Jimmy the Turk’s Fair Weather Report
It was in the morning mail, along with a last few desperate election flyers and Jersey Joe Coffin’s monthly advert for waterproof pasta. The envelope was wrinkled and stained as if from extended proximity to a poorly-corked wineskin, and smelled slightly of…
The American Response to Canada since 1776
Reviewed by Greg Donaghy
A World Mission: Canadian Protestantism and the Quest for a New International Order, 1918-1939
Reviewed by Don Page This is a book that is long overdue in Canadian historiography because it brings to light the importance of religious thinking on Canadian attitudes towards international events. The author has written a series of topical essays on the…
Deadly Illusions (The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin’s Master Spy)
Reviewed by John Starnes
Pledge of Allegiance: The Americanization of Canada in the Mulroney Years
Reviewed by Norman Hillmer
Limiting the Proliferation of Weapons, the Role of Supply-Side Strategies
par Michel Fortmann
The Foreign Service and Political Patronage
Political patronage in the foreign service was one of the big issues for members of the Canadian foreign service during the recent federal elections. The number of political appointees both as the Head of Post and below had increased dramatically in the…
PAFSO and the Transfer of International Cultural Relations
Colin Robertson, President of PAFSO, and Peter Roberts, Senior Adviser to PAFSO, testified before the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance on February 25, 1992 on Bill C-93 which would have transferred the international cultural program of External Affairs to the Canada…
PAFSO and Political Patronage
The President of PAFSO wrote to the four major political parties before the October 25 elections setting out the views of the PAFSO membership on the appointment of persons outside the foreign service at both the Head of Mission level and below.…
To the Top of Borneo
Story and photos by Brendan P. McGivern
