Japan, the Blighted Blossom and The Future Japan
Despite the general current trendiness of things Japanese and the significance for Canada of Japan’s increasing impact on the world, remarkably little has been published here about Japan. As a glance through almost any library shows, most books relating to Japan concern…
Marler: Four Generations of a Quebec Family
Sir Herbert Marler is chiefly remembered in the foreign service community for certain foibles of personality and as the inspiration and financial backer of the remarkable property that still serves as the Canadian Embassy residence and chancery in Tokyo. Insights into both…
Brian Richard Hambleton
Born in Ottawa in 1948, Brian Hambleton was educated at Carleton and Queen’s Universities, joining the Department of External Affairs in 1974. Over the course of his career, he served in Ottawa in the U.N. Institutional Affairs Division, USA Division, US Transboundary…
The New Internationalism: Implications for Canada’s Foreign Policy and Foreign Service
The following was originally a speech given to a meeting of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers which was subsequently revised for publication in bout de papier.
Preparing for the 21st Century: New Realities in the Pacific
The present rules for international trade were not established by Pacific nations after World War II. But the countries of that region now play increasingly important roles in the world’s trade and investment. In recent years, the world’s financial markets have been…
The Honours List: Sylvia Ostry and Genji Okubo
Members of the Canadian foreign service have, over the years, received many honours national and international. In the following articles, we look at two persons recently honoured in two different ways. Mark Schacter prepared a piece on Sylvia Ostry on the occasion…
Mitchell Sharp and Jean-Luc Pepin
« L’indifférence aux affaires étrangères est l’une des infirmités permanentes des démocrates », écrivait vers 1978 Maurice Druon de l’Académie Française. La configuration internationale qui se redessinait au lendemain du choc pétrolier a pourtant vu la création de la Commission Trilatérale en…
At the Flicks with Pagan Haigh
Brief Encounter… Morgen In Alabama… Sugarbaby.
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…
