Who Killed the Duke of URL?
From the Keyboard of THE DUKE OF URL: “The Past Just Ain’t What It Used To Be!!”
Imperial Twilight?
In past numbers of bout de papier, we have printed extracts from papers in the major project spearheaded by Escott Reid, a “Re-Examination of Canadian Foreign Policy (1951-S2).” The intent of the series was to provide reference works as overall guidance for…
The Hungry Diplomat: Donair
DONAIR It seems that only those who have spent some serious time in the Maritimes will drool at the mention of donair. That’s too bad, because a good donair will seriously upgrade your life for about 20 minutes or so. And it’s…
O.D. Skelton
O.D. SKELTON: A PORTRAIT OF CANADIAN AMBITION, by Norman Hillmer, University of Toronto Press, 2015, 455 pp, $39.95
Pacific
PACIFIC: SILICON CHIPS AND SURFBOARDS, CORAL REEFS AND ATOMIC BOMBS, BRUTAL DICTATORS, FADING EMPIRES, AND THE COMING COLLISION OF THE WORLD’S SUPERPOWERS, by Simon Winchester, New York: HarperCollins, 2015, 512 pp
GRIT
GRIT: THE LIFE AND POLITICS OF PAUL MARTIN SR., by Greg Donaghy, UBC Press, 2015, 496 pp $35.76
1957 : Les femmes font leur entrée au service extérieur de l’Immigration du Canada
Dans l’évolution des politiques d’immigration canadiennes, les actions de femmes fonctionnaires sont d’un intérêt évident, mais elles ne sont pas facilement repérables dans les archives gouvernementales. Lorsque j’ai contacté la Société historique de l’immigration canadienne (SHIC) pour obtenir un document particulier, Gerry…
The Search for the Seamless Career
Exit Strategy: By 2012, I was wrapping up my posting as the Global Security Reporting Program (GSRP) officer in Havana. It had been a fascinating and life-changing posting; I couldn’t have imagined a better assignment. However, by year two, I was starting…
TAKE HEART!
Let me digress for a moment to describe Dave. At the time, he was 32 years old, slender, athletic (he played in the Taipei Ice Hockey League), and had passed a few months earlier a thorough health exam with a very clean…
Escale à Katmandou
De vraies montagnes aux sommets enneigés, je n’en reverrai guère plus du restant de ce bien trop court séjour de quatre jours. Katmandou n’est en effet perchée qu’à 1 400 petits mètres de haut, et la brume qui y plombe en quasi-permanence…
