Concours de photos de l’APASE 2020
LE THÈME DU CONCOURS CETTE ANNÉE, Vision 2020, visait à donner aux membres de l’APASE une occasion de démontrer leurs compétences photographiques en captant comment les particularités de 2020 ont impacté leur expérience unique de la vie des agents du service extérieur…
COVID-19 and the Story of Zachy
After 48 hours of stress and limited sleep, the take-off from Beijing–Hong Kong–Toronto–Ottawa was a mix of emotions. In January 2020, little was known about COVID-19 other than it was serious enough to lockdown Wuhan.
Hello From Delhi
… BY MID-MARCH, THE SITUATION in India and the global pandemic had become increasingly serious. Most of the Canada-Based Staff and their dependents were evacuated on what would be the last commercial flights to leave India. March 22 was a national curfew…
Welcome to the RROC
THE TASK WAS HUGE, and like so much that has happened in the past 12 months, unprecedented. As Migration Offices around the world began evacuating staff early last year IRCC needed to figure out a way to keep processing urgent visa applications…
En Thaïlande à l’heure de la COVID-19
Je me souviens encore de la journée du 8 janvier 2020. Notre nouvelle ambassadrice est arrivée du Canada ce jour-là. C’est aussi la première fois, à la suite d’un article paru dans le « Wall Street Journal », que j’ai brièvement discuté avec des collègues de cette étrange pneumonie s’apparentant au SRAS en Chine et […]
Teamwork Takes Flight
In mid-March 2020, the world changed. Countries began to close borders; airlines began to cancel flights; within days, many of my colleagues and their families were being repatriated to Canada. Then, we encountered a snag. Managua, Nicaragua, had only two Canada-Based staff, and both were required to return to Canada. After a discussion with my […]
What Next?
IN MARCH LAST YEAR, I wrote “A Letter to the Future,” my contribution to the last issue of bout de papier before we put this magazine on hiatus, just as the COVID-19 crisis overtook us in Ottawa. By the time you read…
A New Beginning
IN DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR, much to my surprise, I was asked to become editor-in-chief of bout de papier. My appointment came more than 30 years after my first term as editor of bout, which was then a publication in its infancy,…
