Winter 2010

2010-03-10
The SSHRC is in the process of renewing its program architecture to create a simpler, more flexible and effective system of application and assessment.  Draft program literature (Calls for Proposals and Funding Opportunities) is now posted on SSHRC's website. You are invited to provide feedback by March 31, 2010. Your feedback will be considered in the further development of the renewed program architecture.

2009 Scholar Tamil Kendall is organizing a panel discussion with three other Trudeau Scholars (Lindsey Richardson, May Chazan, and Sherri Brown) at the annual conference of the Canadian Association for HIV Research, which will take place in Saskatoon just prior to the Trudeau Summer Institute. Anne McLellan, 2009 Trudeau Mentor, will chair the panel.

2010-02-24
Jason Luckerhoff, 2006 Trudeau Scholar, co-authored an article entitled 'Written Signage and Reading Practices of the Public in a Major Fine Arts Museum' in the journal Museum Management and Curatorship (Publishers: Routledge).

2010-02-23
David R. Boyd, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, published a book entitled 'Dodging the Toxic Bullet: How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Health Hazards' (Publishers: Greystone/DSF).

2010-02-12
Lindsey Richardson, 2009 Trudeau Scholar, co-authored an article entitled 'Employment among Users of a Medically Supervised Safer Injection Facility' in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuses.

2010-02-09
Renée Dupuis, 2009 Trudeau Mentor, has presented, in her role as Chief Commissioner, the final report of the Indian Specific Claims Commissions. You may download the document "A Unique Contribution to the Resolution of First Nations' Specific Claims in Canada, Final Report 1991-2000" here [PDF].

2010-02-03
Jeremy Schmidt, 2009 Trudeau Scholar, has co-edited a book entitled Water ethics: foundational readings for students and professionals with Island Press. Click here for more information.

Geneviève Pagé, 2007 Trudeau Scholar, has presented her report on new social and family situations in which adoption takes place at the Quebec's National Assembly on January 20, 2010. Geneviève's presentation may be viewed online by clicking here [in French].

2010-01-06
A recent article in Le Devoir talked about a conference entitled "Cities as design laboratories", held in Saint-Etienne (France) on November 30 and December 1st, 2009.  The scientific committee of the symposium included Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec, holder of the UNESCO Chair in landscape and environment at the University of Montreal and former Trudeau Fellow (2005).

Chris Tenove, 2008 Trudeau Scholar, authored an article entitled 'Seeking a Nation's Forgiveness' for the Maclean's magazine.  This article is based on his doctoral research at the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia

Fall 2009

2009-12-23
Thanks to a Fulbright fellowship and a fellowship from the University of California at Berkeley (John A. Sproul Research Fellowship in Canadian Studies), former Trudeau Fellow Jocelyn Létourneau (2006), will spend five months, from January to May 2010, at Stanford University and at UC Berkeley.  At Stanford, he will be involved with Stanford History Education Group, headed by Sam Wineburg.  At UC Berkeley, he will collaborate with the Canadian Studies Program.  In both places, it will continue his work on the historical consciousness of young Quebecers.

From last November 8th to 21st the City of Kobe (Japan) hosted the 6th International annual Workshop_atelier/terrain (WAT) of the UNESCO Chair in Landscape and Environmental design of the University of Montreal (CUPEUM), headed by Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec, a former Trudeau Fellow (2005).  47 students and 12 teachers have participated in this meeting which brought together 13 institutions of the CUPEUM's scientific cooperation network out of the 5 regions of the world (Asia, Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and North America).  Click here to learn more about the CUPEUM.

2009-12-18
Geneviève Pagé, 2007 Trudeau Scholar, has submitted a consultation report on the Draft Bill for the Act to amend the Civil Code and other legislative provisions as regards adoption and parental authority and will present her report at the National Assembly on January 20, 2010. The government's aim is to adapt the law to match the new social and family situations in which adoption takes place, in order to provide a better response to the current needs of children in Québec. Click here to read Geneviève's consultation report [in French] and click here to read the Draft Bill.

Chris Tenove, 2008 Trudeau Scholar, authored an article entitled 'Seeking a Nation's Forgiveness' in the latest edition of the Maclean's magazine. This article is based on his doctoral research at the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia. Click here to read the article.

2009-11-08
Pascale Fournier has won the 2009 Quebec Bar Legal Contest in the category "legal essay manuscript" for her article "Flirting with God in Western Secular Courts".  The paper, which was read at the opening of the Foundation's 2009 Summer Institute addresses the politics of recognition of Mahr, a specific legal institution invoked by Muslim groups in Canada, the United States, France and Germany. The paper will be published next year in The International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family of the University of Oxford.

Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, Acting President of the Alumni Association and Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has published a book entitled The Negotiable Constitution (Publishers: Cambridge University Press). Click here for more information.

Following the Trudeau Foundation's annual conference on public policy, the journalist and invited panelist Isabelle Porter appeared on Radio-Canada to talk about the future of canadian cities.  Click here to hear her comments [in French only].

2009-11-18
Monique Bégin, 2007 Trudeau Mentor, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Montreal for her groundbreaking work in raising the awareness of society with regard to inequalities in public health and for her role in the development of her sector as a legitimate area of expertise.

2009-10-28
David R. Boyd, Alumnus Scholar, co-chaired the final report of Vancouver's Greenest City Action Team entitled Vancouver 2020: A Bright Green Future. Click here to read the report. [PDF]

2009-10-09
Co-authored by 2005 Trudeau Fellow Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec, the Québec Landscape Management Guide: Reading, Understanding, and Enhancing the Landscape is now available in English. Click on the following links to download the original French version or the English version, both in PDF.

2009-10-08
Shana Poplack, 2007 Trudeau Fellow, Distinguished Professor at the University of Ottawa and Canada Research Chair in Linguistics, has been inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.

2009-10-07
Four Alumni Scholars have recently obtained Faculty positions in Canadian and Foreign universities: Margarida Garcia (2004), Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; Robert Huish (2004), Assistant Professor, International Development Studies, Dalhousie University; Pierre-Hugues Verdier (2006), Associate Professor, Law, University of Virginia; Grégoire Webber (2004), Lecturer, Law, London School of Economics and Political Science (following a Senior Policy Advisor position at the Privy Council Office in Ottawa).

2009-10-06
William Coleman, 2007 Trudeau Fellow, has been appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The official induction will take place end November in Ottawa. Professor Coleman is the CIGI Chair in Globalization and Public Policy, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo.

2009-10-01
Magaly Brodeur, 2009 Trudeau Scholar, has received the Thought Leadership Award in Public Administration, a joint initiative of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada and the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration, aims to recognize talent in Canadian schools at the regional and national level. The award was given at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Public Administration in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

2009-09-25
Christine Brabant, 2006 Trudeau Scholar, has written a chapter on Homeschooling in The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion, University of Chicago Press. Furthermore, she gave the closing lecture at the REGARD conferences on governance, analysis, thoughtfulness and debate in Namur, Belgium.

Summer 2009

2009-09-18
Professor Simon Harel, 2009 Trudeau Fellow and professor at UQAM's Literary Studies Department, received the prestigious title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Arts, Humanities and Sciences. This distinction was given to him in recognition of his contribution to the world of social and scientific research, both nationally and internationally. The official induction ceremony will take place next November 28th at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau.

2009-09-14
Dr. Clare Bradford has been awarded the first $225,000 Trudeau Visiting Fellowship Prize from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. A professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Bradford will be a Visiting Professor of literary studies at The University of Winnipeg in the 2009-2010 academic year. Her innovative research examines the interplay between children's literature and social practices, and particularly representations of Indigenous peoples and cultures in children's books.

2009-08-04
William Coleman, 2007 Trudeau Fellow, is the new Center for International Governance Chair in Globalization and Public Policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Prior to this nomination, he was the Founding Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Spring 2009

2009-06-19
Jason Luckerhoff, 2006 Trudeau Scholar, co-authored an article on the methodology he uses in his thesis with his thesis advisor. It is entitled « L'induction en méthodologie de la théorisation enracinée (MTE) »  and is published in the journal Recherches qualitatives . Click here to read the article [PDF in French].

2009-06-17
Vincent Pouliot, Alumnus Scholar, has received the Vincent Lemieux Prize from the Canadian Political Science Association for the best PhD thesis in political science submitted at a Canadian university in 2007 and 2008. Vincent's dissertation, which he completed at the University of Toronto, is entitled Security Community In and Through Practice:The Power Politics of Russia-NATO Diplomacy. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of McGill University since August 2008.

2009-06-01
Trudeau Fellow William Coleman (2007) was honoured by the Six Nations for his 18 years of work with them He received a "Condolence Cane," a pictographic record of the fifty hereditary chief titles which were given at the time of the forming of the League of Five nations.

2009-05-29
Trudeau Fellow Jocelyn Létourneau (2006) received a Fulbright Scholarship and will continue his research work at Stanford University and the University of Califormia, Berkeley, in 2009-2010.

2009-05-29
Jason Luckerhoff, 2006 Trudeau Scholar, has coauthored two chapters in a book called Participation et responsabilités sociales. Un nouveau paradigme pour l'inclusion des personnes avec une déficience intellectuelle, published by Viviane Guerdan, Geneviève Petitpierre, Jean-Paul Moulin & Marie-Claire Haelewyck. His chapters are entitled, 'Autonomie ou hétéronomie pour les personnes présentant une déficience intellectuelle ?' and 'Faciliter la communication avec des personnes présentant une déficience intellectuelle.'

2009-05-27
Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, co-authored a book entitled The Limitation of Charter Rights: Critical Essays on R. v. Oakes (Publishers: Thémis). Click here to read the introduction [in French, PDF].

2009-05-13
Former Trudeau Fellow Will Kymlicka (2005) was awarded the Premier's Discovery Award 2009 (Social Sciences). The Premier's Discovery Award celebrates Ontario's most accomplished researchers, highlighting their individual achievements and showcasing Ontario's attractiveness as a global research centre.

2009-05-12
The Canadian Association of Law Teachers awarded its annual scholarly paper award to Former Trudeau Scholar Robert Leckey (2003), a professor at McGill University since 2006. Professor Leckey also won the John W. Durnford Award for Teaching Excellence, which will be presented to him by the McGill La Students Association at the 2009 convocation ceremony.

2009-04-29

 

2009-04-23
The Foundation is profoundly pleased to hear that Canadian diplomat and Trudeau Mentor Robert Fowler, kidnapped in Africa, was freed yesterday, with colleague Louis Guay, after four months in captivity. We extend to Mr. Fowler and his family our heartfelt wishes for a prompt recovery.

Winter 2009

2009-04-21
Emoke Szathmáry, biological anthropologist and former President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manitoba, is now a Director of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. Her nomination was unanimously approved today at a special meeting of the regular members of the Foundation. Her background and qualifications will make her a strong asset for our board.

2009-04-21
Lawyer and Trudeau Mentor Renée Dupuis, and Trudeau Scholar Geneviève Pagé, who is pursuing a Ph.D. (social work) at the Université de Montréal, highlighted the multiple benefits of their mentoring relationship yesterday, in an interview at the French network of CBC-radio. Hear their discussion on the Vous êtes ici show.

2009-04-16
Mark Mattner, 2008 Trudeau Scholar, has authored a chapter in a book called Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications, published by G. Loescher, J. Milner (Trudeau Alumnus Scholar), E. Newman, and G. Troeller (eds.). His chapter is entitled, "Development Actors and Protracted Refugee Situations: Progress, Challenges, Opportunities." For more information.

2009-04-01
Samuel Spiegel, 2006 Scholar, authored an article entitled "Resource policies and small-scale gold mining in Zimbabwe" in the journal Resources Policy (abstract), and coauthored another one entitled "China's Weapons Trade: From Ships to Shame to the Ethics of Global Resistance" in International Affairs (abstract).

2009-03-19
Pierre-Hugues Verdier, 2006 Scholar, authored an article entitled 'Transnational Regulatory Networks and Their Limits' in The Yale Journal of International Law. View the PDF version of the article.

2009-02-13
Jonathan Beauchamp, 2008 Scholar, received the Mind/Brain/ Behavior Interfaculty Initiative Award to pursue a research project at Princeton University. This award is given to graduate students studying at Harvard University to promote interdisciplinary initiatives.

2009-02-09
2006 Trudeau Scholar Alexis Lapointe joined a roundtable on ethics of memory broadcasted on Radio-Canada on January 31. To hear his participation in the Je l'ai vu à la radio show, click here.  (In French, second hour of the show).

2009-02-06
Jason Luckerhoff, 2006 Trudeau Scholar, is issuing a call for papers for a bilingual and international issue of the Leisure and Society journal. The issue on "non-publics" is edited by Jason and Daniel Jacobi, Professor at the Université d'Avignon, France. Click here to see the call for papers.

Fall 2008

2008-12-15
The Foundation has learned that Mr. Robert Fowler, Trudeau Mentor, was reported missing when a vehicle carrying him and two colleagues - another Canadian diplomat and their driver - was found abandoned near Niamey, Niger's capital, on December 14. We wish to offer our heartfelt support to Mr. Fowler's family and friends in these difficult moments.

2008-12-03
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is currently conducting the first quinquennial evaluation of its activities and impacts. The Board of Directors has appointed an external and independent Distinguished Evaluation Panel to perform the evaluation.

Dr. William C. Leggett [PDF bio], Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Principal, Queen's University, and Board Chair of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, is chairing the panel. Ms. Elizabeth Dowdeswell [PDF bio], visiting professor in Genomics and Global Health at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Gilles G. Patry [PDF bio], former president and vice-chancellor of the University of Ottawa, are the other members of the panel that will submit a strategic evaluation report to the Minister of Industry by March 2009.

As part of the evaluation process, the panel will request from different stakeholders an assessment of the Foundation's work to date.

Kate Hennessy, 2006 Trudeau Scholar, received the Jean Rouch Award at the American Anthropological Association Conference for her co-curation/production of Dane Wajich- Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land. This Virtual Museum website features the Doig River First Nation in Northern British Columbia.

Alexis Lapointe, 2006 Trudeau Scholar, received the Paule Rolland-Thomas Prize from the Department of philosophy of the University of Montreal. This prize is given to the best doctoral student in thesis writing.

Taylor Owen, 2006 Trudeau Scholar, is the winner of The Literary Review of Canada's New Voices competition for an essay on the designated President of the United States Barack Obama and Canadian politics entitled 'Progressivism's End'.

Lisa Freeman, 2008 Trudeau Scholar, received the Griffith Taylor Scholarship from the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto for her academic merit.

Xavier Gravend-Tirole, 2008 Trudeau Scholar, received one of the merit scholarships from the University of Montreal for his excellent academic performance.

2008-11-27
Professor Roderick A. Macdonald, Trudeau Fellow 2004, has been elected the 111th President of the Royal Society of Canada.

Professor Rosemary Sullivan, Trudeau Fellow 2008, has received the Lorne Pierce Medal for 2008 of the Royal Society of Canada. The medal is awarded for an achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature.

Constance Backhouse, Trudeau Fellow 2006, has been invited by the Governor General of Canada, to be part of a state delegation for a two-week visit to Central Europe.

Dyane Adam, Trudeau Mentor 2008, has been nominated to the Quebec Conseil supérieur de l'éducation.

George Elliott Clarke has received the 2008 William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations. Established in 1989, the William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations is presented to a person or persons whose outstanding achievement and commitment has made a significant contribution toward a positive race relations climate in Toronto.

2008-11-20
Jason Luckerhoff, 2006 Trudeau Scholar, published an article entitled « Technology and Demographics: Are Cultural Habits Mutating? » in the journal Leisure. According to the authors of that article, surveys on cultural practices and habits (conducted every five years since 1979 by the Québec Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition Féminine [MCCCF]), government statistics on the production and dissemination of cultural products, and research in this field all foresee significant changes that may question the pertinence of government intervention in cultural affairs in Quebec. Click here to view the pdf version of the article [PDF].


2008-11-07
Xavier Gravend-Tirole, 2008 Trudeau Scholar, received a special prize from the Association canadienne des périodiques catholiques (ACPC) for his article entitled 'L'Inde et ses réincarnations', published in the November 2007 edition of Présence Magazine. The prize was awarded at the ACPC Conference on October 31st. Furthermore, Xavier collaborated on the book entitled Et Dieu dans tout ça!, published by the Fides Editions. The book launch will take place on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 5:00PM at the Paulines Bookstore, located on 2653 Masson Street in Montreal. A conversation with the author Louis Lesage and the collaborators will follow the book launch.

Rajdeep Singh Gill, Trudeau Scholar, gave a talk on "Muslim Contributions to Spaces of Human Dignity in North India and Beyond" at the Centre for Gender Relations and Women's Studies, University of British Columbia, on October 21, 2008. He also presented two papers in India and Bangladesh in January 2008. The first one entitled "Alternate Ontologies and Epistemologies of Archiving and the Politics of Self-Determination" was presented at the CHOTRO: Indigenous Peoples in the Post-Colonial World Conference, Language - Literature - Culture - History conference, organized by the Bhasha Research and Publications Centre in association with Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, National Manuscript Mission of India, European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, and Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, New Delhi, India. The second one entitled "Pedagogy, Creativity, and Social Justice" was presented at UBINIG: Policy Research for Development Alternatives, Dhaka, Bangladesh. On November 19, 2008, he will give a public lecture on "Transforming Curatorial Practice: Transdisciplinarity, Plural Worldviews, and the Creative Universe" at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax.

2008-10-03
Cassandra Porter, Research Assistant at the Foundation, was among the Concordia students honoured on October 1st at the Forces Avenir Awards gala in Montreal, which recognizes outstanding student projects and community work. Ms. Porter is involved in the Concordia Volunteer Abroad Program (CVAP), an initiative to send volunteer students in the war-torn region of Gulu, Uganda. For more information on the award ceremony, click here, and on CVAP, visit www.concordiavolunteers.org.

2008-09-23
Foundation President Pierre-Gerlier Forest has been elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Dr. Forest received his Fellowship at the Annual Induction Ceremony and Dinner of the Academy on September 23, 2008. Fellows of the Academy are elected on a basis of their demonstrated leadership, creativity, distinctive competencies and commitment to advance academic health sciences. It is one of the highest honours in the field.

Foundation Director Martha Piper was elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences that evening as well. It is noteworthy to mention that 2007 Trudeau Mentor Monique Bégin was the Guest of Honour at the Academy banquet in Toronto.

The Honourable Monique Bégin, former Health Canada Minister and mentor 2007, has been elected Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She receives the highest honour awarded by the Academy and is only the second Distinguished Fellows of the Academy founded in 2004. The honour is open to individuals who meet the usual criteria for Fellowship, but whose accomplishments are considered of such high distinction that only a select few are worthy of this designation.

2008-09-18
Jason Luckerhoff, 2006 Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "Les pratiques de lecture dans les musées" at the first Forum of Sociology within the International Sociological Association conference in Barcelona, Spain. The "Creative publics" session was held from September 5 to 8, 2008.

2008-09-11
Julia Christensen, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "Homeless in a homeland: understanding homelessness as housing (in)security in the Northwest Territories, Canada" at the International Congress of Arctic Social Scientists(ICASS) in Nuuk, Greenland on August 23, 2008.

2008-09-03
Trudeau Mentor Sylvia Hamilton presented her recent film The Little Black School House at the 2008 Summer Institute. It will be airing on Knowledge Network on September 8, 2008, at 8 p.m. and at midnight. For a clip: http://tvschedule.knowledgenetwork.ca

William D. Coleman, Trudeau Fellow, organized a second South-North Dialogue Meeting in August 2008, following a first dialogue held in September 2007. Among the objectives of this second meeting were: a) to create a community of scholars from Canada and the Global South who share an interest in globalization and its impacts on various of aspects of the human condition; b) to explore opportunities for new research partnerships between scholars and research centres in Canada and the Global South; c) to discuss strategies for engaging with a broader, global public on issues of globalization; and d) to explore what the notion of dialogue might mean in a research group composed of scholars from different cultural settings, distinct disciplines, and faced with continuing relationships of power and hierarchy between South and North. Click here to read the report.

2008-09-02
Jason Luckerhoff, Trudeau Scholar, recently presented three papers at the seventh conference "International Conference on Social Science Methodology" within the International Sociological Association conference held at Monte Sant'Angelo Campus in Naples (Italy) 1-5 september 2008: "The Conflicts Between Grounded Theory Requiremenst and Institutional Requiremenst for Scientific Research", "GTM in Canada and European Francophone Research" and "Grounded Theory Research on How Researchers Use Electronic Spaces for Synchronous Dialogue."

David R. Boyd, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, co-authored a book entitled David Suzuki's Green Guide. How to find fresher, tastier, healthier food, create an eco-friendly home, make sustainable transportation choices, reduce consumption, and be a green citizen (Publishers: Greystone).

Summer 2008

2008-08-21
Daina Mazutis, Trudeau Scholar 2008, recently presented a paper entitled 'Supererogation: Beyond positive deviance and CSR', at the annual Society for Business Ethics (SBE) Conference in Anaheim, California. In addition, she presented two papers - 'Positive Forms of Leadership (PFL): A qualitative exploration at the strategic leadership level' and 'What is corporate deviance? Exploring negative and positive firm behavior' at the annual Academy of Management (AOM) Conference also held in Anaheim. The latter paper was selected for the Best Paper Proceedings. In addition, at the invitation of the UN Global Compact Office, Daina served as a facilitator for the All Academy Professional Development Workshop (PDW) entitled "Implementing the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) - The Questions We Have Not Asked (Yet)". Both the SBE and AOM conferences were held in California between August 7-13, 2008.

2008-08-12
Christine Brabant, Trudeau Scholar, authored an article entitled 'Quelle régulation pour l'école à domicile?' in the journal Entrées libres, published by the French and German Catholic Teaching Community of Belgium [PDF; in French].

2008-07-23
Sylvia D. Hamilton, Trudeau Mentor 2008, has summarized her speech on her recent film "The Little Black Schoolhouse" presented at the Summer Institute. Click here to read her text; click here to read Kate Hennessy's summary of the session and discussion.

Jocelyn Létourneau, 2006 Trudeau Fellow, has published a shortened version of his Summer Institute position paper « History in a post-historical context" in Le Devoir newspaper (July 10, 2008). Click here to read the article (in French).

2008-07-07
Joseph Yvon Thériault, Trudeau Fellow 2007, was nominated for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Democracy at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His research will define the role of the political community in democracy, in a time of globalization.

2008-07-01
George Elliott Clarke, 2005 Trudeau Fellow has been named Officer of the Order of Canada for his contributions as a poet, professor and volunteer who has brought his original voice and his perspective on the Black experience to contemporary Canadian literature, and who has generously shared his time and talents with young and emerging writers.

2006 Trudeau Mentor The Honourable Donald J. Johnston, was received Officer of the Order of Canada for his contributions to public service in Canada, and as secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, where he introduced many important initiatives that continue to benefit the international community.

2006 Trudeau Fellow Constance Backhouse, has become a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions as an award-winning educator and author in the areas of history and the law, and as an activist for human rights.

Spring 2008

Julia Christensen, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled 'Homeless in a homeland: emerging themes from Inuvik fieldwork' at the annaul conference of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation and the National Rural Research Network.  The theme for this year's conference was "Boom Bust Economies: Impact on Rural and Remote Communities" and it was held in Inuvik, NT from June 18 to 21, 2008.

Jillian Boyd, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "Diversity and the Right to Equality: Navigating Difference" at the 8th International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Montréal, Quebec, June 17-20, 2008.

Kevin Chan, Trudeau Scholar, co-authored a book entitled Developing Residency Training in Global Health: A Guidebook (Publishers: Global Health Education Consortium). Click here to read the PDF.

The Supreme Court Advocacy Institute, brainchild of former Trudeau Scholar Grégoire Webber and Stockwoods LLP lawyer Owen Rees, prepares lawyers for their pleas before Canada's highest court.
[Globe and Mail]

Robert Huish, Trudeau Scholar, co-authored an article entitled 'Integrating Health and Human Security into Foreign Policy: Cuba's surprising Success' in the June edition of The International Journal of Cuban Studies. Click here to read the article.

Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, gave the convocation address at John Abbott College graduation ceremony on June 12, 2008. Click here to read his inspiring convocation address.

Emma Stewart, Trudeau Scholar, co-authored an article entitled 'The Sinking for the MS Explorer: Implications for Cruise Tourism in Arctic Canada' in the latest edition of the Artic. Click here to read the article.

Sonali Thakkar, Trudeau Scholar, published an article entitled 'Three for Thought: What you Need to Know about Xenophobia' in the Saturday, May 31, 2008 edition of The Globe and Mail.

Jason Luckerhoff, Trudeau Scholar, presented a co-authored paper (with Professor Yves Jeanneret, Professor Daniel Jacobi, Anneliese Depoux and Valérie Vitalbo from Université d'Avignon) entitled "Written signage devices and reading practices of the public in a major fine arts museum" at the Canadian Communication Association congress within the Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) annual meeting at the University of British Columbia from June 4th to 6th.

2005 Scholar Christian Girard received the 2008 Antoinette-Robidoux Prize in the Young Volunteer category. The prize is given by Centraide to reward excellency in the engagement of 12 to 30 year old volunteers. Mr Girard supports the Montreal metropolitan Scouts. For more information [Centraide; FR]

Chris Tenove, Trudeau Scholar, published an article entitled 'Extraordinary Chambers - Who will be convicted of the Khmer Rouge's war crimes? in the latest edition of The Walrus. Click here to read the article.

May Chazan, Trudeau Scholar, authored a chapter in a book called The Politics of AIDS: Globalization, the State and Civil Society, published by Maj-Lis Follér and Håkan Thörn (eds.). Her chapter title is "Surviving politics and the politics of surviving: Understanding community mobilizations around HIV/AIDS in South Africa".

Samuel Spiegel, Trudeau Scholar, published an article entitled 'Deforestation: call for justice, not militarization' in the international weekly journal of science Nature. The article can be found at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7193/#cr.

Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, co-published an article entitled 'Pour un vrai discours public' in the new French language magazine Génération d'idées. The article can be found at www.generationdidees.ca.

The Foundation's Board Chair, Mr. Roy L. Heenan, received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the McGill University on May 26, 2008. The university underlined that Mr. Heenan is among McGill's most distinguished alumni. As the long-serving chairman of Heenan Blaikie, he has been largely responsible for the premier position of this law firm within the Canadian legal community. An adjunct professor at McGill for more than 25 years, Heenan held the position of chair of the Faculty of Law's Advisory Board when a program of transsystemic legal education was adopted and during the construction of the Gelber Law Library. For more information: http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/news/item/?item_id=100220

Caroline Allard, Trudeau Scholar, is the winner of the 8th edition of the Grand Prix littéraire Archambaultfor her book Les Chroniques d'une mère indigne published by Septentrion. For more information.

Shana Poplack, Trudeau Fellow 2007, has received the Premier's Discovery Award for the Social Sciences and Humanities for 2008. Awarded by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, the award of $250,000 celebrates the research excellence of Ontario's most accomplished researchers.

Jason Luckerhoff, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "Le paradoxe du 'non-public' comme public cible" and a second entitled "La valorisation des produits culturels selon les écrivains et les artistes" at the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS), held in Québec from May 5-9, 2008.

Winter 2008

Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, published an essay entitled 'The Promise of Canada's Official Languages Declaration' in Official Languages of Canada: New Essays (Joseph Eliot Magnet, editor), published by LexisNexis Canada, and in Supreme Court Law Review, 39 (2d), pp. 131-170.

Amy Mundorff, Trudeau Scholar, has recently published two book chapters: 'Anthropologist-Directed Triage: Three Distinct Mass Fatality Events Involving Fragmentation of Human Remains', and 'Marrying anthropology and DNA: essential for solving complex commingling problems in cases of extreme fragmentation' in Recovery, analysis and identification of commingled human remains (Adams B, Byrd J, editors), published by Humana Press. For more information, click here.

Christine Brabant, Trudeau Scholar, authored a section on Homeschooling in the International Encyclopedia of Education published by Routledge. For more information, click here.

Christine Brabant, Trudeau Scholar, presented a co-authored paper (with Professor Marc Maesschalck, Université Catholique de Louvain) entitled 'Pour favoriser la participation des parents à la gouvernance de l'éducation : éléments théoriques et méthodologiques d'une recherche-formation' at the Association pour la Recherche Qualitative Annual Meeting held at the Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, on March 7-8, 2008.

Jennifer Welsh, Trudeau Fellow 2006, has been awarded a grant of £350,000 ($706,200) to establish a new Institute on the management and regulation of armed conflict. The Institute will be housed within the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. The research program of the Institute will be inter-disciplinary, combining international relations, international law, and philosophy. Its primary aim will be to examine the relevance and applicability of the Just War tradition to contemporary conflict.

Jason Luckerhoff, Trudeau Scholar, co-presented the paper "Textes et lectures dans les collections du musée du Louvre: Enquête qualitatative conduite auprès d'un échantillon aléatoire et raisonné de visiteurs du musée" at the Louvres Museum in Paris on April 2^nd, 2008.

Prateep Nayak, Trudeau Scholar, co-published an article entitled "Politics of Co-Optation: Community Forest Management Versus Joint Forest Management in Orissa, India" in Environmental Management. The abstract of the article can be found at http://www.springerlink.com/content/l251g4v026638645/.

Elaine Craig, Trudeau Scholar, authored an article entitled 'Family as Status in Doe v. Canada: Constituting Family under Section 15 of the Charter' in the National Journal of Constitutional Law. Click here to read the article [PDF]. Reprinted by permission of Thomson Carswell, a division of Thomson Canada Limited.

Fall 2007

Caroline Caron, Trudeau Scholar, authored an article entitled 'Humaniser le regard : du photojournalisme humanitaire à l'usage humanitaire de la photographie' in the journal COMMposite. Click here to read the article [in French, PDF].

Kate Hennessy, Trudeau Scholar, presented two papers at the American Anthropological Association held in Washington, D.C. from November 30 to December 1, 2007: 'New Media, New Relationships: Participatory Digital Ethnography in Northeastern British Columbia' and 'Intellectual Property Rights in the Age of Digital Reproduction'.

Robert Leckey, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, published a book entitled Contextual Subjects: Family, State, and Relational Theory, published by The University of Toronto Press. The book launch will take place on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 at 5:00PM at the Common Room, Chancellor Day Hall on 3644 Peel Street, Montreal. RSVP: awilson@utpress.utoronto.ca.

Jason Luckerhoff, Trudeau Scholar, co-authored an article entitled 'Constructivisme/positivisme : où en sommes-nous avec cette opposition ?' in the journal Recherches Qualitatives - Hors Série. Click here to read the article [in French, PDF].

Eric Helleiner, Trudeau Fellow, gave the Breakfast on the Hill (BOH) lecture on December 11. The BOH is a lecture series organized by the Canadian Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Held six times a year, it aims to demonstrate the importance of humanities and social science research in the development of public policy. The lectures bring together Parliamentarians, media and the public. Click here to read the PDF, and click here to learn more about BOH.

Christine Brabant, Trudeau Scholar, gave on September 20 a communication entitled: "For a Reflexive Governance of Education: the example of Home Education in Quebec," at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Ghent, Belgium. The paper is accessible by clicking here.

Robert Huish, Trudeau Scholar, co-published an article entitled 'Cuban Medical Internationalism and the Development of the Latin American School of Medicine' in the Latin American Perspectives. The abstract of the article can be found at http://lap.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/6/77.

Margaret Lock, Trudeau Fellow 2005, has been awarded the 2007 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Gold Medal for Achievement in Research. The Council's top award represents $100,000 in research funding and recognizes leadership, dedication, and originality of thought. Our warmest congratulations!

Alexis Lapointe, Trudeau Scholar, co-published a book with Christian Nadeau entitled La philosophie de l'histoire. Hommages offerts à Maurice Lagueux, published by the Presses de l'Université Laval, collection 'Zêtêsis'. The book launch will take place on Tuesday, October 30th at 6:00PM at the Port de Tête Bookstore on 262 Mount-Royal Avenue East, Montreal.

Kate Hennessy, Trudeau Scholar, has launched the virtual exhibit Dane Wajich Dane-zaa Stories & Songs: Dreamers and the Land on October 25th. The exhibit showcases Doig River First Nation oral traditions and teaches about Dane-zaa history and culture through an exciting mix of video and sound files, photographs, and text. The virtual exhibit can be found at http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Danewajich.

Constance Backhouse, Trudeau Fellow 2006, was elected "President Elect" of the American Society for Legal History. She is the first Canadian and the first non-US person to hold this prestigious position. The American Society for Legal History, founded in 1956, is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to fostering scholarship, teaching, and study concerning the law and institutions of all legal systems.

Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, joined the Intergovernmental Affairs Branch of the Privy Council Office as a legal and constitutional advisor, on September 24, 2007.

Ken Caine, Trudeau Scholar, presented a co-authored paper (with Trudeau Scholars Colleen Davison and Emma Stewart) entitled "Preliminary field research in Canada's North: Methodological observations, alchemy and anxieties in social scientific research" at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting held in Santa Clara, California from August 2-5, 2007.

Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "The Constitution as Activity" at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria on September 12, 2007. He also presented a paper of the same title at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario on September 19, 2007.

Jessica Dempsey, Trudeau Scholar, participated in two meetings related to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Paris, France from July 2-13, 2007. She also co-organized a strategy session on the Convention on Biological Diversity attended by over 70 non-governmental, indigenous, community, social movement representatives, and activists. Click here for more information.

Ken Caine, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "Community-based natural resource management as bricolage: Practice and strategy in the development of new resource management institutions in the Canadian North" at the International Symposium on Society and Natural Resources held in Park City, Utah from June 17-21, 2007.

Pierre-Hugues Verdier, Trudeau Scholar, received a high-level diploma from The Hague Academy of International Law. This year, only three high-level diplomas were awarded among 320 participants, and Pierre-Hugues is the first Canadian to receive the diploma since 1990.

Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec, Trudeau Fellow, has been nominated Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ("Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature"). This distinction is given by the French Government in recognition of significant contributions to the arts and literature, in France and in the world.

Jason Luckerhoff, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "The Cultural Sector in Québec: Success indicators for a "Small Society"" at the Politics of arts section of the 8th Conference of the European Sociological Association at the Glasgow Caledonian & Strathclyde University on September 6, 2007.

George Elliott Clarke, Trudeau Fellow, will be reading his poetry and excerpts of his latest opera at a Global Family Tea House on September 24, 2007 at Pier 21 in Halifax (8 p.m.). Click here for the poster of the event.

John Borrows, Trudeau Fellow, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). Founded in 1882, the RSC is Canada's oldest scholarly organization. Election to RSC is one of the highest honours that can be achieved by scholars, artists and scientists in Canada.

Trudeau Scholar Kevin Chan and Trudeau Mentor David Morley organized a workshop on "Building Bridges Between NGOs and Academic Communities to Work in Global Development Settings", which took place in April 2007 at the Munk Centre of Toronto University. Click here to read the final report (for registered members of the Foundation only).

Jason Luckerhoff, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "The enhancement of culture through market forces or cultural criteria: do the democratization of culture, popular culture and cultural industries hinder cultural development? " at the Political Economy Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) held at UNESCO in Paris from July 23-25, 2007.

Summer 2007

Meredith Schwartz, Trudeau Scholar, co-authored a book entitled Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia: A Guide for Women Dealing with Tumors of the Placenta such as Choriocarcinoma, Molar Pregnancy and other forms of GTN (Publishers: Your Health Press).

Alain-Désiré Nimubona, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, presented a paper entitled 'On the Trade Liberalization of Environmental Goods and Services' at the 47th Conference of the Canadian Society of Economic Science, held in Quebec City from May 16-17, 2007 and at the 41th Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, held in Halifax from June 1-3, 2007.

Meredith Schwartz, Trudeau Scholar, authored a chapter in a book called Risk and Trust: Including or Excluding Citizens, published by the Law Commission of Canada. Her chapter title is 'Growing Concerns: Prenatal Genetic Risks and Trust'.

Spring 2007

Christine Brabant, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled 'Regards croisés sur l'éducation à domicile et la formation à distance' at the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS), held at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from May 7-11, 2007. She was invited to present this paper by the Groupe interinstitutionnel de recherche en formation à distance.

Meredith Schwartz, Trudeau Scholar, co-presented a paper entitled 'Gender and the Everyday Aesthetics of Food' at the 2nd International Conference on Philosphy in Athens, Greece, from June 4-5, 20007.

Christine Brabant, Trudeau Scholar, presented a workshop entitled 'L'encadrement de l'éducation à domicile au Québec : jouer à la police avec le gouvernement ou participer à la gouvernance ?' and a paper entitled 'Les nouvelles recherches sur l'éducation à domicile' at the Annual Conference of the Quebec Association for Home-based Education, held in Montreal on April 28, 2007.

Frank Iacobucci, Trudeau Mentor 2006, has been nominated as a companion of the Order of Canada, the highest level of distinction that recognizes a lifetime of outstanding achievement and merit of the highest degree, especially in service to Canada or to humanity at large.

Alain-Désiré Nimubona, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Waterloo since July 1st, 2007. He will defend his doctoral dissertation on the contribution of the environmental services industry to environmental policymaking at HEC Montreal this fall.

Jason Luckerhoff, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "Si le médium est le message, alors la langue est le discours médiatique" at the second edition of the international conference "Le Français parlé dans les médias" entitled "Les mises en scène du discours médiatique" organized by Université Laval and Université de Stockholm, Université Laval, June 22, 2007.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Trudeau Mentor, received the Mahbub ul Haq Award for Excellence in Human Development, a United Nations lifetime achievement award for human development. The award is named after Mahbub ul Haq, a renowed economist from Pakistan and one of the founders of human development theory.

P.-G. Forest, president of the Trudeau Foundation, has recently published one book chapter and two journal articles on healthcare management: "Policy Instruments and Health Reform: The Role for Evidence in Health Services Restructuring in Canada: New Evidence and New Directions, published by the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University; "Shared decision-making in Canada: update, challenges, and where next!" in the German Journal for Evidence and Quality in Health Care; and "Examining the role of context in the implementation of a deliberative public participation experiment: Results from a Canadian comparative study" in Social Science & Medicine.

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Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "Canada's Declaration of Official Languages" at the workshop entitled "Language Rights in Canada and in the Basque Country: A Comparison" organized by the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law and Law Philosophy, University of the Basque Country on June 1st, 2007.

Nora Doerr-MacEwen, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, was awarded the Governor General of Canada's Gold Medal for the most outstanding PhD student at the University of Waterloo. She received her medal at the spring convocation of the University of Waterloo on June 13, 2007.

Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "The Cult of Constitutional Rights Reasoning" at the VIIth World Congress of Constitutional Law in Athens organized by the International Association of Constitutional Law on June 14, 2007.

Lisa Helps, Trudeau Scholar, published an article entitled "Body, Power, Desire: Mapping Canadian Body History" in the Journal of Canadian Studies.

Jason Luckerhoff, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "Technologie, démographie, globalisation. Des pratiques culturelles en mutation ?" at the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS), held at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from May 7-11, 2007. This paper was part of a project sponsored by the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture on the development of cultural corporations and non-profit organizations in Quebec.

Trudeau Fellows Shana Poplack (2007) and Roderick A. Macdonald (2004) have been honoured with the 2007 Killam Prize, Canada's most distinguished annual award for outstanding career achievements in, respectively, humanities and social sciences. Congratulations to both!

Samuel Spiegel, Trudeau Scholar, co-authored an article entitled 'Socioeconomic Consequences of Mercury Use and Pollution' in the journal Ambio. Click here to read the article [PDF].

Sophie Thériault, Trudeau Scholar, will be Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa on September 1st, 2007. She will defend her doctoral dissertation on Land Rights and Food Security in the Arctic at Université Laval this summer.

Fiona Kelly, Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of British Columbia on July 1st, 2007. She will defend her doctoral dissertation on the Legal Recognition of Lesbian and Gay Parenting Relationships at UBC this summer.

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Michel Hardy-Vallée, Communications Officer of the Foundation, is presenting a series of twelve photographs at the Café Dépanneur, 206 Bernard W. street, in Montréal. The opening was on April 13 (click here for the ad), and the photos will be exposed until May 2, 2007.

Rajdeep Singh Gill, Trudeau Scholar, gave two lectures in the past two months: the first, entitled "Rang De Basanti and the Politics of Social Change in Postcolonial India," was presented at the University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia on March 21, 2007; the second, entitled "Alternate Ontologies and Epistemologies of Art as Research," was presented at the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans' Symposium at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver.

Robert Huish, Trudeau Scholar, participated in Cuba's 10th annual Terry Fox Marathon of Hope run last March. He was in Havana to assist a rare delegation of U.S. physicians touring local hospitals and healthcare centres. His doctoral thesis is on Havana's Latin American School of Medicine, which trains poor students from rural Latin America to become qualified physicians.

Jane Jenson, Trudeau Fellow, in collaboration with Bérengère Marques-Pereira and Éric Remacle, recently edited L'état des citoyennetés en Europe et dans les Amériques, published by Les presses de l'Université de Montréal (PUM).

Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Scholar, presented a paper entitled "Public Justification and Legislative Limitation of Constitutional Rights" at the Faculty of Law, Queen's University as part of their Visiting Speakers program on March 26, 2007.

Winter 2007

Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Scholar presented a paper entitled "A Critical Assessment of Robert Alexy's Theory of Constitutional Rights" at Professor Robert Alexy's Doktorandenkolloquium, Christian-Albrechts University, Germany on March 7, 2007.

Caroline Allard, Trudeau Scholar, published a book entitled "Les chroniques d'une mère indigne" (Septentrion Publishers).

Grégoire Webber, Trudeau Scholar, published an article entitled "The Promise of Canada's Declaration of Official Languages" in Revista de Llengua i Dret. Click here to read the article [PDF].

Christine Brabant, Trudeau Scholar, received an excellence award for young scholar for her presentation entitled "Citizenship Education: A Collaborative Research with Home Educators" presented at a conference on home-schooling "Transforming Knowledge - European Conference on Educational Research," on September 11, 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Amy Mundorff, Trudeau Scholar, co-authored a chapter in a book called Biological Human Identification, published by Taylor & Francis. The chapter title is "The World Trade Center - September 11, 2001". Click here to read the book chapter [PDF].

Pascale Fournier, 2003 Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, and Memee Lavell-Harvard, Trudeau Scholar, organize a conference for the International Women's Day 2007 on March 8th. This conference is sponsored by the Faculty of Law and the Human Rights Research & Education Centre of the University of Ottawa. Click here for more information.

Pascale Fournier, 2003 Trudeau Alumnus Scholar, is now Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa. She defended her doctoral dissertation on the legal dualities of Muslim law in constitutional liberal states at Harvard University last spring.

Trudeau Mentor David Morley recently published Healing Our World: Inside Doctors Without Borders, a compendium of stories about healing, helping people, and about making the world a better place, featuring David Morley and others involved with Doctors Without Borders in some of the most dangerous and forgotten corners of the world. Healing Our World is available from Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publishing.