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Ottawa, Canada - Fulbright Canada, in partnership with the Maple Leaf Foundation, is proud to announce the 2026 recipients of the Community Action Program (CAP) grant, an initiative that empowers Fulbright and Killam alums to translate academic insight into meaningful, community-driven impact across Canada and the United States. This year’s recipients exemplify the program’s mission: bridging research and lived experience to address pressing social, environmental, and public

Minister of Indigenous Services Mandy Gull-Masty (centre left) holds six-month-old Annora Crowe on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, during a Cree ceremony welcoming the arrival of a new child. La Presse, April 30th 2026 After striking down parts of the Indian Act relating to status recognition as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of British Columbia gave the federal government until April 30 to amend the 1876 statute. The deadline will not be met. Why draw out the delay, ask the

A bus in Dakar, Senegal La Presse, March 20th 2026 At a time when the international order is hardening, when the institutions responsible for defending human rights are being weakened by the brutal return of power politics, the Francophonie cannot afford to be timid or to stand back. On the contrary, it must clearly reaffirm one of its founding vocations: to be a space for the active promotion of freedoms and human dignity. Human rights are not an abstract principle. They are

PHOTO DARRYL DYCK, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE CANADIENNE Murray Sinclair chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools, whose final report was released in 2015. La Presse, Nov. 5th 2024 The former Manitoba senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission died on November 4. Civil law professor Pascale Fournier pays tribute to his work and expresses the hope that it will be carried forward. What matters most is the path. The path already travelled

PHOTO JACK GUEZ, ARCHIVES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Smoke rises over Gaza following an Israeli bombardment on January 2. La Presse, Jan. 10th 2024 Lands of fire. Lands put to fire and sword. Lands sacred and breathed upon by an imprint of eternity. Lands exclusive and ancestral, handed down and venerated by and through generations. Lands of welcome and of gathering, of assembly and of strife. Lands celebrated, shattered, torn apart, killed. The year 2023 took its leave against a

PHOTO DAVID BOILY, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE « Mes chéris, je devrai vous le dire un jour, le monde est incommensurablement gris », écrit Pascale Fournier. La Presse, June 26th 2021 The author addresses her three sons. The city is exploding. Everyone is trying to claim it, to rebuild it, to raise it up with words, with certainties, with rights, with linguistic division. The songs are so proud, so full of pride, that they no longer even hear the Other's refrain. The surrounding din c

PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE La Presse, Jan. 22nd 2014 In a recent opinion piece published in the New York Times, Minister Jean-François Lisée defended the merits of his government's Charter of Values. He extolled the virtues of a strict secularism, contrasting it with the failures of multiculturalism in Europe. Mr. Lisée also wondered why those who sharply criticize the ban on wearing religious symbols in the public service are not equally outraged by the requireme

Photo Alain Roberge, archives La Presse Educator Nada Chouhaita plays with the children at the Oasis Bout'chou daycare in Laval. During Question Period at the National Assembly on Tuesday, Gouin MNA Nicolas Girard brandished a Ministry of Families document justifying the allocation of spaces at this daycare on the grounds of a "homogeneous environment." La Presse, Sept. 16th 2013 Dear Ms. Marois, I write to you with all the force and immodesty of words, pouring out in bursts,

PHOTO: MARTIN ROY, LE DROIT Playwright and director Wajdi Mouawad sparked an outcry by seeking to cast Bertrand Cantat in the cycle Les Femmes, based on Sophocles and staged at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. La Presse, Apr. 22nd 2011 Wajdi, I write to you wearing several hats at once: those of a jurist, a woman, a law professor, a feminist and a mother. I have been thinking about you these past weeks. Your silence has inhabited me, run through me, as though it were audible, as