Caption Contest
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Yes!! Prime Minister
“It was awful, Liebnitz!!” said the Privy Clerk. “There I was. It was about fifty years from now, and seven parties had won seats in the federal elections. After repeated failures by the party leaders to cobble together a majority, the Governor…
Spearhead To Victory: Canada And the Great War
Modern Canadians are uncomfortable with the thought that a warrior spirit lurks in their history and heritage. The Canadian shock trooper, armed to the teeth, bayonet fixed, equipped with a sometime “no-prisoners approach” to the grim business of war, striking fear and…
Spoils of Power: The Politics of Patronage
Canadian journalists are unquestionably better on the average today than used to be the case: better educated, better trained, and less likely to be party-lining hacks. But it is a rare journalist in Canada now or ever who has a genuine scholarly…
No Boundaries Upstairs: Canada, the United States, and the Origins of North American Air Defence, 1945-1958
The NORAD agreement, Canadian diplomat and scholar John Holmes has written, “was the logical culmination of defence arrangements on which both countries had been working for a decade, a compromise, acceptable to the times, between the logic of efficiency and political caution.”…
Négociations 1989
Cette année les négociations avec le Conseil du Trésor et le Ministère des Affaires extérieures ont débuté plus tôt que de coutume. C’est à la requête de l’APASE que l’échange des propositions patronales et syndicales a eu lieu le 23 février lors…
Spousal Employment
Carol Markham has been a member of the Executive Committee of PAFSO since 1987 and chairs the sub-committee responsible for the elaboration of a PAFSO policy on spousal employment. This policy, reprinted below, has been endorsed by PAFSO and was presented to…
Untitled by MAC
bout de papier, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1989), p. 36 Have you ever met a Yuppie* who admits to it?ever met a yuppie whom you liked?Are the values they reflectthose we feel we must rejectas representing Mammon and the like?*Yuppie — Young upwardlymobile professionalDo you count among acquaintances a Dink* or two?know any you would […]
International Business
Is Canada preparing itself adequately to compete internationally by developing needed expertise in international business? This question was examined at the Corporate Higher Education Forum held in the Autumn of 1988. The following quotations were made by various CEO’s who attended the…
The Taxation of Real Estate
For most of us, an investment in real estate, whether it be a home, a cottage or some form of rental property, is our single biggest investment. It’s something we know about — we can see it, walk through it, fix it…
