The Life of the Trailing Spouse: Something Has Got to Give

Just prior to the recent rash of articles on the problems of retaining personnel at DFAIT, I picked up “Shadow of Heaven” the excellent first volume of John English’s biography of “Mike” Pearson. I had set it aside a while back, promising…
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur

The knock on DFAIT has often been that it’s a Department that faces the world but ‘has its back to downtown’ Ottawa. That Foreign Service Officers who achieve such remarkable success overseas through adept networking and use of their diplomatic skills fail…
