The Foreign Service Academy: “Teaching the New Thinking on Foreign Policy”
The long-awaited, much heralded Foreign Service Academy has opened its doors for business. This is great news for Foreign Service officers who have argued for years for an institute to provide ongoing professional upgrading. At the first annual Homecoming Football Game between…
Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award Night
For the second annual PAFSO Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award, we decided to hold an Awards Dinner at the National Arts Centre.
Solidarity
PAFSO’s annual cycle of re-election and renewal occurs every year in early October at our Annual General Meeting (AGM). It is always a sign of our members’ confidence in PAFSO when there are more nominees than vacancies on the Executive. PAFSO only…
The Foreign Service on Strike!
What the Canadian public had long feared finally happened. The Canadian foreign service went on strike, part of the national public service action. As expected, the strike spared no Canadian.
Canada and the New World Order / Le Canada et le nouvel ordre mondial
In the past year we have been exposed to a barrage of references to a “new world order”, and the PAFSO Professional Committee was quick off the mark to help members to define what this is all about, and what it means…
Political Rights for Public Servants: “A Delicate Balance”
The issue of political rights for public servants has long been a matter of considerable debate resulting primarily from two competing philosophies. On the one hand, the tradition of a politically neutral and impartial public service is viewed as an essential component…
In Defence of Diversity: Towards the Legitimization of Dissent
The lack of an established channel through which dissenting analysis might reach decision-makers has been highlighted repeatedly in the recent past, most strikingly, in the wake of the Gulf crisis. While it is clearly important that the Department, and indeed the government,…
A bout de papier Presentation Evening
bout de papier held a Presentation Evening in the Crush Lobby on Thursday, 6 June 1991, to provide a much needed opportunity for many of our supporters to meet members of the Editorial Board, particularly, our illustrious Senior Board. It had been…
A Scrap of Paper
As one of bout de papier’s supporters and contributors, from time to time I am asked why PAFSO’s quarterly was given its distinctive name.
Letters // Correspondance
I cannot agree more with Diana Lary’s case for more exchanges between the Department, Universities and the Private sector (bout de papier, vol. 8, no. 1, “Outsider, Inside”). The four university sinologists I have personally known in Beijing are all leading very…
