The President’s Message // Mot de la Présidente
Working at DFAIT, it’s impossible to avoid talking about “Transformation.” In DFAIT parlance, the word promises not just the dictionary definition of “a thorough or dramatic change in form and character,” but also real renewal. This has profound implications for the conduct…
Editorial // Éditorial
Lors de l’entracte à un concert de jazz d’envergure, je suis tombé sur un vieil ami, ancien chef de mission aujourd’hui à la retraite. Nous avons parlé de choses et d’autres, notamment de bout. « C’est la meilleure chose qui soit issue…
Kenneth Bryce Williamson
As a young officer in 1955 I was assigned to work for Ken Williamson in the Eastern European section of European division. Because my older sister had been one of his classmates I was aware of his brilliant academic record at the…
Don Collier
Don Collier was a foreign service officer who was happiest when on a posting. His love of travel and seeing the world began soon after he discovered studying engineering did not play to his strengths. Working at the university radio station did…
Janet Graham
A Personal and Professional Tribute by Michael Dawson given at the Good Shephard Wakefield Anglican Church, November 18, 2009.
Editorial // Éditorial
hile we deal with the shock of the earthquake in Haiti, we also must deal with a more symbolic temblor which rumbled through the Foreign Service when PAFSO member Richard Colvin spoke to Parliament about the alleged abuse of Afghan prisoners. In…
The Wet Suit Caper
bout de papier, Vol. 24, No. 3 (2009) — Summer/Fall 2009 // Été/Automne 2009, p. 48 My most recent humiliation might interest you.I went today to buy a wet suit.Have you ever tried on a wet suit? If not,if you are ever subjected to that ordeal,make sure to check that it is the right size.I […]
Robert Harold Gayner 1930–2009
To paraphrase Barbra Streisand, “People who like people are the luckiest people in the world.” If that is so, and I have no reason to doubt it, then Bob Gayner must rank very high among that select. He didn’t just like people,…
Witold Maciej Weynerowski
In Witold Weynerowski we have lost a fervent Canadian, an outstanding diplomat, an excellent sportsman, and a fine human being and family man.
Arthur Frederick Broadbridge
It happened in 1973, down along the Zambezi River at Victoria Falls. Zambian soldiers — idly watching tourists on the far shore — suddenly and inexplicably opened fire and killed two Canadian girls. Canada’s High Commissioner to Zambia at the time was…
