Noble Power
Noble Power, of whom a past CIDA President once remarked “You meet his name before you meet the man,” died on October 16, 2002, in Barbados, West Indies, and was laid to rest at the Barbados Military Cemetery on October 21. He…
Nancy Stiles 1950-2001
Nancy Stiles was buried in Ottawa on Wednesday, January 24th before her friends, family and colleagues. She had lived only fifty years but all of us had memories of her to last us much longer.
In Tribute to Mwalimu Julius Nyerere
T The founding President of Tanzania, Julius Kambarage Nyerere, died on October 14, 1999. His memory has occasioned this article. Since the days of early missionary activity in the region, including that of the White Fathers, who ran the school Nyerere attended,…
Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance
David R. Morrison, a Professor in Development Studies at Trent University, sets out to tackle an especially complicated and unwieldy subject in this lengthy history of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Canadian development assistance. Based on an extensive reading of…
The Fairey Firefly File
Sandra had been transferred out of the division almost a month previously, so she was getting politely annoyed about my continuing to call her up about things. But this time, I believed I had a legitimate question.
Mwalimu and Me
by Christopher Brown
Diary of a Tropical Storm
The October 24-25 weekend:
Promoting International Human Rights
The opening lines of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights assert that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.”…
Some Summer Songs
bout de papier, Vol. 11, No. 2 (1994) — Summer 1994 // Été 1994, p. 42 “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Eighth Floor” (To the tune of “I’ve been workin’on the Railroad”)Verse 1I’ve been workin’ on the eighth floor,All the live long day.Tryin’ to figure out a game planJust to pass the time away.Don’t you […]
Re-engineering the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Re-engineering means starting with a blank piece of paper and designing your organization from scratch. How would DFAIT fare?
