Hommage to Tannu Tuva
When last we checked with ace logician Ludwig Liebnitz, South Pacific pseudo-debutante Mabel Stanley was considering a career move. On his return to the Centre, Liebnitz got word that she had indeed joined the infamous grunge rock band, Edible Granite, on an…
True Brits: Inside the Foreign Office
Some readers will be familiar with True Brits, a six-part television series on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The initiative for this project came from the BBC in 1983, but it was nearly ten years before…
Overseas Chinese Business Networks in Asia
Misunderstanding Asian business practices continues to be a major stumbling block to foreigners even attempting to enter South-East Asian and Chinese markets. A roadmap is needed to show outsiders how to navigate the world of ethnic Chinese commercial networks.
Sylvie Bédard-Gigantès
The following poems were read by colleagues at the funeral service on January 24, 1996. Sylvie died on January 21, 1996.
Carla Thorlakson
Jeff LeBane provided the following eulogy during a memorial service for Carla Thorlakson in Ottawa on January 22, 1996. Carla died, surrounded by her family, in Winnipeg on December 9, 1995.
Bicycles in Shanghai
by Richard Belliveau
Albania: Wandering in the Land of the Eagle
photos and story by David M. Edwards
Election Monitoring
Shortly after I retired from External Affairs in the autumn of 1989, Elections Canada asked the Department to recommend a retired Spanish-speaking Foreign Service Officer who would be willing to accompany Mr. Ron Gould, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, as a Canadian observer…
A Foreign Service Severed — What Are the Costs?
by Linda Te Puni
Gone with the Web
by Richard Kohler
