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Gar Pardy is a son of the Rock and his early education was in Norris Arm and Gander. He first worked for the Meteorological Service of Canada in Gander, Goose Bay and then Frobisher Bay. Following a honours degree from Acadia University and a Master’s from McMaster, he joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1967. Show full bio
Peace, Order and Windy Government
Chuztpah is one of those wonderful Hebrew words that have wandered into the English lexicon and finds constant expression both in literature and popular idiom. It is a synonym for…
Tone Deaf Foreign Policy on Israel
Foreign Affairs Canada issues a lot of press releases. Last year there was more than one per day. For the most part these were innocuous, offering congratulations on national days,…
Afghanistan: Is the War Still Necessary?
An unsettling and unsettled insurgency in Libya accompanied by regime-changing civil unrest throughout the Middle East, Thais and Khmers wandering far from the Middle Path, royal weddings and especially a…
Ghosts of the Past Still Frighten Today
Tommy Douglas was larger than life when he was still with us. So it should be no surprise that from the beyond he continues to provide the rocks for tossing…
The New Nuclear World
It has been more than sixty-five years since the bombs of August 1945 abruptly ended the Asia Pacific War. Since those fateful August days, the world has fretfully lived with…
Afghanistan: Canadian Sunset
The Canadian officer who, a few years ago, poetically named the Canadian staging base in the United Arab Emirates, Camp Mirage, knew more than was acknowledged at the time. Today…
Afghanistan: The Quagmire Gets Deeper
In a few months it will be ten years since western troops invaded Afghanistan. The Soviets stayed for a similar period but eventually the futility of their war eroded the…
Torture and Public Policy
Torture is not a country specific phenomenon. It is far too comfortable to say that Syria, or China or Saudi Arabia or Cuba or Bulgaria can be labeled as states…
Afghanistan: The End Game Comes Into View
How wars end is as varied as war itself. Victory, defeat, cease fire, stalemate, exhaustion and stand-down have all been associated with the ending of past wars, and these mechanisms…
Death with dignity
Countries have always honoured those who fall in battle, and funeral orations have always found honoured places in ancient as well as recent history. In Athens, Pericles’ speech is remembered…
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