On April 30, 2010, the Board of Directors, staff, partners and friends as well as alumni from the Sauvé Scholars Program gathered at the Jeanne Sauvé House for a reception in honour of the 2009-2010 Sauvé Scholars. As Executive Director Désirée McG...
By Lilit Simonyan and Rouzbeh Mircharkhchian (Sauvé Scholars 2010-11) We were honoured to be two Sauvé Scholars invited to participate in the Governor General’s Women’s Conference “Together for Women’s Security” hosted by Her Excel...
By Damilola Olawuyi (2010-2011 Sauvé Scholar) It was happy faces all through for the 14 Sauvé Scholars as we got the opportunity for a one on one handshake and a photo session with the 42nd President of the United States of America, William Jefferson Bi...
By Rouzbeh Mircharkhchian As part of my Sauvé Scholars Program Individual Project, I decided to contact “White Ribbon Campaign”, a Canadian based international effort of men to stop violence against women. I met some active members of this large cam...
By Lilit Simonyan (2010-11 Sauvé Scholar) This November, screenwriter Len Blum was the guest of the Sauvé Scholars. The engaging conversation with the famous screenwriter and film producer was a journey throughout his life, revealing interesting details...
By Arcie Mallari, Sauvé Scholar 2010-2011 On November 17, 2010, as part of the partnership between the Sauvé Scholars Program and Kahnawake Survival School (KSS), nine Sauvé Scholars participated in the KSS Substance Abuse and Restorative Justice Week...
When Sauvé Scholars Went Back to School… Someone once said that the purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows; to allow us to better understand the world around us. I began to understand how this is so on our trip to St. Johnsbury Academy in...
By Arcie Mallari (Sauvé Scholar 2010-11) On March 20, 2011, the Sauvé Scholars welcomed a Chief Tahanakarine (also known as Mr. Curtis Nelson) in the Sauvé Mansion for a conversation over tea. His name means “dragging the horns across the lands.” A...
On 21 March 2011, the Sauvé Scholars Foundation hosted Growing Global Medic: Lessons for Young Leaders, a talk by Rahul Singh, Founder and Executive Director of the David McAntony Gibson Foundation/ Global Medic. Rahul Singh discussed the Global Medic ...
On Tuesday 29 March 2011, as part of its the Jeanne Sauvé Speaker Series, the Sauvé Scholars Foundation hosted ‘Why We Don’t Need Creativity’, a talk by Sauvé Visiting Fellow Imre Szeman. Why We Don’t Need Creativity We’...
By Adam Daifallah (2004-05 Sauvé Scholar) The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney, Canada’s 18th Prime Minister (1984-1993), spoke at Jeanne Sauvé House on September 21, 2011 to a room of current and former Sauvé scholars, McGill students and invited friends of ...
By Paul Omonge (Sauvé Scholar 2011-12 ) On Friday October 7th, 2011 the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation planted a tree in honour of the late Professor Wangari Maathai, who died on September 25th at the Nairobi hospital. This event coincided with other numerous ...
