Fearless advice
La mise en place d’un nouveau gouvernement, le 4 novembre 2015, a ranimé chez bon nombre de fonctionnaires des sentiments de professionnalisme et de fierté depuis longtemps endormis. Le signal était clair — les fonctionnaires devaient faire partie intégrante de la solution…
Michael Chesson
Chinese environment, thanks in part to the years she spent in Hong Kong as a child. Her passing is felt particularly keenly within the Department’s circle of China hands, current and retired.
Sumeeta Chandavarkar
Colleagues and friends were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sumeeta Chandavarkar, who passed away unexpectedly in Ottawa on November 16, 2014 at the age of 43. She leaves her husband David Moodie, her parents Shyamsunder and Sujata Chandavarkar, her…
Les Prix de l’APASE 2015 // PAFSO Awards 2015
invités se sont réunis pour célébrer l’excellence au sein du service extérieur canadien lors du dîner de remise des Prix de l’APASE 2015. C’est au son de la cornemuseur-majeure des Sons of Scotland, Bethany Bisaillion, que les invités ont fait leur entrée…
Le grand saut!
Visite de l’équipe des douanes du poste frontalier mais cause également beaucoup de tensions.
A Quiet Kill
A QUIET KILL: A FORSYTH AND HAY MYSTERY, by Janet Brons, TouchWood Editions, 2014, 192 pp., $14.95.
Paul Dingledine
Paul became a Trade Commissioner in 1970 after completing a BA in Economics and an MBA at McMaster University. He worked for a year in the UK before joining the Foreign Service. I first met him in the early 1980s, shortly after…
Living on Adrenalin
Canadian Immigration Foreign Service Officers, tasked with saving a large number of Indochinese refugees, conducted a humanitarian effort of enormous scale in circumstances
Lest We Forget // Souvenons-nous
I vividly recall a post-dinner discussion among senior US Air Force Officers on how best to remember fallen comrades. The discussion took place at a graduation ceremony in Washington, DC, in the early 2000s, mere weeks after 9/11. The attack on the…
Fresh Start? // Un nouveau départ?
Much has been written about John Baird’s abrupt departure and the nature of his legacy. Many have articulated ideas on how to repair our foreign policy and restore Canada’s once proud role internationally.
