Alumni and Friends

In this issue:

Clayton Ruby: A Man of Principle

Clayton Ruby recently met with students at the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) to talk about his vision of society and the place of advocacy within the functioning of society, and the importance of fighting to affirm and preserve our civil rights and equality. Read story

Gordon McIvor: Francophilia – Alive and Well!!!

Gordon McIvor, a 1976 Glendon graduate, has received several awards and honours for his work in communications, including the ACE Award of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS). He is President of the Alliance Française de Toronto and a member of the CPRS College of Fellows. Read story

Bruce Hicks: Justin Trudeau keeps the promise of John A. Macdonald

Bruce Hicks, BMO Visiting Fellow at York University’s Glendon School of Public & International Affairs wrote about how “Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau surprised everyone, especially longtime Liberal senators, by announcing his idea for Senate reform: From this point forward, the Senate would be non-partisan and, effective immediately, Trudeau was expelling all Liberal senators from his caucus, and thus freeing them to serve as independents”. Read story

BMO Financial Group’s $1.25-million donation to Glendon campus

York University announced a $1.25-million gift from BMO Financial Group to the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs. The program will receive $750,000 of this donation, which will go towards the development of public affairs programming, while the remaining $500,000 will fund visiting professorships. Read story

Glendon Team “Sweeps” Awards in Washington

A team of Glendon students made a huge impression at a model NATO conference earlier this month, virtually sweeping the awards at the end of the conference. Otto Faludi, a first-year Master’s student in the Public and International Affairs Program, lead the Canadian delegation and acted as the team’s faculty advisor. The team was comprised of five Master’s and four undergraduate students. Read story

A Second Toronto Francophone Community Forum

The 2014 Forum focused on Francophone immigration to Toronto. The key organizations in the Francophone community had public information booths for those in attendance, and there were three successive round tables. Read story

Francomania Hits Glendon

The “Semaine de la Francophonie” is generating a lot of enthusiasm at Glendon College. Although the official celebration takes place from March 20 to 27, this bilingual campus of York University decided to accelerate and extend the timeline somewhat by welcoming the public from March 17 to 29. Read story

Annual Jean-Gabriel Castel Conference

You are invited to the annual Jean-Gabriel Castel Conference on International Law and the Issue of Sovereignty over Jerusalem to be held at Glendon on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. This year’s featured speaker is Dr. Jacques P. Gauthier, an International Human Rights Lawyer. See invitation

GLENDON E-MAGAZINE
April 4, 2014

EDITOR: Marie-Thérèse Chaput, Director, Office of Advancement, Alumni & External Relations
PRINCIPAL WRITER: Michel Héroux
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: Noël Chan, Delphine Honoré
CONTRIBUTORS: YFile, Bruce M. Hicks, l’Express, Ottawa Citizen
PRODUCTION: Noël Chan, Marie-Thérèse Chaput, Delphine Honoré, Johanna Parrales, Elif Yildirim
PHOTOGRAPHY: BDS Studios Inc., Teshini Harrison
TRANSLATION: Marie-Noëlle Écobichon Translations, Wyley Powell
REVISION: Noël Chan, Delphine Honoré, Marie-Noëlle Écobichon Translations

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Glendon Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 1