All in the Family
“You? Identical twins?” smirked Sleazewagon. “To counterfeit a phrase, it must have been tough finding the same white suit in sizes 68 extra fat and 12 dwarf.” Don Gordo turned to the diminutive young woman beside him. “Ignore this lout, dearest sister.…
Haïkus : La vie dans les valises
Lors d’une nouvelle affectation, ma vie s’illumine lorsqu’enfin je me fais une amie.
Spooked and Sodden: Two Vignettes “de las Americas”
It was my first missing persons case as a newly-minted consular officer. At the time, I was about two weeks on the job at the embassy in Mexico City. One Monday morning I received a call from a woman in Vancouver who…
How The English Establishment Framed Stephen Ward
Authors Caroline Kennedy and Phillip Knightley have penned a compellingly well-written account of how the “swinging” London of the 1960s was also sometimes a lynching London. Their topic is of twin and interrelated scandals: the political sex and security scandal best known…
Troubled Pilgrimage: Passage to Pakistan
When Balwant Bhaneja retired from the Canadian Foreign Service he bravely undertook a solo voyage to Pakistan where his parents had lived to adulthood, about which he only had some vague childhood recollections and where he had no known relatives. This slim…
Saving Lives: Canada and the Hai Hong
by Dara Marcus
In Jonglei
Everyone remembers where they were for 9/11. I was at the Comboni Sisters’ convent in Juba, Sudan, sampling home-made Italian ice cream. One of the nuns came in and hesitantly said there seemed to be something on the television (one of only…
Canada: A Nation of Shopkeepers?
Note de la rédaction : bout de papier se penche sur la diplomatie d‘entreprise, sa base comme son tableau d’ensemble. À l’échelle micro, dans le prochain numéro, Joya Donnelly profile trois entrepreneurs membres de la collectivité du service extérieur qui sont passionnés…
Le remarquable programme d’échange entre le MDN et le MAECD
En 2009, à l’initiative du Jurisconsulte et du Juge-avocat général de l’époque, Alan Kessel et le Brigadier-général Kenneth Watkin, le Bureau juridique du MAECD et le Cabinet du Juge-avocat général (JAG) du ministère de la Défense nationale et des Forces canadiennes ont…
What Every Aspiring Canadian Diplomat Should Know About Wine
Note de la rédaction : Dans l’ensemble, les viticulteurs du Canada étaient plus ou moins une source nationale d’embarras (nous produisions effectivement une boisson à base de vin appelée « Lonesome Charlie » — offerte en cinq saveurs de fruits)… jusqu’à ce…
