The One Percent Solution
Gesturing out his office window, Chief MacBannock explained, “They’re covered by the Labour Relations Act, so we have to let them picket. But the Centre is covered by the Official Secrets Act, so we can make them do it in code.” Detective…
Dispatches From a Borderless World
The author is an eloquent voice for the international community, which today comprises much of Canada. He lived in India until adolescence, when his family relocated to Western Canada, and now reports on foreign affairs for the Edmonton Journal.
Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance
David R. Morrison, a Professor in Development Studies at Trent University, sets out to tackle an especially complicated and unwieldy subject in this lengthy history of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Canadian development assistance. Based on an extensive reading of…
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West
The book is a quite extraordinary historical record of Soviet espionage activities over a period of several decades directed against countries in the west, including Canada. Based on secret KGB archives it represents an authentic, unique work of reference which historians, foreign…
For King and Country?
Perhaps the most momentous decision by a Canadian government in the twentieth century was the declaration of war on Germany that was signed on behalf of Canada by King George VI on September 10, 1939. That followed by one week the British…
Spring Tune-up
bout de papier, Vol. 16, No. 4 (1999-2000) — Winter 1999-2000 // Hiver 1999-2000, p. 37 I am stretching the definition of MiddleAge. My middle is stretching too.Time to mortify my flesh in the gym.And I have so much flesh to mortify!Gym is full of bright young people ingood shapesent specifically to show me up:So […]
Eldon (Pat) Black 1925-1999
The following is from the eulogy by Blair Seaborn at the service for Pat Black on November 6, 1999.
Charles Eustace McGaughey 1917-1999
Almost nobody in the Department knew who Charles Eustace McGaughey was, but everybody knew McGUFF!
Anthony (Tony) Gustav Vincent 1939-1999
Tony was one of a kind. From the first time you met him, it was easy to be captivated by his ebullience, gift with words and subtle humour. You learned early on that the cut and thrust of argument came as second…
Arthur Irwin 1898-1999
Arthur Irwin, who has died aged 101, was a journalist and diplomat. He was one of those who were turned into Canadian nationalists by the First World War, and he used this awareness to transform Maclean’s magazine into a truly national magazine…
