Snakes and Ladders Caper
I am passing the morning by working through a stack of paperbacks. The one Iam reading is The President’s Tweet is Missing. It is clear the President is missing more than his tweet. The author writes like English is a language he…
No Evidence Required
Later this year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to make a formal apology for past persecution of gays, including not only the criminalization of homosexual acts but also the notorious “gay purges” from the public service of Canada, which persisted even…
The Hungry Diplomat: Honey
HONEY. If you love drama, this article has it all; scandal, mystery, health scares and deception among them. I am, of course, speaking of the honey industry. I write this as
Governance and Innovation in Africa
THIS BOOK MOVES from overview pieces to essays dealing in greater depth with key challenges. Demographic change, education and youth merit three separate chapters, acknowledging their centrality to South Africa’s future. Unemployment, the plight of women and children, health, safety and security…
Dip Doodles
IT IS WELL known that Foreign Services recruit ‘well oriented people’ to represent their country abroad. Being well oriented means having a broad range of interests — usually accompanied by grains of sensibility and wit.
Declassified
REMEMBER THE TIME the retired ambassadors got together in the backyard? It was just gone summer. A nip in the air, but there was a nice fire going. What a night. And the stories! April told the one about Castro getting schooled…
Makers of Modern Asia
ASIA’S SEEMINGLY INEXORABLE rise has, to a considerable extent, been the story of its economic transformation. In Makers of Modern Asia, editor Ramachandra Guha argues that political factors were the necessary conditions for this emergence. He gathers leading historians and political analysts…
Running on Empty
RUNNING ON EMPTY is the most recent addition to the prestigious McGill-Queen’s collection of Studies in (Canadian) Ethnic History. This impressive tome recounts the intriguing story of Canada’s response to the Indochinese refugee crises from 1975 to 1980. Proposed by retired diplomat…
Emil Ihor Baran
Emil Baran was born in Bibrika, Western Ukraine. His family moved from refugee camp to refugee camp in Allied occupied Europe until they obtained their papers for migration to Canada settling in Saskatoon in 1949.
Brian Davis
This tribute was given by former immigrat this year, with contributions here from Ro
