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RIGHT HONOURABLE BRIAN MULRONEY ’59 RECEIVES NOTABLE HONOURS
EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: DR. KAILIN WRIGHT WINS AAU DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD
The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney ‘59 (right), former Prime Minister of Canada, is pictured in this file photo with former U.S. President, the late Ronald Reagan. Congratulations to the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney ’59, 18th Prime Minister of Canada, who is the recipient of two recent notable honours. Mr. Mulroney is the 2021 recipient of the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy’s Award for Excellence in the Cause of Parliamentary Democracy. “This award recognizes special Canadians, exemplified by Mr. Mulroney, who have dedicated their lives to proving that you can be engaged in partisan politics while also earning the respect of colleagues and the admiration of adversaries,” said Cameron MacKay, Chair of the Churchill Society, a non-partisan, charitable organization that honours the life of Sir Winston Churchill by facilitating education, discussion and debate about Canada’s parliamentary democracy. Mr. Mulroney will be the 38th recipient of the Award of Excellence and the fifth Canadian Prime Minister to receive the award. THE BEST PRIME MINISTERS AND PRESIDENTS ON CANADA-U.S. RELATIONS Additionally, in a special issue of Policy magazine, Mr. Mulroney, along with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, are the top ranking prime ministers and presidents of the last 100 years on Canada-U.S. relations. The winners of the Policy bilateral PMPresident Rankings were selected by a jury of 50 prominent Canadians and Americans who were asked to rank their Top Five tandems of the last century.
Dr. Kailin Wright Dr. Kailin Wright, a StFX English professor and Jules Léger Research Scholar, has been honoured for teaching excellence, receiving the Association of Atlantic Universities (AAU) Award for Distinguished Teaching. “I want to say how honoured and humbled I am to be receiving the AAU Distinguished Teaching Award. I am sincerely grateful to the AAU Committee for their hard work and to the StFX community for their support. I am also delighted to share this award with such dedicated teachers as Dr. Kate Krug and Dr. Magdalen Normandeau. At my home institution, I have been inspired by the dynamic teachers around me and in my department. Professor Angie Kolen went above and beyond in guiding me through the application; she is a real leader of teaching at StFX,” says Dr. Wright, also a recipient of StFX’s Outstanding Teaching Award. Since joining the StFX faculty in 2012, Dr. Wright, a specialist in Canadian literature and drama, has made a strong and positive impression with students, and has been a tremendous voice for Canadian, feminist, and Indigenous literature on campus.
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