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 #1898
July 25, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1898

We are looking forward to welcoming Kent Hovey-Smith’s guest, Craig Ryan,  Director, Social Entrepreneurship at B ...

Wednesday Night #1897
July 18, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1897

There are no more new adjectives… although for the first time in memory, ‘treasonous’ has been applied ...

Wednesday Night #1896
July 11, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1896

Before addressing all the issues that have clouded our collective horizon, let us celebrate the heroism of the internati ...

Wednesday Night #1895
July 4, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1895

The Glorious Fourth aka Independence Day is to us a deeply tarnished celebration this year.  But then,  much of what i ...

Wednesday Night #1894 with Peter Berezin
June 27, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1894 with Peter Berezin

Welcome back, Peter! In his latest report,  he warns that: Three macro “policy puts” are in jeopardy of dis ...

Wednesday Night #1893
June 20, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1893

We are absolutely delighted that our dear friend and prolific author, Alan Hustak will be with us again. Since he was la ...

Wednesday Night #1892
June 13, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1892

Donald Trump’s disruption of the G7 (or G6+1) gave way to the Singapore (Sentoas) Summit, amidst some distinctly v ...

Wednesday Night #1891
June 6, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1891

Tariffs & Trade wars, Singapore Summit, Charlevoix G7,  Italy’s government,  Ontario elections, California & ...

Wednesday Night #1890
May 30, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1890

While the world frets about the on-again-off-again summit with North Korea and the next moves against  Iran, and Canadi ...

Wednesday Night 1889
May 23, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night 1889

Most of the time, we feel as though some evil genius had draped an invisible and impenetrable cloak of bad news over us ...