CO Conversion
By now, you will all have received the departmental telex announcing the conversion of CO positions to the Foreign Service Group. PAFSO realizes the implications this decision will have on its membership. Consultations will be on-going with the department throughout this exercise.…
Closed Circuits: The Sellout of Canadian Television
he vision is of more public ownership, community programming on cable, local control, more Canadian content, a more responsible private sector, fewer U.S. signals and a CBC head office west of Winnipeg, at least.
The 49th Paradox: Canada in North America
t was with considerable reluctance that I agreed to comment on Richard Gwyn’s new book, The 49th Paradox: Canada in North America. Having spent almost 15 years over more than three decades at the Embassy in Washington, I have grown weary of…
A Very Public Life, Vol. II
P aul Martin’s second volume of memoirs is published at an appropriate time. Two thirds of its 680 pages are devoted to his part in the making and executing of Canadian foreign policy in the period 1948 to 1972, first as the…
Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family
See replan on Pental Americ Her book on Nicaragua provides a largely 1981 for her reporting on Central America. Eye-witness account of events there since July 1979 and before; the result is to set the record straight on most of the major…
The Dinner Party
Napoleon gave this advice to his Ambassador going to Warsaw:
Gone From Sight
Missing sons and those tense social functions comprise this time’s tales. Keep them coming.
Freifeld On: Diefenbaker in Dublin
It was on a January morning in 1961 that a cypher telegram from External Affairs in Ottawa came in to the Canadian Embassy in Dublin informing us that, in response to an earlier invitation, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, accompanied by Mrs. Diefenbaker,…
Canada-U.S. Trade
The PAFSO Professional Committee recently hosted its annual dinner-seminar on the Free Trade Debate.
A Chat with Pauline Sabourin
Mitchell Sharp, Commissioner of the Northern Pipeline Agency. Miss Sabourin worked for every undersecretary from Norman Robertson to A.E. Gotlieb. She was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1974. Bout de papier spoke with Miss Sabourin in December, 1985.
