Bugbyte and the cool between the stars
Bugbyte O’ Nanotek pushed the bow! away with the tip of her spoon. “What flavour was this ice cream again?” “Chocolate rococo karaoke,” replied the hologram of ace logician Ludwig Liebnitz. She shook her head. “I’m not ready for a dessert that…
Denis Grégoire de Blois
Judy Feld Carr is a Human Rights advocate, Jewish community leader, and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2001. Judy was interviewed by bout early in the new year.
Konrad Sigurdson
Eulogy delivered at the Sacred Space at Beechwood Cemetery on November 28 by retired foreign service officer Jean Roberge.
Donald Saunders
Don Saunders died on December 18, 2009 after a struggle with cancer. After retiring when he reached his entitlement, Don returned to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade where he continued to make a significant contribution as a contract employee…
Sylvester’s Purple Heart
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A Troubled Pilgrimage
Although we think of pilgrimages as devotional trips to special places like Santiago de Compostela or Mecca, usually the real destination is the same: the soul. Born in Lahore just before British India’s brutal partition in 1947, in 2006 Bill Bhaneja took…
Canada’s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes
As readers of bout de papier will appreciate, it is a formidable challenge for any biographer to write about someone who wrote so well as John Holmes, as quotations from the subject may eclipse the author’s prose. Moreover, what endeared Holmes to…
Transforming Rights: Reflections from the Front Lines
Former Foreign Service Officer Maxwell Yalden has written a book faithful to his own persona: informed, thoughtful, eloquent, and straight talking. Anyone concerned about bilingualism, human rights and Canada’s future should appreciate it. The book opens with a mini-memoir of an impeccably…
Recession! What Recession?
bout de papier, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2010) — Spring 2010 // Printemps 2010, p. 31 You think jokeBecause smile,And normal folkThink that’s sheer guile.But when seeBefore my eyesPure hypocrisyIt’s no surpriseThat point it out, comme i fautBut gently, without braggadocio.’m_tired of reading economic newsThat all is lost, recession woes are here,Financial analysts with thoughts […]
Canada’s IDRC Today
David Malone, recently Canada’s High Commissioner in India, and a former ambassador at the UN, became President of International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in July 2008. He is a graduate of Hautes Etudes commerciales (Montreal), the American University in Cairo, Harvard and…
