Un Ballo in Maschera
Liebnitz was in the recently renamed Rialto Sleazewagon Pre-memorial Concert Hall, enjoying a stirring program of Tuvan throat-singing, when his cell-phone went off. It went off loudly, and of course he couldn’t remember which of the 43 hiding-places it occupied in the…
Sport and Canadian Diplomacy
In 1956, when six nations withdrew from the Melbourne Olympic Games in protest at military aggression by the USSR in Hungary, and by the UK, France and Israel in Egypt, Avery Brundage, the long-time President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said:
Competitive Boycotts: An Olympic Event
Contrary to the impression fostered by some journalists and the preferences of most sports organizations, politics and diplomacy have always played a part in international sports. In the modern Olympic Games that role has tended to increase with the financial and logistical…
Lyon Weidman
Lyon Weidman, a former departmental officer, died in Ottawa on July 13, 1996 at the age of 62.
Venezuela’s Aboriginals Seek a New Way
In the past three years a little-known but remarkable story has been unfolding in the tropical jungles of Venezuela. The central actors are the aboriginal tribes of that area. Canada, however, has played a vital support role. It is the story of…
PAFSO Dinner, June 1996
It was the first time I had attended the Annual Awards Dinner — I hadn’t realized what I had been missing all these years. I didn’t know what to expect: such a crowd in such a convivial setting — a warm evening…
1996 FS Awards
On June 12, 1996 PAFSO took pause to salute its own. As it has done for the past six years, the 1996 PAFSO Awards banquet was a celebration of the best that the foreign service has to offer. And once again we…
Growing Up in the Foreign Service
Life in the Foreign Service has its ups and downs, and who is better qualified to talk about these trials than the children of Foreign Service officers?
Diplomacy and Peacekeeping
In the first instalment of this article (bout de papier, Volume 13 No. 2), the author described a visit by Barbara McDougall, then Secretary of State for External Affairs, to the former Yugoslavia in May, 1993. This was the first and longest…
Un hiver en France
L’hiver comporte ses vents de frilosité dans une France déjà morose, maltraitée par des grèves pernicieuses qui n’ont su répondre aux attentes populaires en raison d’une économie éprouvée par la crise. Fallait-il, de plus, sombrer dans la morosité médiatique à la suite…
