All posts tagged The Economy

July 14, 2010, Comments Off

Banning the Burqa (and the niqab) See the Economist “Banning the burqa — A bad idea…whose time may soo ...

April 14, 2010, Comments Off

See also Wednesday-Night.com for videos and photos Although 1467 was apparently a ‘common’ year with no eart ...

March 10, 2010, Comments Off

Please see the Invitation Carl Beigie OWN, our friend, the genesis of Wednesday Night and its guiding spirit through the ...

December 30, 2009, Comments Off

market likely to be better in 2010 T H E I N V I T A T I O N The last Wednesday Night of the Oughties decade (or what ...

June 10, 2009, Comments Off

See Wednesday-Night.com for photos and more AECL ; Douglas Lightfoot’s letter of June 7 to Minister Lisa Raitt on ...

February 18, 2009, Comments Off

T H E R E P O R T See photos In a charming thank-you, one of the first-time guests accurately described the evening ...

January 21, 2009, Comments Off

Growth is not the Holy Grail. What if we changed the nature of our society and everyone reduced their level of expectati ...

January 7, 2009, Comments Off

Don Barwick has been an important contributor and good friend to Wednesday Night. His recent passing was noted with de ...

December 17, 2008, Comments Off

Inevitably in this weekly tour d’horizon, we miss or neglect a number of newsworthy items. This week it was the sh ...

October 1, 2008, 1 Comment

Politics Canada In yet another departure from Wednesday Night traditions, the first part of the evening was dominated by ...

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March 13, 2022, 1 Comment
Israel, Palestine/Gaza February – July 2023
July 31, 2023, 3 Comments
Climate change, uncertainty & security February 2021- May 10, 2023
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SCOTUS & the US courts December 2020- May 2022
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Wednesday Night #1974
January 15, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1974

Diana Thebaud Nicholson on Richard Shaw Minturn RIPFebruary 12, 2025
Molly Minturn - My family is heartbroken to share that my father died in surgery on Monday, Feb. 10. It…
Diana Thebaud Nicholson on Herbert Bercovitz OWN R.I.P.December 5, 2024
This is such sad news, Diana. He was a presence of calm and reason in our discussions which were sometimes…
Diana Thebaud Nicholson on UN, Reform & multilateralism September 2024-September 10, 2024
Re The UN General Assembly Speaker Schedule is Here! I note that whoever will be speaking for Canada this year…
Diana Thebaud Nicholson on André-Eugène Audet 1939 – 2024 RIPJuly 25, 2024
So many memories, particularly of the years as neighbours on Rosemount Avenue, with shared activities, adventures and lively political discussions.…
Alireza Najafi-Yazdi on Wednesday Night #2210July 21, 2024
I’m sure by now all have heard about Biden’s dropping out. Although we all agreed last Wednesday that this was…