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 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 #2066 with Peter Berezin
October 20, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2066 with Peter Berezin

The Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF concluded on 17 October. Thus, we are particularly happy to have Peter Ber ...

Wednesday Night #2065
October 13, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2065

Quebec Healthcare Dr. Mark Roper has confirmed that he will be joining us around 10pm to discuss the latest development ...

Wednesday Night #2064
October 6, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2064

Pandora Papers: Rich and powerful deny wrongdoing after dump of purported secrets a (news)worthy successor to the Panama ...

Wednesday Night #2063
September 29, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2063

How wonderful to go to sleep last Friday rejoicing in the news that Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, aka the Two Micha ...

Wednesday Night #2062
September 22, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2062

THANK YOU TO ALL who helped celebrate Leonard Cohen’s birthday with messages, phone calls, flowers (who are the my ...

Wednesday Night #2061
September 15, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2061

A full week since last Wednesday! The 20th anniversary of 9/11 brought global coverage and commentary and we each, no do ...

Wednesday Night #2060
September 8, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2060

Quandary of the week: What is the correct spelling of Shanah Tova as my neighbour writes it? I have seen it with an h at ...

Wednesday Night #2059
September 1, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2059

We are sad to convey the news that Wednesday Nighter David Waters died peacefully last Friday at the St Raphael hospice ...

Wednesday Night #2058
August 25, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2058

With the looming critical date of 31 August, it is pretty much all about  Afghanistan As many of you know, a group rele ...

Wednesday Night #2057
August 18, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2057

What a delightful experience with our first hybrid (in-person & Zoom) Wednesday Night last week, with the additional ...