bout de papier, Volume 8, Issue No. 2, 1991
On the Sidewalks of New York
Bugbyte O’Nanotek, a lanky vision in black, paced purposefully up Central Park West. The e-mail message on the heads-up display in her cyber-shades had said to expect contact but gave no detail. Then an immense figure, whooping like a ruptured hippo, careened…
Culinary Diplomacy on the Upper North Side: Newer, Better and Tastier
by Michael Phillips, Kevin O’Shea, and Lianne Verheyden Photos: Greg Kinch Photography
Negotiating with the Neighbours / Négocier avec les voisins
On June 2, the Senior ADM, who is also the Coordinator of the NAFTA negotiations, is in Mexico for consultations with the Mexican government on the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He opens secret negotiations with the Chilean government…
A Tale of Two Canadians
The odds of winning LOTO/649 surely must be lower by far than the odds of Personnel effecting such perfect posting symmetry in the normal course of business. Two well-known Canadian authors (spouses at that) landing at our two major missions in the…
This Shouldn’t Happen to A…
(Editor’s note: Sidney Freifeld’s new book about some of the amusing sidelights of the Department over the years, Undiplomatic Notes: Tales from the Canadian Foreign Service, is being published by Hounslow Press in October.)
A Little Mix-Up in the Mail
This article is adapted from a chapter of Sidney Freifeld’s new book Undiplomatic Notes: Tales from the Canadian Foreign Service, to be published by Hounslow Press in October. The book will be illustrated, like this article, with drawings by Susan Macartney.
An M.P. in Manhattan
Working abroad in the Foreign Service may provide one unexpected compensation — a more intimate and rewarding view of Members of Parliament than you are likely to obtain back in Ottawa.
Freifeld On: Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry A . . .
To those of us who were his close friends and neighbours in the early days of the United Nations, the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize award to Ralph Bunche came hardly as a surprise. We knew that not only human being but that,…
Our Fall Puzzle
A rough diamond of a puzzle by A Aalto
