Jimmy the Turk and the Numbers Racket
As ace logician LDC Liebnitz entered the corner office of his boss, he was puzzled to hear a low sobbing from the apparently empty room. Then a shaking hand emerged from below and behind the massive desk, placing an uncorked bottle of…
De Mackenzie King à Pierre Trudeau. Quarante ans de diplomatie canadienne
Professeur au département de science politique de l’Université Laval, Paul Painchaud est à la fois esprit friand de vastes synthèses et animateur tenace. En 1977, il a dirigé un collectif Le Canada et le Québec sur la scène internationale qui a rendu…
Shadow of Heaven: The Life of Lester Pearson. Volume One: 1897-1948
The perfect title for this biography of Lester Pearson would have been simply “Mike, but, since Pearson had already used it for his own memoirs, John English had to cast around for something different. He hit upon an expression used by Milton…
Governments and Corporations in a Shrinking World
(With apologies to Sylvia, to poets everywhere, and to my four small children with whom I spend summers reading vastly superior doggerel. If the above extraordinary work of art does not tell you much about the book, all the better — this…
Collapse of Meech Lake Accord: A Rogue Foreign Policy Initiative?
Was the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord a rogue foreign policy initiative concocted by someone in the Department of External Affairs? “Tommy rot,” reply senior officials in External who are keeping mum on the subject in face of increasing evidence to…
PAFSO Professional Committee Breakfast Seminars: Fall Program
The Professional Committee has planned an active fall program and is pleased to announce its lineup of Breakfast Seminars for the coming months.
PAFSO News // Nouvelles de l’APASE
Over the past few months, PAFSO has contributed either formally or informally to the Public Service 2000 Initiative by submitted written briefs in response to specific questions, as with the Staff Relations Task Force, or by raising issues of specific concern to…
Sonnet 435
bout de papier, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1990), p. 39 by Sam Hanson A dry and dusty, bright and sunburnt landLast year was host to the United Nations.They’d come, they said, to take the place in hand:In freedom’s cause, with numbrous delegations.Others briefly came, and then complained:“The BOERS keep these simple folk in thrall!”The PEOPLE, […]
Dumplings in Harbin
In Vol. 7, No. 2 of bout de papier, Hugh Stephens described the rigours of learning Chinese and concluded that had he not learned the language, “going to China would have been like having no eyes or ears. It would have been…
To the Khyber Pass
As a little boy, my favourite books were those found in my grandmothers’ libraries, especially those by authors like G.A. Henty, R.H. Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Buchan, C.S. Forrester, and Sax Rohmer. Through them I carefully followed Wolfe in Canada, Moore…
