Death and taxis
Tuesday, ten in the morning. Our clients were late. Effie was looking for the weather forecast on our Markoni Mudcaster floor model, the one with the speaker grill like a pre-war Studebaker. Still a good radio, even if it does channel Mackenzie…
Le Triangle Québec-Ottawa-Paris
Gilles Duguay, diplomate de carrière, livre un ouvrage remarquable, peut-être inspiré par Churchill qui affirmait : « Plus vous saurez regarder loin dans le passé, plus vous verrez loin dans l’avenir ». Dans une savante fresque des événements importants de l’histoire de…
Getting Back in the Game: A Foreign Policy Playbook for Canada
It is said that a diplomat is a professional optimist. If there is one salient characteristic in Paul Heinbecker’s refreshing assessment of Canada’s foreign policy past and present, it is optimism. His analysis radiates an essential optimism about the capacity of Canada…
Eyewitness to Revolution: Egypt’s Secular NGO Movement Leads the Way
Editor’s Note: Our former Ambassador to Egypt (Iran and Jordan), Michel de Salaberry, was an eyewitness to Egypt’s “revolution”. Now working with a modest NGO in Cairo, he long ago sensed the rising frustration of ordinary Egyptians alienated by a succession of…
Des yeux verts comme la mer
Des pages blanches par centaines, titrées chacune d’un seul mot : le nom d’un artiste, d’une ville, d’une fleur, le titre d’un livre. J’entretiens depuis toujours ce répertoire virtuel des ignorances que j’aspire à combler. La page marquée « Alexandrie » est…
Derek Arnould
Derek was born in 1929 at Beuthen, Upper Silesia, then part of Germany, now of Poland. His father, Ivan Arnould, was a British diplomat and his mother, Irene de Grodska, was of Polish nobility. His parents separated early and Derek and his…
William Arthur Dymond
Bill Dymond, a veteran of Canadian trade and other negotiations, and a mainstay of Carleton’s Centre for Trade Policy and Law over the past 10 years, passed away November 24, after a brief but brave struggle with cancer.
John M. Fraser
John MacLeod Fraser was born in Montreal in 1935 — in the depths of the Depression. In 1944, at the end of the school year, the family moved to Ottawa to follow our father, Blair, who had gone to work for Maclean’s.…
Unofficially Dull But Officially Sharp
In this selection of documents, we depart from our usual practice of reprinting unpublished material from files at Library and Archives Canada. Instead, to complement the material elsewhere in this issue about Canada’s response to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968…
The Czechoslovak Refugee Movement: How Canada met the Challenge
From personal recollections by John Zawisza, Joe Bissett, Maria Beaulne, Joyce Cavanagh-Woods, David Bullock, Mike Molloy, Doug Dunnington, Charles Morrow and Daryl Mesheau recorded in the “Bulletin” of the Canadian Immigration Historical Society, July 2005, and adapted for bout by Gerry Maffre.
