On the Sidewalks of New York
Bugbyte O’Nanotek, a lanky vision in black, paced purposefully up Central Park West. The e-mail message on the heads-up display in her cyber-shades had said to expect contact but gave no detail. Then an immense figure, whooping like a ruptured hippo, careened…
Building a Partnership: The Canada — United States Free Trade Agreement
A written summation of an exceptional retrospective on the negotiation of the Canada — US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is finally in print, based on a Michigan State University conference in September, 1998, to mark the 10th anniversary of the conclusion of…
Whose World Is It Anyway? Civil Society: The United Nations and the Multilateral Future
It seems that a particular chapter closed in Canada’s close relationship with the United Nations this December. We finished a lively two-year stint on the Security Council. Robert Fowler, Canada’s ambassador at the United Nations for most of that period and the…
Eclipsing the ARF (and what I did about it)
Leslie and I came back to Ottawa on home leave one dusty June. Returning from a hardship post was more bizarre than I had anticipated, but a week of decompression and trips to both Canadian Tire and Tim Horton’s restored my sensibilities…
Linda Berry 1940-2000
Linda Berry combined with flair and a great sense of fun two careers, one in journalism and the other in diplomacy. She began her writing career as a reporter and drama critic for the Montreal Gazette. She filed stories for Southam News…
Harry Carter 1918-2001
The following is from the eulogy by Blair Seaborn at the service for Harry Carter on January 13, 2001.
Nancy Stiles 1950-2001
Nancy Stiles was buried in Ottawa on Wednesday, January 24th before her friends, family and colleagues. She had lived only fifty years but all of us had memories of her to last us much longer.
A Canadian Visitor in Moscow, 1952
he death of Pierre Elliott Trudeau — and subsequent recollections of his life and times – reminds us that he was a bold and inquisitive traveller long before his tenure as a national and international statesman. Some veterans of the foreign service…
Raising Eyebrows: An Undiplomatic Memoir
by Peter Roberts
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the National Unity Debate
Lucien Bouchard’s resignation in January ended one of the most turbulent decades in Canadian politics. Just more than 10 years ago, his departure from Cabinet and the death of the Meech Lake Accord signalled the beginning of an upheaval that many thought…
