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Nicholas D'Ascanio

Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis: Lessons in Canadian Diplomacy (Part 2)

Nicholas D'Ascanio Jan 20, 2014

Only twenty years into its foreign policy independence, Canada’s top diplomat had ended what could have been an explosive crisis. Lester B. Pearson, by catalysing the creation of the United Nations Emergency Force, helped to ensure the…
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Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis: Lessons in Canadian Diplomacy (Part 1)

Nicholas D'Ascanio Jan 10, 2014

To date, only one Canadian has ever received the Nobel Peace Prize. Lester B. Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1948 to 1957 and Prime Minister from 1963 to 1968, won the award for his role in the creation of the UNEF,…
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Zion on Ice: What is the Jewish Autonomous Oblast?

Nicholas D'Ascanio Nov 14, 2013

If asked to name the languages of northeast Asia, Yiddish probably wouldn’t be the first to come to mind. Yet in the Russian Far East, much closer to Beijing or Pyongyang than Moscow or Jerusalem, the miniscule Yiddish community of the…
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