“Quelques arpents de neige …”
Pushing my canoe out towards a nearby iceberg to hack off chunks of ice for cocktails was perhaps not the standard preparation for life in the foreign service. However, it did provide me with training in creative thinking to solve a recurrent…
Interview with Rick Hansen
Many of us had the pleasure of meeting Rick and Amanda Hansen during the “Man in Motion” tour. I had the added privilege of being associated with them when he served as Canadian Commissioner General at Expo 88.
1992: What it is and What it Means for Canada
This text has been edited and adapted for bout de papier from a speech that Ambassador Molgat delivered to the Canadian Exporters Association and the Business Council on National Issues.
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Publishers of encyclopedias have always had the daunting task of determining what to include and the space to be given to any single subject. In today’s publishing world, price is also an important factor in selling the general public a ‘user friendly’…
Political Wives: The Lives of the Saints
“There is no subject I cannot trivialize”, wrote Susan Riley. She then set out to do just that in her book, Political Wives with its vague and unexplained subtitle, The Lives of the Saints. The wives who appear in her book were…
La budgétisation de base : pierre angulaire de la gestion financière personnelle
Pourquoi budgétiser? Loin d’être un exercice intellectuel, c’est une question très pratique influencée par des facteurs extérieurs. À votre réveil, vous réalisez un jour que vous avez travaillé pendant une grande partie de votre vie et que vous en avez tiré très…
Comments on Comments by the Foreign Service
John Starnes comments on Stephen Lewis’s comments on defence policy:
