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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  George Ignatieff Theatre - Trinity College in the University of Toronto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
George Ignatieff Theatre - Trinity College in the University of Toronto
Combining day-time classes during the term with special events after hours makes the George Ignatieff Theatre a hub of the Trinity College community.
The George Ignatieff Theatre does not operate a box-office service.
www.trinity.toronto.edu /git   (167 words)

  
  Michael Ignatieff Defends Iraq War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
What makes Ignatieff's chiding of Canadians more than a tiff between a cerebral media star and his home crowd is the way he links the war debate to a much deeper critique of Canada's place in the world.
George Ignatieff, who died in 1989, was a peripatetic diplomat in the Pearsonian generation, one of the legendary post-Second World War foreign policy innovators who are credited with forging a golden age for Canada on the international stage.
Ignatieff sees the decision by Bush and Britain's Tony Blair to act on their own, after giving up on ever getting French and Russian approval at the Security Council, as a long overdue wake-up call for anyone who continues to invest too much faith in the UN - including many Canadians.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012484   (2416 words)

  
  George Ignatieff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Ignatieff, CC, MA, DCL (December 16, 1913 - August 10, 1989) was a Canadian diplomat and was the recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in international service.
George Ignatieff was educated at Canadian universities before obtaining a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford.
His son, Michael Ignatieff, is a well known author, broadcaster and scholar who was elected to the Canadian parliament in 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Ignatieff   (290 words)

  
 Michael Ignatieff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ignatieff is the son of Canadian diplomat George Ignatieff and Alison Grant, and the grandson of Count Paul Ignatieff, Minister of Education to Tsar Nicholas II and one of the few Tsarist ministers to have escaped execution by the Bolsheviks.
Ignatieff states that despite its admirable commitment to equality and group rights, Canadian society still places an unjust burden on women and gays and lesbians, and he says it is still difficult for newcomers (particularly of non-British descent) to form an enduring sense of citizenship.
Ignatieff endorsed the resolution and suggested that it may need to be entrenched into the Constitution of Canada at some point down the road, while his closest rivals Rae, Kennedy and Dion have agreed on the nation label but do not want to reopen the Constitution.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Ignatieff   (3770 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
George Ignatieff is, of course the late father of Liberal Leader prospect Michel Ignatieff.
George Ignatieff was both prominent Canadian diplomat and a recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in international service.
George Ignatieff served as Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1956 to 1958; a permanent representative to NATO (1963-1966); Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations (1966-1969) and president of the United Nations Security Council (1968-1969).
www.frontpagemag.com /GoPostal/commentdetail.asp?ID=25134&commentID=779550   (1158 words)

  
 Michael in the News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ignatieff also proposes a cap on emissions on major industrial emitters; that an agreement be struck with provinces to set minimum market shares for renewable energy generation; and that "limited" purchases of international emissions credits should be made.
Ignatieff’s closest rivals are Bob Rae—the former NDP premier of Ontario, who was Ignatieff’s roommate during their student days at the University of Toronto—and Stéphane Dion, the seasoned Ottawa politician and former environment minister much beloved by Canada’s environmentalists.
Ignatieff wants to reward consumers for choosing low-emission fuels by cutting the GST on them and raising the tax on polluting fuels such as regular gasoline; he emphasizes that this would be a tax "shift," not a hike, with the goal of changing behaviour rather than increasing government revenue.
michaelignatieff.ca /MiCommunity/blogs/inthenews/default.aspx   (13476 words)

  
 Straight Talk | Muslim group wants Ignatieff apology | Straight.com Vancouver
Ignatieff's controversial remarks on the Middle East stand in contrast to the diplomatic approach pursued by his father, George Ignatieff, who was once Canada's ambassador to the United Nations.
George Ignatieff also once commented on the importance of Canada as a conflict mediator independent of the United States.
Ignatieff did not join calls for an immediate cease-fire until the fourth week of Israel's bombardment, and the MCC argues that he has repeatedly made one-sided comments supporting Israel in the conflict.
www.straight.com /muslim-group-wants-ignatieff-apology#   (570 words)

  
 Macleans.ca | Culture | Books | SMART GUY, EH?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
What makes Ignatieff's chiding of Canadians more than a tiff between a cerebral media star and his home crowd is the way he links the war debate to a much deeper critique of Canada's place in the world.
George Ignatieff, who died in 1989, was a peripatetic diplomat in the Pearsonian generation, one of the legendary post-Second World War foreign policy innovators who are credited with forging a golden age for Canada on the international stage.
Ignatieff sees the decision by Bush and Britain's Tony Blair to act on their own, after giving up on ever getting French and Russian approval at the Security Council, as a long overdue wake-up call for anyone who continues to invest too much faith in the UN -- including many Canadians.
www.macleans.ca /culture/books/article.jsp?content=20030623_61383_61383   (2452 words)

  
 November 20, 2004 - Disrespect Bush at your peril: Ignatieff by Lynda Hurst
Ignatieff is no fan of the president or, for that matter, the entire Bush clan, whom he refers to as "the Corleones of American politics."
Ignatieff left Canada in 1976, first for Britain and then, in 2000, for Harvard University in Boston, where he is director of the Carr Center for Human Rights.
In fact, the son of eminent diplomat George Ignatieff is a vociferous Canadian.
www.friends.ca /News/Friends_News/archives/articles11200403.asp   (1041 words)

  
 Independent Online Edition > Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
One of Paul's sons, George Ignatieff, was to become one of the foremost figures in 20th-century Canadian diplomacy.
The spectacle of Ignatieff knocking on doors and addressing sparse audiences in community halls and school gyms was described by the conservative Canadian writer Mark Steyn as "like watching a classical pianist accompany the clowns in a burlesque house".
Ignatieff says his position was born of a visit to northern Iraq in 1993 and the suffering he witnessed among the Kurds at the hands of Saddam Hussein.
news.independent.co.uk /people/profiles/article340032.ece   (1848 words)

  
 Being Michael Ignatieff
Ignatieff is amused by this certainty of adolescence.
Ignatieff alone to brood on Harvard as "the court of the Manchu emperors" with its cult of The Professor surrounded by fawning students.
Ignatieff's decision about running for Parliament had been made, and that the conversation was about the nuts-and-bolts logistics of his candidacy — although for media and public consumption, it would be said for the rest of the summer that he had yet to make up his mind.
www.internet.uqam.ca /web/t6270/being_michael_ignatieff.htm   (11635 words)

  
 Michael Ignatieff at AllExperts
Ignatieff is the son of Canadian diplomat George Ignatieff and Alison Grant, and the grandson of Count Paul Ignatieff, who was the Tsar's last Minister of Education and one of the few Tsarist ministers who escaped execution by the Bolsheviks.
In January 2005, speculation began in the press that Ignatieff could be a star candidate for the Liberals in the next election, and some suggested he could be an ideal candidate to succeed Paul Martin, then the leader of the governing Liberal Party of Canada.
Ignatieff led the largest Liberal contingent of votes in favour, with at least five of his caucus supporters voting along with him to extend the mission.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/mi/michael_ignatieff.htm   (3463 words)

  
 George Ignatieff Calls for Three-Pronged Approach to Common Security: The 1989 Holtom Lecture
George Ignatieff, the only Canadian who, in a diplomatic career dating back to 1940, has been our Ambassador to NATO and to the UN as well as being Ambassador for Disarmament, delivered the 1989 Holtom Lecture at the Ottawa Unitarian Church on February 6.
While one might expect that someone with such a rich historical perspective might be unduly tied to looking to the past for solutions, Dr. Ignatieff declared that we are moving too fast, today, to be able to devise remedies for the future by applying lessons from the past.
Ignatieff concluded by declaring that, "we owe it to the present generation and those who come afterwards, to seize this historic turn of events to Give Peace a Chance.
perc.ca /PEN/1989-03/hale.html   (489 words)

  
 RT: Who is Michael Ignatieff?
Michael Ignatieff was born in Toronto in 1947, the son of Russian émigré and noted Canadian diplomat George Ignatieff and Alison Grant.
His maternal uncle was the political philosopher George Grant, author of Lament for a Nation, who was widely regarded as the main theoritician of “Red Toryism,” a somewhat muddled political ideology that in certain ways had more affinity with positions of the NDP than those of the Liberal Party.
Ignatieff was also the author of a television play, Dialogue in the Dark, an exchange between the dying philosopher David Hume and the writer James Boswell, based on Boswell's diary and Ignatieff’s own book The Needs of Strangers.
redtory.blogspot.com /2006/03/who-is-michael-ignatieff.html   (4532 words)

  
 Michael Ignatieff on DTNicholson's Wednesday-Night.com
Ignatieff's plan may play well in the immigrant-rich urban centres where Liberal support is concentrated, it is unwise as a matter of public policy.
Ignatieff was at the Toronto Star the other day, which is to the Liberal Party in Canada what Pravda used to be the Communist Party in the old Soviet Union.
La Presse reports that Ignatieff used his time at the podium to outline an apparent political platform that envisions a strong federal government and includes support for universal health care, the Kyoto accord, increasing foreign aid to 0.7 percent of Canada’s GDP and a diversification of trade with China and India.
www.wednesday-night.com /MichaelIgnatieff.asp   (5157 words)

  
 Ignatieff v. Harper - Political Forums
In the conflict between the terrorists who wish to impose their vision of a "just and righteous society" by force on the rest of us, there is nothing to talk about: they are not interested in compromise or negotiation, and there is no common ground between their vision of the future and ours.
Ignatieff doesn't seem to fit that requirement and he would appear to be just another leader talking down to English-Canadians.
Ignatieff won't make inroads in the west for the Liberals, though really its unlikely that any Liberal leader will so I guess thats a moot point.
www.mapleleafweb.com /forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=114714   (1627 words)

  
 Michael Ignatieff origin of his surname at Bill Casselman's Canadian Word of the Day
Interestingly, Ignatieff is a good friend of former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, also pegged by the rumour mill to be a possible Liberal candidate for the Prime Minister’s office.
Ignatieff is a Russian patronymic surname whose literal meaning is ‘son of or descendant of Ignatius.’ The Russian Orthodox Church approved of the first Jesuit, Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Society of Jesus.
George Ignatieff was also president of the Security Council in the 1960s and later chancellor of the University of Toronto (1980–1986).
www.billcasselman.com /whats_in_a_canadian_name/wiacn_five_ignatieff.htm   (555 words)

  
 Election 2006
Ignatieff is the former director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights and Policy at Harvard University.
Ignatieff received a degree in History at the University of Toronto and a doctorate at Harvard University.
Ignatieff has written extensively about the challenges Canada faces in the 21st Century and the urgency of making Canada’s voice strong and credible on the international stage.
www.ctv.ca /mini/election2006/candidates/35023_LIB.html   (288 words)

  
 Michael Ignatieff information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ignatieff was named associate critic for Human Resources and Skills Development in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet on February 22 2006 and announced on April 7 2006 that he would stand as one of the Liberal Party of Canada Leadership Candidates.
Ignatieff is the son of Canadian diplomat George Ignatieff and Alison Grant, and the grandson of Count Paul Ignatieff, who was the Tsar's last Minister of Education and one of the few who escaped execution by the Bolsheviks.
Ignatieff was a prominent supporter of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, a position which he acknowledged was controversial in progressive circles.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Michael_Ignatieff   (3954 words)

  
 Energy Probe Research Foundation
Georges Erasmus served on the EPRF Board of Directors from 1988 to 1998.
George Ignatieff served on the EPRF Board of Directors from 1981 to 1987.
George Ignatieff also held 8 honorary degrees and was a companion of the Order of Canada.
www.e-p-r-f.org /eprf/past_board_bio.html   (970 words)

  
 News & Events - Pearson Medal
UNA-Canada celebrates 50th Anniversary of Lester Pearson's Nobel Peace Prize (1957-2007)
George Ignatieff, C.C., has been named the recipient of the 1984 Pearson Peace Medal by the United Nations Association in Canada.
The now deceased Dr. Ignatieff has had a distinguished career in international service.
www.unac.org /en/news_events/pearson/1984.asp   (141 words)

  
 Torture victim's nephew offended by Ignatieff references   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ignatieff does not name Pickersgill and spares his audience the details of his death at age 29 beaten and hanged from a meat hook in the basement of a crematorium on the night of Sept. 11, 1944.
What Ignatieff does is ask how the son of a woman whose fiance was tortured to death at Buchenwald could possibly endorse the use of torture.
The two known occasions where Ignatieff has invoked the war-time tragedy were in response to student protesters in Ottawa last spring the students wore orange jumpsuits and fl prisoner hoods and this month in response to life-long friend and rival leadership candidate Bob Rae during a leadership debate in Montreal.
www.canada.com /topics/news/national/story.html?id=12e7506b-a6aa-484e-be39-b2ba8643cb71&k=2791   (657 words)

  
 aspire's Xanga Site
Michael Ignatieff was born in Toronto on May 12, 1947, and whisked away six weeks later to live in New York City, where his father George was deputy to General Andrew McNaughton, Canada's representative to the United Nations' Atomic Energy Commission.
Ignatieff took part in a sit-in to protest against recruiting at U of T's engineering faculty by Dow Chemical Co., supplier of incendiary napalm and the Agent Orange defoliant to the U.S. military.
Ignatieff's account, he saw the manifest British class system in the house: a divide between the women from the mining towns and the condescending north London middle-class intelligentsia, his friends and acquaintances of the left, who didn't believe in the strike but couldn't bring themselves to tell the miners that Mr.
www.xanga.com /aspire   (12823 words)

  
 Canada National News - The Brooks Bulletin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The image of Ignatieff spending his formative years in a hayloft serves as stark contrast to the media coverage the 58-year-old has received since leaving his teaching post at Harvard to enter the fray of Canadian politics.
But Ignatieff is quick to shrug off suggestions that his privileged Toronto upbringing and 30 years spent working outside of Canada will make him less palatable to Liberal party members beyond the urban fold.
Heritage: George Ignatieff settled in Montreal in 1928 after fleeing Bolshevik Russia; later served as ambassador to Yugoslavia, NATO and the United Nations and president of the UN Security Council.
www.brooksbulletin.com /news/national_news.asp?itemid=50958   (848 words)

  
 PMag v05n5p18 -- G·E·O·R·G·E · ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ignatieff was interviewed by Alex Dickman, then a first-year student in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto and now a member of PEACE's editorial board.
Ignatieff: Successful diplomacy has to be conducted quietly, not in the limelight, to fmd the common ground between parties in confrontation.
Ignatieff: Canada has advocated, and should continue to insist on, two things: One is the cessation of testing new weapons -- what Prime Minister Trudeau called the "strategy of suffocation." The other is the creation of centres of rapid communication between East and West.
peacemagazine.org /archive/v05n5p18.htm   (1521 words)

  
 CITW: Canadians & UN - George Ignatieff: What a Difference 20 Years Make!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For George Ignatieff had been deputy to General Andrew McNaughton during Canada's first stint on the Council from 1948 to 1949.
In the following excerpt from a conversation that took place in 1986, George Ignatieff describes how Security Council work changed in the 20 years separating the two periods during which he was involved with it and, particularly, how Canada's role changed.
First, here is George Ignatieff on the changes he witnessed over those 20 years: "In 1948, the Americans had an assured majority in the Council and in the General Assembly.
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /ciw-cdm/caun/Ignatieff-en.asp   (2296 words)

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