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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 #2166
September 20, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2166

While the Housing Crisis was top of the agenda as the Liberals emerged from their caucus retreat last Thursday, it was q ...

Wednesday Night #2165
September 13, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2165

Natural disasters The world is still absorbing the news of the devastating earthquake in Morocco -and wondering why aid ...

Wednesday Night #2164
September 6, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2164

Andrew Caddell‘s weekly column starts: “Labour Day weekend is the unofficial end of summer in Canada, as wel ...

Wednesday Night #2163
August 30, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2163

NOT a happy anniversary: On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, as a Category 3 hurricane; ...

Wednesday Night #2162
August 23, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2162

We are so very sad to share the news of the death of gifted filmmaker and former Wednesday Nighter, Paul Carvalho. John ...

Wednesday Night #2161
August 16, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2161

Quebec enters the era of quantum computing There are few people who understand quantum computers well enough to use them ...

Wednesday Night #2160
August 9, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2160

For those of us who rely on Facebook to communicate bits and pieces of information one at a time, and tagging individual ...

Wednesday Night #2159
August 2, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2159

As Tom Nichols of The Atlantic put it, This Is the Case Every media outlet and analyst  has an opinion -a take on the c ...

Wednesday Night #2158
July 26, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2158

We welcome Peter Berezin back, just in time to comment on the burning questions of recession/inflation and today’s ...

Wednesday Night #2157
July 19, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2157

Putin’s War and the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal are worrisome. As of Wednesday, there is no good news and ...