Canada: A Nation of Shopkeepers?
Note de la redaction : bout de papier se penche sur la diplomatie d’entreprise, sa base comme son tableau d’ensemble. A l’échelle micro, dans le prochain numero, Joya Donnelly profile trois entrepreneurs membres de la collectivité du service extérieur qui sont passionnés…
L’ONU, le Canada et l’OACI
installée à Montréal depuis 1947, l’Organisation de l’aviation civile internationale (OACI) appartient à la famille des quinze organisations spécialisées de l’ONU, au même titre que l’UNESCO à Paris, la FAO à Rome, l’UNICEF à New York, et la Banque mondiale à Washington.
Jillian Stirk: Why Diplomacy Matters
Jillian Stirk: Why Diplomacy Matters
Winter winds – Les vents d’hiver
Roland Paris, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies, argued in a recent blog that Canada has no foreign policy — which begs the question: of what use is a Foreign Ministry without one? It also underscores the…
Does Canada Need a Department of Peace?
In my many years as a Science & Technology Counsellor with Canada’s diplomatic service I was always struck by the vast allocation of resources to military establishments and related technology, understandable given global security concerns. However, it always begged the question: would…
Canada’s Fast Fading Footprint
When the Canadian government tabled its main estimates for the year 2013-14, it revealed that it intended to reduce the budget of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade by $270 million or slightly more than 10 per cent. If this…
