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Former Kennedy School of Government professor and human rights expert, Michael G. Ignatieff, lost his bid for the leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party in a surprise upset on Saturday. Stéphane Dion, a former professor at the University of Montreal, took the party leadership with 54.7 percent of the delegates’ votes, effectively ending Ignatieff’s chances of becoming prime minister if the Liberal Party takes back Parliament in the next election. Ignatieff—a prominent public intellectual who earned a PhD in history from Harvard in 1976—left...
...political party, and one that's been in power more than a string of Conservative rivals, but the Liberal Party of Canada is looking for some new direction. Desperate to bounce back from an embarrassing election defeat in January, party members will choose a new leader this weekend in Montreal, and not since Pierre Trudeau's climb to the helm of the party nearly 40 years ago have Liberals witnessed the kind of suspense and drama unfolding at their national leadership convention...
...voting was set to begin, though, there were signs that the Liberals couldn't escape their past. Outside the convention center young New Democrats were handing out their own version of a Montreal guide to prominent tourist sites in the historic city. The NDP "Map to the Scars" showed key locations - offices, advertising firms, even a restaurant where money was allegedly handed over to party bosses in paper bags - at the center of the scandal that forced the Liberals from office. It was a reminder that it may take more than one leadership convention for the party to shed entirely...
...directly denying them. "From my unenlightened position, this case is far from a slam dunk," he told CBC Newsworld. "I don't see anything that pins him to our door." Mamedov noted that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had recently rounded up 70 alleged Mafia kingpins and underlings in Montreal and speculated that Hampel might be a mobster. "We're not in the cold-war mode any longer, so I don't see any secrets that would be so important as to send some kind of illegal agent to Montreal," he said...
...alleged activities. "We're a country of immigrants," Granatstein told TIME. "We have just about every single ethnic group here and a lot of these people are interested in the home country, and they are fertile ground for spying, for money-raising, for arms-buying." Granatstein also noted that Montreal is the center of the Canadian aerospace industry and has sophisticated information technology firms as well as a significant share of the country's pharmaceutical research and development sector, reportedly a favored target of Russian industrial espionage globally. There's also Canada's close proximity...