State of the States
“Disaster, Ludwig, complete disaster!” wailed Miles Mercator, Deputy Cartographer-General to the Queen. “I foolishly sent the only draft of the new Karoobia map to my boss, Sir Sanford Sifton. He liked it, but he lost it!”
Mutual Hostages; Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century; Discovering Japan: Issues for Canadians
Japan — from the arrival of Japanese immigrants to Canada and the racial hostility they encountered, through the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the unhappy years of the Second World War, to current economic and cultural ties as…
War and Peacekeeping. From South Africa to the Gulf — Canada’s Limited Wars
Dans ce dernier volume d’une série de trois, Jack Granatstein se fait accompagner de David Bercuson, alors que Desmond Morton avait été son coauteur pour Marching to Armageddon et A Nation Forged in Fire, qui traitaient respectivement des première et deuxième guerres…
Canada on the Threshold of the 21st Century: European Reflections Upon the Future of Canada
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One Woman’s Journey: A Portrait of Pauline Vanier
This is a fascinating little book concentrating like a Hilliard miniature on the features of a fascinating woman. It is a reflection of Pauline Vanier, largely in her own words, from a series of taped interviews which Deborah Cowley and George Cowley…
Bureaucratica
As a species, civil servants are not renowned for their sense of humour. The South Asian variety are, if anything, generally viewed as solemn, self-important bores so imbued with the nobility of their calling and their position in society that nothing would…
Remaking the Balkans
Longtemps correspondent du magazine The Economist, Christopher Cviic est aujourd’hui le rédacteur du renommé The World Today. Etabli au Royaume-Uni depuis 1954, et Croate d’origine, il offre au lecteur, dans l’ouvrage en rubrique, un tour d’horizon de quatre pays des Balkans qui…
The SSEA Excellence Awards for Foreign Policy Making
Summer is upon External Affairs. The bulletin boards of the various towers of the Lester B. Pearson building are festooned with red, white and blue posters announcing the annual competitions for outstanding achievements in foreign policy making.
A Canadian Prima Donna: Phantom of the Vienna Opera
It was intermission period at a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. A dark-haired woman, sitting in the back row of the diplomatic loge, evidently had overheard that I was the Canadian Ambassador and approached my wife saying, “You must know…
Fred Bull
William Fred Bull died at his home in Ottawa on Friday, January 22, 1993. He was born on December 31, 1903 in Weston, Ontario. After earning a B. Comm. degree from the University of Toronto, Mr. Bull joined Trade and Commerce as…
