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14 April 2014 Dear PAFSO Members, After a one-year recess in 2013 due to our job action campaign, the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) is pleased to revive a tradition by inviting you to participate in the fourth…

04 April 2014 The deadline for nominations for the 2014 Canadian Foreign Service Officer Awards has been extended to Monday, April 14, 2014. Act now to ensure your peers get the recognition they deserve! Details on nominations and eligibility for…

The 1,350 members of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) will observe a Day of Solidarity in support of their striking Israeli counterparts on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Following the breakdown of a seven-month-long mediation process, the Israeli…

The Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) welcomes with relief the amendments to the Citizenship Act which will restore full citizenship rights to children born abroad to diplomats, soldiers, and other Crown servants. If passed, these amendments will ensure…

05 February 2014 PAFSO invites nominations for the 2014 Canadian Foreign Service Officer Awards. Send in a nomination by letter, e-mail or facsimile by April 5, 2014 to: Ms Dilys Buckley-Jones Secretary to the PAFSO Awards Committee 412 - 47…

The Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers is pleased to announce that its new contract with the Government of Canada was signed on December 4, 2013 by negotiating teams for the Treasury Board Secretariat and PAFSO. This contract follows on…

04 November 2013 The PAFSO Professional Committee is pleased to announce its next Breakfast Seminar Friday, November 8, 2013 8:30 a.m. “Reaching Westward across the Pacific – How did it Begin? Surprising insights – intriguing images” Mrs. Anne Park Shannon…

The Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) welcomes the announcement earlier today that Canada and the European Union (EU) have concluded an agreement-in-principle on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). “As Prime Minister Harper has underlined, this is…

18 October 2013 The PAFSO Professional Committee is pleased to announce its next Breakfast Seminar Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:30 a.m. “Six things I learned after Thirty Years in the Foreign Service” Mr. Tim Martin Ambassador to Colombia Robertson Room…

04 October 2013 PAFSO's AGM took place at the Ottawa Convention Centre on October 1, 2013. The following members were elected for a two-year term on the PAFSO Executive Committee: