Coming “Home”
I realize that reading other people’s letters is a breach of privacy. However, letters left open on the dining room table are fair game for a peek, if only to ascertain to whom to return them.
Letters to the editor
Editor, Bout de papier
From the Editor
Bruce Rankin died at the end of July. Interviewed in our last issue, he was one of the greats of the Foreign Service. He served at posts in every continent, except Africa, where Canada has representation. Whether closing the post in Shanghai…
Our Family Afield
bout de papier, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1986) — Spring/Summer 1986 // Printemps/Été 1986, p. 37 View the original scanned pages → Originally published in bout de papier, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1986) — Spring/Summer 1986 // Printemps/Été 1986, p. 37. Read the rest of this issue →
How External Spends Its Money
We all know External Affairs is a big operation involving a lot of manpower and of money — over 4000 person years and over $800 million this fiscal year. Where does all the money go? Who gets the biggest slice of the…
Department Personnel Officials Meet PAFSO
Members of the PAFSO executive met with representatives of Personnel April 8 to discuss issues pertaining to the shape, size, and role of the service, career development, the health of the service and contract follow-up’s.
All in the Line of Duty
Here clow or account ofinalzing he worldly affairs of a countryman whose journey into retirement was foreshortened by untimely death. With respect for the deceased and those he left behind, details revealing identity are omitted. The story is being offered as instructive…
Bruce Rankin: Looking Back
Bruce Rankin joined the Foreign Service in 1945 after serving with the Royal Canadian Navy in the Pacific and the Atlantic during the Second World War. He served in Sydney, Shanghai, Canberra, Bombay, Madrid, Berne, New York, Caracas and Tokyo. In the…
What’s Sauce for the Goose
Appraisal time is rolling around once again. The timing is perfect. As one wag put it: during the spring we live in hope, in the summer we like to think we have cause for expectation, with the fall leaves we begin to…
Portrait of an Issue
Bruce Rankin is one of the great men of the Canadian Foreign Service. Like many in the Service, his adventures are the stuff of legends. In a recent chat with Bob Grauer he spoke of some of those experiences. Travel with him…
