Sousa on 7even
“Missing?” cried Chief MacBannock. “H script man across the table shrugged an states lost patience with how we treater First Avenue is gone, leaving only a new tle saying, ‘What part of YES is it that you the disappearance took place on…
Gerald Edward Shannon 1935–2003
Recollections delivered at a service to commemorate Gerry Shannon on May 3, 2003, by former Minister of Finance, Marc Lalonde. Mr. Lalonde is currently Partner, Stikeman Elliott, Montréal.
A visit to the ’stans of Central Asia
For many centuries Centrat Asia constituted the heart of the “Silk Road”, the most important path of commerce linking Asia with Europe.
Homeland Security (1938)
Sixty-five years ago the peace of the world and the security of North America were jeopardized by the expansion of Nazi Germany in Europe and of Imperial Japan in Asia. Both Canada and the United States had long taken comfort in their…
While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
In this issue bout de papier presents two viewpoints on Andrew Cohen’s discussion of the Foreign Service
Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam
Since it was “discovered” by the West some twenty years ago, Islamic fundamentalism — now more commonly and accurately termed extremist or militant Islam — has been the focus of a myriad of books, articles, lectures and documentaries. Still it remains a…
En marchant à Boston avec Tocqueville (après le 11 septembre)
par Bruno Hamel
2003 PAFSO Awards — In Pursuit of Excellence
On June 12, 2003, 250 colleagues, guests and media gathered to celebrate excellence in the Canadian Foreign Service at the PAFSO Award Ceremony and Dinner held in the Panorama Room of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
In the wake of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, in the early years of the twenty-first century we seem to have reached a defining moment, a moment characterized by extraordinary flux and uncertainty. The post Cold War era is over, with the…
Whither the Foreign Service
Cohen soutient avec raison qu’un virage aussi fondamental mérite au moins un débat public, car les réponses pourraient fort bien influer sur la manière et la mesure dans laquelle le Canada poursuivra ses objectifs en matière de politique étrangère.
