Wednesday Night #1983
The first virtual Wednesday Night – a highly successful experiment! Coronavirus COVID-19 is causing drastic changes in our collective behaviour, our attitudes and the economy; it has also brought about...
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For the next weeks, we plan to focus on some of the topics from this Globe & Mail piece How will COVID-19 change our lives, our country, our cities and our world? In Canada, masks will be...
View ArticleWednesday Night #2001 with Terry Mosher
The Wednesday Night Odyssey continues. Thanks to Covid-19, Wednesday Night #2000 passed with barely a murmur. Months ago, we had big plans – remember #1500 at the University Club? Without physical...
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We are so happy to report that Joumane Chahine Buchanan is on the mend. John is now with her in Beirut and has posted an account of her horrific – and extraordinary – experience on Facebook. That she...
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Happy International Dog Day! You can celebrate with the 9 best dog movies on Disney+ Where to start? Jeremy Kinsman and Larry Haas tackle the thorny issue of Belarus and what to do about Lukashenko...
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The UN Decade on Biodiversity 2019
IPBES Global Assessment Preview African elephants are migrating to safety—and telling each other how to get there This pioneering British ‘wildland’ estate could boost biodiversity and yields (WEF)...
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Less than a week until the voting (but not the final count*) in arguably the most important election -anywhere- of the past 100 years is over. *Mail-in ballots in key battleground states including...
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International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust 2021 On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration...
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The UN Decade on Biodiversity 2019
IPBES Global Assessment Preview African elephants are migrating to safety —and telling each other how to get there 8-9 April Earth’s most beloved creatures headed toward extinction under current...
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Somehow, some of us thought, or at least hoped, that with the defeat of Donald Trump, we might experience some reduction in daily stress and tension in a world committed to defeating -or allaying- the...
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A huge thank-you to Lisa Napoli for being with us last week! You can come home now, Joe. Maybe not a perfect ‘mission completed’, but a pretty successful shoring up of alliances (See Multilateralism...
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30 June is the last day of National Indigenous History Month 2021 On Thursday the 25th, as hockey fans were hopefully preparing to celebrate the Habs’ semifinals victory, Sask. Cowessess Chief Cadmus...
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Venezuela 2019
Venezuela’s Hyperinflation Hits 80,000% Per Year in 2018 Venezuela announces terrorism charges against Guaido ally after highway arrest (Reuters) – Venezuelan prosecutors on Monday said they had...
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We are sad to convey the news that Wednesday Nighter David Waters died peacefully last Friday at the St Raphael hospice in Outremont. Our deepest sympathy goes out to his widow, Katherine. Former...
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Happy Hannukah to all who are celebrating! Kudos to Andrew Caddell and Kyle Matthews for Monday’s excellent Zoom session The next Trudeau Government and Foreign Policy with Senator Peter Boehm. It was...
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On Monday, Montreal and Quebec marked the 32nd anniversary of the mass shooting at the École Polytechnique. Guy Versailles remembers “Je me souviens. C’était un mercredi soir. Nous en avons discuté,...
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan August-December 2021
Afghanistan April-August 2021 Taliban cracks down on more rights while demanding Western aid (WaPo) Even as they appeal to the world to release frozen humanitarian aid funds and bank accounts, Taliban...
View ArticleCorruption & crime November 2021-
Transparency International The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) More on corruption The world at a standstill This year’s...
View ArticleNationalism, Populism, Domestic Terrorism
National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) The OK sign is becoming an alt-right symbol Racialization How populism emerged as an electoral force...
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Alternate (clean) energy/renewables /2
What is renewable energy? Renewable energy is energy derived from natural sources that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed. Sunlight and wind, for example, are such sources that are...
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