Caption Contest
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Cities of the Silver Screen
The following clues each relate to a movie with a different major city in the title (for example that great Elvis Presley thriller “Fun in ACAPULCO”‘). The cities (not the movie titles) are in alphabetical order. The number in parenthesis after each…
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Publishers of encyclopedias have always had the daunting task of determining what to include and the space to be given to any single subject. In today’s publishing world, price is also an important factor in selling the general public a ‘user friendly’…
Arctic Imperative, Is Canada Losing the North?
In August 1986, John Honderich, a lawyer and editorial page editor for the Toronto Star, took a leave of absence to bring together his two fascinations, the Arctic, and strategic affairs. At the time, a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and…
Free Trade — The Real Story
The book is a collection of interesting essays on issues relating to the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA). David Bercuson, the Calgary historian, details how a number of our prime ministers supported some form of free trade with the United States to…
Political Wives: The Lives of the Saints
“There is no subject I cannot trivialize”, wrote Susan Riley. She then set out to do just that in her book, Political Wives with its vague and unexplained subtitle, The Lives of the Saints. The wives who appear in her book were…
Congés autofinancés
Les membres de l’APASE se souviendront qu’au cours des deux dernières rondes de négociation, le concept d’un congé sabbatique financé à même le salaire de l’employé avait fait l’objet de revendications qui n’avaient pas été retenues par l’employeur. Il semble que depuis,…
The Curse
bout de papier, Vol. 6, No. 3 (1988), p. 40 Everyone’s looking olderexcept me.My eyes still flashwith brilliance;energy, excitement, both remain;passion as well.Blood that coursed and raged within my veinsstill flames as wildly —now and then.Children call me “Sir”nowshow respect.Hairline’s not recededall that much,and silver temples add distinction.Generous stomachevidence of frequent business lunchesadds importance“gravitas”.Image in […]
À la Plaine des Jarres (Là-haut chez les Lao)
Il m’arrive souvent de regretter de ne pas avoir tenu de journal au fil des années que j’ai passées en poste à l’étranger ou durant mes nombreux voyages officiels. Sans doute, me disais-je alors, que ce qui m’arrivait était plutôt banal et…
Off-Track in the Kenyan Highlands
One of the last things I had to do, before I ended my tour of duty in Kenya, was pay a final site visit to the Mobile Pastoral Training Unit (MPTU), a CIDA-sponsored development project located in central Kenya. The drive north…
