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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 #2026
January 13, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2026

I write in deep sorrow and shock that our friend and Wednesday Nighter Matthew Cope has died. Montreal journalist, scree ...

Wednesday Night #2025
January 6, 2021, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2025

January 6 – celebrated by Western Christians as “Little Christmas”, or the Feast of the Magi,  commem ...

Wednesday Night #2024
December 30, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2024

Happy Birthday, Marc Nicholson! No matter how grim or discouraging the news, there is always a flash of brilliance in so ...

Wednesday Night #2023
December 23, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2023

Normally, our  pre-Christmas message is a tad nostalgic and/or pensive, but basically cheery and hopeful, reflecting a ...

Wednesday Night #2022
December 16, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2022

Starting with the happy news: Forgive the exercise of a grandmother’s prerogative in headlining this week’s ...

Wednesday Night #2021
December 9, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2021

Wednesday, 9 December 12 – 1pm ET Conspiracy theories and COVID-19 disinformation MIGS hosted the second installme ...

Wednesday Night #2020
December 2, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2020

How many years ago did someone ask the question when would the Wednesday Night session # be the same as the year in whic ...

Wednesday Night #2019
November 25, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2019

American Thanksgiving and with this week’s news from Washington, there is good reason to give thanks. President-el ...

Wednesday Night #2018
November 18, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2018

Looking forward to welcoming Gloria Calhoun from Georgia back to WN after a long absence.  Gloria is an historian of te ...

Wednesday Night #2017
November 11, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2017

A particularly poignant Remembrance Day 2020; the commemoration of the Armistice with special emphasis on the 75th anniv ...