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Danielle Peers: Inclinations
The film opens on an empty, institutional-feeling building. It could be almost any institutional building in these pandemic times. These, however, are the pre-COVID hallways and 100-foot ramp of the University of Alberta in summer, and the set for Inclinations, the film that Alice Sheppard and I are touring on the (now digital) film festival circuit. Choreographed, directed, and shot from disability perspectives, this 6-minute dance-on-film delves into the playful connections enabled where disability, community and ramp meet. It also delves into the discordant eugenic and racist inclinations that lurk just below the surface.
Lisa Szabo-Jones: A Gaze I Return
The cited excerpts come from an untitled poem in Alberto Caeiro’s uncollected poems 1914-1922. The image is from my ongoing urban wilds series, which ranges across Canadian, European, and American cities. The image merges digital and 19th century photographic processes, and watercolour pigments.
Margarida Garcia: The Carnation Revolution and COVID-19
I am writing this brief report from Portugal, on the 25th of April 2020, the day on which we celebrated the 46th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. The thoughts I want to share with the Trudeau Foundation community, and with the wider community, intertwine two "revolutionary" moments in my life.
Marie-France Fortin: A time to say Thank You
I am delighted to be able to contribute to this first edition of the Foundation’s alumni newsletter. In a time when we are all in solidarity, even while each in our own homes, in the fight against an invisible enemy that is nonetheless inflicting real damage, I feel this is the right moment to say "thank you". In the midst of the pandemic, I recently successfully defended my PhD thesis at Cambridge University, via videoconference. The completion of my PhD project, which was born as I was preparing my application for a Foundation Scholarship, prompted me to go back in time and have a thought for those who support the university community.
Robert Leckey: Postcard from the Dean’s Office at the McGill Faculty of Law
Professionally, I have spent the past weeks working with colleagues of McGill’s central administration and of my faculty to adjust to the end of in-classroom teaching and get us through the winter 2020 term. I’ve been heartened by the spirit of collaboration shown by professors, administrative staff, and students. The students quickly mobilized, using technology to collect data for us about which courses would be most affected by the two-week shutdown.
Alumni Newsletter: Reflections from the Editors
Separated by an ocean but linked by technology, we are truly honoured to inaugurate the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Alumni Newsletter. It was with great excitement that we accepted this responsibility when the Foundation’s President Pascale Fournier presented us with this wonderful initiative.
Emergence Webinar: Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an inflection point in thinking about environmental issues. Has our relationship with the environment changed during the pandemic and, if so, how will that influence our collective values? As many people return to the land in notable ways during this period of confinement, what lessons might Indigenous knowledge offer? What has the COVID-19 pandemic taught us about food security and sustainability? What lessons does the pandemic have for those on the front line of the fight against climate change?
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Special Statement from Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation President & CEO
The death of George Floyd, and the video conveying the final eight minutes and forty six seconds of his life that went viral, is serving as a painful and poignant reminder that “racism is not getting worse; it’s getting filmed” – an observation shared by American actor Will Smith years ago which rings true in the context of these events. The images of George Floyd came on the heels of a video that captured Ahmaud Arbery being killed while jogging in his neighbourhood earlier this year.
Spaces of Engaged Leadership: Environment
For many Indigenous societies, the expectation for traditional leaders has often been to uphold collective safety and well-being of the entire community. In times of shortage, when one individual or one family suffers, the whole community would choose to make sacrifices for the collective interest. While COVID-19 has exposed many of our society’s deepest vulnerabilities, it has also strengthened our ability to coordinate an historic collective response. A response that re-centres the care and well-being of others over that of individual gains.
What are the stories that will allow us to move forward together and create a world that values the care and well-being of others? What choices are we willing to make? Do we simply resume an unsustainable path that endangers the health and well-being not only of our most vulnerable populations but of the very systems that sustain us? Or can we transform our relationships to ourselves, each other and our planet?
What are the stories that will allow us to move forward together and create a world that values the care and well-being of others? What choices are we willing to make? Do we simply resume an unsustainable path that endangers the health and well-being not only of our most vulnerable populations but of the very systems that sustain us? Or can we transform our relationships to ourselves, each other and our planet?