Murders with Character
Chief Inspector de Toombs slumped heavily on Liebnitz’s office couch, his face buried deeply in melancholy and a double Scotch. “Of all the foolish cases I’ve ever been part of, this one takes the cake. In fact, it takes the whole bakery.…
Pearson and Canada’s Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, 1945-1957
Commentators on postwar Canadian diplomacy have frequently explored their subject through interpretative syntheses that cut broad swaths through the events of the late 1940s and the 1950s. Designed as contributions to the perpetual national debate on Canada’s place in the international system…
A Different Vision: The English in Quebec in the 1990’s
Quebec’s position as part of Canada continues to undergo change consistent with four hundred years of French-Canadian cultural self-awareness. Language, geographic integrity, and gallic ebullience have made Quebecers feel culturally distinct — which has prompted the question whether political independence is the…
Best-Kept Secret (Canadian Intelligence in the Second World War)
This seems just another book about Canada’s secret wartime activities and exploits. It is much more than that. It is a skillfully researched, well-constructed, clearly-presented account of Canada’s successful entry in wartime into the highly secret, arcane business of communications intelligence. It…
The Generals, the Canadian Army’s Senior Commanders in the Second World War
This book provides a remarkable group portrait of Canadian army senior leaders during the Second World War.
Some Summer Songs
bout de papier, Vol. 11, No. 2 (1994) — Summer 1994 // Été 1994, p. 42 “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Eighth Floor” (To the tune of “I’ve been workin’on the Railroad”)Verse 1I’ve been workin’ on the eighth floor,All the live long day.Tryin’ to figure out a game planJust to pass the time away.Don’t you […]
Travelling the Trans-Siberian in Troubled Times
The journey along the Trans-Siberian Railroad is the foremost train trip in the world.
The Strange Story of the Expulsados of Chiapas
In late 1993, two months before armed rebels of the Zapatista National
Foreign Service around the World at a Glance
This chart, prepared by the M Branch, and based on information from our posts, gives an idea of the size of diplomatic representation abroad by other countries.
No Frills Diplomacy in Wellington
Not unlike the GST, the radical and fundamental reorientation of the Foreign Ministry in New Zealand may be a bellweather for what is to happen in Canada.
