‘Nobody’s Fuel’ – Nuclear Energy
May 9, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1314: ‘Nobody’s Fuel’ – Nuclear Energy

Introduction In contrast to most Wednesday Nights, there was a very specific focus on “Nobody’s Fuel”; ...