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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 #1530
June 29, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1530

Scribe’s Prologue The Hudson’s Bay Company in the seventeenth century, dealing largely with fur traders in t ...

Wednesday Night #1528
June 15, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1528

Our special guest, Flora Igoki Terah of Kenya, made this an exceptional and riveting evening. Flora’s intensely pe ...

Wednesday Night #1527
June 8, 2011, 1 Comment

 Despite the seriousness of the principal topic, the evening’s debate was filled with laughter. See Wednesday-Nig ...

Wednesday Night #1526
June 1, 2011, 1 Comment

It seems to us that news arrives in pyrotechnic bursts. This was certainly the case in May – THE WEDDING; Osama; t ...

Wednesday Night #1525
May 25, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1525

Canada’s case of the “Dutch Disease” We become lazy when all we have to do is dig stuff out of the gro ...

Wednesday Night #1524
May 18, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1524

Events of the past weeks have led us to reflect on whether life was not much more agreeable and certainly less stressful ...

Wednesday Night #1523
May 11, 2011, 1 Comment

“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Diana welco ...

Wednesday Night #1522
May 3, 2011, 1 Comment

A recent Facebook post sums it up: Tornadoes, Royal Wedding, Bin Laden, and now Harper. Okay, that’s it. This week ...

Wednesday Night #1521
April 27, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1521

A relatively small, but very lively, Wednesday Night was enhanced by the presence of Liam McHugh Russell, Sauvé Scholar ...

Wednesday Night #1520
April 20, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1520

The evening was enlivened by Alan Hustak‘s description of his recent trip to Israel, which was undertaken on the i ...