The Wet Suit Caper
bout de papier, Vol. 24, No. 3 (2009) — Summer/Fall 2009 // Été/Automne 2009, p. 48 My most recent humiliation might interest you.I went today to buy a wet suit.Have you ever tried on a wet suit? If not,if you are ever subjected to that ordeal,make sure to check that it is the right size.I […]
Shamus Dikk and the Dark Carnival
Mo’ was slow out of the gate. I set fire to my ten o’clock stogie and scanned the paper. Iggy and the Harp were still playing double-dare-you on the Hill. Conrad Black had married Vanna White for no clear reason. Tired of…
Post in a Prominent Place:
Although it is well understood that Canadian diplomats never succumb to temptation — other than those indulgences specifically authorized and funded by the Foreign Service Directives — the following documents are reprinted as an educational service for those members of PAFSO who…
PAFSO Awards — Celebrating 20 Years // Les Prix de l’APASE — 20e anniversaire
On Thursday, June 11, 2009, 295 colleagues and guests gathered to celebrate excellence in the Canadian Foreign Service at the PAFSO Dinner and Awards presentations held in the Panorama Room of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Celebrations for an outstanding evening…
Robert Harold Gayner 1930–2009
To paraphrase Barbra Streisand, “People who like people are the luckiest people in the world.” If that is so, and I have no reason to doubt it, then Bob Gayner must rank very high among that select. He didn’t just like people,…
The International Affairs Curriculum:
nan article in this magazine in 2005,
Pompey and the Pirates
The twenty-first century is, by no means, the only time that great powers have found themselves seemingly stymied by pirates. Around 70 BC, it was brought home to the Romans that the Mediterranean — what they liked to call Mare Nostrum (our…
Diefenbaker in the Holy Land
ohn Diefenbaker treasured his contacts with the great men of his time. His boyhood meeting J with Sir Wilfrid Laurier in Saskatoon and his encounter with “the Old Man” — Sir Winston
Pelabuhan Ratu
et slightly back from Sunset Beach S near Pelabuhan Ratu on the South
Getting the Message Out
f Canada’s Foreign Service Officers were to be described as the heart L. the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, then the Communicators, who kept the various elements linked, must surely be seen as the arteries which ensured safe and secure…
