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bout de papier, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1987) — Spring 1987 // Printemps 1987, p. 54 View the original scanned pages → Originally published in bout de papier, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1987) — Spring 1987 // Printemps 1987, p. 54. Read the rest of this issue →
Murder in Academia
Chief Inspector de Toombs was discussing his latest case with ace logician LDC Liebnitz. “Terrible mess, Liebnitz. Head of the University biochemistry department, name of Fynkk, killed with one of his own chemicals — some new wonder drug to which he (and…
Poems
bout de papier, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1987) — Spring 1987 // Printemps 1987, p. 52 Diplomatic “Corpse” Immunity! Immunity! what’s happened to immunity?There was a time when the ’Corps’ was thought a privileged community!But now we have to take our chanceOf gun or bomb – “Pauvre Excellence!”And not to mention Fer-de-LanceThey get us with […]
Letter from the President of PAFSO
I need your help. Some weeks ago, after PAFSO had released a sharply worded protest about yet another non-career head of post assignment, I had an installment on what the late Andy Warhol described as every man’s fifteen minutes of fame. Mine…
Buying a Home
You have arrived in Ottawa and are camped out in an apartment-hotel. Days and nights are spent trailing from house to house in search of reasonable accommodation at a price you can live with. At last you find it. THE house. There’s…
Insurance: Practical Solutions
This year almost every reader of bout de papier will purchase or renew some form of insurance benefits. The annual cost to the average family for all types of insurance will be over $2,000.!! and this is before any business insurance costs…
The Wine Lover’s Guide to France
Michael Busselle’s The Wine Lover’s Guide to France is an apt title because it puts the accent as much on France, the wine growing country, as on wine itself. The five principal wine growing areas that make up roughly half the country…
René Lévesque Memoirs
It had been almost a year since I’d last seen him. René Lévesque had just returned from a promotional tour in the Canadian West. It wasn’t his first trip, but it was the first time he’d been struck by the beauty of…
Canada 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation
Jack Granatstein is one of Canada’s foremost historians. This book, which caps the nineteen-volume Canadian Centenary Series, should be counted as one of his finest works. Writing contemporary history isn’t easy. There are too many vivid memories of familiar events, too many…
Canadian Regulation of International Trade and Investment
The study of modern Canadian international trade policy and practice appears at last to be coming into its own. It is no longer the secret preserve of a few government officials and an even smaller group of specialists in the universities, think-tanks…
