Liebnitz and the Ultimate Endgame
*he President bounced up the grandstand steps to his box behind the band. As he straightened from kissing a baby, a hotdog in flight to a customer caught him square upside the face. He fell over the railing and into the bell…
Seduced by Belonging
It was the package that arrived in the mail that started me thinking about past and present. It was wrapped in brown paper with my son Rowan’s name printed in heavy black ink. “What is it?” he said. We cut open the…
Margaret’s Table — Easy Cooking and Inspiring Entertaining
We reproduce below three recipes from renowned cookbook author Margaret Dickenson’s just-released cookbook. Margaret’s Table presents 180 personally created recipes (with photography by her husband Larry) with clear step-by-step, meticulous instructions. Over 60 percent of them are flagged as “No Time, No…
A Journey to East Timor and Nusa Tenggara
Nusa Tenggara, or the Lesser Sunda islands, are located to the east of Bali in Indonesia. The main islands are Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba and Timor. I travelled through the latter three islands in the spring of 2006. It was a chance…
The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia / Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa
How Nicholas Coghlan became a member of Canada’s Foreign Service should be closely investigated. The selection process, the questions asked and those asking the questions should be identified so that the information can be used to ensure persons of similar striking qualities…
International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980–2005
this book is about Iraq and its complex and conflict-ridden history over the past quarter of a century.” The second level and certainly the more important in the global schema – the machinations of the Security Council as it has dealt with…
Committing Espionage
I the field of the collection of intelli- here have been recent developments in gence outside Canada which have gone unnoticed by the press and public and which suggest that, at long last, the Canadian government appears to have decided to commit…
Deglobalization — the Anglo-British Model
the Anglo-Saxons found themselves at the cutting edge of deglobalization. Indeed the island disappeared so completely from the global system that the 6th century historian Procopius – while aware that part of it was once a Roman province — believed that it…
Cinq mois au MAECI
Lorsque je suis arrivée à Bogota, j’avais à peine quatre mois d’ancienneté au Ministère. On m’avait pourtant dit que je resterais à Ottawa au moins trois ans avant de décoller mais les choses se sont passées autrement : j’ai eu la chance…
The Spirit of Kossuth
Fifty years ago, the First Secretary in the Canadian Embassy in Belgrade, A.F. Hart, and his wife, Marion Ruth (Sellers); entered Hungary on the day that a mass uprising began in Budapest against Communist rule. A peaceful demonstration was transformed into a…
