Watch out for the Moose, Now!
[Author’s Note: In mid-May, the Newfoundland branch of the family gathered to bid farewell to one of its senior members and, thus, we abruptly left humid, fuggy, rainy Central America for the chilly, windy, not-quite-yet-Spring Rock ….]
Parallel Lives
[J.W. Pickersgill and Escott Reid both enjoyed illustrious careers as public servants. Pickersgill at the right hand of Prime Ministers Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent before he became a Minister of the Crown, and Reid through 25 years at External Affairs.…
Letters // Correspondance
Bob Burchill’s article in Vol. 8 #2 (“A Funny Thing Happened…”) is a reminder that we all have highly individualized low points in our foreign service assignments which may prompt one to ask oneself the question, what am I doing here?
In Defence of Diversity: Towards the Legitimization of Dissent
The lack of an established channel through which dissenting analysis might reach decision-makers has been highlighted repeatedly in the recent past, most strikingly, in the wake of the Gulf crisis. While it is clearly important that the Department, and indeed the government,…
A bout de papier Presentation Evening
bout de papier held a Presentation Evening in the Crush Lobby on Thursday, 6 June 1991, to provide a much needed opportunity for many of our supporters to meet members of the Editorial Board, particularly, our illustrious Senior Board. It had been…
