Jacques Gaudreau
Né à Rimouski (Québec) en 1947, Jacques Gaudreau s’est joint aux Affaires extérieures en 1971, peu de temps après avoir obtenu son diplôme en droit de l’Université Laval. Il servit à Paris, Dhaka, Genève et à la mission permanente à New York.…
A Day in the Life of a Canadian in Kabul
Lt. Col. David Leslie was the senior Canadian officer with the United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan (UNGOMAP). The following article is based on his impressions and observations after six months in Afghanistan and before the last of the…
John Wendell Holmes
John Wendell Holmes died August 13 in London, Ontario after a full and rewarding life devoted to international understanding. He never aspired to high office and was embarrassed by compliments. Yet during his 78 years he managed to combine three brilliant careers…
1945: Reflections from Canada House
One of Canada’s most distinguished commentators and scholars in the area of foreign policy and external affairs, John Holmes died on August 13, 1988. In this article, originally a lecture delivered at Carleton University, he explored some of the foreign policy conundrums…
Waldheim Fooled Canada Too
Amid all the brouhaha over the World War II activities of Kurt Waldheim, President of Austria and former two-term Secretary General of the United Nations, it seems to have been forgotten that Canada was the first country to which Austria appointed him…
TV Socko at the U.N.
Every time I hear another tirade about the evil and sinister pervasiveness of American cultural imperialism, I think back to some bizarre things that happened when Canada’s Lorne Greene showed up in New York in 1967 and asked me to show him…
An M.P. in Manhattan
Working abroad in the Foreign Service may provide one unexpected compensation — a more intimate and rewarding view of Members of Parliament than you are likely to obtain back in Ottawa.
A Life in Peace and War
For those Canadians who have been involved in the affairs and activities of the United Nations at any time, from its beginnings in 1945 until 1986, the name of Brian Urquhart has been known and respected as a model of what an…
Our Common Heritage
Gro Harlem Brundtland, chairperson of the Commission, captures the matter well in her forward. She and her 21 fellow commissioners were mandated by the U.N. General Assembly in 1983 to propose environmental strategies to achieve sustainable world development by the year 2000.…
Bruce Rankin
Bruce Rankin loved the Foreign Service. He used to say that its members were a breed apart — able to adjust quickly to new cultures and to deal imaginatively and flexibly with a huge range of issues and problems. Bruce cared very…
