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 #1996
June 17, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1996

Today is UN Security Council vote day. Canada is vying with Ireland and Norway for one of the two non-permanent seats re ...

Wednesday Night #1995
June 10, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1995

We are delighted to once again welcome Peter Berezin to Wednesday Night. The highlighted topics of his weekly report of ...

Wednesday Night #1994
June 3, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1994

As many of you know, my communication of last week’s email Prologue was frustrated by a persistent computer proble ...

Wednesday Night #1993
May 27, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1993

For the next weeks, we plan to focus on some of the topics from this Globe & Mail piece How will COVID-19 change our ...

Wednesday Night #1992
May 20, 2020, 1 Comment

20 May 1980, Forty years ago today … the first Quebec Referendum. There is such a preoccupation with Covid-19 that ...

Wednesday Night #1991
May 13, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1991

Coronavirus Covid-19  all the time, everywhere we turn, every form of media is saturated with news, rumors, information ...

Wednesday Night #1990
May 6, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1990

There is so much conflicting and/or confusing news and opinion about coronavirus and Covid-19, its effects on the popula ...

Wednesday Night #1989
April 29, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1989

Tuesday, 28 April was the anniversary of the opening of Expo 67. The summer of ’67 will remain a glorious memory f ...

Wednesday Night #1988
April 22, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1988

Details of the tragic events in Nova Scotia continue to unfold. There are no words to convey the horror of the senseless ...

Wednesday Night #1987 with North Carolina State Senator Jeff Jackson
April 15, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1987 with North Carolina State Senator Jeff Jackson

We offer our deepest sympathy to Dominique Beauchamp and John Evdokias on the death of her father, Claude Beauchamp, on ...