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New York Times
March 30, 2018
When he was 19, Mr. Wylie worked briefly in the office of Michael Ignatieff, then the Liberal leader. Then early in 2016, when Mr. Trump's victory was not being widely predicted, Mr. Wylie, through a company called Eunoia Technologies, was given a 100,000 Canadian dollar contract by the Liberal CaucusÃâà...
Net Newsledger
March 30, 2018
During the blessedly brief period when I advised former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, I never met Wylie. I'm now told that he hung out with what I called the propeller-heads – the ones who manipulated data down in the bowels of the various offices of the leader of the Opposition. No one in LiberaldomÃâà...
Trail Times
March 28, 2018
During the blessedly brief period when I advised former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, I never met Wylie. I'm now told that he hung out with what I called the propeller-heads – the ones who manipulated data down in the bowels of the various offices of the leader of the Opposition. No one in LiberaldomÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 20, 2018
A Canadian data expert who set off an international uproar over the alleged leak of private Facebook user data lost his job years ago in the office of former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, in large part because he was pushing a nascent form of the controversial data-harvesting technique, says a formerÃâà...
HuffPost Canada
March 19, 2018
OTTAWA — A Canadian data expert who set off an international uproar over the alleged leak of private Facebook user data lost his job years ago in the office of former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, in large part because he was pushing a nascent form of the controversial data-harvesting technique, saysÃâà...
BBC News
March 7, 2018
The university's president, Michael Ignatieff, said that this was a "line in the sand" and would be the first time since World War Two that a European democracy had forced a university to close. But Mr Kovacs, speaking at the Hungarian embassy in London, gave no indication that the dispute was about to beÃâà...
The Guardian
March 3, 2018
“For democracies to work,” Michael Ignatieff, the political theorist and former leader of the Liberal party of Canada, wrote a few years ago, “politicians need to respect the difference between an enemy and an adversary. An adversary is someone you want to defeat. An enemy is someone you have to destroy.
Winnipeg Sun
February 28, 2018
Over the years that the Liberals were out of power they had two leaders: Stefan Dion, a diplomat and Michael Ignatieff, an author and an academic. When unsuccessful in their quest for power they reverted to Justin Trudeau all because his name was Trudeau. His qualifications for leader were part-timeÃâà...
New York Times
February 28, 2018
“Our university is proud to have secured reaccreditation here in Hungary, where we belong,” the president and rector of the Central European University, Michael Ignatieff, said in a statement. The university became a focus last year of a broad campaign against Mr. Soros by the right-wing government ofÃâà...
Hampstead and Highgate Express
February 27, 2018
Over the years scores of writers, artists and scientists have appeared at the Finchley Road store including Israeli writer Amos Oz and Canadian author Michael Ignatieff. Explaining how his shop thrived in the face of “huge changes” with the onset of online retailers and ebooks, Mr Joseph said: “You've got toÃâà...
Ottawa Citizen
February 25, 2018
In 2011, she called Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff “Igaffi,” on Twitter, a reference to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Last summer, she was the only MP to vote against a government motion reaffirming support for the Paris Agreement. In a short speech to party members in Barry's Bay on Saturday, CoatesÃâà...
Sargasso
February 16, 2018
Zijn de universele mensenrechten op hun retour? Dat beeld rijst op uit het boek Gewone Deugden van de Canadese oud-politicus en denker Michael Ignatieff. Mensen geven niet zoveel om mensen waar ze zich niet in herkennen. Ze maken zich meer druk over zaken dicht bij huis dan over universeleÃâà...
Ottawa Citizen
February 6, 2018
Michael Ignatieff thought so and he nearly destroyed the Liberal Party. In 2018, it means a dilettante can manage a rich, diverse jurisdiction such as Ontario, with no legislative or cabinet experience. Poseurs fall apart. Caroline Kennedy, who also had a famous father and went to Harvard, dropped herÃâà...
ABC Online
February 1, 2018
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is the centre of a debate that is roiling Europe. Who belongs here and can diverse ethnic and religious communities live together? Some of these questions are being raised by unlikely people. Michael Ignatieff is one of the world's leading intellectuals, having taught atÃâà...
CityLab
November 13, 2017
“We are all moral code writers,” writes Michael Ignatieff in his new book, The Ordinary Virtues. Ignatieff, a writer, politician, academic, ex-journalist, and former head of Canada's Liberal Party, has turned his restless gaze to cities, which he sees as the essential sites of this moral and ethical work. UrbanistsÃâà...
CBC.ca
December 31, 1999
For a man once convicted of trying to kill a politician, Jaspal Atwal seems to have had little trouble getting his picture taken with MPs, cabinet ministers and Liberal party leaders, including Justin Trudeau. Atwal — convicted in 1986 of the attempted assassination of an Indian state cabinet minister visitingÃâà...
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