PAFSO Forum // Forum de l’APASE
PAFSO Forum/Forum de L’APASE will be a regular feature of bout where foreign service officers and others are encouraged to raise issues of current interest to the broad PAFSO membership. For the inaugural PAFSO Forum, we reproduce below a letter sent to…
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
As I put pen to paper for my first editorial as the new bout Editor, I first wish to recognize the stellar contribution of Carol Turner-Trusca as bout Editor over the past year. All of us at bout, and in the foreign…
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
The winter issue of bout went to press just as the Land Mines Conference was moving into fulfilment at the beginning of December. PAFSO members had a glimpse of what went on behind the scenes leading up to this historic event when…
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
This edition of bout, the last of volume 14, brings to a conclusion one of our focuses this year: Canada’s Year of Asia-Pacific. Indeed, the APEC summit has just been held in Vancouver, amidst protesters and virtual panic about the continuing problems…
Letters // Correspondance
I very much appreciated Marie Stamp’s article in the Summer edition of BP regarding the issue of whether serving abroad will be worth it for those officers just proceeding abroad on their first assignments. Hopefully it will be, if people like myself…
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
Wondering where the map was when I took this turn…
DFAIT’s Tough Love:
by Marie A. Stamp
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
“It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. It is war minus the shooting”
Russ Davidson
Stanley Gooch provided the following eulogy at a memorial service for Russ Davidson on Sunday, July 21, 1996. Russ died in Ottawa on July 16, 1996.
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
bout de papier is a strange animal. It has won a roomful of international awards over the years, but its editors have always run the magazine on a volunteer basis with the invaluable support and advice of a largely volunteer managing editor…
