Bill Barton in Profile
On December 10, 2012 Bill Barton, frail but full of spirit, celebrated with family and friends. It was his 95th birthday.
Lester B. Pearson
In the spring of 1947, the year after Mike Pearson returned from his glorious American summer, he turned 50. There is no suggestion that he suffered a mid-life crisis — if such an
John Hadwen 1923–2007
The following is the tribute given by James (Si) Taylor at the Memorial Service on Friday, September 7, 2007. John Hadwen was a member of the senior editorial board of bout de papier and a constant supporter of the foreign service.
The United Nations:
This article first appeared in a collection of essays edited by Paul Heinbecker and Patricia Goff, Irrelevant or Indispensable? The United Nations in the 21st Century which was published in 2005 by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, to whom we express our thanks…
Baghdad
Through my two years in Baghdad Iraq was at war with Iran, a particularly savage war of attrition. It raged on in the trenches for eight years and over a million casualties. It has been aptly described as a war fought with…
Tests of Global Governance: Canadian Diplomacy and United Nations World Conferences
Andrew Cooper’s welcome book fills a gap in Canadian foreign policy literature, Tinking UN thematic conferences to global governance and “new diplomacy” involving non-state actors. While noting the detachment generally shown for UN summits by Prime Minister Chrétien, in contrast to Prime…
Canada and the World
Canada’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy, who is now Director and CEO of the Liu Institute of Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, has drawn upon his considerable experience of international relations and Canadian politics to write a…
Sousa on 7even
“Missing?” cried Chief MacBannock. “H script man across the table shrugged an states lost patience with how we treater First Avenue is gone, leaving only a new tle saying, ‘What part of YES is it that you the disappearance took place on…
A 21st Century Foreign Service Career
My career in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) has been unusual. I joined in 1975 at age 21, having achieved grades so pitiful during my undergraduate years that no scholarships were in reach for further studies (even in…
United Nations Jabberwocky
The following is a copy of a limerick of many years ago about the United Nations. It was found by Geoffrey Pearson among his father’s papers and submitted by William Barton, Senior Editorial Board member. They concluded that it must have been…
