Brian Richard Hambleton
Born in Ottawa in 1948, Brian Hambleton was educated at Carleton and Queen’s Universities, joining the Department of External Affairs in 1974. Over the course of his career, he served in Ottawa in the U.N. Institutional Affairs Division, USA Division, US Transboundary…
George Glazebrook
Born in 1899, George Glazebrook was a prominent historian of international relations before arriving in Ottawa in 1942 to take up war-time service in External Affairs in the intelligence and security areas. After leaving to join National Defence in 1948, he returned…
The Ambassador’s Perambulatory
The success of the Centennial caravans and train in their perambulations around the country this summer should be taken to heart by those in this Department who are grappling with the unending problem of establishing Canadian missions overseas This Memorandum would suggest…
Women in the Foreign Service: Do They Have Legitimate Career Complaints?
The view still prevails in many corners of the Department that while women were once discriminated against, the tables have now turned and women are now at least treated equally, or even given special treatment in the Department. I would like to…
Reflections of An Ur*-COSICS User
The Department, as most of its members know by now, is in the process of implementing a massive communications and office automation project known as COSICS (Canadian On-line Secure Information and Communications System). For two years or so it has been in…
“Adapt or Perish”
I recently visited the Tyrell Museum of Paleontology in the dinosaur country of Alberta and had an opportunity to meditate upon the towering bones of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. In his time, the Tyrannosaurus was the Chief Executive Officer. The Boss. Numero Uno.…
Letters // Correspondance
I have just received Vol. 7 No. 2 of bout de papier and enjoyed its contents. It is no wonder that the magazine has won the New York Association of Art Director’s Award for design. It certainly has gone from strength to…
Doing Better With Less in the 1990’s
Can we do better with less in the 1990’s? This was the topic that drew a capacity crowd of 200 to an evening seminar on February 6, including all 3 Deputy Ministers and many senior managers. Facing the growing demands of the…
Editor’s Notebook
bout has come a long way since it first emerged as a gestetnered information bulletin back in 1973. bout is continuing to evolve in an effort to continue to meet the changing interests of the PAFSO membership — both our internal concerns,…
PAFSO Professional Committee Breakfast Seminars: Fall Preview
by Margaret Huber
