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:
Who Needs Diplomatic Training
Canada, like the U.K., recruits university graduates for its diplomatic service and trains them on the job. In contrast, a number of European, Asian, African and Latin American countries have specialized institutes or programs for training diplomats both on entry into the…
Letters // Correspondance
Editor, bout de papier is a very well-produced magazine and full of interest. Having had something to do with International Perspectives when it was trying to be both a departmental and an objective publication, I can sympathize with those who are producing…
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président
This is my last column for bout de papier, written with one foot on the airplane. Thanks to CIDA’s decentralization plans, I am being posted to Dar-es-Salaam, from whence it will be very difficult to come back for Executive meetings and other…
Editor’s Notebook
Promotions are cause for champagne and celebration. But not so for the Editorial Board of bout de papier. Promotion has robbed bout of our editor only months after he slipped so naturally into the position. Dan Livermore has left a distinct legacy…
Residential Inventories
“Residential inventory of contents and possessions.” Do these words cause fear and trembling? Do they recall an agonizing experience that killed much of the excitement of going on a posting? Do they force you to think unpleasant thoughts about an almost impossible…
Departmental Personnel Policy
In his column of April 28, Frank Howard of the Ottawa Citizen published excerpts of a telex emanating from the Embassy in Bonn:
The Press on Patronage and the Foreign Service
The following article, from the Sudan Times, Khartoum, was re-printed recently in the American Foreign Service Journal: It is with interest that we note… a perceived lack of strength in the ranks of the career diplomats in the Foreign Service. We note…
A Matter of Principle
There has always been a fuzzy line when it comes to the limits of consular assistance to be provided to Canadians abroad. There is the constant judgement call which must be made between following our consular mandate by providing legitimate assistance to…
