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Canada's Magazine of Diplomacy and Foreign Service
VOL. 16, No. 3

Features

Other Related Duties Canada's Consul in Dallas, John Morrow, takes us behind the scenes in the final days of Canadian death-row inmate Stanley Faulder, whose plight generated front-page headlines across Canada and raised serious questions about justice in the State of Texas. In this consular vignette, Morrow tells his personal story of his final hours on the Faulder case, which ended at death's door.

Lights, Camera, Action on the Yellow River Jim Bonthron gives new meaning to spousal employment opportunities as he goes in front of the cameras as an actor in a Chinese mini-series.
Canada Honours a Secretarial Legend As one of his last official acts, Governor-General Romeo

Leblanc awards the Order of Canada to fellow New Brunswicker, Michaelena McLaughlin, a foreign service secretary whose enthusiasm for foreign service life made new friends for Canada the world over.

Not So Long Ago As the department implements its new Human Resources Strategy, Arthur Blanchette recalls a time when "stenos" trained new foreign service recruits, ministers met with officers of all ranks, marriage meant rotational women employees had to resign, and carbon paper was the only means of copying.

A Gift to Shandong University A Canadian missionary's work is returned to China to symbolize long-standing people to people ties between Canada and the People's Republic of China as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.