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May 7, 2006, Comments Off

10 May 2006 Amidst the cacophony of the chattering classes debating the pros and cons of the Conservative budget, Pierre ...

April 19, 2006, Comments Off

19 April 2006 Introduction Appropriately for the 45th anniversary of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion [see also archi ...

January 25, 2006, Comments Off

25 January 2006 Dear Group of Seven, Following intensive deliberations, the Committee of the Whole of the Order of Wedne ...

January 18, 2006, Comments Off

18 January 2006 In case you haven’t noticed, we have an election looming. The campaign has not been pretty. We wer ...

January 11, 2006, Comments Off

RECESS IS OVER! Greetings, salutations and obfuscations to all. Trusting that, having duly enjoyed a period of jollity a ...

January 4, 2006, Comments Off

Introduction: We were somewhat disappointed that almost nobody wanted to play our game of the 12 questions for 2006 and ...

December 21, 2005, Comments Off

More on Wednesday-Night.com Welcome to this year’s pre-Christmas/Channukah Wednesday Night. In the spirit of the s ...

November 2, 2005, Comments Off

2 November 2005 Hallowe’en is past, but witches, ghouls and ghosts are rampant in the news, howling that the world ...

October 5, 2005, Comments Off

As the twelfth anniversary of the birth of the European Union approaches on the first day of next month, many see it as ...

September 21, 2005, Comments Off

21 September 2005 Despite the lip service we have paid to other topics, Katrina, the aftermath and oil have inevitably d ...

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Israel, Palestine/Gaza February – July 2023
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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
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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.…
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I’m sure by now all have heard about Biden’s dropping out. Although we all agreed last Wednesday that this was…