A European Afternoon / Un après-midi européen
The hum of CNN news flicks on the screen in the corner of his office. The television is always on. The Financial Times and the Herald Tribune lay neatly folded on the desk top. The desk is empty except for single sheet…
Guerre et paix au Moyen-orient et en Afrique / War and Peace in the Middle East and Africa
Le sous-ministre adjoint consulte sa montre. Il attend toujours les nouvelles du Haut Commissariat à Kenya sur les soeurs disparues au Rwanda. Il est quatorze trente dans la plupart des postes de sa région. Les priorités canadiennes dans la région sont au…
An Asian Day is Over / Une journée en Asie c’est déjà terminée
The ADM returns to his office. He stops to ask one of the officers how the trade awards went in Indonesia. No word until tomorrow. It is now about nine o’clock in the evening in most of the Asian posts. The Asian…
Early Morning Watch to Morning Alert
It is a clear, cool 00:01 night in Ottawa. The Lester Pearson Building, home of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, is a massive black shadow on the backdrop of an inky night. The four unequal towers of the Pearson…
Le service extérieur du Canada, le 2 juin
insi, que tait donc le service
The Canadian Foreign Service on June 2
So, what does the foreign service do, anyway?
Editor’s Notebook / Carnet du rédacteur
Well here it is at last — the special edition of bout de papier on “A Day in the Life of the Foreign Service”. An edition nine months in the making. But wait, this is a double edition: twice the size of…
