Diefenbaker in the Holy Land
ohn Diefenbaker treasured his contacts with the great men of his time. His boyhood meeting J with Sir Wilfrid Laurier in Saskatoon and his encounter with “the Old Man” — Sir Winston
Begin with a Scenario
For better or for worse, the visit of Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel to Canada in November 1978 is remembered best for the visitor’s intervention in Canadian politics. In a speech in Toronto after his official business had been concluded, Begin…
Letters // Lettres
Dear Editor
Cooper’s Snoopers and Other Follies
There is a big disappointment, for which you should prepare yourself, when you get to page 164 of this little book: it ends. And it ends far too soon. To be fair, the author has subtitled it “Fragments of a Life” and…
Trading Places
Hello from Tel Aviv. I am here for the next 5 weeks and a bit, on temporary duty, filling the gap between the departure of the former trade program manager and the arrival of the new one. Having such exposure to the…
Guerre et paix au Moyen-orient et en Afrique / War and Peace in the Middle East and Africa
Le sous-ministre adjoint consulte sa montre. Il attend toujours les nouvelles du Haut Commissariat à Kenya sur les soeurs disparues au Rwanda. Il est quatorze trente dans la plupart des postes de sa région. Les priorités canadiennes dans la région sont au…
