Pierre Charpentier
Né en 1925, Pierre Charpentier avait joint les rangs du ministère des Affaires extérieures en 1952, après avoir obtenu une licence en droit de l’Université de Montréal et une bourse d’études Rhodes de l’Université Oxford. Il a servi à l’étranger à Madrid,…
Executive Job-Changing
by Carol N. Markham
The Ambassador’s Perambulatory
The success of the Centennial caravans and train in their perambulations around the country this summer should be taken to heart by those in this Department who are grappling with the unending problem of establishing Canadian missions overseas This Memorandum would suggest…
Learning and Living in the Arab World
As my postings have both been in the Arab world (Cairo, 1976-1980, Amman 1984- 86), I am often asked what it is like to work in the Middle East. Two notions which I believe to be misconceptions, frequently come up: First, that…
A Tale of Two Tribes
The surviving Ameridians of Brazil number about 250,000 people — a mere .2% of the Brazilian population. Yet, they have a social significance out of all proportion to their numbers. In a country whose vigorous national culture seems to “Brazilianize” all immigrants,…
Funny Money
Yesterday, I dropped by Brasilia’s airport on an errand and on the way out I stopped for a chocolate milkshake at the cafeteria. The last time I was at the airport, two weeks ago, I did the same thing. The only difference…
Women in the Foreign Service: Do They Have Legitimate Career Complaints?
he view still prevails in many corners of the Department that while women were once discriminated against, the tables have now turned and women are now at least treated equally, or even given special treatment in the Department. I would like to…
Le sénateur Raoul Dandurand : Pionnier de la Diplomatie canadienne
D urant la décade de 1920, une fois conquise — graduellement l’indépendance du Canada par rapport à l’Angleterre, mais dans le cadre de l’Empire britannique, il restait à affirmer sans équivoque et à développer la nouvelle souveraineté internationale de notre pays. Ce…
An Officer’s Best Friend
bout de papier, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1990), p. 15 “User friendly” they said, “Menu Driven.Just follow instructions. Hit any key.Before you know, it’s indispensible.”Hard to recognize my IBM clonecomputer in that glowing sales pitch, asI sit here at night with the screen gone blankexcept for one *! message flashing forth;ERROR. FORMATTED FOR DEFAULT PRINTERBloody […]
Reflections of An Ur*-COSICS User
– of implementing a massive communications and office automation project known as COSICS (Canadian On-line Secure Information and Communications System). For two years or so it has been in the discussion, planning and procurement stages, leading some to describe it as “air-ware”…
