Wednesday-Night

See also Canada after 2008 election and Canada’s political showdown

Big questions, windy answers
This month, the Liberal Party of Canada picked Michael Ignatieff as its new leader. To help readers decide what kind of leadership Mr. Ignatieff might provide for Canada, members of the National Post editorial board are reading through his oeuvre, discussing their impressions […]

Not so fast!
Trouble in Trump town as tycoon’s fortune dwindles
After years as perhaps the most recognisable face of capitalist success and excess, Donald Trump is suddenly bogged down in a string of legal and financial battles across his property and entertainment empire.
In Scotland, where he fought for two years to be allowed to build a […]

WASHINGTON — Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, convicted last month on federal ethics charges, lost his bid for a seventh term as final ballots were counted on Tuesday. More
18 November
Beyond Joe Six-Pack
Brink Lindsey of the Cato Institute and David Frum of the American Enterprise Institute diagnose what’s ailing the Republican party.
Hagel, Unrestrained, […]

We return to some semblance of normality this Wednesday after last week’s back-to-back evenings, with the happy and historic events of  Tuesday’s Election Night followed by Wednesday Night ’s more traditional – and certainly more sober – discussion of the economy, along with the huge challenges facing President-elect Obama. One […]

See also The sustainable economy  and Peter G. Brown
With the impending strike at the Gazette, we prefer to reprint the entire article, adding a few links, rather than relying on a potentially useless link to this story on our much-admired friend, Professor Peter Brown (photo)

Time for a green bottom line
The sun streams down as a […]

See also: Candidates and Issues
The Economist) … Merely by becoming president, he [Obama] would dispel many of the myths built up about America: it would be far harder for the spreaders of hate in the Islamic world to denounce the Great Satan if it were led by a black man whose middle name is Hussein; […]

We are delighted to hear from former (because they moved to Toronto) Wednesday Nighters Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu about the book they have just published. We look forward to reading it.
Yes We Have No Bananas: A Critique of the Food Mile Perspective
Hiroko Shimizu, […]

Wednesday-Night.com
Canada Elects: The Alternative North America Goes to the Polls by David T. Jones
(American Diplomacy) In case you hadn’t noticed, the election is over.  To be sure, not the U.S. national federal election that the world has been watching to the extent that it is virtually a global election.
But on Tuesday, October 14, the Canadian […]

Where is money safe today? Where should the investor be? Cash? What currency? To whom can you turn for advice that is not tinged with self-interest? What institution can you trust? We have heard that even proverbial Swiss banks may not be that safe (ex.UBS) …. One Wednesday Nighter suggests that we should start each […]

Article published in The MetropolitaIn of Sep. 4
Earlier in the campaign season, once Democrats and Republicans identified their presidential candidates, respectively Senators Obama and McCain, the next question for the chatterers was “Who will be the Veep (Vice President).” This exercise qualified as fun for everyone with prognosticators pondering over the […]