Canada and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Last year marked the tenth anniversary of the culmination of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) with the signing of the Final Act in Helsinki. The occasion was marked with the publication of a volume entitled Canada and the…
Trade Policy in the 1980’s
World trade policy is a subject badly needing some fresh thinking and new clichés. Anyone interested in both understanding and reforming the current system can usefully study this work, which reports on a conference of international trade experts. Recent events, including the…
Management for Development
Dans cet ouvrage, Kent et Mcallister ont produit ce qu’ils appellent un “nontextbook” concis, lequel puise à même leur expérience de professeur et de gestionnaire au Canada et en Afrique. On y précise: “The thème of management for development means that emphasis…
Villette
Villette has relevance to the modern experience of foreign life. It explores the themes of alienation and identity through the evolution of the character of the narrator, Miss Lucy Snowe, an English school teacher in Villette, a fictional portrait of 19th century…
A Hero of Our Time
Neither those who revere Lord Louis Mountbatten as a founder of the modern Commonwealth nor those who think of him as a dilettante and a lightweight will find their views fully vindicated in this well balanced biography of a man who helped…
Michele Landsberg’s Guide to Children’s Books
Let it be said at the outset that I approached Guide to Children’s Books with what are commonly known as “grave doubts”. Guidebooks, I thought, are either for the hopelessly timid or for those who are already converted and seek only to…
A Time of Turmoil: Canadian Politics in the Eighties
From my perspective, the most interesting aspects of Don Johnston’s book Up the Hill, published earlier this year, are the insights into the power of the Prime Minister and his office in our present parliamentary system and the reaction Johnston’s book provoked…
Prince Myshkin
bout de papier, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1986) — Fall 1986 // Automne 1986, p. 17 I have a holy fool inside.He weighs each word I say.And when I talk coherentlyI feel him drift away,Walk into the midnight fog,And wrap himself aroundA derelict, a pimp, a fagFor company underground.Or make a holy sacrifice,Idle in the […]
Howard Green: Using Canadian Common Sense
He saw me drive up and came out to wait for me at the front door of the house he has lived in for nearly 60 years. The years have taken their natural toll and he apologized for being a bit tired…
Coming “Home”
Irealize that reading other people’s letters is a breach of privacy. However, letters left open on the dining room table are fair game for a peek, if only to ascertain to whom to return them.
