The Perfect (Religious) Storm
The man sat behind a long table at the front of the room, staring intently at his watch. Nodding once, he said, “All right, turn over your papers and start reading.”
Trivial Pursuit (of an FS Position)?
For those applicants who had survived the ordeal depicted in the last issue of bout de papier, there remained further tests. Before the oral examination, candidates were expected to answer yet another set of essay questions as well as one of those…
Grand départ
Lors de leur affectation récente à Moscou, elle a conçu des bandes dessinées sur sa vie d’expatriée, qui ont été publiées insuellement dans la revue Moscou-Acccueil en 2011-2012, et ont été exposées par la suite dans le cadre de l’exposition annuelle de…
Of Governors General and Grown Men
It was early spring in Gallipoli. Aussies, Kiwis, Brits, Turks and others had gathered to commemorate one of the bloodiest, tragic and yet nation-building battles of WWI. The Governor General of New Zealand, the distinguished jurist Dame Silvia Cartwright, presided over the…
Volcano Rising: An Ambassador’s Diary
VOLCANO RISING: AN AMBASSADOR’S DIARY, by John Kneale, to be published Spring 2013; Baico Publishing and Bookstore, 2012, 320 pp, $22.95. Available at www baico ca, [email protected] and chapters.ca
William McKenzie (Bill) Wood
My father was born on St. Patrick’s Day in Montreal in 1922. He studied at Upper Canada College in Toronto and McGill University and became an officer in the Black Watch Regiment (RHR) of Canada, serving in the North West Europe Campaign.…
Tom Delworth
Tom Delworth was born in Toronto in 1929 — a child of the Depression. He attended Weston Collegiate in Toronto and Victoria College at the University of Toronto, where he was a student in honours psychology. He received his BA in 1951.…
Peter Bakewell
Peter was born in the UK and educated at St. John’s College, Oxford. He moved to Canada in 1972 and taught elementary school in British Columbia where he met his first wife Ann. Moving to the Maritimes, he worked for about five…
John Sheardown
John Sheardown died peacefully in Ottawa at the end of the year; he had been ill for some time. John spent his career in the Immigration Foreign Service, having joined the Immigration Department in the early 1960s before later switching to the…
The Canadian Caper, Hollywood and Reality
In the historical scheme of things, the joint Canadian-CIA exfiltration of six USA diplomats: Bob Anders, Mark and Cora Lijek, Joe and Kathy Stafford and Lee Schatz, from Iran on 28 January 1980 should be, exciting though it was to those involved,…
