bout de papier, Volume 4, Issue No. 2, 1986
Walking to Remember
IT WAS 2006, AND MY FRIEND and I had been travelling around eastern and southern Africa for a few months. Blessed by the naiveté of youth and moments of excellent luck, we had managed to make it to the end of our…
Vern Turner
VERN TURNER, A FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER and Ambassador, with a career of extraordinary depth and breadth, died on December 26, 2021 in Ottawa. He was predeceased by his wife, Beryl.
Resisting Rights
THAT CANADA IS A GLOBAL LEADER in the promotion and defence of human rights is widely acknowledged, perhaps more so outside of Canada than within. That Canada’s reputation in this field was once not just unhelpful, but downright obstructionist, is less well…
Bearing Witness
BY APRIL 2015, 16 MONTHS after the violent implosion of Juba, South Sudan’s civil war was plumbing new depths. Much of the war thus far had ranged the largely Dinka forces of the governmental army — the SPLA — against Nuer militias…
A Saner, Less Fragmented World in 2021
Only 20 years ago, Canadian diplomacy was at the front end of the post-Cold War effort to design and anchor new inclusive norms for international governance. Do we still have the stuff, the will and ability, to be a key player again?
When Diplomacy Fails
This account of Canada’s contribution to the 1990-1991 Gulf War is the third in a series of articles marking the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait. During an I month campaign more than 4,500 Canadian Armed Forces personnel were deployed to…
Protecting Civilians in South Sudan
I’d woken at about three in the morning, to thunder and lightning. Odd, I’d thought, as the storm passed, and the rhythmic whirr of the ceiling fan took over again. The rainy season had ended a few weeks back. I drifted back…
Geoffrey Bruce
Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from the tribute by Paul Heinbecker at the Memorial Service held to celebrate Geoffrey Bruce’s life (St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church on September 23, 2014).
L’ONU, le Canada et l’OACI
Installée à Montréal depuis 1947, l’Organisation de l’aviation civile internationale (OACI) appartient à la famille des quinze organisations spécialisées de l’ONU, au même titre que l’UNESCO à Paris, la FAO à Rome, l’UNICEF à New York, et la Banque mondiale à Washington.
