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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 #2000
July 15, 2020, 1 Comment

OH MY GOODNESS, in the blur of Covid-induced time warps, we missed the fact that THIS IS THE 2000th WEDNESDAY NIGHT! SO ...

Wednesday Night #1999
July 8, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1999

Bob Rae named Canadian ambassador to the United Nations Aside from inevitable sniping from Facebook sidelines, the annou ...

Wednesday Night #1998
July 1, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1998

HAPPY CANADA DAY! Happy Canada Day. Sorry.  The Globe & Mail editorial board underlines the many good reasons for c ...

Wednesday Night #1997
June 24, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1997

Happy St-Jean or if you want to be politically correct, Fête nationale! Amidst the past week’s tumult and shoutin ...

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 ...