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(Jan 4)... Do you realise that in 56 weeks you will have reached 25 years of Wednesday nights?
Could be a good time to create a coffee table book covering the issues that have arisen in 25 years of round table discussions.
It will be Jan 31st 2007...1300 Wednesday Nights, or 25 years.
That's impressive.
Marc Nicholson
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Welcome to Wednesday-Night 1244 Jan 4th 2006
Be sure to check here for last week's Summary
Once again, we extend our best wishes to you for a happy, healthy, successful and altogether brilliant New Year.
As we embark on the annual voyage into the unknown of the next 12 months, it is normal to make predictions about almost anything, however, we were entertained by Henry Aubin's column in the December 31 Gazette titled "A dozen questions for the new year".
He asks, for instance:
Will the English-speaking community finally get a moderate, credible voice to defend its interests?
Will the Shriners Hospital finally get fed up with the uncertainty facing ... the Children's?
Will movie buffs be stuck with three competing - and weak - film festivals?
Will Premier Jean Charest approve Loto-Québec's plan to move the casino to Point St. Charles?
Will Bombardier Inc. at last ... [be able] to justify the launch ... of the CSeries?
You will note these are all related to local issues, but we invite you to submit 12 - or less if you feel so inclined - questions on any local, national or international topic to which you really, really want an answer, along with what you think the answer will be.
Please join us this Wednesday and, if not possible, then soon in the new year For the account of a most enjoyable pre-Christmas Wednesday, please see Wed1243 and for updates, breaking news, hot topics or gossip, return here www.wednesday-night.com/Wed1244.asp
May the Force be with you!
You will note these are all related to local issues, but we invite you to submit 12 - or less if you feel so inclined - questions on any local, national or international topic to which you really, really want an answer, along with what you think the answer will be.
For starters we might suggest the following:
Will the European countries find a successful approach to integrating their Muslim communities and slowing down the growth of the jihadists? foreignaffairs.org/ europe-s-angry-muslims
Will a combination of Jack Abramoff's revelations, the lack of presidential leadership in the aftermath of Katrina and the growing disenchantment of Americans with the situation in Iraq bring about major changes in the Congressional elections?
Pleads Guilty in Deal With Prosecutors
Will the U.S. invade Iran before the Congressional elections?
If there is no Climate Change (planetark.com/dailynewsstory.) when will someone explain what is going on?
Will China finally liberalize its exchange rate? With what results? business.timesonline.co.uk/article/
Will UN reform efforts take effect and will they be effective? news.xinhuanet.com/
Will Avian Influenza continue to spread or will there be a new pandemic panic in the coming year? .scidev.net/News
Will the world's crude oil supply reach Hubbert's Peak? www.hubbertpeak.com
Has it already? How will we know? www.eia.doe.gov/worldoilsupply/oilsupply
How many more celebrity spokesbabes (male and female) will crop up in 2006 on behalf of causes?
The Year of Charitainment Celebrity do-gooderism was in fashion. But do we need stars to be our guides?
time.com/time/magazine/article
Will Conrad Black's preparations for his 2007 court date be as newsworthy as his activities this year?
Will Canada's federal elections change anything? ww.cbc.ca/canadavotes/
New frontiers: a preview of 2006's big science stories
From rockets bearing stardust to the secrets of evolution, the holy grail of clean nuclear power and the genetic basis of common diseases
news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/
Please join us for an evening of Q&A. And don't forget to check .wednesday-night.com/Wed1244.asp for updates, more questions and other tidbits
Wednesday Dec 21, 2005 globe U.S. shows 4.1% growth
U.S. economy grew at fastest pace in 1½ years in third quarter despite hurricanes
Bush approved secret spying
President George W. Bush has personally authorized a secretive eavesdropping program in the United States more than three-dozen times since October 2001, a senior intelligence official said Friday night.
How many of you (hands up, please) saw the "Live Debate" West Wing?
 John
Spencer
as Leo McGarry
Versatile character actor and Emmy Award winner, John Spencer plays Leo McGarry, on the Emmy winning NBC drama “The West Wing.” His work on the show was rewarded with an Emmy Award win for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series both in 2002 and five consecutive nominations, including last year’s.
A native of New Jersey, Spencer now resides in Los Angeles and New York. His birthday is December 20.
Saturday Dec 24, 2005 uk
What's next for The West Wing?
When actor John Spencer died of a heart attack last Friday, he left a huge hole in the White House drama series plot. What happens now? How will the scriptwriters cope?
as of Wednesday Nov 9, 2005 9:00 am Santos 71% Vinick 29%
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Topical Links: (Some topics never die)
Sunday Dec 18, 2005Montreal Children’s Hospital
September 16, 2005 HeyMath! is an E-learning system that supports the work of teachers in teaching and assessment, whilst helping students in Grades 5 - 12(Ages 10+) build a strong foundation in Math and become independent learners.
Wednesday Oct 12, 2005 Bird Flu: How Concerned Should We Be? Please see!
Interest
and inflation
rates are rising, but in the context of continuing economic
growth of our interest & esp the Flu bug
Some weeks ago, ... Kimon Valaskakis. ( School of Athens,) commented that "information overload leads to information under-use".
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QUOTES of the EVENING from recent Wednesday Nights
From #1242 21 Dec
- Nobody wants to invest when there is going to be a civil war tomorrow
- The business of subsidies is not about the West helping poor Third World countries; the business of subsidies is about making the West feel good
- Climate change will be much more influential in the future of agriculture
- This year, the insurance companies suffered double the highest losses ever
- The U.S. contributes four times as much to its cotton growers as it gives to Africa
- Rice costs ten times more in Japan than in Korea
- Not all subsidies are created equal… We must draw a distinction between building a nation and maintaining trade
- Now that you can make money out of climate change, it will happen
- You need a huge infrastructure, roads, airports, power generation – build a little city, aircraft and then you have to get the oil out (of Alaska). The only good thing is that the melting of the permafrost will make it a quagmire and nobody will be able to build any of the infrastructures required (for oil extraction)
- With oil at $60 a barrel and extraction costs in the Tar Sands estimated at $20 a barrel, the members of the Petroleum Club want the federal government to subsidize the Tar Sands!
- If we reduced oil consumption by seven percent 7% in North and South America, we wouldn’t have to import oil
- The manufacturing sector has been the only loser to the high Canadian dollar
From #1241 14 Dec
- If there were no global warming, we would be caked in ice
- How many people are really distressed about the effects of global warming in Canada – just look at the temperature outside
- There has been a change (in Iraq) People say, ‘why should we die?’ The jury will only be judging on this in ten or twelve years. Twenty percent don’t see us as liberators, eighty percent do
- Why has Tony Blair not faced the same problems [over intervention in Iraq]? Maybe Bush should have done a Blair
- What would Saddam have done with all the extra (oil) money (if he were still in power)?
- The U.S. supported him (Saddam Hussein) a long time when there were other countries (such as Iran and Syria) that were just as fascist
- (President) Bush has dismissed every military commander that has said that the army is underequipped and undermanned
- Maybe (Abu Musab al-)Zarkawi doesn’t exist
- In a military sense they didn’t need more troops however Turkey's refusal to allow the Americans to move across the border forced the Americans to abandon the pincer movement on which plans were based
- Saddam has done very well in court, citing American torture at Abu Ghraib … he's going to be there forever
From #1240 7 Dec
- The campaign seems to be: we are buying your votes with your money. It is the wrong approach
- Income tax cuts encourage people to earn more. G.S.T. cuts encourage people to spend more
- I think that the disaffection of the electorate is affecting civility
- I would like to see an extremely weak Conservative government in office just long enough to crack open some of the sacred cows
- Paul Martin’s reputation in public finance was unassailable. What happened to his popularity? Should he have given it (the inquiry into the sponsorship scandal) to the RCMP instead of (to) Gomery? The sponsorship (issue) was not his, maybe, but it has dogged him throughout his career. We do not really know him as a Prime Minister
- G.M. is reactivating itself as a company in China
- Historically, when interest rates go up, gold goes the other way; as oil prices go up, the same thing is happening in the price of gold
- If everyone implemented Kyoto, it would buy us ten years at most. Three volcanos, or ironization [the reaction between the salt water and iron that affects the temperature of the oceans] of the oceans would buy us more
- The other fascinating purpose of Kyoto is to monetize the value of the exchange credit
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:05 AM Dear David and Diana,
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2006! I'm in Oz for the festive celebrations and have been racing around the country - Sydney for a 40th wedding anniversary at which I was a bridesmaid; up to the OutBack to see all my rellies (as we say in Oz); a week on Kangaroo Island in the Flinders National Chase wilderness; and now off to Pearl Beach 100km north of Sydney for New Years Eve. ook forward to seeing you early in January although it does mean a return to cold and snowy Montreal. Happy New Year.
Love Margo [Margaret Somerville, Dr]
Hi David and Diana:
We will be away until mid April. We missed the entire Montreal winter scene
last year and we got hooked. 'Hope to see you in the spring.
Thank you for thinking of us. Happy New Year!
Ginger and George Petty
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Brazil’s Touch of Dutch - January 11, 2006
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