PAFSO News // Nouvelles de l’APASE
It is clear that 1991 will prove to be a busy and challenging year for PAFSO as the Association will be involved in a number of important issues. These issues include: the upcoming contract negotiations with the Treasury Board; the Foreign Service…
Would You Like to Put Your Tax Dollars to Work?
There are sound reasons why high quality income-producing real estate should be part of any serious investment portfolio.
Et moi, je n’ai rien à faire
A crossposting in 1972 from Dakar as new Second Secretary at the London High Commission where I was Head of Personnel with an office in MacDonald House, Grosvenor Square, was quite a change. Two years later, I was re-assigned as Head of…
The Great Totem Pole Caper
Was it Murphy who said that anything that can go wrong will go wrong? If so, when he formulated his law, he must have had in mind what I will call the great “totem pole caper.” We, in the foreign service, are…
A Tale of Two Canadians
The odds of winning LOTO/649 surely must be lower by far than the odds of Personnel effecting such perfect posting symmetry in the normal course of business. Two well-known Canadian authors (spouses at that) landing at our two major missions in the…
Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Stanford University
On January 30, 1990, the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau was awarded the Jackson H. Ralston Prize in International Law at Stanford University Law School. The prize is awarded for original and distinguished contributions to the development of the role of law…
Coming, Looking and Going in the Darien Gap
One of the periodic pleasures of being the spouse of a member of the foreign service is the opportunity to visit out-of-the-way places. Without question, the tiny native settlement of Arimae in the southern region of the Darien province of Panama is…
A Funny Thing Happened…
I knew it would not be an easy trip. The Amazon I set out to visit was very different from what it is today. Then no highways pierced its close. Then no mobs attacked it with flame throwers and diesel power. Nature,…
The Difference Between New York and Washington?
(Editor’s note: Sidney Freifeld’s new book about some of the amusing sidelights of the Department over the years, Undiplomatic Notes: Tales from the Canadian Foreign Service, was published by Hounslow Press in October. See our review on page 40.)
Canada and India: The Negotiations for the Supply of the N.R.X.
On May 18, 1974, India detonated an underground nuclear device in the Rajasthan desert. In its official announcement, the Indian government laconically stated that the nuclear explosion experiment was solely conducted for “peaceful” purposes. The experiment would help India in underground research…
