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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 #1930 with Diana Bruno
March 13, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1930 with Diana Bruno

Despite the grim news, this Wednesday we have cause to celebrate. As announced last week, we will celebrate the ‘birth ...

Wednesday Night #1929
March 6, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1929

It’s hard not to make this Wednesday all about SNC-Lavalin/Canadian governance/Justin Trudeau, but there are othe ...

Wednesday Night #1928
February 27, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1928

Congratulations to Rachel Bendayan on her win in the Outremont by-election and to Daniel Green for the impressive bronze ...

Wednesday Night #1927 with The Hon. David Kilgour
February 20, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1927 with The Hon. David Kilgour

In this week’s alphabet, G is for Governance with depressing illustrations from Canada – yes, Canada! – ...

Wednesday Night #1926
February 13, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1926

Having enjoyed the intellectual equivalent of a Chinese New Year Feast last week – Wednesday’s discussion on ...

Wednesday Night #1925 w/ Peter Berezin
February 6, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1925 w/ Peter Berezin

Happy New Year, I wish you good health and lasting prosperity. 恭贺新禧，祝身体健康、事业发达。 Gōnghè ...

Wednesday Night #1924
January 30, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1924

Afghanistan, Brexit, Canada, Davos, China, U.S. , Venezuela … where to start? The U.S. government shutdown is over ...

Wednesday Night #1923
January 23, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1923

Davos 2019 is on, albeit missing some of the political superstars, including Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Narendra M ...

Wednesday Night #1922
January 16, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1922

We were deeply saddened by the news that long-time Wednesday Nighter Dr. André Pasternac has died – another who w ...

Wednesday Night #1921
January 9, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1921

First the good news: We are absolutely delighted to learn that Former PM Paul Martin has nominated Irwin Cotler for the ...