Prenez garde – Why Severance Pay Matters…
A year after our interview with PAFSO Executive Director Ron Cochrane on challenges facing the membership, bout asked if there was anything new on the horizon. There is. He warns that severance pay (an important part of our overall compensation package payable…
Enjeux, paradoxe et absence
Dans ma dernière chronique de bout, j’ai signalé que l’APASE souhaitait promouvoir une discussion sérieuse sur le rôle et l’avenir de notre profession. Paradoxalement, au moment de rédiger le présent texte, nous en sommes en pleine campagne électorale fédérale qui se caractérise…
Annoying Anomalies and Other Challenges: Ron Cochrane on PAFSO’s Agenda for 2011
Editor’s Note: The new year marks 10 years that Ron Cochrane has been PAFSO’s Executive Director and 30 years that he has dealt with staff relations issues with the Federal Government; a good time for a little stock taking with a view…
A New Year
PAFSO has survived another year, and the 2010-2011 Executive is now in place. Melanie Bejzyk, David De Rose, Kirk Duguid, David Edwards, Timothy Edwards, Alyssa Frohberg, Cael Husband, Marie- Hélène Jacques, Jonathon Kupi, Keith Lewis, Svitozar Omelko, Allison Poff, Stella Sweetman Griffin,…
PAFSO Awards – Celebrating Excellence // Les Prix de l’APASE – Reconnaissance de l’excellence
On Thursday, June 10, 2010, 280 colleagues and guests gathered an Foreign Service at the ions held in the Panorama Ottawa. The Pipe Major of the Sons of Scotland, Ms. Bethany Bisaillion, piped in guests r outstanding evening.
D’un œil canadien
Some months ago, PAFSO executive board members Kirk Duguid and Cael Husband decided that it was time that PAFSO got its creative juices flowing and had some fun. The result was a photo contest, open to all members and their families, to…
The President’s Message // Mot de la Présidente
Working at DFAIT, it’s impossible to avoid talking about “Transformation.” In DFAIT parlance, the word promises not just the dictionary definition of “a thorough or dramatic change in form and character,” but also real renewal. This has profound implications for the conduct…
Editorial // Éditorial
Lors de l’entracte à un concert de jazz d’envergure, je suis tombé sur un vieil ami, ancien chef de mission aujourd’hui à la retraite. Nous avons parlé de choses et d’autres, notamment de bout. « C’est la meilleure chose qui soit issue…
The President’s Message // Mot de la Présidente
bout de papier est la publication de prestige de l’APASE et l’une des activités les plus visibles de l’Association. C’est donc avec plaisir que j’ai accepté l’invitation, à titre de président de l’’APASE, de renouer avec la tradition de rédiger une rubrique…
Guerrilla Diplomacy
Editor’s Note: Daryl Copeland, a colleague and committed critic of Canadian diplomacy currently with the Munk Centre at the University of Toronto, paid the Pearson Building a visit on September 20, 2009. At the invitation of PAFSO’s Professional Committee, he addressed a…
