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!

Udo Stundner OWN R.I.P.
August 24, 2013, Comments Off on Udo Stundner OWN R.I.P.

Photo by Robert Galbraith (more to follow) Udo’s OWN Citation: In recognition of your unwavering long-term support ...

Wednesday Night #1642
August 21, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1642

Renewable energy Wind power is capricious, noisy, destructive of nature and constitutes a blight on the skyline, especia ...

Wednesday Night #1641
August 14, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1641

The fallout from Babel, uninterrupted since Biblical times, with various interpretations of the will of the Deity duplic ...

Wednesday Night #1640
August 7, 2013, 1 Comment

Catherine Gillbert read a delightful essay from The Guardian Weekly about salons. Let’s seek inspiration from Doro ...

Wednesday Night #1639
July 31, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1639

The  surprise appearance of Karl Moore added an unexpected – and as always interesting –  dimension to the ...

Wednesday Night #1638
July 24, 2013, 2 Comments

We are delighted that Kimon Valaskakis has returned to Montreal – and Wednesday Night – and look forward to his prog ...

Wednesday Night #1637
July 17, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1637

Quotes of the evening Investment policies are in the east, not westward-looking. There are two important political thing ...

Wednesday Night #1636
July 10, 2013, 1 Comment

The Lac-Mégantic disaster has, perhaps, brought out the best in human beings. What would have constituted a disaster un ...

Wednesday Night #1635 with Mitch Joel
July 3, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1635 with Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel as the evening’s headliner brought out a capacity crowd of tech and tech-wary friends, almost all with inte ...

Wednesday Night #1634
June 25, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1634

The good news is that Montreal again has a mayor  (our third in seven months) – the bad news is that it isn’t N ...