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Haiti
Haiti – Six months later: Haiti on Wednesday-Night.com; CIA World Factbook: Haiti; NYT Times Topics: Haiti; CBC: Haiti’s unhappy history; CBC: Aid reality Médecins sans frontières CA Haiti Blog Some...
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Haiti – Six months later
Haiti on Wednesday-Night.com; CIA World Factbook: Haiti; NYT Times Topics: Haiti; The fault line in Haiti runs straight to France: The earthquake’s destruction has been aggravated not by a pact with...
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John Jonas, having had a very successful cataract operation, is back with Holly to offer his usual clear-eyed analysis of world events. And Judith Patterson (much quoted by Peggy Curran in today’s...
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As promised in the Prologue, it was a star-studded – and SRO – evening, further enhanced by some last-minute additions that included Clive Rustin and his “Brother Tony”, former Executive Vice President...
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A recent Facebook post sums it up: Tornadoes, Royal Wedding, Bin Laden, and now Harper. Okay, that’s it. This week is officially full and won’t be accepting any new entries. We would only quibble with...
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Events of the past weeks have led us to reflect on whether life was not much more agreeable and certainly less stressful in the days when one awaited the arrival of the packet boat and/or clipper ship...
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THE PROLOGUE I am not worried about inflation … The risk to the global economy is not inflation, the risk is that the whole thing is going to come tumbling down Ron Meisels will be introducing a guest...
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Climate change on Wednesday-Night.com The Vulnerability of Energy Infrastructure to Environmental Change Chatham House Briefing Paper Cleo Paskal, July 2009 A joint publication of Chatham House and...
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Haiti: after the earthquake
Médecins sans frontières — Haiti: One year after (.pdf) Haiti on Wednesday-Night.com; CIA World Factbook: Haiti; NYT Times Topics: Haiti; The fault line in Haiti runs straight to France: The...
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Natural Disasters
2011: A year of climate disasters (Spiegel) Natural Disasters Related articles, background features and opinions Extraordinary video of the tsunami in Japan and another Japanese Tsunami Viewed From A...
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It was noted that Herb Bercovitz is celebrating his 86th birthday on Wednesday 1486, which explains his absence. All present expressed warm wishes to Herb for many more years of health and enjoyment of...
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(NOAA) HURRICANE KATRINA — MOST DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE EVER TO STRIKE THE U.S. NYT Times Topics – Hurricane Katrina Wednesday Night #1227 (7 September 2005) (MSNBC) Rising from ruin Since early October...
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More , plus photos and videos on wednesday-night.com A very celebratory night with some long-time absentees and some very welcome new faces. Among the former, Robert Landori who presented his latest...
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Alberta floods 2013
Naheed Nenshi Dear Diary: ‘This is no miracle, no act of providence. This is Calgary’ Tuesday Where there was once a flood of ruin there now comes a flood of the righteous: Carpenters, dump-truck...
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Climate change and uncertainty 2012 -2013
Extreme Weather & Climate Events 2013 Over the past several months, the pattern for extreme events that we saw in 2012 continued into 2013. In early 2013, parts of the Southern Hemisphere witnessed...
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Climate change, uncertainty & natural disasters 2014
UN & Climate Change Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics. Politicians discussing global warming. Sculpture by Issac Cordal. Last year was Earth’s hottest on record, U.S....
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Alberta 2016
Notley’s first year: Calm in crisis, strong in delivery Gary Mason The collapse in oil prices has brought the province to its knees, and yet, amid all the anxiety and legitimate fright the situation...
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Climate change, uncertainty & natural disasters 2015-16
UN & Climate Change Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics. Politicians discussing global warming. Sculpture by Issac Cordal. Mega-Tsunami (The Passionate Eye) Could we survive a...
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Climate change, natural disasters
The Really Big One An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when. Most people in the United States know just one fault line by name: the San Andreas, which...
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Events of the past weeks have led us to reflect on whether life was not much more agreeable and certainly less stressful in the days when one awaited the arrival of the packet boat and/or clipper ship...
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