The Chips are Down
Pausing on the porch, Ace logician Ludwig Liebnitz looked up at the gaudy Buck Rogers radiator fins surmounting the towers at each corner of the brushed-aluminum bungalow. Why had he agreed to be a guinea pig for the province’s new experiment in…
Agent of Influence: A True Story
What Ian Adams has written is anything but a true story, non-fiction wrapped in a gossamer-thin veil of fiction. The author spins what some might think an entertaining tale of espionage. However, even if the novel were entertaining (which it is not)…
Breaking News, Yesterday’s News, Trivia Pursuit and Since You Asked
News is today undergoing a radical transformation. How its transmitted and received, who makes and defines it, even what it is — all of these are in rapid flux as we are borne collectively toward 2000 and beyond. Television audiences are spread…
Modern Diplomacy and The Diplomat’s Dictionary
These two excellent reference works are a useful addition to every divisional and mission library. The first of them in fact should be required reading, while the second may serve as a guide to reflection as well as a source of wonderful…
Escott Reid (1905-1999)
Escott Reid was a man whose life was of much value to his country and the world community. His high intelligence and courage were great assets in his work. His humour and consideration for others were shared by his charming wife Ruth,…
Yvon Beaulne (1919-1999)
Our colleague Yvon Beaulne passed away last June 8 in his 81st year, from complications related to the diabetes which he had borne lightly, but from which he had suffered for a long while.
Mackenzie King’s Italian Holidays
As we celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of the most successful politician in Canadian history (and, according to Norman Hillmer and Jack Granatstein, Canada’s greatest prime minister), it seems appropriate to shed additional light on the illustrious career of W.L.…
A Gift to Shandong University
by J. Ian Burchett
Not so Long Ago
by Arthur Blanchette
Michaelena McLaughlin Remembers
Once in Nigeria we visited a CUSO couple in the small village where they had been teaching for the past two years. We travelled from Lagos in the embassy’s 4-wheel drive vehicle, which seemed to be the only vehicle in sight. Our…
