Legacy of Valour: The Canadians at Passchendaele
In the Great War, Flanders in southwest Belgium was a fulcrum of battle. The focal point was the Ypres Salient, a semicircle around the old cloth town from the north to the south. Running east from Ypres, the flat Flanders Plain rises…
Camp X: Canada’s School for Secret Agents, 1941-45
David Stafford has produced an interesting, scholarly and seemingly authoritative history of Camp X, a British training camp for saboteurs, spies and guerilla fighters, set up and operated by the British near Whitby, Ontario, between 1941 and 1946.
PAFSO News
Jon Fried, PAFSO’s negotiator, exchanged PAFSO’s contract proposals with the Treasury Board negotiator. PAFSO’s proposals range from pay demands to the inclusion of a grievance procedure in the Foreign Service collective agreement.
Modifications à la Loi sur la pension de la Fonction publique
Un projet de réforme du Régime de la pension de la Fonction publique a été introduit à la Chambre à l’automne et sera étudié par un comité parlementaire avant son adoption.
PAFSO Protests Continuing Abuse of Diplomatic Assignments as Patronage Plums
Press Release — February 20, 1987
The Six-Day War — A Cairo Memory
That Monday — June 5, 1967 — started like many others. I awoke to bird song: the bulbuls burbling in their inconclusive fashion in the casuarinas, and the coo-coo-coo-COO of the rock doves from the slender young mango tree close to my…
La Chambre africaine de commerce et d’industrie du Canada
En Afrique il y a un vieil adage qui dit «Si tu vas à l’étranger et si là-bas, tout le monde marche tout croche, ne pose pas trop de questions, marche tout croche». Au colloque de Yamoussoukro (Côte d’Ivoire) du 28 au…
Mitchell Sharp and Jean-Luc Pepin
« L’indifférence aux affaires étrangères est l’une des infirmités permanentes des démocrates », écrivait vers 1978 Maurice Druon de l’Académie Française. La configuration internationale qui se redessinait au lendemain du choc pétrolier a pourtant vu la création de la Commission Trilatérale en…
Sécurité commune
Le seul gage solide de paix est une meilleure compréhension entre Moscou et Washington
A Brief Review of the 1986 World Exposition, Vancouver
A number of members of the Department of External Affairs were significantly involved in the 1986 World Exposition. The list ranged from the Minister himself, under whose authority the Exposition was held, to the Information Assistant in Dakar. Indeed there would have…
