Coal Fires and Candlesticks: Joining External Fifty Years Ago

What was it like to join the Department of External Affairs 50 years ago?
Le Canada et l’Otan

Depuis la seconde guerre mondiale, le Canada s’est délibérément et constamment appliqué à préserver et à promouvoir sa souveraineté, son indépendance, son identité et son influence en mettant l’accent, dans sa conduite internationale, sur l’interdependance des nations et des peuples et sur…
Letters // Correspondance

Editor,
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président

A hidden bonus of becoming President of PAFSO is that the Editor kindly provides an opportunity to express one’s opinions publicly, with at least a fighting chance that someone amongst the readers may actually read them. What follow are thoughts on several…
Pressure points in the Canadian foreign service

A letter arrived a few days before this number of bout was sent to the print shop. Intended as a contribution to our “letters to the editor” section, it was a passionate denunciation of Departmental management and its treatment of the social…