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The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation would like to share this excellent article from 2022 Scholars, Alexandre Petitclerc and David Eliot, titled “The Noxious Datafication of the Housing Market”, published on Tech Policy Press. In their article, they explore how datafication has transformed the housing market in Canada and the United States into a noxious market, a concept introduced by philosopher Debra Satz to describe markets that are morally concerning or harmful.

2019 Fellow Cynthia Milton has co-published an article in the International Journal of Transitional Justice entitled Archives, Museums and Sacred Storage: Dealing with the Afterlife of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Focusing on the more than 1,200 objects that Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) collected during its hearings, the article shows that the post-TRC life of the objects opens up new museological spaces and practices through the ways the objects are curated (or not) for remembering and learning about residential schools according to Indigenous protocols and ways of thinking and feeling.
Dr. Cynthia Milton’s interdisciplinary research projects study inclusive modes of truth-telling, truth commissions and cultural interventions in the construction of historical narratives following state violence. In her academic networking, she is concerned with the science-society disconnect in our dramatically changing world and the need for the humanities and social sciences in the diffusion of knowledge.

2018 Scholar Phoebe Stephens has co-authored a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance entitled Financialising Nature. The chapter focuses on the growing importance of financial markets, motives, actors, and institutions in the world economy–often referred to as “financialisation”– which has significant implications for the environment and sustainability.
Phoebe Stephens is a PhD candidate in social and ecological sustainability at the University of Waterloo. With the support of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Phoebe investigates sustainable food systems in Canada, with a specific focus on their growth through innovative financing mechanisms. Her Master’s thesis explored how the financialization of agriculture encourages land grabs.

2016 Scholar Christopher Campbell-Duruflé has written a publication titled: Enhancing Climate Adaptation through the Paris Agreement Market Approaches: Opportunities for COP 25 and Beyond. The article analyses the draft modalities for the two market approaches to implementing the Paris Agreement.
Christopher Campbell-Duruflé is a researcher and an attorney specialised in international environmental and human rights law. He will be attending the next round of UN climate negotiations this December taking place in Chile.

2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar Patricia Bérubé has written an article in The Conversation focusing on the way artists and art museums are starting to make art more accessible by using multisensory mediation tools.
“When museums and art institutions work to make artefacts and artworks accessible to broader audiences, they can help raise awareness and encourage respectful social interactions.”
The full article is available here.
Patricia Bérubé is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University. Her research interests revolve around issues of accessibility and renewal of the museum discourse for audiences living with vision disabilities.

2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar Linda Mussell co-authored an article in _The Conversation _focusing on remorse and the performance of emotion in cases involving dangerous offenders.

"The key message is that courts and the legal system, along with the helpful hand of the media, imagine some folks as worthier of condemnation simply because of how they interpret the defendant's ability to emote (or fail to emote) feelings."

Linda Mussell is a doctoral candidate in political studies at Queen's University who is passionate about prison justice and decolonizing research. Her work is focused on breaking cycles of intergenerational incarceration in countries grappling with colonial legacies, specifically Canada, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar Linda Mussell published an article in The Conversation focusing on the ethical implications of Kingston’s prison tourism industry.
We need to bring more healing, memory and awareness to tourism development in Kingston — healing for those who were harmed by prisons, memory in order to accurately commemorate the institution and awareness about how some of those painful legacies continue in prisons today.
The full article is available here.
Linda Mussell is a doctoral candidate in political studies at Queen's University who is passionate about prison justice and decolonizing research. Her work is focused on breaking cycles of intergenerational incarceration in countries grappling with colonial legacies, specifically Canada, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Our 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar Abigail Curlew published an article in The Conversation looking at the rising tide of violence against transgender people.
Abigail speaks about her personal experience with hostility and fear and raises concerns about the ways in which violence is reported.
We need to have a collective conversation about the consequences of the widespread oppression and persecution many of us face when general anti-trans hostility is allowed to fester unacknowledged.
The full article is available here.
Abigail Curlew is a journalist, doctoral researcher, and trans feminist who specializes in advocacy around LGBTQ+ human rights, surveillance studies, and research around social media, doxxing, and trolls.

Our 2017 Fellow Bernard Duhaime has published an article in the Quebec Journal of International Law. The article gives ten reasons why Canada should adhere to the American convention for human rights.
Bernard Duhaime is a professor of international law at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and a specialist in the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights.
In addition, the recently released book Doctrine, Practice, and Advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights System, co-authored by Professor Duhaime, is the first casebook to focus on the Inter-American human rights system, the primary system for advancing and protecting rights in the Western hemisphere.