Fall Caption Contest
Fall Caption Contest The Winner: Tom Clasper, Kuwait “Of course, most of the money we’re saving on shelter costs will have to go to buy us new suits when the rainy season starts ..
Write Your own Caption Contest
Another in our series of caption challenges.
Dancing Cheek to Cheek
On December 5 the department held a dinner dance at the new Convention Centre. It was a smashing success with the RCMP Band playing a medley of popular tunes that kept the dance floor full. Our FS1(Ds) provided a series of very…
Not Now, Natasha !!!!
It is morning on the Orient Express and murder has been done in Room 13 of the Pullman Car (see diagram). The victim was an American secret agent on his way to Istanbul. The windows on the car are the kind that…
At the Flicks with Pagan Haigh
Dance with a Stranger . . . Silverado . . . Wetherby . . . Plenty . . . Out of Africa . . . After Hours . . . Compromising Positions . . . Kiss of the Spider Woman . .…
Putting Paid to Palmy Days at the Yacht Club
The Auditor General’s report questioned the procedures leading to the purchase of 34 membership-debentures in Hong Kong’s Aberdeen Marina Club. The memberships were purchased as part of the department’s Recreational Hardship Support Service, a program set up on the recommendation of the…
The Foreign Service as a Career
Excerpt from PASO submission to the Public Service Arbitration Board.
Rapport du comité professionnel
Les déjeuner-causeries ont continué de plus belle aux cours d’octobre et novembre et les activités du Comité professionnel ont culminé en décembre par la présentation d’un colloque sur le libre-échange avec les États-Unis, qui fait d’ailleurs l’objet d’un rapport séparé dans cette…
Our Family Afield
bout de papier, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1985) — Winter 1985 // Hiver 1985, p. 36 This is the team at Canada’s Paris, France, office. bout de papier decided against trying to list by name all the team members. Just try and imagine it: Front row, left to right, it wouldn’t work. How many can […]
A Sacred Trough?
The appointment of Dennis McDermott as Ambassador to Dublin brought to 12 the number of non-career diplomats appointed during the 17 months Prime Minister Mulroney has held office. By contrast, Pierre Trudeau appointed 16 during his 16 years as prime minister, doe…
