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 #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 ...

Wednesday Night #1888
May 16, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1888

Three foreign policy issues dominate the news this week and all relate to Donald Trump’s impetuous foreign policy ...

Wednesday Night #1887
May 9, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1887

Any other news pales in comparison to the not-unexpected-but-still-hardly-believable announcement by Trump today that th ...

Holly Higgins Jonas R.I.P.
May 3, 2018, Comments Off on Holly Higgins Jonas R.I.P.

Holly Higgins Jonas (02/07/1937 – 04/30/2018) It is with considerable sadness that we announce the passing of Holl ...

Wednesday Night 1886
May 2, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night 1886

P R O L O G U E We are deeply saddened by the news that Holly, our dear friend and matriarch of the Jonas family died on ...

Celebrating David T. Nicholson’s Life
April 29, 2018, Comments Off on Celebrating David T. Nicholson’s Life

27 April This is a rare occasion in this family. I get to have the last word. Thank you all for coming en si grand nombr ...

David T. Nicholson R.I.P.
April 27, 2018, Comments Off on David T. Nicholson R.I.P.

9 April Dear Friends, David died peacefully on Sunday night after being admitted to emergency in late afternoon with a v ...