Lest we forget
\r\n \r\n National War Memorial, Ottawa, Canada 11 November is Remembrance Day. Along with many of my diplomatic colleagues, I’ll be laying a wreath at the War Memorial in Ottawa, at the eleventh hour...
View ArticleA Maritime blitz
\r\n \r\nThere’s a guest video on the blog today – Jonathan Dart, our Consul-General in Toronto and the head of the UK Trade and Industry network in Canada. We’ve being doing a bit of a blitz in the...
View ArticleOperation NANOOK – firefighting in the Yukon
\r\n \r\nSo what brings a Royal Navy Commander to Canada’s Yukon territory in the middle of summer? The answer is Operation NANOOK – an annual cross-government operation which supports Canada’s...
View ArticleWe will remember them…
\r\n \r\nIn a quiet corner of Ottawa by the junction of Sussex Avenue and Stanley Drive, there stands a fine memorial to the Canadian Officers loaned to Great Britain during the Second World War....
View ArticleDid you see The Imitation Game?
\r\n \r\nIf you didn’t, I’d thoroughly recommend it. It’s a dramatisation of Alan Turing and others’ work, capturing the herculean task that the code breakers of Bletchley Park undertook to help our...
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