bout de papier, Volume 28, Issue No. 4, 2015
bout de papier, Volume 25, Issue No. 1, 2010
bout de papier, Volume 10, Issue No. 1, 1993
bout de papier, Volume 11, Issue No. 4 – Vol 12, 1995
Management Consular Officers Around the World
There are about 344 Management Consular Officers (MCOs) in Canada who officially joined the Foreign Service ranks in 2015, and we each have a different path that brought us to the stream. We’ve all learned different lessons about what makes this career…
I Know the Monster
I vividly recall my arrival in the Kingdom in April, 2012 for what became a three-and-a-half-year ambassadorial assignment. It was my first-ever visit there and I had no idea what to expect. On the drive from the airport to the official residence…
Yemen, the Sequel: What’s at Stake?
Hark Kroll’s piece on Yemen (bout de papier Volume 25, No. 1) brought back vivid memories of my own visits to that lovely but troubled country. My first posting was Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. There being two Yemens in the late 70s, the…
Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison
This is a story of torture. And it is not torture “lite” as one of the contemporary faddish terms would have it in attempting to provide moral and political justification for such acts. It is not a book for the squeamish or…
Eclipsing the ARF (and what I did about it)
Leslie and I came back to Ottawa on home leave one dusty June. Returning from a hardship post was more bizarre than I had anticipated, but a week of decompression and trips to both Canadian Tire and Tim Horton’s restored my sensibilities…
Guerre et paix au Moyen-orient et en Afrique / War and Peace in the Middle East and Africa
Le sous-ministre adjoint consulte sa montre. Il attend toujours les nouvelles du Haut Commissariat à Kenya sur les soeurs disparues au Rwanda. Il est quatorze trente dans la plupart des postes de sa région. Les priorités canadiennes dans la région sont au…
