Shamus Dikk and the fallen star
Leaning out the office window, I watched the park gates. A seven-foot gorilla was grinding a barrel organ while a little man in a bellboy’s rig turned somersaults. “It’s strange when the normal gets distorted,” I mused to Effie, “like seeing your…
Alfred Pick
Alfred Pick had a long and wide-ranging diplomatic career, joining the Department of External Affairs in 1940, holding six ambassadorial appointments in Latin America, Europe, North Africa and the United States before retiring in 1976.
Arthur Menzies
Remarks by Mr. Jacques Roy, President of the Retired Heads of Mission Association. at the funeral service for Arthur Menzies on
The Constant Diplomat: Robert Ford in Moscow
Robert Ford joined Canada’s foreign ministry – then the Department of External Affairs – in July 1940, when being a diplomat, especially a Canadian diplomat, still mattered. It was a simpler time, or so it sometimes seems in retrospect, when diplomacy was…
PAFSO Awards – Celebrating Excellence // Les Prix de l’APASE – Reconnaissance de l’excellence
On Thursday, June 10, 2010, 280 colleagues and guests gathered an Foreign Service at the ions held in the Panorama Ottawa. The Pipe Major of the Sons of Scotland, Ms. Bethany Bisaillion, piped in guests r outstanding evening.
Looking Back on the Cold War
I look back from time to time on my working life and ask myself what it was all about. I was in the foreign service for 40 years from 1953-93. Much of what I did in those years had something to do…
The Great Dominion
Note de la rédaction : Vous trouvez qu’on a suffisamment parlé de Winston Churchill? Pas au goût de Randolph Gherson, membre du comité supérieur de rédaction; grâce à ses bons offices, hout est heureux de publier une série de deux articles sur…
Looking Ahead with the Canadian International Council (CIC)
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Too much conviviality in Leopoldville?
Michel Gauvin was a decorated veteran who received the Distinguished Service Order for his valour while serving with Le Regiment de la Chaudiere in Northwestern Europe in the Second World War. While still in the army, he was seconded to the Prime…
A Tribute to Guillaume
It was with shock and great sadness that I learned of the passing of Guillaume Siemienski in Haiti on January 12. Guillaume was a CIDA employee on leave, working for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. He was Head of Messaging, responsible…
