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Sylvia D. Hamilton: Poetry in Times Like These
Sylvia Hamilton As the pandemic settled in a couple of months ago, so did I. Books I’d forgotten I owned, re-appeared. My vinyl LP’s beckoned. There’s time to sort, look through, play. Savour old favourites: Milt Jackson’s Sunflower, purchased in the ‘70’s, the track “People Make the World Go Round”, on repeat; Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s
New World Symphony, picked up at a second hand record store in the late 90’s when researching African American composer-arranger Harry T. Burleigh; Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, that a friend borrowed and after many years, returned.
History tell us humans are adaptable, quick learners, – about the latter, I’m not completely convinced. Eventually, though, we’ll accept, embrace and move along with the change. We can do no less. We have to do no less to survive. And we will always have music and poetry, they endure.
New World Symphony, picked up at a second hand record store in the late 90’s when researching African American composer-arranger Harry T. Burleigh; Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, that a friend borrowed and after many years, returned.
History tell us humans are adaptable, quick learners, – about the latter, I’m not completely convinced. Eventually, though, we’ll accept, embrace and move along with the change. We can do no less. We have to do no less to survive. And we will always have music and poetry, they endure.
The Honorable Louis LeBel: The Pandemic, Equality and Social Triage
The Pandemic, Equality and Social Triage
by the Honorable Louis LeBel
The pandemic triggered by COVID-19 has posed uniquely fundamental questions about the nature of equality among members of our society and their right to equal treatment. Beyond the legal rhetoric and refinement of our methods of interpretation, the pandemic has confronted us with the phenomenon of social triage.
by the Honorable Louis LeBel
The pandemic triggered by COVID-19 has posed uniquely fundamental questions about the nature of equality among members of our society and their right to equal treatment. Beyond the legal rhetoric and refinement of our methods of interpretation, the pandemic has confronted us with the phenomenon of social triage.
Magaly Brodeur: The Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Need for Interdisciplinary Dialogue
The Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Need for Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Magaly Brodeur
While we are now locked in a race against time to find a vaccine that can neutralise the SARS-CoV2 Coronavirus, the collateral effects of the pandemic are increasingly being felt across our communities.
Magaly Brodeur
While we are now locked in a race against time to find a vaccine that can neutralise the SARS-CoV2 Coronavirus, the collateral effects of the pandemic are increasingly being felt across our communities.
Our Hearts as a Map for Change
Rajdeep S. Gill and Fabiola Nabil Naguib
Our Hearts as a Map for Change: Notes on Heart Cognition as a Radically Divergent Way of Knowing & Being
By Rajdeep S. Gill and Fabiola Nabil Naguib
Many people across diverse fields of research, policy, activism and art are increasingly thinking, writing and creating with regards to the unjust state of the world, the dynamics that sustain it, and ways of transforming our imaginations, ethics, and actions. It is heartening that more of us are awakening to the reality that we are all in this plethoric mess together, and wanting to be a part of local and global changes needed in all aspects of society and our ways of being a part of the biosphere.
Our Hearts as a Map for Change: Notes on Heart Cognition as a Radically Divergent Way of Knowing & Being
By Rajdeep S. Gill and Fabiola Nabil Naguib
Many people across diverse fields of research, policy, activism and art are increasingly thinking, writing and creating with regards to the unjust state of the world, the dynamics that sustain it, and ways of transforming our imaginations, ethics, and actions. It is heartening that more of us are awakening to the reality that we are all in this plethoric mess together, and wanting to be a part of local and global changes needed in all aspects of society and our ways of being a part of the biosphere.
Alumni Newsletter: Reflections from the Editors
“Each day I walk the path to the pond/ it should be different, it’s not. Everything/ has changed, nothing has changed.” These words from Sylvia D. Hamilton’s poem The Pond resound deeply as the strangeness brought by the COVID-19 pandemic has slowly settled into our everyday lives and relationships.
Women’s History Month: October 2020
October is Women’s History Month in Canada, a time to celebrate the inspiring and courageous women and girls of the past and of today who are helping to shape a more inclusive and equitable Canada.
World Mental Health Day - 2020
World Mental Health Day (October 10, 2020)
As many parts of the world now face a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and disruptions to day-to-day life continue, this year’s World Mental Health Day could not be more significant. Experts suggest that the need for mental health and psychological support will substantially increase in the coming months and years as a result of the pandemic and raising awareness for mental health issues is now more important than ever.
As many parts of the world now face a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and disruptions to day-to-day life continue, this year’s World Mental Health Day could not be more significant. Experts suggest that the need for mental health and psychological support will substantially increase in the coming months and years as a result of the pandemic and raising awareness for mental health issues is now more important than ever.
Become a Scholar
The Foundation is committed to selecting a diverse group of Scholars, including diversity in terms of gender, perspectives, language, race/ethnicity, Canadian region of study and disabilities. We also welcome First Nations, Inuit, and Métis candidates.
An Invitation to Brave Spaces
We live in tumultuous times. With the countless challenges of this past year, we still celebrate moments of levity, of togetherness, and of shared success. Today is one of excitement for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, as we officially launch our Scholarship, Fellowship and Mentorship competitions and embark on our path to discover which Scholars, Fellows, and Mentors will join our wonderful community in the coming year.
While the pandemic will require that the process be much more virtual, the Foundation will seek the brightest emerging Scholars from Canada and abroad to receive this remarkable Scholarship, as has always been the case. Through the Foundation’s leadership development program, these Scholars will learn from a new cohort of Fellows and Mentors, leading lights in their institutions and communities, under the scientific theme beginning in 2021, Language, Culture & Identity.
In preparation for the upcoming launch, we have considered the lessons of these last few months. We have learned about isolation, about injustice, about loss. The cracks in the foundation of our society are exposed now more than ever before. We have learned that the challenges before us are increasingly complex and multilayered. As we look to rebuild, it is those who look to build bridges and build trust who will find the nuanced and interdisciplinary solutions to these challenges.
While the pandemic will require that the process be much more virtual, the Foundation will seek the brightest emerging Scholars from Canada and abroad to receive this remarkable Scholarship, as has always been the case. Through the Foundation’s leadership development program, these Scholars will learn from a new cohort of Fellows and Mentors, leading lights in their institutions and communities, under the scientific theme beginning in 2021, Language, Culture & Identity.
In preparation for the upcoming launch, we have considered the lessons of these last few months. We have learned about isolation, about injustice, about loss. The cracks in the foundation of our society are exposed now more than ever before. We have learned that the challenges before us are increasingly complex and multilayered. As we look to rebuild, it is those who look to build bridges and build trust who will find the nuanced and interdisciplinary solutions to these challenges.