The Move From Hell
I need to finally write this down, if for no other reason than to process what happened. The story begins in the Fall of 2020. Not that you need reminding, but this was in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic when playgrounds were still closed. While the common sentiment was still “we’re all in this […]
En faveur de la diplomatie culturelle
Je dois admettre que j’avais quelques doutes en m’assoyant dans la salle de concert du centre-ville de Bogotá un dimanche matin pour écouter l’ensemble Amir Amiri. En quoi la présentation de ce groupe musical aux inspirations du Moyen-Orient et basé à Montréal pourrait bien être pertinente dans le contexte colombien ou encore m’aiderait à faire […]
Reflections on the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami
When Valerie Raymond arrived to take up her posting in 2002 as High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, she had no way of knowing that she would come face to face with the world’s deadliest tsunami in history. An accomplished diplomat and Head of Mission, she and her husband Tom de Faye (Major-General […]
A Mole in the CIDA Support Unit
The Cold War played out in the darndest ways. The competition between the West and the Soviet Bloc for hearts and souls of the developing world was intense and multi-faceted but did not necessarily garner headlines, except when real wars broke out. This tale is about one of the lesser-known consequences of that ideological struggle […]
