Country Desks — Do They Work? Les bureaux-pays — fonctionnent-ils?
In the autumn of 1996 and as part of the broader restructuring exercise, all of DFAIT’s geographic bureaux were reorganised in such a way that the distinction between General Relations and Trade Divisions was erased. Easier said than done. With China or…
Atlanta 96
An indelible image of the Centennial Olympics occurred during the Closing Ceremony. Canadian athletes managed to sneak a giant Canadian flag onto the floor of the Olympic Stadium. That flag, large enough that 25 people had to carry it onto the field,…
Living in L.A.
bdp: Growing up in BC, was this in any way a preparation for California?
Canada’s Answer to the Cultural Revolution
The best night of my posting as the purveyor of Canadian culture to China came in May of 1994 in the distinctly non- Canadian and non-Chinese surroundings of the original Beijing franchise of Maxim’s de Paris. I had arranged for Montreal jazz…
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
“It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. It is war minus the shooting”
