Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
At the risk of betraying my defining cultural moments, I would like to recall that the Beatles once sang in their rather miserable Magical Mystery Tour album, “you say hello, I say goodbye” (or maybe it was the other way around). Well,…
A Man of Big Heart: The Memoirs of Maurice Mitchell
The Canadian Immigration Historical Society is to be applauded for its decision to publish the diaries and memoirs of civil servants who have been on the front lines of Canadian immigration. Without such a publication program, many such documents might never emerge…
World Population Growth and Population Movements: Policy Implications for Canada
Major decisions are facing Canada’s policymakers on the two great “people” phenomena of our time: rapid world population growth and mass movements of population. A huge UN Conference on Population and Development, almost on the scale of the UN Conference on Environment…
Transfer of Social Affairs Stream to CEIC: View from Manila
Readers will recall the intensive 1990 Corporate Review exercise in which EAITC employees of all levels and streams were challenged to develop innovative approaches to promote the effective delivery of departmental programs within Canada and abroad. In transferring the Social Affairs Stream…
Souvenir de Patricia Harland (1950-1991)
Patricia Harland était une agent du Service Extérieur (Affaires Sociales) décédée accidentellement avec son époux, Bernd Wiedmann, au Kenya revenant d’une visite d’immigration en Ouganda en mai 1991. Le couple avait deux enfants Nicolas et Geneviève, qui ont depuis été adoptés par…
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président
I had intended to write a positive message in my first column as PAFSO President. Events of the past few days, however, make necessary a new approach. The decision arrived at in secret to move the Social Affairs stream to the Department…
Canadese: A Portrait of the Italian Canadians
The literature on Italian-Canadians — not unlike that on many other ethnocultural minorities — has undergone in recent decades an important transition. At its early stage it was dominated by the filiopietistic genre — a type of writing that celebrates the past…
Second World War; Struggle for Survival; On Guard for Thee; A Nation Forged in Fire; Wartime
The Second World War has retained its fascination for readers, authors and publishers alike, as the plethora of volumes to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its formal beginning amply indicated. That interest is certainly understandable. Its imagery, vocabulary, characters and events are…
On a Hinge of History
From prehistory until about 1000 AD, the world’s population did not increase by much. In earliest times, life was so precarious, and food supplies so unreliable, that a rough balance obtained between births and deaths notwithstanding an undoubtedly high fertility rate. The…
Haven’s Gate: Canada’s Immigration Fiasco
Victor Malarek is both thought-provoking and disturbing in his examination of the problems facing immigrants and refugees applying for status in Canada. Yet Haven’s Gate, despite its well-researched approach, is at times heterotopic and does not properly amalgamate the conclusions which the…
