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The Golden Years of Education Marketing: 1995–2000
Can you imagine that on the same day in different locations, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, former Minister of International Trade Sergio Marchi and former Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy each were scheduled to give addresses on the importance of international education…
Multilateralism to a Latin Beat
THE BEAUX-ARTS GRANDEUR OF THE CARNEGIE-BUILT EDIFICE that houses the Organization of American States (OAS) speaks to the unifying aspirations of the Pan-American movement. Situated on the Washington Mall just four blocks from the White House, it recalls the formation in 1889…
Paul Durand
Paul Durand joined the Canadian International Development Agency in 1975 after a career in private banking. Following a posting as First Secretary (Development) in Barbados (1976-78), he moved to the Privy Council Office before becoming Director of CIDA’s Tanzania Program (1983-87), He…
Volcano Rising: An Ambassador’s Diary
VOLCANO RISING: AN AMBASSADOR’S DIARY, by John Kneale, to be published Spring 2013; Baico Publishing and Bookstore, 2012, 320 pp, $22.95. Available at www baico ca, [email protected] and chapters.ca
Model Forests and Model Volunteers, CUSO-VSO in Latin America
Chilean native, Canadian citizen and long-term Saskatchewan resident Rolando Ramirez was CUSO’s Regional Director for Latin America for over a decade. As Canada’s best known standard bearer for volunteering in the developing world, CUSO (now CUSO-VSO) has a proud tradition of tackling…
Canada’s FOCAL: Focussing Minds on the Americas
Editor’s note: Our interview with Kathryn Hewlett-Jobes of FOCAL is the third in a series on Canadian organizations that strengthen Canada’s global and regional presence (the first dealt with the IDRC, the second with the Canadian International Council). The challenges in doing…
Alfred Pick
Alfred Pick had a long and wide-ranging diplomatic career, joining the Department of External Affairs in 1940, holding six ambassadorial appointments in Latin America, Europe, North Africa and the United States before retiring in 1976.
DFAIT and Team Canada
The idea of Team Canada originated with senior officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and at the Privy Council Office (PCO), not long after the current government came to power in 1993. Initially, the intention was to…
